The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-12
Young MissOurian Studying Law at
Columbia Under the Greatest
Difficulties.
FURNITURE is HOME MADE
OIL STOVE FOR COOKING AND
HEATING.
New York World.)

| ter "a years old, student IN the law
/ school OF Columbia university, IS nv
| ing in a stonecutter's tool I'd within
! a. few PAGES of the university build
! ing.
| His abode stands in stone-yard on
| 18th street, near Amsterdam avenue.
J IT is 9 feet long, feet wide and feet
! high. The sides and roof are COM
/ posed of one layer of pine boards, COW
! cred externally with tar paper, which
| keeps out the rain. There is a sad
! little window looking over the rocks to
! the north.
The only means of heating the place
! is an oil stove usually fiameless TO
/ economic fuel. Here the young man,
| grimly resolved to fit himself for the
! law, pursues his studies-in sunshine
! when his fellow students having rich
| fathers are walking about the neigh
/ borhood, chatting mayhap with pretty
| co-eds; in storm when the gales that
/ know how to blow on MOrningside
| heights threaten to send his shanty
/ flying over the precipice.
! X
Last August young Carter arrived
| in New York from Columbia. Mo-, a
graduate of the State university of
| Missouri where he had gone through
| a, four years course. During those four
/ years. and ever since he was is years
/ old. he and poverty had been INSOFAR
able companions. At the university he
supported himself by doing all kinds
/ of odd jobs.
Thrown upon his own resources by
/ the death of his parents when he was
! Is, he became a book agent in Mar
! shalltown. Ia, where he was born. He
! earned enough selling books to enable
| him to live while a student in local
! normal school, and to pay his prelimi-
! nary expenses in the University of
! Missouri
When graduated from that institu-
! ton New York called to him and he
made his way here.
| Beyond a liberal supply of good
! health, determination and pluck, he
| arrived in this city with barely enough
/ to pay his matriculation fee at the law
! school. At first he took a humble bed
room in a house at 108 West 106th
| street, but failing to get work he had
/ to give this up He hunted in vain
! for a room at 81 a week, which was
! all the expense he dared to incur.
A friend in Missouri had obtained
| for him a position as night librarian
/ in the Columbia law library at a small
salary; but his duties and pay would
not begin until the college term
opened. 1t was then August. One day
Carriers eye lit on the tool shed. The
proprietor of the stone yard is Will
/ lam AIgie, a man big Of stature and,
/ as the poor student found, big also of
heart. He was overseeing his men at
work when Carter approached.
81 would like TO hire that little
/ house." said the student TO the boss
| StOnecutter.
That houseP' laughed Mr. AIgie;
its a tool shed. What do you want
it for?"
'To live in"
We'll, now, it wouldn't do at all for
| you" returned Mr.. Algie, surveying
! the tall, neatly attired stranger.
"Oh, yes, it would" the other said.
| When a fellow is poor a student and
! has made up his mind to push ahead,
! any old place will do to live in. I'll
| give you 81 a, week for it,
The stonecutter, puzzled, shook his
! head. He was unable to comprehend
! why this young man was willing to
! live in such a dreary coop.
LET me have it." pleaded Carter;
/ ct can't afford anything better
"Au right" said Mr.. Algie at last,
but not for 81 a week. You can have
! it for nothing"
And nothing is the rent that the
| student has been paying since last
! August. AS soon as he got possession
! he began to put his house in order. He
1 built a wide, sIoping shelf on one side,
and this is his bed. 1t is of bare
] planks and a thin blanket with some
! old coats are his only covering.
! why he doesn't freeze to death I
/ don't know" said Mr.. Algie. But
when one is young he can stand al
! most anything. Still, I don't think he
] could have stood some Of these cold
/ lights we had if-well, if I had not put
/ that tar paper on the outside
Mr.. Algie is proud of his student. He
/ is fond of thinking him along with
! LincOln's career from a log cabin to
/ the White house, and Garfield's SINH
! lar journey from the +Owpath.
Carter has built himself d table and
racks for his books. Some of the vol
umes that looked down from their
nude perch yesterday were 'Burdick
| on Sales" "Gray on Property and
Lawson on Contracts"
In other respects there are signs of
a Students den, but the place is in
deed a wretched abode.
And yet" the brave tenant said
yesterday, cit might have been worse.
/ might not be able to live at,all and
! go on with my studies"
| He stood outside the door, amid the
| stone debris of classic suggestion
/ fragments of COrinthian capitals and
/ Doric bases. All about was the click
/ ing OF the workers steer. now become
music to him. His lips curved with a
/ smile now and then as he told reluct-
/ antly of his long battle with poverty.
/ But it is fascinating" he said '"To
/ no one can this little social drama of
mine be more interesting than to my
self. SO far as the necessities go. the
/ list is very small OF course, I
wouldn't live here if I could do bet
| ter But I can't, and there you are. -
1t was not known yesterday at the
registrars office of the university that
| Carter was living in the tool shed No
one attached to the college seemed TO
/ know it.