Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-20
HEBREW BOY WHO THIRSTs FOR
 LEARNING
nOftIoi NoUiO GNUIiltP'V VI '0SsSsSS Davidson Who Is Determin- ed to Win a Doctors Degree at Some College

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Giyen a keen witted Hebrew newsboy, who would rather die ignorant than live ignorant and to whom most of the honors of earth are comprised in the three let ters Ph. b. and you have-Isaae Dav' idson.
 Up at Seventeenth avenue and One Hundred Siiis,Si s.Iia Nineteenth street. where this newsboy philosopher student has a stand, they call him Ike" and "Davey" and Professor" and half Q dozen other names, but all of them familiarly respectful.
 Beside his stand are a chair and a book. From half past to 10 o'clock in the morning and from to o'clock in the afternoon all the time that Dav- fdson is not passing out papers, chuck. ing the neighborhood babies under the chin, doing errands for patrons or kindly eXhorting his schoolboy friends to take chances of their school chances he has his nose poked in a book. It is always solid book. He did not learn his A, B, C's till he was 21, and life for him is too short for trashy reading.
 Davidson calculates he is about 23 NGAAo Ao OtN. ne AL4N-N Dl HIS hlt Iul1 back to obscurity in Homell, Russia. where his parents died before he was old enough to have fixed in his mind even visual memory of them. He lived by chance-most of the time a slim one. It was a chance that let him learn part of the tailor's trade and he lived by it until his brother in America sent him a ticket to this country with money enough to buy a few crusts on the way. That was in 1895.
 The boy came to America not be- cause he had a ticket, but because he had heard that in America education was easier to get than in Russia. To him education was and is life. In Rus sua he had crayed the chance to work as a menial so that he might gather few crumbs of learning from an ed ucated master. Learning was every thing; the means of getting it did not count.
 As is the custom among his people young Davidson lived with his brother and worked as an operator on pants" they don't make trousers in sweat shops-until he had paid back the cost ot his passage.
 NY DIOluSE was SupeESllJlOuS. Sdtl the newsboy-philosophe and after a year We differed over religion and separated. Besides, my brothers fam fly lived in two rooms and couldn't study"
 So he found covey hole in which to sleep and study. In 1899 he quit the sweat shop and went to work in a news stand at Ninth avenue and Fourteenth street, where he worked and studied until 1900. when he de- cided he would go to Chicago where there were no friends to disturb him and he could be alone with his prec- ious books.
 One day in a tailor shop in Chica- so," says Davidson, "a fellow-tailor said to me: From the books you read you must be a Socialist. My brother is 8 member of the La Sale Political Education Club; I will have you meet him. It was in this way that I became interested in the eth Reinforcement. When I came back to New York in 1901, went to the Ethi- cal School in Fifty-fourth street. They said to me: We can't take you fol we have no school for men I said: I'm a child in learning; years do not count
 q was determined to sleep where