The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-24
THE NEW GALILEE.
How a Salt Laker Got His Start
Five Shillings Month.

Those who like stories of plumed
knights or Of un-plumed knights
with pencil and grip, can still find
subjects for their sketches in charac-
tiers that come and go among us; and
If any think that love died when
Knighthood was In Flower" they
should edit weekly newspaper and
meet the trains that come and 60, and
notice from day to day the characters
changing cars from the main line to
the Mackay branch and from the
Mackay branch to the main line. To
one who can see 1t, men and women
are working out the problems of life,
forging characters of adamant or act
ing out their parts in pretty romances
seen and shared by the man with the
green sack who seldom peeps"
Now that people are focking by
thousands to San Francisco to see our
great fleet, and boats and floating
fighting machines are in everybody's
mind, our mind goes back to little
town on the east coast of Scotland
where the Dickey Brothers learned
to build boats, beginning with those
only sixteen feet in length and in
creasing gradually until they built
one As feet long, and had the whole
population of the village out to see
them launch 1t.
They we're boys then, and Ameri-
ca had no thought of them, but later
on they built boats at San Francisco
and established The Union Iron
Works there. The general public ex-
pected this firm to fail on account
of natural disadvantages, but they are
building boats and ships on thirty
six acres of yards, and boast some
of the finest vessels that plough the
Pacific, including the Oregon.
Another boy who grew up in that
same village in Scotland, served as
an apprentices at sea, giving four
years of his life to ceaseless labor for
five shillings a month and lived on
food unfit for a dog.
Later on he was more successful
and he received better pay for his
work and better food to eat and more
kindly treatment. The tiny compass
he earned and carried in the early
days still bangles at his, watch chain
as he changes cars periodically at
Blackfoot, and ring on his finger
keeps the sweet secret of a woman
woOed and won.
We like the sturdy Scotchman and
he Is dearer to us because we believe
he is shorter of stature by reason of
the wormy sea biscuit so often re-
fused at meal time on shipboard when
he was tired, jaded and hungry and
there was little else to eat
Some years ago we stood IN the
yards of the Union Iron Works near
San Francisco and watched the work.
men riveting together the ribs and
knees and keel of the largest vessel
yet attempted to be built on the Paci-
fic coast, and among the employees
was the sixteen-year-old son of our
sturdy Scotchman and the lady he
loved. He was learning shipbuilding
from a to 2, and his apprenticeship
was as Heaven compared to the ap-
premiership his father had served.
The boy is at home now with the
family at Salt Lake, and he and his
father are building yacht (pro
nounce 1t yot) of their own just for
fun They want to launch it on the
23rd of May and we hope they can.
1t is 33 feet long, has a 6 u foot
beam, has two masts, and carries
gasoline engine of eleven horsepower,
with the latest model of bronze pro-
peller that feathers" at the touch of
a lever. 1t takes two and half tons
of ballast to hold it Alright in the
wind, and every piece of timber that
goes into 1t is project. Every nail
and screw that goes into it is gal
vanized, and each rivet is of copper,
SO that nothing can rust.
Mr.. Brown-that Is our Scotch
mans name-wants to take his FAM
lily and friends out on the lake and
witness the finest sunsets he has ever
seen, for he has compared them on
every sea and in every climate ex-
cept along the Alaskan coast, and
says that sunset on Salt Lake---the
Galilee of Americas the grau,lest
of them all We have an invitation
to join the Scotchman with our !. It
ter half, and take cruise upon the
Galilee in the boat which he has half
decided, in honor Of the one he WOO.
ed, to christen "The Lady of the
Lake"
Mr.. Brown comes nearer your owa
home than you might have guessed,
for he represents Arm In the Walk
er block and on Howard street in
San Francisco by the bay that furn-
ishes tea, coffee and spice for your
table, and when you stir your coffee |
or sip your tea or taste the spice, you |
come In touch with our Scotch man !
and his goods, and when you visit |
Salt Air this season and see the Lady |
Of the Lake at her mornings, you will
know she belongs to our friend Ed
win Brown, who once earned Ave
shillings month and has mariners
certificate from the English crown.
A few summers ago when the
White Knob Copper company at
Mackay was paying enormous salar-
les to useless Office men for operating
their mine and smelter at a loss,
Brown proposed that we elect our
selves honorary members of their
board of directors at salaries NJ