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Show i BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON Bo through the night rode Paul Revere: And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, A cry of defiance and not of fear, A vofce In the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forever more! For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last. In the hour of darkness and peril and need. The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed. And the midnight message of Pa'il Revere. """sJLTHOCGII Longfellow was K I writing in a figurative r" I sense when he predicted M lmJ that "The people will wak-' wak-' KT eD and "sten to hear " yli V3 . . the midnight mes- ?ijri sase ot Paui KeTere-" " jjL& B 13 literally true that every Wui-j year Paul Revere rides ; Alf?;1 again. For April 19 3 Pa-lllL Pa-lllL triot'3 Da-T and lr two states, Maine and Massachusetts Massa-chusetts It Is observed as a holiday. In Boston crowds gather In North Square and Elliott Square to see two riders. Impersonating Paul Revere and William Dawes, start on their ride through the Middlesex towns to Concord Con-cord and the citizens of those towns greet them with patriotic exercises. Although Paul Revere seems destined des-tined to go down Into history ns a "midnight rider" and as such will always al-ways be remembered by Americans, the fact Is that he had many other accomplishments which probably would have made him famous even had he not made his spectacular Journey on horseback. But how many Americana know what these accomplishments were, or, for that matter, know much more about him than the ideas gleaned from Longfellow's poem? In the first place bis name was not really Revere at all. He was the son of a Frenchman French-man named Apollo3 Rlvore who Anglicized Angli-cized It to Paul Revere when he came to America to learn the goldsmith's trade. The elder Revere married De-borah De-borah glichborn. a Boston girl In 1701. On January 1, 1733, Deborah celebrated the New Year by presenting Apollos with a son. Perhaps neither father nor mother realized that this one of their twelve children was destined to become such a famous man. Young- Paul learned his father's trade and eventually became one of the best designers and mechanics In gold and silversrnithlng. Today some of the most highly-prized possessions of New England families are old Bilver cups, spoons, mugs, tankards, pitchers and other various articles bearing beautiful patterns which were designed and made by Paul Revere. Not content con-tent with his eminence In this profession, profes-sion, Paul turned his hand to other activities. Some one has said "lie wus the original 'do It now' man, for he never permitted himself to get Into a rut. lie tackled many tasks and finished fin-ished them all." For Instance, in 1770 he turned to soldiering and as second lieutenant took part In the expedition against the French fit Crown Point. His trade ns a gold mid silversmith led him to experiment In copperplate engravings and without the. benefit of Instruction he soon became the foremost fore-most engraver In America. In fact, Revere may properly be termed the father fa-ther of American cartooning, for hl.i first production as an engraver was nn allegorical representation of the W SMcV V ;:. V. Stamp Act dispute. His pictures were mostly political caricatures and historical his-torical scenes connected with the struggle for Independence. In addition addi-tion to being a cartoonist, he was also al-so something of a poet end he usually usu-ally explained his caricatures wilti good humored, sarcastic verse. He was a portrait artist of considerable ability, abil-ity, two of his subjects being John Hancock and .Samuel Adams. As a side line for all these activities he also prac'iced dentistry. The fid-lowing fid-lowing advertisment appeared In the Boston Gazette and Country Journal, prior to the Revolution. Whereas, many persons nre si unfortunate unfor-tunate as to lope their Fore-Teeth bv nccident and other ways, to their Kreal Detriment, not only tn Vnk. hut speaking both In Public and Private- this Is to Inform all such, that th-may th-may have them re-placed with artificial artifi-cial ones, that looks as well as the Natural & answers the Fnd of Spanking Spank-ing to all Intents by PAUL I'.I"Vi:t:K Goldsmith, near the head of Lloct.r Clarke's Wharf, Boston. Two years later this same paper carried the following advertisement by Paul Revere, dentist: ARTIFICIAL TKKTII PAUL IlKVEKB Takes this method of returning his most Sincere Thanks to the linnl N-men and Ladies who have employed him In the care of their teeth, he would niw Inform them and nil others who nre unfortunate to lone their