Show yom TM ideis edalo jor jo r seii i frank manning was one of the boys with no chance he was born a hunchback in a poor section of Charles charlestown town mass his father was a freight handler on the docks his mother took in washing he was the ninth child slow to develop and weak of physique his only schooling was three terms in a public school when he was thirteen he be was earning a day as a dishwasher in an all night lunch we wagon wag on n in boston he walked to anlo and from his joba job a distance of over four miles daily in the summer of 1901 when he was 17 years old he conceived the idea of offering tempting and wholesome luncheons lonc heona to harvard students in ambridge toe the students were ar ha aa courses he had saved from his meagre pay ay and with this he rented rente a hole I 1 in the wall 11 which faced harvard university on massachusetts avenue cambridge an attractive sign over his tiny door read eat well think better hla his specialties consisted of home cooked meats pies iced coffees teas and lemonade A widow living livin across the street did the he ie bought the food and paid her ten per cent gross of his earnings before winter of that year he be bad W salted away 1100 in cash and all his bills were paid before the winter was over he had enlarged his place to accommodate te persons employed nine waiters garl arl ina and a french ench chef did the cogging coo ging your our yean wu lata his bank a 4 9 balance amounted to duping duling the four years stud student sat friends friend st who patronized his hia place goolt enough interest in in him to tutor him and at the end of the four foun i years his hia education was equivalent i to that of a high school graduate incidentally he learned a shorthand or 1 and became a law reporter he ha sold out moved to chicago and opened a large law reporting arting 0 office where he made a small fort fortune forte e I 1 selling this business he moved to 11 southern italy where ere he and his bis i wife now uve live in comfort u |