Show ONCE NEWSBOY NOW MAYOR How Energy Pluck and the Gift of Oratory Raised an Urchin to Wealth and Position rrom the position of Bowery news boy to that of governor of the state of New York Is a long Journey but the friends of Mayor McGuire of Syracuse baievo that he will accomplish It Not yet SO scars old he on New Years day ell tered upon hIs cond term aa mayor and there nre men In Syracuse iho support him politically and honor him socially who iI bought newspapers 8 f of him on the street Mayor McGulroH story 10 not the uncommon tory 01 the Americanborn boy of ambition and ability who by force ot his talents and Industry has lifted himself from poverty pov-erty to wealth nnd honor Mayor McGuire was born In one ot the Iontown streets 01 New York In his childhood ha became A breadwinner bread-winner and sold newspapers to keep his fathers family In bread He knows the Inside of Bowery lodginghouses he has lived the life ot the Inmate of the Newsbojs lodginghouse he has pursued I the vocation of the train butcher In his teens the boy went with his parents to Syracuse and resumed the occupation of new sdt nllng He got ouch schooling ns he could lie was brlent and learned quickly He was ambitious am-bitious and fond of reading In school he found his greatest pleasure In declamation It gave him a taste for public oratory and started him upon his public career A100 u Ire Is ot the type of men who keep hammering tII thing until they accomplish their desire He wanted to be mayor lie woo Young hall no or ganlzatlon bark of him but hnd friends by the hundred When they were asked by him what they thought of his chances for being nominated for mayor they could not even give him an encouraging en-couraging word To = mhlfi seemed like trying to walk on the ocean Impossible Im-possible William U Kirk was In control nf the Democratic orgarifentlon 110 thou ght he wOllld havo absolute con rol for POMP limo McGuire fought Ihe I organization from within In the summer and fall 01 1895 100 went around the city from house to houses getting F1 the People Interested In him When the omnUon met McUitlro had cap turtd the lomtnllon and ttillinm II IC Ik moved the ullontmousMnlnaUon of Uio young man who had deflated him McGuire was elected by 3000 In a ecomered right The city of Syracuse Syra-cuse Is I Jlepubllcin by from 2500 lo C 001 McGuire hog Spoken In nearly nil or the large clUes bctvv cen Now York and ito C hIca4o Thew years n i-to he spolle In Ihe Chicago Andltorlu in on an Irlh Subject Uy Occident the nevvspapel eontalnh till occount 01 Ihe lecluro fell Into the hand of Phillip M Oulre of rvirrcinrt a small village In th northern north-ern ra Omldajountj rhllllp Mc Jlliro NNas ridt The speech pleased him and hell one dny IK 1IId Rra cost he entd tin store 01 Bradford Kennedy Bona tz McGuire anti asked for he junior Partner lrsnIlY them Carlo out from the desk 0 slim young mono wllh pomndour little oa black as Ilk a deeply furrowed flier lilt npr n-pr < lon on It 01 extreme flnolnesm The form or introduced himself to Ihe young man 01 the two Icmo oc uolned Th < young mn Inns Asked to visit the elder nnmonoko Young Mcdtilr ratio ot the Forest part homo Several times Ono flay he was Introduenl tn tile joiinKesl daiich ter of the family Trances McOulre I n sn U famny r swoelfnced nlrl They Itcame en Kagid When It wns known In Sjrn Case thai the younc major was to be Married to tile daughter 01 0 man worth SJOOOOO every one Said lint In Just lUQulrcB luck lie Is the luckiest man In I the City ll fore the mnrrinre Phillip Mcoulrn died He willed about SOOOO to the future wifeof film major and appointed litter one of his executors ex-ecutors One of the dying requests of the man was that Trances shonll ba com the wife 01 the Young win whose Speech In Chicago had won hlsadmlra lion The omclnl nets of Mavor McGuIre have cam In for a gwd d1 01 erili clam hot folrmlndrd people have pro noune1 him one 01 the best mOIB Syracuse ever had lie Is I the first major to compel the street railroad companies to flay Into the cltj treasury mono for a franchise With the laborIng labor-Ing classes 100 male himself a Orm friend by appointing men on the va tlous city boards who were known toIle to-Ile I In sympathy with the unions and nil thev represent He Is I the flrot major In Now York Pinto Nlim ha come out openly for Sunday baseball He has a private Secretary Vf Tdgor Wheoon who at one time was Interested Inter-ested In the Murmy Hill hotel New York who will work for no one but Mculre Wheaton hUB an Income and does not need to work but he became MO attached to McOuIre n few jearsniro that he 1 100 orked for him ever since 1clerical In t1 clerical capacity Wheaten ws offered of-fered 0 guvernmentpositlon by Presl dent Cleveland In 1885 upon lIe Fugges lion of McGuire but he declined It fee the reason ht h o did not core to work for any one other than tods friend Are Oulro draws a salary or 2600 every year from the lly hut It Is safe to say that he sil Iveo away at least K 000 of thin to the poor Ills 110m 10 Oran street Is the rendezvous 01 ho poor and boy are fed and clothed It they ore found to be worthyNew York World |