Teeth hy strident st-rident and otherwise, that he still continues con-tinues the P.iiplness of a lieritipt and flutters hlm.i'-lf that from the Kxi'erl-ence Kxi'erl-ence he has these Two years tin whlcn tims he has flxt some Hundreds of Teeth) that he ran fix th'-m ns well ns any KurKeon-Iientlst, who ever c;imr from London He fixes them In stn h a Manner that ttiey are not only nn Ornn ment, but of real L'pe in Hpc'iklnn and LatlnK: He cleanses the Teeth nnil will wait on any Ontlermm or Lady nt their LodttnKs, he may tie spoke wllh St his shop opposite lr. Cliirk'- s n t the North Knd. where the (lolcl and .HjIvit-arnlth'B .HjIvit-arnlth'B bufilness is carried on In all Its llranrhea. One bit of licvcre's dental work Is historic. When the body of Cen. Joseph Jo-seph Warren was removed from the temporary grave on P.unker lliil, the Identification of the body was made certain by Revere who recognized the wire he hail ue In setting an aril liclal tooth for the general. I'.ver think of Paul Revere as n pub Usher and seller of song hooks? Well, he was I In the Boston (iazelte for February 1, 17lJ."i, appeared this ad vertlsement : Just pilhllehrd find to te sold hy Jo-Si7ih Jo-Si7ih KIliKK and Paul Itevere In Finn Street, at the North End of Boston A Collection of Psalm Tunes tn two three and four parts from the most Celebrated Authors; fitted to all Capita measures and approved by the best Masters In Poston, New England. To which are added some Hymns and Anthems; An-thems; the greater Part of them never before printed In America. Pet In score by Josiah Flagg, engraved bv Paul Revere. Re-vere. Although Longfellow made his ride to Concord famous, the fact Is that he had previously taken others which were more remarkable and fully as Important as that one, even though they were not so spectacular. He was selected by the Committee of Correspondence Cor-respondence to carry the news of the Boston Tea Party to New York und Philadelphia and, leaving Boston on December 17, he reached Philadelphia the day after Christinas. His next riile was to carry a message in regard re-gard to the P.oston Port Bill, which became a law on March 1. 1771. tin this occasion he broke nil horseback records to Philadelphia, reaching there In less than six days. Rut one of his most Important took place on December l.'i, 1771, when he carried word to Portsmouth, N. II., that a large garrison of P.ritish soldiers for Fort William am Mary was mi its way there. Acting upon Reere's warning the New liamp-hlre patriots went to the fort, forced the surrender of the small garrison con-dMing of ii British captain and live soldiers and carried away a hundred barrels (if gunpowder which were hidden under Hie pulpit of the Durham meeting house. Most of this powder was put to good u-e at the battle of Bunker Dill. During the Revolution when the British evacuated Boston they tried to put the cannon at Fort Independence Indepen-dence out of commission by breaking the trunnions. It was Paul Revere who made them serviceable by Inventing Invent-ing a new kind of carriage. It was also Paul Revere who was sent to n Philadelphia powder mill to get plans for n similar one to la' operated In New Fngland. The proprietor refused to allow him to make drawings of any kind, hut Revere looked over the mill, returned borne and from memory built a powder mill that was n great success. suc-cess. After the war Revere resumed his trade ns n goldsmith and also built n factory for rusting church bells and bronze cannon. When copper cop-per bolls pud spikes began to be used Instead of Iron for building ships he conducted a aeries of experiments which led to the building In ls'UI of a large plant at Canton. Mass., for rolling copper, lie was the llrst man In this country to smelt copper ore and to rcllne and roll copper Into bolls and sheets. Some of his copper bolls went Into Hie making of the famous frigate "old Ironsides" nnil Hie plates on the Massaclnisei ts Statu House dome are made of copper supplied sup-plied b.v Paul Revere. Several of the hells which he made are still In existence ex-istence and one of Iheni to tills day calls people to worship In All Soul's I'liilnrlan church In Fusion. This same bell Is famiiim as I he "Abolition I'.ell" because It was tolled for John I'.rown on Hie day he was executed. Paul Revere, merchant. Is anolher role he pla.ved A copy of the Independent Inde-pendent Chronicle anil Fnhetsal Ad vi'ilker dated .lanmir.v 1, I7SI. carries car-ries an advertisement staling that lie could supply the public wllh "An lin pnrtatlon of metal goods, door locks, shot, playing cards. Irish linens, (lor-man (lor-man serges, etc., nt his mart direcilv opposite the l.lherlv Pole, South P.os ton." |
