Arizona republican., 1911-12-27
WHEN sIGELoW WAS YOUNG.

LiSul'fH HulluTtu and StNrntsGll--
 the year of John Bige'ow's birth-was a long time ago. IL was d day when
 people travelled up and down the Hudson in sloops: in his autobiog-
 raphy Mir Bigelow tells that his father owned three. which piled be-
 tween their home at Maiden formerly Bristol and New York It was a day when women made all the soap and 1 candles that Were used in the house MT. RigeloW describes the busy can dle-making times in his own time says the New York Globe and Com
 mercial Advertiser. Women also spun
 the wool and dyed it with golden rod. and made it into clothes. Women had not time for problems then. or
 N"te-SettinG. Nor was it d day
 when thre was any particular problem
 as to the cost of living" It was a
 day when if you wanted any apples
 you went down into the cellar and
 cpcred a barrel. instead of. as now.
 buying quart. if you have the mon
 ey. Alr. Bigeiow describes the cellar
 in his fathers house. IL not only
 contained apples and cider and other
 good things, but there was room
 as big as hall bedroom that con-
 taircd nothing but potatoes And
 there were more rooms filled with
 turnips and cabbaSes and pumpkins
 and other vegetables. The floor of
 tn" Garret above was covered with
 with nuts-hickory and butternuts
 Thanksgiving was celebrated in those
 days-it would have been criminal
 rot to have celebrated it with all its
 requisites ready at hand: but Christ
 mas in good Presbyterian homes.
 such as Mir. BiSeloWs was looked up-
 on with more or less suspicion as savoring of Romanism Stockings might b" hung. but the only pre- sents were apples and nuts and things to cat
 When MT Bigelow was d young man there were no law schools The only way for boy to study law was to walk into some lawyers office and begin to sweep out. After taking his degree at Union college at Schen- roCtady in 1885. when he was IS Mir. Bigclow entered the law office of Bushnell & GIll at Hudson Later he came tp New York He had no particular acquairtanCcs He had tu make his way and find his friends \ few months before he was 21 he took his degree as attorney at law. and hung up his sign at the corner Of Wall and Nassau streets. the office of Edward II. Van Wrinkle. member of the Column. an early literary and debating club in New York. with many names on it's roll that were to become celebrated The club was founded in 1895. and Mir Bigelow | found himself the sole remaining member of this club and the possessor | of the clubs emblem. the silver ! column. which was formally turned | over to the Century association. In | the later years of his life Mir Bigc- | low was fequently called upon to play | the distinguished but pathetic role of | sole survivor" After his retirement. | when he started out to write his re- he would say: 'I find | | have survived both the presidents and | all the members of their respective | cabirets wEo constituted all the eX- ncutivc officers of our government | during the civil war: all the mem Jcrs of the committees of foreign af- fairs in both houses of congress, and believe. all of my colleagues in the diplomatic service of the United States during the same period.