The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-14
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: TUESDAY APRIL a. 1908


from the bars DIR. Bliss. whose trial
under the charge of being a sneak
thief was one of the big sensations
of Baltimore. Beginning with less than
hale dollar, he now has an income
every year variously estimated at
from $4,000 TO $4,000 per year
When Henry Wolf was years old,
his father had suffered business re-
verses. Every cent counted in the
famiIy's financial arrangements. 1t
was then that the boy took a route"
for an afternoon paper in Baltimore.
and made a record for selling papers
that still lives in the business office
of the journal for which he worked.
Arrived at the age of IA, Harry fig
ured out that he could do more than
sell newspapers. He and his brother
Charlie got possession of a wagon
that was more serviceable than beauti-
full and a horse whose youth had been
left behind. They went down to the
wharves where the banana cargoes
were put ashore. For the price of SO
cents per load, they hauled the bana-
mas to the stores to which they had
been consigned, and in this way they
collected what looked like a good in
come to them.
Like all self-made men, Harry had
discovered that the use of the brain
was the only path TO better thinss.
SO the demonstrating business was
abandoned, Harry taking a place at
So a week in picture-frame manufac-
turing establishment. and Charlie, who
was 18 years his senior, going into a
drygoods establishment.
Through his boyhood, during the
newspaper selling, the demonstrating
and the frame manufacturing, he had
managed TO secure good public
school education. Then he worked i'm
law office from o'clock in the morn
ing until In the afternoon. From
the office he made a dash every day
TO the afternoon and evening classes
in law in the University of MARYLAND.
IL was three-year term and young
Wolf made it, having done all his
studying late at night and having
saved enough money from his earnings
to buy all the textbooks prescribed
in Ihe course.
When he was graduated-but let
him tell Il in his own words:
The night 1 graduated" he said.
why. that was the greatest night of
my life. L was not quite 81 years
of age
The graduates had their names
read out and their diplomas handed
to them in the alphabetical order IL
which their names came. Mine was
the last. Up in the gallery there were
lot of my old friends, the fellows
| had known down on the wharves. the
men 1 had known in the factory.
Well, when / walked up to get that
diploma they broke loose They cheer
ed and yelled and beat their hands
together. You can imagine that [
walked out of there OIL air.
1t was a good thing to walk on
too. My shoes We're so thin / could
feel the cracks in the floor through
the sOles. and my black cotton trou-
sers mad not cost me much more than
81. The Tuxedo coat and vest | wore
were borrowed. And when | came awav
from the court of appeals a few days
later with my license to practice +
had the great sum of 20 cents in my
pocket
Right away the glittering gate H.
calls Opportunity opened for him.
AS soon as he had obtained his license
he went down to the wharf to stand
treat for anything THE fellows
might propose But they turned down
the offer Ito treat and said all they
wanted was that he defend one of
their number who was up on a lar
ceny charge" From that day on the
opportunities came looking for him all
the time
When he made up his mind to run
for congress the old Democrats went
to his office in a group and patted
him on the shoulder, saying:
You're a good boy, Harry, but
you're too young. Wait a few years
and go to congress later"
The young man answered:
II don't want to wait; I want to 60
to congress now and I'm going
They shook their heads, discoura ging
him, but he never faltered The third
Maryland district takes in the wharves,
where ne had hauled the bananas
Also it includes in its voting lists
number of the men who had worked
in the picture frame shops. Wolf knew
the votes of the wharf men and the
factory men were his for the ask
ing.
why did you want to come TO
congress?" he was asked.
Il wanted prestige" he answered
quickly, land l wanted to do greater
things. I saw that in congress 1 would
have the opportunity
In the primaries for the Democratic
nomination he mad three opponents.
He beat them and one of his friends
on the wharf said the next day:
Them also-rans wuZ sorry dey
hadn't been scratched frum de cyard."
The fight was not half won He had
the Democratic nomination in a dis
trict that was normally Republican by
a good many thousands. His opponent
on the Republican ticket was w w