The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-24
IS A SElE.MsBE Man.
Boston Mayors Success Dae to Hard
Work and Irish wit.

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Work end Irish Wit.
General Patrick A. Collins who mas
juss been reelected mayor of Boston
BY the largest plurality any mayoraitS
candidate Of that city ever received. is
a Simor, pure seif-rnade man. HIS
Massachusetts career is familiar 40
newspaper readers, hut y. c, Ste9rns.
now a resident of TFyon. n C, tells a
story Of Mayor Collins early days
which shows the spirit that has won FOR
him more than ordinary success
During the '5es.' said Mr.. Stearns,
7 was manufacturing grindstones at
Cleveland, O. One day, while I was III
the yard. a ragged boy came up 10 ne
and said: VIII you please give ma a
lob. sir7
He was little fellow. so little that
it didn't seem as If he could do much
work. ARD so asked him what OF eartn
he could do. Not much, sir, yet was
the reply. but sure I can learn
What's your name. my boy
asked and his reply came as quick as
a fash. Pat Collins. sir; an you're SIR
Stearns, the boss Of the yard
Barney Wins His First Job.
I asked my foreman If he could find
anything for such a boy to do, but he
him useful. Tie yOungster paid close
attention to the conversation, and when
he heard the foreman say he had noth-
Ing for him to Go, he grinned in an en=
gaging way. and said, coaxingiy, to me:
All. nov. sir: I'm afesrd he's not
good judge Of boys.
we both laughed. and / told the
foreman TO put Pat to work. A feW
moments later I saw that he still stood
near me. Why don't you 80 TO work
Pat? ] asked.
Mr.. Stearns,' said he, I want TO
board with you' This was a little too
much. 1 thought and 1 explained 70 him
that we did rot board the help. But
can do chores around the house 70 pay
for my board insisted the boy. Just to
settle the thing, and because did not
want to hurt Pats feelings, 1 took him
to the house and told Mrs. SteaFns
about him. He talked his way into her
good graees without delay, That night
he commenced to do chores
He staid with US four years, then
one day he said to me: MIR. Stearns,
Tn going to Boston What for I
asked. Well Pat replied, there's Il
relation of mine there that warts ne 70
stay with him now and go into bust
ness This without the trace OF a
smile.
Develops Unlimited Ambition.
Il told the boy to go ahead, as I
thought he would gain by it, and so ne
went to Boston When he nrst came
to as he was 10 years old, but his ans
bition was unlimited. and he missed no
opportunity to learn. So when at IA iie
left US his penmanship was good, and
he could read and cipher well.
Pat wrote US after he reached bos-
ton, but that was all we heard a
good many years passed, and then ohe
morning a carriage containing TOUR
men. all well dressed, wearing silk hats
drove up TO my place The men came
to where 1 was standing, and one OF
them said: / beg pardon but isn't this
Mr.. Searns2' 1t certainly is, l replled,
but you have the advantage Of me-
seThen the spokesman OF the party
looked at me with a twinkle IN BIS
eye. His silk hat was given a push 20
one side, and I heard most fanlllaf
voice say, NOW, Mt SteaTns, dear
man, sure you've not forgotten me
I looked hard at the speaker, ana Jaen
said: I don't know your face, Dut
that voice belongs to my boy, Pat Col
/ Inns so it does. and so it does SAID
pat for it was the boy grown into a
man; and its himself that's glad 10
see you again. ! was just as glad 10
/ see him, too, for Pat had grown close
/ to Mrs Stearns and myself while ne
was with us. After a little / asked
him what ne was doing Well. Mr.
/ Stearns, said he, it's a Boston lawyer
| 1 am now, and I'm on my way TO 81
| Louis to help make president OF the
| United States, What do you THINK OF
thatr
Consul General IN London.
Nothing would do after that but g,
| trip all through the old yard and up 10
| the house. The next day my VISITOR
went on to the national Democratic
/ convention at st. Louis. we heard
/ from him once in awhile after that
l but I did not see him again. Later on
/ my health caused me to move to IryoH-
| where one day 1 got letter from Pat
row General-ColIins, telling me
/ President Cleveland had appointed him
/ United states consul general at Lon
/ don. Think OF me, Pat Collins, ne
/ wrote. representing the American
/ eagle among all the lords and dukes
at the court of St. James, Why, the
/ queen herself viii have to take on
/ her hat to me-"
"A year or two afterwaTd my nieees
/ decided to go abroad, and when they
/ talked about not knowing anyone over
4 the other side ] offered to give SAeIl q
| letter to Consul General Collins. They
only laughed al me, and said that =
| this time he'd forgotten all about me
/ Put a young woman who was going
| with them had a different idea, and
I she insisted that 1 give them the let
I ter, which I did.
Never Forgets Old Friends.
"After the girls had been gone a lit
tie while q letter came to me from TIE
girl who had believed in Pat Collins
memory. She wrote that when they
! reached London they went 10 the con
sui generals Office TO see about some
formalities. A crowd of Americans hae
reached the Office ahead of them, ans
they were told Z would be severa
hours before their matters could re-
ca;ve attention. Then this girl thought
Of my letter aud sent it in 30 the con
sui general. She wrote that in tnret
minutes after the letter went IN Pa
Collins came out OF his Office, shooF
hands with the girls. took them all int
his private Office and did everything IA
could for them while the other folk
waited. He asked ali about ne an'
MRS. Stearns, and didn't seem to wan
to let them go. You see. he didn't Tor
/ get. even II he did get on in the cshe
world A few days after got iette
from him, and IL was nice one, too.
Chicago Tribune.
Throwing a Sep.
(Philadelphia Post.)