THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928.
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"THE FORD.”
THE CAR THEY LAUGHED AT.
INVENTIVE PLOUGHBOY.
One approaches with a certain Auspicion the life of a captain of industry. The biographer always tempted to sanctify what may have been an ordinary and average boyhood.
And
THE CHINA MAIL,
At this time he collected three the engine, and then up on its platform. He had a thousand hundred watches, so that he might questions to ask, and in the en- know all that was to be known He had convinced gineer he found a kindred spirit about them. who told him all about it: that it himself that he could "turn out" has been made in Battle Creek by watches by machinery at thirty Nichols, Shepard and Company; cents each and sell them at fifty how the chain worked; how it was cents. He gave up the idea be- disconnected from the driving cause he decided that watches were
so as not, after all, a necesalty. wheel when they stopped, to give place to the bolt used. for driving other machines; and so on.
From Plough to Two-Seater, After several changes of employ. ment he entered the service of the It was then Henry could not get this engine Edison Company. out of his mind. He began to at-that he applied himself inde-
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to legends of extraordinary tempt to make an engine, His first fatigably to the work which was the repre- boyhoods are very picturesque in model was built entirely of wood to make him one of
was im-sentative captains of Industry af this respect, and one cannot except, the boiler, which
Remembering the grim Ford," by J. G. de Roulhac Hamil-With the experience thus gained he work of horse and man in went further and built entirely ploughing, he sought to make, a ton (Allen, and Unwin, 78. 6d.), in
He removed spite of the fact that there are from metal scraps an engine that mechanical plough.
really ran.
the workshop which he had found- some orrors in the spelling of
His father wanted him to stayed when a body from his father's on the farm-that was the duty of farm to the back-yard of his house
eldest son.".
But in Detroit. As soon as supper was farmer's "mechanics" called, I remember over he would retire to the shop.
of Stephen Gra-
After all, it was not a mechanical A passage in one ham's books in which he describes plough, but a motor, that was the a steerage passage with poor Im- fruit of his laborious assiduity.
Finally in 1892, the oar Was migrants from Liverpool to New
a little; It looked like finished. He told of the Irish, the York. Poles, the Italians, maintaining, low-swung buggy with its bleycla frame upon their customa and singing their on wheels and light дв
mounted on upright tional songs
the which was to relleve tedium of the voyage.
But, he posts a seat large enough for two reflected, these men will beget and people.... High speed was about these women will bear children twenty miles an hour and low was who will not be interested in their ten. There was no reverse. parents' lands, but will salute the Neighbours Who Laughed-First. Stare and Stripes like born chil dren of the Land of Liberty..
- Henry Ford's father was farmer in Bandon, County Cork, who, when he was twenty.. had to emigrate in the year of the Great Famine, "Black *47." Great num- these bers of emigrants died on
in the voyages across the ocean "coffin ships" but many of those! who survived did well in the new country, particularly such William Ford who went on the land. But on his first arrival at Dearborn he had to work as a builder's labourer and a track- layer. For. a time he worked ag a farm labourer, and then he bought forty acres from another Irishman who had taken rather too much land for himself under a Government grant. When he was thirty-five he married a girl of eighteen, Mary Litogot, who was of mixed Dutch and Scandinavian extraction. Heary, born in 1863, was the eldest child.
He used to push his car into the street, and it would not run. His Henry Ford, American boy, wife felt the humiliation of seeing, turned his back on his Trish the torrace wives laughing behind father's farm. He had five dollars their curtains as he had to push bis back- in hla pocket. He went to a mu- back his horseless car chine shop in Detroit, and
But one morning, in was yard.
1893, Ford called to engaged as an apprentice at two- April,
Kishis wife that he and-a-half dollars a week.
going the car 1 trial and board cost him three-and-a-to give
It half dollars. To make ends that he was sure it would run.
