Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

LEWIS;099 1:1:7
she sent me home. So that was just the thing in those days
you didn't tell anything you seen like that because if you
did you'd have to lick the one that done it, and I wasnvt
a good fighter.
Harvey: Was that the end of your t ime in school?
Lewis: That was near the end of it; right before I stopped.
That wasn't the cause I did stop; actually I had finished
there and I decided things were moving, they were paying
pretty good money in those days. Hadn't got to the big
money yet, but they were paying good money for young people,
and I went to work over in Meadow Mill, in the spinning room
under Isaac McDonald. I worked over there about six months,
then I left,went down Hutzler Brothers; worked there a little
while and then came back over and went to work for a man
named Arminger.. . . twisting room down in upper Mt. Vernon.
And I got my work done and second boss told me to go on
home. So I used to go home; had all my work done. The
next morning when I come in Mr. Arminger asked me if I
left early and I told him yes, Mr. t o l d
me to go home
and he told me not to leave early any more. That day when
I got done my work - had it all done - second boss told
me again to go home, I forget his name. I told h im what
Mr. Arminger said; he said that's alright - you got all
your work done you can ga ahead.
The next morning when I come in Mr. Aminger
told me I was fired. So I went over to W illiam E.
nooper's Mill see my uncle was boss in rope room, Lampwick