The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-01-02

ed to ride to these villages b
another route. The patriot silver
smith sought out a friend and re
quested him to place two lantern
in the tower of North Church a.
a signal to the watchers il
Charlestown, then proceeded tt
the Charles River where a boa
awaited him. In this craft, will
muffled oar-locks, he was rowet
to the opposite shore, passing
under the guns of the British
man-of-war, Somerst, and avoiding
by five minutes the soldiers who
had been sent to detain him.
In Charlestown Revere found
found that his signals had been
seen, and procuring a horse, he
Immediately set off for Lexington
He had just passed C~harlestown
Neck when he say two mounted
British officers waiting under a
tree. AS these men rode in toward
him, Revere took flight and sue
ceeded in Guiding his would-be
captors after one of them had
been caught in a clay pond. In a
letter written to a friend sometime
later, Revere, describing his ride,
said that from here on he alarm
ed almost every House" until he
rpaohad Ta~yipptou
When he arrived at this place
the courier patriot rode directly
to the house of Rev. Jonas Clark,
where Hancock and Adams were
staying. He appraised these men
Of their danger and after partak-
ing of refreshments he started for
Concord with MT. Dawes, who
arrived in the meantime, to warn
the Militia there of the British
plans to capture the stores collect
ed in that city. They joined
by DR.. Prescott, a young patriot
of that vicinity, but after proceed
ing only a short distance the three
Americans were accosted by a
body of English soldiers. Prescott
escaped by jumping his horse over
a stone wall. but his two compan-
ions we're captured and in this
abrupt manner the midnight ride
of Paul Revere" was rudely ter
minated. Prescott alone of the
three riders was able to reach
Concord.
Revere was not long detained by
his captors who returned with him
to Lexington where he was reliev-
ed of his horse. He then assisted
Adams and Hancock to a more Sc
cluded retreat, after which he
probably returned to his home in
Boston.
Despite the difference between
the facts in the case and the pic
ture drawn in Longfellow's m
mortal poem, Paul Revere re-
mains none the less a patriot hero.
Throughout the entire Revolution
he was prominent in his service to
his country. At first he acted as
a messenger and made several
trips from Boston to New York
and Philadelphia to carry word to
Congress of the situation in Massa-
chusetts. He was M OF the
leaders in the Boston Tea Party.
But his most famous exploit was,
of course, his ride to Lexington.
A fact perhaps too little known
is that Revere a "the most re-
markable man to develop Ameri-
can industries that the first two
hundred years Of American his
tory produced" He was an ex-
pert gold-and-silversmith; he roll
ed copper for use on the "constl-
tuition; he was an engraVer, a
dentist and an iron molder. He
manufactured bells which were
among the finest in the country
and over seventy-five of these
bells are still in use in New Eng
land. The copper rolling industry
he established in Canton, Massa-
chusetts, in 1901, is still In exist
and is conducted today by
direct descendants of It's founder
When Paul Revere died on May
10, 1918. he was eighty-three years
old and enjoyed the respect and
esteem of all his countrymen. He
had served his country we'll and
honorably-his lie had been long
and useful. Today America honors
bis memory in gratitude for his
to the cause OF indepen-