The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-28
ON INCOME OF S4 PER DAY, HE BUILT
 HOUSE ALL ALONE
Reinette Lovewell's Inter esting Story of Nichols Man
 In American Magazine

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 The American Magazine" for De- cember contains an interesting story from the pen of a. former Bridgeport girl about Bridgeport young man who made good. The writer iH Miss Reinette Lovewel1, who was secretary ]. to the late Michael A. Kenhey, and Charles F. A. Biltz during their terms as director of public works. Miss @avaweH possesses natural penchant for writing. She is now residing in Cuba.
 The story which the .sAmer1can'' prints is about Julius Woods Christie, and is illustrated with picture of MT. Christie and his baby daughter and the house in Nichols that be built single handed
 The story is as follows:
 A Four-DoIlar-a-D Man.
 When Julius Woods Christie of Nichols Connecticut. was twenty three years old he asked girl to marry him. He had a little money, somewhere around two hundred and he left high school. With the two hundred and fifty dollars he decided to buy lot, and build 9 house him. self.
 The lot he wanted he secured by paving one hundred dollars down. It I%4 y Bridgeport, where he worked, and there were twelve acres of land with 1t Two thousand dollars was the price, and, the young man signed an agreement to pay twenty dollars month until the debt was wiped out.
 He was then earning about four dollars a. day at a tool-maker's beach, and he figured he could buy his lun- Der a. little at a time as he earned it.
 This was five years ago, and he was working ten hours each day. It was early spring when he dug his cellar. breakfast The stones for the founda- ton he picked up on the place, This sirI' helping him. Then came the great supporting beams, that he drag ged on poles and placed upon his stone-Walled enclosure. By this time the neighgors visited him TrequentLy', freely criticizing and prophesying fall ure Nobody believed that this ambi ffous youngster could built a respec- table house himself unaided. He. might perhaps get up some kind or shack, but "hip -roofed" house, built on the plan he had drawn, was rfdi- cuIoIis. His rafters tipped the scales at two hundred pounds, and Christie hi1nsen only weighed one hundred and fifty.
 Tt sort of sicked me on-those old erouches saying couldn't do it!" Mr. T6TQ1HlScSS. | my mind not a living soul would lift a timber on that house. And nobody did, either. rolled some of them on a barrel. and some of them dragged, l Indian fashion"
 Every morning and every night all summer long he worked, covering the |, six miles to and from the city on trusty bicycle The frame went up, and by fall was boarded and protect ed by tarred paper. During the win ter he worked inside by lantern hshtsf but every day he was there, hammer ing and saving and boring. no mat ter what kind of weather it was.
 He managed to buy lumber as he needed it, asking no credit. Along in the winter-times were dull-he wes .sIaid off'' at the factory, and was placed in the trying position of hav- ing plenty of time to work on his house but no lumber to work with. The enforced idleness did not last long, and with his first payment he bought more timber and tackled his build ing again.
 The second spring came. By June two rooms were finished. and Chris tie married the girl. Ethel Booth. Liv- ing in 8 simple, eare-free fashion he kept on building around his bride af- ter his 6ay's work was done and before it began. When it came to plaster ing he had to practice on several cei1- ings before he could make the mixture stick. But he finally learned how, and he also became g pretty fair plumber. He dug wells, laid drains, and put a big stove in the cellar with sheet metal around it 50 that the heat was sent upward As soon as he could afford it he bought and installed bathroom fixtures. Baby Beatrice had arrived by this time and that him. dered the building some
 In another year or so there was a piazza across the front of the house; later on he built one at the rear and tiled one of his wells up to the floor. handy to the kitchen. so that with a pulley and a dumb waiter he could use it for a refrigerator. The next year he connected the two and had Q beautiful broad piazza around three e4des of his house.
 His twelve acres, not yet quite paid for, promise profit. He sells hay from them and rents little pasture. in win- ter they furnish a small ice crop from pond on the place There is plenty of room for chickens-and GOODS were easy to make after the practice he had had on the house. This year ha has a garden. for the house is about done and he can attend to 1t. He put LID a barn. too. where he keeps a two-seat- ed car that takes him back and forth to work, and carries along a few fei- low workmen who live in Nichols, to heIp out with the gasoline
 Christie has been working on his house five years. He has never bor- FoWed money or asked credit What he haA-his house. his automobile his piano and the rest Of his attractive Rurntture-he has paid for some way out of A day wage.
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