The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-11-22


that had been as tranquil water safe
from current and commotion, now
felt the outward drawing Of the tide.
CHAPTER "
On the day following the delivery to
Andrew Kelton of the letter in which
money for Sylvia's education was Of
fered by an unknown person, the
bearer of the message was to be seen
at Indianapolis, in the law office Of
Wright & Fitch, attorneys and coun-
sellers at law, on the fourth floor Of
the White River Trust Company's
building In Washington st. In that
Office young Mr.. Harwoo6 was one Of
half a dozen students. who ran err
rands to the courts, kept the accounts
and otherwise made themselves use
full
Wright & Fitch was the principal
law firm In the State in the period
under scrutiny, as may readily be
proved by an examination of the
court dockets Mr.. Wright was a Re
publican. Mr.. Fitch a Democrat, and
each Of these gentlemen occasionally
raised his voice loud enough in poll
tics to emphasize his party fealty. In
the seventies Mr.. Wright had served
a term on city attorney; on the other
hand, Mr.. Fitch had once declined the
italian Enthusiastically. Both had
been mentioned at different time for
the governorship or for the United
States Senate, and both had declined
to enter the lists for these offices.
Daniel Harwood had been grad
uated from Yale University a year be-
fore we first observed him, and
though the world lay before him
where to choose, he returned to his
native State and gave himself TO the
study Of law by day and earned a live
uhOod by serving the Courier" news
paper by night. As Mr.. HARDWOOD is
to appear frequently in this chronicle,
IL may be well to summarize briefly
the facts Of his history. He was born
on a farm in Harrison County. and
his aversion to farm life had been
colored from earliest childhood by the
difficulties his father experienced in
wringing enough money out Of eighty
acres Of land TO buy food and cloth
ing and to pay taxes and interest on
an Unsuitable mortgaEed held some
where by a ruthless life insurance
company that seemed most unreason.
ably insistent In its collections. Daniel
had two older brothers who. having
satisfied their passion for enlighten-
ment at the nearest schoolhouse,
meekly enlisted under their father IN
the task Of fighting the mortgage
Daniel, with a weaker hand had bet
ter head. and with vastly moro enter
prise. resolved to go to Yale.
Daniels choice Of Yale had bean de-
trr7nined by the fact that a pro-
lessor IN that institution had once
addressed the county teachers. and
young Harwood had been greatly i'm
pressed by him. The Yale professor
Was the first graduate Of an Eastern
university that Daniel had ever seen,
and he became the young Hoosier's
ideal Of elegance and learning
PANEL had acquired at this time all
that the county school offered, and
he made bold to approach the visitor
and ask his advice as to the best
means OF getting to college
We need not trace the devious
course by which. after much burning
Of oil during half a dozen winters,
Dan Harwood attained to a fresh
mans dignity at New Haven, where,
arriving with his effects in a canvas
telescope. he had found a scholarship
awaiting him; nor need we do more
than record the fact that he had cared
for furnaces. taken the night shift on
a trolley car. and otherwise earned
money until. in his Junior year. his In
come from newspaper correspondence
rnd tutoring made further manual
labor unnecessary. II Is with pro.
found regret that we cannot point to
HARDWOOD as a football hero or the
mainstay Of the crew. Having
piowed the mortgaged acres. and
tossed hay and broken colts. college
athletics struck him as rather puerile
diversion. He would have been the
least conspicuous man in college If
be had not shone in debate and
gathered up such prizes and honors
as were accessible in that field. His
big booming voice. recognizable above
the din in all varsity demonstrations,
earned for him the sobriquet of
"Foghorn" HARDWOOD For the rest he
studied early and late. and experienced
the doubtful glory. and accepted
rneekly the reproach. Of being a grind.
History and the dismal science had
interested him immensely. His
cssiduous attention to the classes of
Professor Sumner had not gone IN
noticed by that eminent Instructor,
who once called him by name in
Chapel St, much to Dams edifcation.
He thought well OF belles-lettres and
Tor a time toyed with an ambition to
enrich English literature with con-
trfbutions OF his own. During this
period he contributed to the lit" a
sonnet called 1.-The Clam Digger"
which began:
AT rosy dawn I see thine argosy:
md which closed with the invocation:
Fair tides reward thy long.
'aborious days"
Harwood was liked by hi. faIIovv
students In the law office. Two
falensians. already established there
made his lot easier, and they com.
hined against a lone Harvardian. WIN
bitterly resented Harwood's habit of
smoking a cob pipe in the library at
night.