The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-01-11
.PLUCKY LAW STUDENT
Poor Missouri Youth Lives In
Tool Shed to Pursue Studies.
STRUGGLED LONG FOR EDUCATION

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Too poor 70 pay for the cheapest fur
nished room in New York. \. l.. Carter,
twenty -four years old, q student in the
law school OF Columbia university, is
living in a stonecutter's tool shed with
i'll a few PAGES of tie university build
ings. says the New York World.
His abode stands III a stone yard ON
One Hundred and Nineteenth street.
near Amsterdam avenue. It is nine
feet long, eight feet vice and seven
feet high. The sides and roof are COM
posed of one layer Of pine boards COW
cred externally With tar paper, which
keeps out tie rain. There is sad little
window looking over the rocks to the
north. The only means of heating the
place is an oil stove, usually fameless
to economic fuel Here the young
man. grizzly resolved to fit himself for
the law, pursues his studies.
Last August young Carter arrived in
New York from Columbia, Mo-, grad
uate OF the State University Of Nilsson
H. where he had gone through four
years course. During those four years
and ever since he was sixteen years old
he and poverty had been inseparable
companions At the university he sup
ported himself by doing all kinds OF
odd jobs. Thrown upon his own re-
sources by the death of his parents
when he was sixteen, he became a
book agent in Marshalltown, Ia, where
he was born. He earned enough selling
books to enable him to live while stu
dent in Il local normal school and to
pay his preliminary expenses in the
University of Missouri When gradu-
ated from that institution New York
called him, and he made his way there
Beyond a liberal supply of good
| health. determination and pluck he ar
rived III New York with barely enough
to pay his matriculation fee at the law
school At first he took humble bed
room in house at 10S West One Hun
dred and Sixth street, but, failing %
get work, he had to give this up. He
hunted in vain for room at 81 a week,
which was all the expense he dared to
incur
A friend in Missouri had obtained for
him q 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 William Algie, a man Of
big stature, and, as the poor student
found, big also of heart. He was over
seeing his men at work when Carter
approached.
II would like to hire that little
house." said the student to the boss
stonecutter
''That housew laughed Mr.. Algie;
''it's a tool shed. What do you want it
for?'
ITO live in.''
. well, now, it wouldn't do at all for
you,'' returned Mr.. Algie, surveying
the tall, neatly attired stranger.
ooh, yes, it would the other said.
when fellow is poor, is student
and has made up his mind to push
ahead, any old place will do to live in.
I'll give you q dollar week for it,
The stonecutter, puzzled, shook his
head. He was unable to comprehend
why this young man was willing to
live in such dreary coop.
''Let me have it," pleaded Carter. Il
can't afford anything better
Cali right" said Mr.. Algie at last,
"but not for a dollar a week. You can
have it for nothing
And nothing is the rent that the stu
dent has been paying since last Au-
gust. AS soon as he got possession he
began to put his house in order. He
built wide, sloping shelf on one side,
and this is his bed. It is of bare planks,
and a thin blanket and 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 most
anything. Still, don't think he could
have stood some of those cold nights
we've had if-well. if I had not put
tudI Tar paper OH Tic OUtSlQC.
Mr.. Algie is proud Of his student. He
is fond Of thinking of him along with
Lincoln's career from log cabin to the
White House and Garfeld'S similar
Journey from the towpath. Carter has
built himself table and racks for his
books. Some of the volumes that looked
down from their rude perch the other
day were "Burdick on Sales,'' "Gray
on Property and Lawson on Con-
tracts" In other respects there are
signs Of students den, but the place
is indeed wretched abode.
"And yet" the brave tenant said, "it
might be worse. / might not be able
to live at all and go on with my stud
les. So far as the necessities go, the
| list is very small. OF course wouldn't
live here if could do better. But I
can't, and there you are"
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