Show the boyhood of famous americans 11 1 am 1 henry the hn ellel s it language na vilas not easy taly for the teny ten year earold old boy who had just come como to this country f from r 0 in southern germany G er many 11 I 1 it ad his greatest d p r 0 noun bouncing cing t the h a t th 11 bo he lie enid said over ond and over ogain again day in and out for f a r w weeks e e it s thistle the great thistle bitter ter sifted one fill of un alfted thistles through the thick of hie his thumb in to order to overcome the lie handicap together nith with bard hard and 4 study him to gain a command of the language rapidly anti to keep up alth ath his class in the new w york public sch schools vOls it was character characteristic ittle of henry as a boy to do things thoroughly and leave nothing in his undone that he lie might maiter his ills immediate task the trait helped him in gaining a fine education in the land of his ills adoption to become a commanding figure in the real estate and finan doi worlds and to achieve a signal success as a diplomat lien he was as named oe as ambassador to turkey lie ile was born in mannheim germany I 1 in lit ISM he lie little thought when n as Ds a 3 youngster oung ster lie 1 I as thrilled at r song ong festivals and exhibitions of ryanna t that flint tie lie bould grow to R mans man a ettace and gain fame in a country across the sea ills father vas as u dair manufacturer and the boy henry as the cintli ninth of eleen hi icing ing he fie uns as a good student as a lad ind in germany helped in his ills studies by a cultured mother ond and father he ile knew the works of schiller Sch ller and goetha as a little fellow hut but perhaps his greatest in the place of his ills birth in n his onn opinion at the time as vas ullen ft hen he passed the swimmy swimming 9 test tried by youngsters of athletic il ic tendencies cles he lie breasted the rhine current for half an hour in qualify ing for the lie title of rhine swimmer not long after this the elder prosperous business met with reverses rei erses through an american ican tariff law lan the family came to this country the in 18 after an eleven day trip they took up their rest dence in brooklyn A few months later they moed to manhattan tr tt youns young newcomer neu comer to 0 o america soon suon grasped the intricacies of the language of his ills adopted country thanks to his perseverance per and his III niel el methods he lie had a natural aptitude fur for arithmetic rod by strict application to his ills be he was able to reach the highest class in ills school in short order then fie ie quill fled for admission to the city lity standing well up among successful condid ites in the group of 10 1 lie ile gt got his ills first job ns its on tin erlind boy in a law low office during lie the voca ion lion months the tile kiy P ly nas nus 4 a neck meek part of his duties consisted of copying and sen ser log in papers he fie joined a bool ool library took special courses iii lit debating and elocution much line time to in grammar an I 1 composition and rend read widely of food good literature he ile finish his ills course coure at city college his ills father had find met with ath further financial reverses in this country and young henry had to put his ills shoulder to the cheel heel helping the family ns as much as he could financially his ills father nant want ed him film to enter a chii engineers office and study that but the fifteen earold old hoy boy has was convinced that he lacked brojer foundation in mathematics to make a go 90 of it si SJ ho became an office boy agreeing to help milt the books li ill an insurance in n here he drew a weekly wage of 6 after a few months he went ment to work in a wholes ho lesile he ww at 10 a feeck 11 eek the nest next ACT cir saw him back in a law office by this time lime ils his mind ws made sp 1 to 13 lccy basc c a lawair he lie aj a hs life so as to gel la 1111 n 1 maximum I icum work and still hae time for study and exercise ills recreation tons consisted Isted of walking and reading he ile was ans up eury morning at six 0 and took a walk or exer iced at home then he rode on a C horse car to reach ills nork work tile fiume to clotin downtown jew tork york from his home was nas a slow one the lad ind the time lo 10 the reiding re i ding of good books he lie kept accounts of his expenses in those days A typical enar vas was car fare 10 cents limur 15 cents sundries 2 cents he lie uns nineteen ears old when he entered the columbia university law school in 1871 1875 he lie got R jub job teaching night school at 11 15 a week eek he ile spent all the time he could spare in libraries he ile attended as many us lie could and to lie famosi preachers of he the day lay he ile made notes on what he heard he ile was a wide reider of the newspapers ile mas admitted to the bar in 1377 1 later ater he fie became interested in real estate and did much to do i elop new ew york yort into the Is it Is oday today he ile has liar ijen liberally libera lh of his wealth to social gernice sen ice and other philanthropies M A 1110 1930 by the north american News pap alliance All Al lantt I 1 |