The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09


 You're a pretty bright boy continued the legal person. q need boy here in my office. Suppose you come around Monday morning and see how you like it. I'll give you whatever you are mak- ing now and a dollar more"
 Became Lawyers Clerk.
 At o'clock on the following Monday morning Wolf appeared and became lawyers clerk Less than ten years later he was the best known criminal lawyer in Baltimore and part owner of the build ing in which he first read Blackstone.
 But the years between were by no means years of ease. From until 3 Wolf worked for his friend. From until he heard lectures at the law school. From until Il he studied. Thus he lived three years.
 Having been admitted to practice, there ensued for him period of trials and trib- ulations. He graduated broke. His friends advised him to seek a good job in an older lawyers office.
 Tn that way" they said, you can work your way up'
 q have been a lawyers clerk" replied Wolf. Now I'm going to be a lawyer"
 "But where are you going to get clients?' demanded the doubters.
 Leave that to me-" said Harry.
 It wasn't long before every lounger around the court house and every police man in the central district was converted into sort of Harry B. Wolf advertising agency. When he boarded street car he made it his business to inform the con- ductor that he was a lawyer, and that his name was Wolf
 He stopped people on the street and told them the law business was booming. s,, nc fI,a rf hon like a corporation attorney in a great hurry He encouraged his friends to call at his office and bring their friends and their friends friends.
 He made an organized effort to widen his circle of acquaintances and he sue ceeded beyond his most sanguine hopes. Before long he won his first case. Soon he had client a day.
 Of course, there are lawyers who pro- fess to look down upon Wolf because he is a criminal lawyer, but that sort of prejudice doesn't worry him. When he began to make money many of his old friends thought that he would move out of the ghetto and seek a homo on Eutaw place. where all the wealthy Jews of Baltimore abide. But when he took himself a bride he set all such doubts at rest by buying an old house in the heart of Old Town. There he now dwells.
 Made Lively Canvass.
 His canvass for congress was marked by the same kind of hustling as his career as a newsboy. fire builder and lawyer. The voters in his district are of twenty three natonalities, mostly eastern Euro peans.
 He invaded their back yards and lxitch- ems and whispered into their ears. He organized corps of interpreters. He smiled and shook hands. He kissed babies; he gave five cent cigars to the sons and grandfathers; he promised good times to the heads of families. On election night it was found that he had wiped out the old republican majority in the district and rolled up a democratic plurality of nearly 1000
 Wolf is exceedingly practical and has no hopes of setting the Potomac on fire after he takes his seat next March. The other day a reporter asked him what he pro- posed to do.
 Keep my eyes and ears open and try to avoid making a fool of myself" said Harry. Don't get the idea that I am going to Washington to make speeches and pose as the boy statesman. No, sir; not a bit of iti I've got a whole lot to learn and I'm going to sit tight and learn it.
 Proud? Certainly I am-but not half as proud as my wife. She seems to think that a congressman, after year of two of service naturally graduates into the White House. I realize that I've made good progress for a youngster, but that has been because had to get out as a boy and hustle.
 "Hustlng is mighty good schooling. It makes you value friends and seize oppor- tunities. But it doesn't necessarily make you the wisest man in creation.
 "No, I have no new theories of gov- ernment to offer. l believe that the United States is the greatest country the world ever knew. and that it will con tinue to grow greater and greater There is a chance here for every man."