Show Honor Comes Too Lato Lalo to Interest Inventor If It there was ever an unfortunate In- In Inventor In Inventor It was old Jim Fitch I itch the of Philadelphia who plied piled the Delaware rh er In a n steamboat t of hIs 0 own n design und ind coo construction 22 2 years before the Fulton effort on the Had son Fitch spent years j ears In v working out his and did It with a consider consider- considerable considerable able degree of or success but he was n a avery avery very humble member of society given to minor spells of self Indulgence so BOUnt that he wis ne never er taken seriously by anyone and no hand was raised to help him On the thc contrary he met with opposition and misfortune One blow after another fell upon hl his shoulders tiers ders and finally he hc ga gate ga e up and ane wan wandered wandered wandered dered south here liere he be I liters ed a n while and then died Hed andas and vas as burled buried there The story of his Is a long one The only recognition that he er e re Is about to be bestowed upon him In the time shape of or a n b by hIs descendants which sill be held at atan atan atan an date but It is a little too ton late to be of or ray iny ny Interest to old Jim I Itch Washington Star |