The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-20
lator Walsh Credits His Success to Noble Women Fol
He Tells What Ten Children Owe to Mother Whose
Brave Struggle Against Poverty Kept Them United
and in School-Her Spirit Reflected in Girls Who
M Helped Brothers Gain College Education

She and her sons and daughters gath
cred blueberfies on the rocky slopes
OF Morse Hollow and the children sold
them in the village from door to door.
She taught them TO weave canes into
seats for chairs and little David did
such work VIXEN he was years old.
str.seIe Kills the Father.
Out Of employment his savings
gone, James Walsh, "a superior sort
of man." his son testihcs, moved to
Clinton, some fifteen miles distant,
Two Of his daughters had gone there
and were working in the cotton mills.
But James Walsh was a maker OF
combs and that industry was unknown
AZ Clinton. He worked, when he could.
even as a day laborer, and at SO, broken
of body and stricken at heart, ne died,
leaving his widow aud ten children
penniless and in a tenement. David
Ignatius was IL years old. Thomas,
the youngest, was TO-
MY sister Catherine" the Senator
said, and love blazed through the mist
in his eyes, has been the most sue
cessful member Of the Walsh family"
1t was this sister who, at the age OF
IA, left school TO work In the tnxtile
mills Of Clayton--a slight, timid little
girl, who ran, in the darkness-and
terror OF winter mornings, from her
home to the gates of the mill, half a
mile away.
And 1t was the earnings of this frail
but ambitious little girl that helped
pay her brothers expenses at Holy
Cross College and that assisted Thomas
to obtain an education and become a
lawyer. In the correct order of events
her sacrifices and achievements do not
belong in this part OF the present
article, but as an example OF the Walsh
unity OF purpose and singleness Of
heart they do.
Sacrifices and Success.
Catherine Walsh left the mills to be
clerk in a store at Clinton. From
50 a week she was advanced to ~,
then to IS. then to SO, and so on up
ward until she had direction of the
selling force and was a purchaser or
goods besides Whereupon, with
money that she had saved she opened
a store OF her own, "a regular Fifth
avenue shop her brother said. and
became an employer Of saleswomen
herself.
Now Bridget Walsh, with her ten
children and in her poverty, and only
a tenement for a home, might have
surrendered and given-her sons and
daughters to the asylums of her
church. But she kept her family I'M
der her own eye and in her own hand
by taking boarders, the number OF
whom ranged from a dozen to fifteen
at times. Meanwhile the boys and
girls were working-the eldest girls
In the mills and the boys at any tasks
they could find, but nearly all OF them,
and the fact is a beautiful monument
over Bridget Walsh's life, were kept
at school.
az this great yufta S ten-rt3taSen1
five were seat to- ,collese-three sons
and two daughters. At one time six
OF her boys and girls were pupils in
the public schools OF Clinton, three OF
them in the high school, "This," the
Senator said simply, though he turned
his face and looked into the trees out
side his Office window, I'VE owed to
our mother"
Little David was once a cash boy In