Show paa U 0 I 1 dorat aw jeff en 21 8 7 11 M 1 BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON no bo through ugh the night rode paul revere and so ao through the night went his hia cry of alarm to every middlesex village and farm A cry of de defiance flance and not of 0 fear A voice in the darkness a knock at the door and a word that shall echo forever morel for borne on the night wind of the past through all our history to the last in the hour of oc darkness and beriland peril pe riland and need the p people eople will waken and listen to bear the hurrying hoor hoof boats beata of that steed and the midnight message of paul revere poll longfellow was writing in a figurative A sense when he predicted that the people will waken and listen to hear the midnight mesa mes sage of paul revere it 13 3 literally true that every aery year paul revere tides rides again for april patriots day and in two states maine andl cassa chu 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 and the citizens of those towns greet them with patriotic exercises although paul revere deemi destined tined to go down into history lil story as a rider and as such will always be remembered by americans the fact Is that he had many other accomplishments which probably would have made him famous even even had he not made his spectacular journey on horseback but liow how ninny many americans know what these accomplishments were or for that matter know mu much ch more about him than the ideas gleaned from Long fellows poem in the first place his name was not really revere at all he was the son of bf a frenchman named apollos who anali cited it to paul revere when he came to america to learn the goldsmiths trade the elder revere married deborah hichborn a boston girl girlin in 1704 on january 1 1735 deborah celebrated the new year by presenting apollos kp ollos 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 hia fathers trade and eventually became one of the best designers and mechanics in gold and today some of the most highly prized possessions of new england families are old silver cups spoons mugs mug s tankards tank ards p pitchers and other various articles bearing beautiful patterns which were designed and made hy paul revere not content with his eminence in this profession s paul turned his hand to other activities some one has said he was the original do it now man for he never permitted himself to get gel into a rut he fie tackled many tasks arid finished them all for instance in 1770 1776 he turned to soldiering and as decoud i lieutenant took part pa rt in the expedition against the french at crown point ills his trade as a gold and silversmith led him to experiment in copperplate engravings and without the benefit of instruction tie he soon became the foremost engraver in america in fact revere may properly be termed t the he I 1 father of american cartooning cartoon ing for hla first p production i as nn an engra engraver ver was ivas tin an alick allegorical orical representation of the stamp act dispute ills his pictures were mostly political caricatures and historical scenes connected with the struggle for independence in addition to being a cartoonist he was also something of a poet ind and he ally explained his hla carla tuis with good humored sarcastic verse ile be wag ws a portrait artist of considerable ability two of his subjects being john ll hancock ancock and samuel adams adami As a side line for all these aci activities tIvIt les he also practiced denti dentistry siry the following lowing appeared in the boston gazette and country journal prior to the revolution whereas many persons are so BO unfortunate as to lose their fore teete by accident and other ways to their great detriment not only ohly in n 1 looks but speaking both in public and private this Is to inform all such that they may have them replaced re placed with artificial ones that looks as an well as aa the natural answers the end of speak i ing to all intents by PAUL REVERE goldsmith neat near the head of doat doctor r charkes clarkes Cl Clar kea wharf boston two years later inter this asame some paper carried the following advertisement by paul revere dentist i artificial tenth PAUL REVERB takes this method of returning h hi is most sincere thanks to the gentlemen and ladles who have employed him in the care of their teeth he would icv inform them and all others who are arc ri unfortunate to lose their teeth by ar aident and otherwise that he still continues the business of a dentist and flatters himself that from the ahe expel once ence he has these two eints years in which time he has fiat some hundreds of teeth that he be can fix ax them hii as well wel as an any surgeon dentist who ever came from london he fie fixes them in such i 0 manner mann e r that they are not only adorna an orna ment but of real use in Speak speaking ng and eating he ha cleanses the teeth and will wait on any gentleman or lady at their lodgings chemay be with at hla his shop opposite dr clark CI arhea 3 a at the north end where the gold cold a and rid silversmiths business Is carried on dinall in all ile ts branches one bit of revl Hev crea re dental work is historic when the body bodye af pf gen joseph warren was removed from the temporary grave on bunker hill the of the body aej was made certain by revere who recognized the wire he had sett Ingan an artl flemat tooth for the general ever byer think of paul revere olevere as a pub usher and seller of bong books well he wasl was in the boston gazette for february 4 appeared this advertisement verti just published and to be coldby sold by J so n diab lab plage and paul revere in fi fish ab street at the north end ot of boston A ciletti collection of aba psalm m tunes in two three and four parts from the moot celebrated celeb r abed authors fitted to all capital measures in and approved by the best beat masters masters th in boston new england to which are added some hymns and anthems tho greater part of them never before prin america set in scora acor s by josiah flagg enslaved ens enz raved bv paul lie vere although Lone longfellow ellow made his ride to concord famous the fact Is that he had bad previously taken others which were more remarkable and fully as important as that one even though they were not so spectacular adular he was selected by the committee of correspondence to carry the news of the boston tea patty party to new york and ph philadelphia and leaving boston on december 17 P he be reached philadelphia the day after christmas his next ride was to carry a message jn in regard to the boston port bill which became a law on march 1 1774 on this occasion he be broke all horseback records to philadelphia reaching there in less than six days but one of his bw most mosi important took place on in december IS 18 1774 when he carried word to portsmouth Pori N H U that a large garrison of british soldiers for fok i fort william ii and nd mary was was on its way there acting upon reveres rev ores warning the new hampshire patriots went to the aorl ort forced the surrender of the small garrison consisting of a british captain and ove and carried away a hundred bundled barrels of gunpowder which were hidden under ti the i e pulpit of the ibe durham meeting house most of this powder jowder was put to good use at the battle of bunker hill during the revolution evolution ll when tho the british evacuated roston boston they tried to put pui the cannon at fort independence out of commission commis by breaking the it was paul revere who made thein serviceable by inventing if a new kind of it was also paul bever e ria was sent to a philadelphia powder mill to get plans for a similar one to be operated in new england the proprietor refused to allow him to make drawings of uny liny kind but revere looked over the mill returned home ind and from built a powder mill that was as agrest a great success after the war ar revere resumed his trade ns as it a goldsmith and also built a factory for foi casting church bells belis and bronze cannon when cop prid did spikes begun began to he used instent of iron for building ships he conducted a A series of experiments e which led to the building in 1801 of a large plant of at canton mass for rolling ft copper ile he was the first roan man in tills this country to smelt coppet copper ore and to refine and roll copper cooper into holts bolts and und sheets sti pets some of his copper bolts ani ts went luto the making of the lie famous frigate old fron ironsides sides and the plates pu the massachusetts state slata alouse dorre dome are nie made of copper supplied by paul revere Se severne of the bells which he made are still in existence and one of them to 0 o thi this s day calls people to worship in n all souls unitarian church in boston tills toils same bell Is famous as the abolition bell because it was was tolled for jolin john brown on the day lie be was executed paul alii revere evere R merchant lq if another enoth er role lie be played A copy cop of the independent chronicle and universal advertiser ver tiser dated january 1 1 1784 carries carles an advertisement stating that he could supply the public with will an im port atlon of metal goods door locks lock shot playing cards irish linens linene s german serges etc at tits his mart directly opposite osite the liberty pole south boston |