Evening journal., 1915-01-21

The history OF Miller Brothers reads
like commercial romance. 1t goes TO
show what golden opportunities America
supplies to young men ot foreign birth,
who arc able and Industrious II also
reveals how surely success will come to
ambitious and intelligent young men
who are willing 10 work and wait
In 1896, ON small farm in Russian
Poland. not very far from Warsaw and
directly in the zone OF the present
fighting. there lived a farmer and miller
named Isdor Miller. With him at the
time were three sons. They were
Charles, "a years old Samuel, %, and
Nathan. rs. Those boys were eager to
improve their condition in life. Their
imagination had been fired by stories
they had heard of the liberty giving and
money-making opportunities that were
TO be found IN the United States.
Finally the oldest boy decided 10
break home tic4. With difficulty he
made his way across the Russian bor>
der into East Prussia and thence to
Rotterdam There lie took ship fol
New York.
He landed in that city with scarcely
any money in his pockets. Finally he
succeeded an reaching philadelphia ia
She iaU of 1886 Nothing better offer
ing itself. he engaged in the busincss oi
making huttonholes in garments He
could see. However. that there were OPP
portunitics here and his letters homc
were so hopeful that his brother, sam
uel. decided 10 Join him. He, too. was
compelled to steal his way out OF Rus
sia. but hc finally succeeded in reach
ing his brother Charles. by way o
Antwerp. landing in Philadelphia in 1888
Having strong commercial instinct anc
but little money, he bought a basket
and enough notions to till it and bcgar
pedding them from house TO house ir
the Quaker City. It was a precariou'
way to make living hut, like hii
brother Charles his eye looked far int
the future
He sent letters home that wer
so optimistic that Nathan Miller
then only l6 years old, decide
to seek his fortune in America. In loO'
he smugglcd himself across the Russian
border, TO escape conscription in tn
Russian army, worked his way TO Ant
werp all alone, took ship there am
sailed direct to Philadelphia.
After spending two weeks in lookinl
Philadelphia over. he decided that tn
ritv was too small to hold all three q
the Miller biothers. Therefore he cam
down to Wilmington. Having but
few dollars in his pocket and beinl
eager to win his way, he, too, bought
basket and small stock of notion
and soon began TO let the people o
Wilmington know that he was IN tow
and ready for business. He got alonl
SO we'll that his brothcr. Samuel becam
Jealous aud decided not to permit Inn
10 enjoy a monopoly OF the local trade
He came with is basket OF notion
and the two oi them proceeded TO di
vide Wilmington into two trade zones
one to be looked after by Nathan an'
tie ntlcr by Samuel
All the time they were peddling thel
were dreaming of the time when the,
could open store and saving thei
earnings SO they might be able To ID
IL One day Nathan Miller looked a
the onc-story building at No. COZ IVES
Second street and decided he would lik
10 be the proprietor of il. Inquiry a
to the rent disclosed that it might b
obtained for so a month. He broke th
news tO Samuel aud Samuel decide
that it would have 70 be move or less o
family affair and that ne must b
taken in. There was nothing selhs
about Nathan, even though he had beel
tie dis overcr of this particlar store, bu
hc insisted that If Samuel wer
taken in they he'd better brin
Charley in. too. They sent wor
10 him in Philadelphia that
lc did not want to miss the trade on
rortuuity OF his life, he had better com
TO Wilmington and lose no time
doing il,
Charley came They sat dow
and ook stock of their capitt
and discovered that all told they ha
ahont $500. of which about 'SiOO belong
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