Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-18
ANECDOTES OF FIELD.
Incidents In the Career of Chi
 cago's Merchant King.
eL1MPsEs INTO HIS BoYHooD DAYS

aL1MPsEs INTO HIS BoYH00D DAYS How He Traded Jackknives-An Ex- perience as . Dry Goods Clerk. Tragic Incident of His First Court ship-sample of How He Treated His Employees-RemaFka Tribute In Prayer Paid by Former Chicasoans. From his boyhood the late Marshall Field of Chicago, the richest merchant in the world, the largest individual tax payer in the United States and per haps the third wealthiest citizen in the United States, was the successful trader. One who knew him in his schoolboy days tells this of him:
 "He was born so. When he was at school he was trader of jackknives- we called them Barlow knives then and remember that he never made 8 trade in which he did not get the best knife. I have lifted the lid of his desk and counted as many as fifteen Bar low knives piled up in one corner. He was not a playful boy at school, as most boys were. He was generally re- served in his manner"
 Marshall Field" said Chicagoan to reporter of the Cincinnati Enquir- CT, was never more delightful than when he talked about his experience as dry goods clerk in Pittsfeld. MT. Field in his boyhood was a clerk for several years in Pittsfeld, and an ex- cellent clerk he made too. He was talking one night about temperance. He said Pittsfeld lady on a certain morning stopped before his counter very indignant and snapped:
 CT consider that I have been swim dled. I went to temperance lecture to hear Dr. Huntley Hawkins, the fla nous total abstainer, but when Dr.. Hawkins got up to speak he found that there wasn't a man in the audi euCc, duu IulC uuSt huvO AAsAS~S AAAAA mad, for he launched forth in bitter onslaught against women.
 "I never heard women so vilifed in my life,' said the woman. The doc tor said we were all alike-all painted and laced and gossiped and ruined our husbands with our extravagance-real- ly, it was scandalous. And not word about temperance-nota word
 Young Field repressed smile, and, since the woman hating Hawkins was to lecture again that night, he decided that he would go. All the men of Pittsfeld, it seemed, must have come to the same decision. The hall was crowded, and the audience was made up entirely of males, chuckling and winking at one another in anticipation of the attack on women that they were now to hear.
 "Dr. Hawkins came forth. There was applause. He said:
 "'Hogs! Hogs! I've got you now!
 "The audience looked mystif1ed.
 "sAha, hogs! You are trapped nicely and do you want to know. you men. why I call you trapped hogs? It is be- cause in the west the hogs run wild and when they want batch for bacon they catch young pig, put a strap under its body and hang him to a sap ling that will just swing him on the ground. Dancing up and down, the pig soueals; he raises frightful rum pus; the old hogs come from all quar- ters to see what the trouble is. and the farmers shoot them in droves.' "Dr. Hawkins smiled grimly.
 "Last night he said, I hung pig up. I hurt it little, and it squeaied The old hogs have turned out now tc see the fun. We'll, you are going to be riddled, skinned, roasted"
 Everybody knew Marshall Field, the dry goods prince of Chicago. but doubt if more than select few have heard of the tragedy which occurred the day before his marriage to tho belle of Lawrence county, O., many years ago, says a writer in the Pitts burg Dispatch. The story seems wortf the telling. and as have 1t from gen tleman who speaks of what he himself saw there Is no doubt regarding iti truth.
 Marshall Field at the time he came a-courting at Mount Vernon Furnace. place twelve miles from Ironton, 0. was a young man, but think that h' had already started in that business il Chicago which made him many ume' a millionaire. The lady who had cap tured his affections was the daughte of an ironmaster named Scott. Flick met her in some New England city. il which she was attending a seminary and I believe from the first their regart for each other was strong. When sh' went home Field visited her father house. Mir. Scott was very hospitabl man. and under his roof more revelr. of an innocent sort took place than be meath any other iu the district
 After en engagement of reasonabl length Marshall Field came to Noun Vernon Furnace to claim his bride. H arrived the day before that set for tn wedding. That night-that is on th eve of the wedding-there was som sort of jolIincation suitable to the oc easion. and when the rejoicing was . its height. as Miss Nan Scott. young >r st~tar of inc bride. was passin