The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-07

UP employers by interruptions means.
Buchanan fought Parks and Parks
methods at risk of his life, and be-
fore retiring from the presidency ex-
terminated this objectionable element
Of the union. Then Parks died in Sing
Sing and Buchanan vent back to work.
When elected to Congress in Chicago
last fall he was working at his trade
8 an inspector and subforeman. He
Is now forty eight years old.
He Painted Church steepIen.
Church steeples, rather than mine
shafts and bridge piers, were among
the hazards which William Wilder, of
the Fourth Massachusetts District had
to conquer before reaching the con.
sressional goal this glorious snrlng
He was born In Belfast, Maine, where
his mother taught school and his faith.
er waa mechanic. but when young
William was eleven he was moved with
the rest OF the family baggage to
Massachuetts Here the lad started In
much as Frank Buchanan did In In
disna-=worked on the farm, went to
eeuhtrV soheai hotwsan esassne and
worked In the woods choppIng timber.
At fourteen, getting Job with a farm
er who owned q card mill. he alternnted
between field and factory, and at fif-
teen went to work for another farmer
-" 80 pa VI tue tiinc Kept MIN In the
woods cutting chair stock, and tho rs-
mainder OF the time had him at work
In his factory-for this employer. too
was both farmer and millman,
AT sixteen he became a painter. and
by seventeen was q boss at the bust
ness, It was from now until he was
twenty-nine that he crawled IN md
down all of tho church spires in the
neisnoorhood. giving them fresh coats
or color. During this dozen years there
was no handler man In Gardner-bis
present home-at house, oarrinse and
sign painting. granting and frescoIns;
and ne, also did paperhauginE on tho
SIDE. Next he opened a store which
so1d wall papers. paints, glassware
stiVerware and crockery, and after this
ne patented some oil stoves and opened
factory for making them At frst
ne made the patterns himself ana two
other men finished the product, but
the business grew. In spite OF Are
that wiped the plant out. Besidea a
prlntery. factories for manufacturinu
portable houses. tools and maohinary
were later added to the Wilder indus
tries, and he woke UP one mornInr to
find himself a capitalist. i.
Studied Law mt Forty-Fiye.
with all of these Irons IN the fire
YOU wouid wonder how this one-t time
S1IASJoSh COulU Get time to start the
study of law at forty-f FIVE. But that's
exactly what he did. under the tuteia 90
OF leading attorney Of his town wifi
whom he spent every availab after.
noon. And few years later he spent
Two days IN passing the Federal bar
examination. at Washington, where
now while attending Congress. he
maintains law office, where cases In.
volving patent, corporation and gen
eral law are thrashed out between all
tings Of tho House. If Wilder has aver
wasted any time you could count n Of
while holding your breath lust once
Like everybody else that ever came
out OF the Maine woods, he Is hustler
from Hustlersville, Hustler county.
It's a shame that the editor thinks
we had better begin now to taper down
th2se chapters about the new self.
mades OF the House. for each bears q
good dose OF tonic for the youth who
sulks about not having a chance in
life "a a. - ~ - =
Other Mechanics Who Climbed.
There is Bob Dlfenderfer OF the
Eighth Pennsylvania. another nuondam
farm boy who became house painter:
He switched off to dentistry, ana after
extracting teeth and howls from hiz