The Press., 1910-08-24

NTs WAtK6r ana hOE60u AMu BMkE16u out, I am very sure. fully two-thirda of all Shat we had carried in. some forty bushels. As remember 1t that was the worst job of sorting potatoes that ever attempted. The first year of the potato blight I believe was the worst that ever occurred. The invari- able rule of my father was that his boys were fully under his control till they were of full age. and he made all bargains for their labor. Tn the spring of 1S45 MT. Williams having quite fully recovered from his Illness. engaged mo of my father for six months, agreeing to pay father fifty dollars and board me, and to teach me what he could b, my working di. reotly with him. That gave me . very good chance to get the use of tools and the doing of work. as two,
 at nearly all kinds of work, is better than one. The first work of that season was building the wagon shop for Edward Morrison in the east hol- low. His next was the thorough re- modelling of the house of Newman s.
 Marcy. The fall was fully occupied. as remember, in the building of the house and barn of Marcus Johnson at the Glass Factory, After this six moths experience decided to per. fect myself aH carpenter and bought she remaining 20 months of my time of father, paying him a liberal price. more than double that could get and learn the trade, but made arrange ments with Wm. T Oogswtll of Rock vile from year to year for 3 years. In that time had paid my father and supplied myself with a good set of tools. In the fall of 1S48 I was mar. ried and in February of 1s49 we re- turned to Wilmington, and after few weeks engaged to work for MT Vii
 Hams again, he having engaged to build the nice house that Dsa Turner was about to build Ia 8 letter in The Press some time ago I referred to the building of the Dea Turner house at some length. MT. Williams was at his best at the time of which now write, and was for some ten years She popular builder of quite large sec tion, with portion of Mansfield. After the completion of Dea. Turner's house MT. Williams built for the glass company the large new store and packing house, between the old pack. ing house and the building where tI ey used to make their pots and grind the clay from the old broken pots. IL gave quite a little work to some of those who needed 1t during the va
 cation time. The Willingt,n Glass company was then at their best, and were in need of the room that the building would give them It was late In the fall and winter was right upon us, but MT Williams was a man not turned aside by tr'f es and before we had that building completed we had some of the coldest weather of the winter, and recall one day, in the framing of the building, when we worked all day just south of the store when the snow was drifting so that we could see but sholt distance, and the temperature was near to zero. We wore heavy boots and heavy wool socks and for all of that we suffered intensely, and for many days I suffer ed from ohilbIains all over my insteps mot so much when out in the cold, but nights, after being out in the cold and going to bed, could hardly bear to have even the sheet touch my feet.
 The completion was the closing for the two journeymen. The spring of 1850 opened favorabIy for Mr. Will Hams and myself, with Jason E. Twiss, who entered his employ, and he had good run of business all summer, first the large addition to the north of the brick house of Wm M
 Still, and I recall the very early spring, when on old election day, the first Wednesday in May, peach trees were in full bloom He next built the house for Betsey Woodland, which I now recognize as Pleasant View
 He next built the house of the late William Holman, and later an addi- tion to the house of Edward Les. In the early summer of 1851 remodeled the house just below the railroad station for Luzern Phelps For some weeks in the fall worked for my old boss, Mir. Oogswell, on the Congrega- tional church at Stafford Springs and the new railroad station there, and this brings me to the house that Jack built. After completing my work at Stafford. my wife, during my work there, boarding with my parents, we rented the two south rooms in the house of Ed. Lee and began our house keeping. We had saved a little in our three years, and things looked so favorable at the thread factory that we decided to invest out little and try to privide ourselves with a little home. I bought Q lot of Walter New come, in what was then an open field on the east side of the road leading south. think that the lot was a half acre. took room in the mill used by Hall & Merrick, where de- voted the winter to preparing the ma terial for the building of the house that Jack built. The sash of that house l made in the room in the mill, and as remember made the first sash in Wilmington with bevel meet ing rail parting bead. Early in the year 1852 went to South Coventry. to buy brick for the chimney, and just two weeks from that day I was taken i'll with what proved to be measles, and although there was no