Was
The Young Inventer's Scar. By this time the Ford farm had meet and save a bit, he added a was raining hard but Mrs. Ford, a watch wrapped up, took an umbrella and increased to two hundred and night employment, with
Ford had pushed the thirty acres. Henry went to mender, for which he was paid two went out. school at one time to the Scotch dollars a week for four hours' car out of the shop and he now turned over the motor. It caught Settlement School-until he was work a night.
and begon' to 'cough, bark, sneeze, sixteen. By the time he was Collected Three Hundred Watches, and spit. He mounted to the sent
twelve he was ploughing and doing almost A man's work on
and drove off, while Mrs. Ford'
In time, as his biographer saye, ran along the sidewalk under her farm. He has said that he quit," and found new employ-umbrella in the rain. It worked;
hardness of ment in a marine-engine factory.
the
It
he was
His
Thus Ford
the manual labour on the farm It meant stooping to conquer, for it ran: it was a success. The great that made him apply his mind his wage wont back to two-and-a-idea was at Inat on wheels!
associates bore with him to mechanics. He took part in half dollars. At this time he had
a little while, but eventually they the amusements of the community the dream of universalising, the considered that their money would
rides hay
and watermelon watch, and he actually
drew up parties, "that dear delight of plans for a cheap, reliable "time be better employed than in "fooling
with a gas engine." man. keeper" for every young Americans."
The legend of his inventive this was the first stirring in his had to break out on his own. After boyhood begins with a description mind of the idea of suplying what other disappointments, he founded In a small garage the business that of his stopping the lid and apout might be called a "luxury-want" in
was to grow into the largest of a kettle on the boil to see what millions.
factory in the world.-Con Leary in "T.P.'s. Weekly."
would happen. The kitchen roof)
was almost blown away and a 'bit
of scalding metal hit the boy,
Indeed,
leaving a mark on his face for life. WHEN EATING IS HARD WORK.
A Toy "Junk" Shop.
The local forge captivated him,! and in emulation of the blacks; ith he set up a workshop and forge on the farm. This was at first
B
What the Dyspeptic Thinks.
sort of toy "junk" shop, where the Men and women who come to the boy amused himself, but with in- table with haggard, drawn looks creasing skill he began to repair and poor appetite are to be pitied broken tools and machinery. The for their miserable existence. neighbours soon found out his They are afraid to eat food which skill and brought him odd jobs of normal, robust persons will enjoy. repairing to do. He used to take However hungry they may be, his watch to pieces, and put it even the lightest meal brings a re- together again, and in time he currence of those indigestion pains made a watch which would tell which cause the victim agony.. Government time and "sun time." by which the farmers directed their day. Late in life he said:
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But why suffer the miseries of dyspepsia, with its irritability, acute pains in the back and cheat,
and There is an immense amount toj flatulence
water brash? be learned simply by tinkering Those continuous bouts of indiges- with things. It is not possible to tion with lack of food have im- learn from books how everything poverished your blood. It has be- is made and a roal mechanic come so thin and weak that it has ought to know-how nearly every-left your body in a debilitated thing is made. Machines are to state, and reduced you to a hag- a mechanic what books are to agard and depressing frame. writer. He gets ideas from them, The most reliable method to deal and if he has any brains he will with Indigestion is to begin at apply those ideas.
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MAIDEN VOYAGE.
LEE YEE (D'Agullar St.)
KOWLOON WHARF. '
coaster "Katoora"
The biggest event of his youth, blood. For this purpose there is he says, occurred when he was no better tonic than Dr. Williams* He and his father were pink pills, which will increase and thirteen. driving along from Dearborn to renew your blood, making a rich, Detroit when they met a road en-red supply to flow through your gine which had a chain connecting veins. The stomach and digestive ed motor
The 360 b.h.p. Kromhout-engin-
has
it with the rear wheels of the car organs will at once begin to re- completed her maiden voyage to ringe on which it was mounted, vive and properly function. Pain Adelaide, the entire trip from Here Henry Ford saw his first and dépression will, disappear, and Greenock being successfully nego- motor-car 1 He says he remem- you will enjoy the delights of the tiated. The vessel, which is 135 ft. in length, is a single-screw craft, bers how it looked as clearly as if table once more.
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a non-stop run from It were yesterday that he saw it: So begin now to conquer your and made
The engine was driven, steered, indigestion by taking Dr. Williams Greenock to Suez, from Port Said and fired by one man. When he pink pills for pale people. Of all to Colombo, and from Colombo to saw William Ford's waggon coming chemists, or past free at $1.50 per Adelaide. he stopped the engine so as to allow bottle, 6 bottles $8, from the Dr.
The "Katoora" was built by the horses to pass without being Williams' Medicine Co., 60, Ktang-George Brown and Co. and the frightened.
flew se Road, Shanghai, Henry fairly
Nothing else machinery was supplied by Perman
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BRINGING UP FATHER
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