Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-01-17
:TlMMANY Halls Chief
Remarkable Rise OF Lewis Nixon
tn: New Leader.
HIs CAREER BASED ON ENERGY.
"God Helps Those Who Help The"-
.sIve.v Ha. Been the Young Ship
builders Life Motto - Interesting
; Incidents of His BOyhOOd Days.
Hoxv He Won His Wife.


- How He Won His Wife.
VI The motto of Lewis Nixon, the youn
I'd shipbuilder and the new leader
Ie Tammany Hall, is "God helps thos
!. that hGlp themselves
!, The story Of Mr.. Nixon's success
~ life and success in love shows how tru
the motto has been in his case, say
' The New York World. 1t is a prett,
story of love deferred and struggle
md love rewarded. Lewis Nixon was
born in 1860 in the little town OF Lees
burg, Va. His father occupied an Of
fetal position similar to that of sheriff
and was in charge of the Jail.
Lewis Nixon. the youngest SON
there were two others and one sister
was born in the residence connected
with the Jail. and it is possible that
this early familiarity with the legal
side of the dereicts of the human fam
lily first turned his mind toward the
betterment of the race through the
suppression of the vices that lead the
way to the .ail or prison. In any case,
the little Leesburg youngster, with his
reddish brown curls and keen, laugh
Ing black eyes, spent his babyhOOd in
an environment which doubtless has
had marked effect upon his life.
Lewis NiXOn's father was man of
extreme probity and of humble social
p siton. His mother was a lovely wo-
man. gentle and amiable and possessed
of every domestic virtue as well as a
firm and noble character. Everybody
loved Mrs. Nixon. Every one today
in Leesburg speaks tenderly of her
md regrets that she should have died
before her idOliZed son had reached
success. An old friend. Virginia Ia
ly who has known Lewis Nixon since
lie was in petticcats, says of him:
Lewis Nixon was never like any
'ther Leesburg boy. From the time
re could toddle he was parsonage
recollcct coming across him one
prng morning as | walked toward
he village. He couldn't have been
ver three years old at the time. He
'nS lying full length in the road. face
Onward. leaning on his elbows,
fudying two 'spessermis. as he call
them. The 'spessermins' were
utterly and an angleworm. The look !!
deep study upon the baby's face
was still in l,ilts-was so amusing Z
lat stopped and said:
" Which do you Ike best, Lewis? n
h.cll would you rather be, butter. q
or an angleworn" n
line small man did not smile. bIt II
lsed his eyes to me and said. I'D II
lher fly than crawl IL
de then gathered up his spesser. to
ms ana departed to seek for more h'
FROM babyhood Lewis was an en-.
lsias'ic naturalist. and his mother IN
'uld tell of most extraordinary col. IA
ions OF bugs. beetles, lizards and m;
"ers and how Lewis knew fine m;
1ies OF every insect. animal and ma
MT IN the woods or mountains that ira
round lccsburg. AS mere bobv fol-
''O 1t Se'ils 10 me now, Lewis used
20 OUT on long solitary rramns .
ne'in'PS he would start off eorlv in
'"ofhiils and be gone the entire "a.
: always eager. Interested husy
urlnE through nature. tho rrootos,
49, ',noo'S' ii fund of knowledge H.
no DOCK made by hands can i'm. aA Ae
" men Lewis was about six voo,s w.. w.
r ne oe'a' TO take an extraordinary 500
rest IN boats. Now, Leesburp is an W. ~,
nu town, and boats require wotor ~. AZ
paoy III kits. with his curls Hvina 49,, sn
ne ar built his first boat aftar w., u,
- a vi MS own. will wager no nos
, craft was ever launched sincn ane S
:, oe y. as that same first boat of s,,,,
hen the time came ia hannah -. roa'
the fdtt that there was no ,.. t"e mes
~. IA the least curb the ardor If ~ i r.
,ou.n shipbuilder. He informed TO-
" onu'ilhs family that he knou, r e"e
"ouio run down hill, and if no "'
pump water fast enough down
'' AZ, from the pump his ship would rl
ana II did. Strange and NV III
+, rs sne queerly contrived thine o o S
= :, ~ everyday eyes. once tba on Stat
,nn's 'urIs damp with persnirn requ
HIS race crimson with tho ntr .aa. Mck
"p'hs- managed to get a flow nt has
,o uown the hill, the boat wos tees
neu' and, sure enough She sa+ wa. vas rial
al n right and floated safely down. e Mex
n r'o' oe,ow' while the exhaustod year
= sraHely nodded his head an1 Nash
"'' in r
knew it would float. It Ind - coun
it to float D'u TO- gesti
e when the craft was hro,,o in al
% T., INTO handmade bridge ov py prece
, -" n'n, stream Lewis littIs day,
We're in great dismav ''''ie secti'
y Lewis, they cried .yvbo+ contr
now the boat is brokenp 'i mem
'Wlisa the young philosopher 70 grave
" nat of it? If mado !. re- Even
can mend it, eA' ley d
boy Lewis Nixon r.,a patri,
le dominated his playmata as'er, regar
! npoa; ~, the way he man. meet
y, p'ir OF redheaded twins tIn. but il