Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1882 — Two Boys Who Met on the Tow Path. [ARTICLE]

Two Boys Who Met on the Tow Path.

New York Sun. In the summer of 1536 a bare-footed boy was ou his way to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, walking the tow path of the Delaware and Hudson oanal. When four miles this side of Port Jervis, and still forty miles from his destination, he was overtaken by a Canal boat. He was asked to jump aboard the boat and ride, which he did. On the boat was a Scotch family, just landed in America, who were on their way to the Pennsylvania coal fields. One of its members was a boy the same age of the young pedestrian, eleven years. A strong friendship grew up between the two boys by the time they reached Honesdale. The Scotch family went ou to Carbondale. tbe center of the Lackawanna coal field. The boy who had been given the ride ou the boat obtained employment on the cauai. His friend, the Scotch boy, worked in the mines for a short time as mule boy. Both he and the former bare-foot boy rose in the company's service. The Scotch boy of forty-six ago is Thomas Dickson, president of the Delaware aud Hudson canal company. His friend, the other boy, is Colonel F. Young, general manager of the company, ana president of tbe Albany & Susquehanna railroad system. Heus scratched up a woman’s garden at Pawtucket, and she poisoned them. To her horror, she saw the owner plucking thep next day for the market, and her conscience gave her no peace till she had bought the lot at a price far above the Iwtcher’s offer. •