| Show r- r rAl AL Al SMITH NEW YORKS YORK'S S 'S 30 GOVERNOR 1 J J It tins has been a long tong time since an ana a Horatio Alger has hns had a u current InspIratIon Inspiration In In- for one of those racy AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican lean From Canal Boy to President stories for strictly modern Instances of tatters t reaching e t hing the White House have been strikingly lacking r But If Alfred D E. E Smith chief o. o ec- ec of the state of New York and familiarly known as Governor Al AI AI C r a. a should by trick of fate tate or nr politics arrive arrive ar ar- rive there In n 1921 all th old Lincoln Lincoln- Garfield brand of romance may ImmedIately immediately imme Imme- be revived Al Al Smith although modern as p George Ade Ado Is as plebeian as Abe Lin s a COlD coin Although of rich New York he was born as ns poor as ns the rails splitter rail litter and his fathers father's Bow fy tenement had no more graces than the little Lincoln ca cabin j Alfred Smiths Smith's b birthplace was l In Inthe the center of the famous Fourth ward He was about three years yens old when they started calling him AT Al When WIlen he was six his father died and his mother with the children and no money opened a candy store When Al Ai was thirteen en he went to work in an oil store quitting four years later to Clerk derk derkIn ClerkIn in the Fulton fish market The district lender leader got him a Job as server of jury notices at 1000 a year Then he married a Cherry street girl sister of a policeman They took teok a room four-room tenement In Peck Slip and the first baby was born there In IDOl 1001 hen Al was twenty At forty-five forty AI Al Smith was ns governor Io of the state of New York |
