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66o <strong>Radio</strong> <strong>Broadcast</strong> his books and even then, lacking sufficient money, he had to sell his heavy sheep's wool overcoat and cap to eke out his steerage fare. dropped his gruff tones, released my arm and Then clad in the light summer suit his sole even handed me my battered fez, torn and remaining garment plus the red fez, he came dusty from the scuffle. My adversary shook aboard. hands with me and as I swaggered back to Immigrants had to supply their own bedding. But young ready, liked Castle Garden the whole crowd cheered. I al- Michael Pupin, too Even America. in far-off poor to buy even a Once in a Lifetime Hungary the fame of mattress and blanket Franklin and Lincoln for the hard bare had penetrated. floor of a third-class ship, hugged close to the smoke stack and fought off intruders. He had national traditions and five cents to bring to the new country. Discharged from Castle Garden, Pupin looked with bewildered eyes at the clanging horse cars, at the thick network of telegraph wires overhanging the buildings, at the handsome new custom house, at the New- York of 1874. Prague and Budapest had seemed bustling cities compared to his native village but the vastness of New York overshadowed even those cities. TWO-FISTED AMERICANS HE WAS soon accosted by a group of newsboys attracted by the novel fez. Pupin could speak no English, and the bully of the crowd, finding that he could not fight him with words, substituted fists. These Pupin understood much better. In his native Hungary, he had tended cattle and out in the open had learned wrestling from the sportive herdsmen. He was lithe and strong. It was not long before he had his adversary down on the ground yelling "enough." "I then had my first introduction to America," Professor Pupin relates. "In Europe a crowd stuck together, putting up a united front against the stranger. Over here, on my first morning, the newsboys initiated me into the fraternity of fair play. When the boys saw that I had won the fight honorably, they cheered me and when a large official in blue The story of the success of Michael Pupin, who progressed from a poor immigrant, who landed in New York with five cents in his pocket, to a famous scientist known and respected by the entire world is one which can't be read very often. But a success such as his happens just frequently enough to assure the world that such things can happen, after all. It was not altogether by what the enthusiastic fiction writers call "sheer pluck and indomitable energy" that Pupin arrived at the position he now holds. There is a great deal of what we call ability involved. Professor Pupin, in addition to being a scientist of unquestioned standing and prominence, is personally, a tremendously good fellow, as any of his acquaintances will tell you. Miss May's story is published through arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, who publish his autobiography, From Immigrant to Inventor. Many of the photographs used in this article are reproduced through, the courtesy of Scribner's. THE EDITOR. suddenly appeared, they apparently interceded in my behalf, for the large official Now, while working on a Delaware farm almost his first job the immigrant boy learned the legends of Pocahontas, of the Jamestown settlement, the gallant Captain Smith, and many of the other blood-quickening tales of pioneer America. IN PHILADELPHIA LIKE FRANKLIN HE lessons which I learned from my farm teacher seemed to prove that America was a great country with equal opportunities for all if we could only take advantage of them," Professor Pupin says. "I made up my mind to find new opportunities for myself, to leave the Delaware farm and to journey to Philadelphia." "I had compared myself to Benjamin Franklin, whose story I loved because he had. been my incentive in coming to America and because he had first awakened an interest in I electricity. made my entrance into the town in the most approved Franklin manner, walking along the street eating a roll. Although wandered five days I I could find no work. I was ready for opportunity but it seemed to have passed me by. My heavy farm boots were almost worn out from hard use I had given them while I searched for a job. My ten dollars wages had brought I from the farm was nearly gone. As I sat i ft Fairmount Park and ate a big Philadelphia bun, I reflected that even Franklin with all his hardships, had been an American and had known the printing trade and all I knew was
( , me How Michael Pupin Succeeded 661 accepted and once more left for the country." ',' But the farm was hot, the opportunities to learn English or a new trade negligible, so once rnore Pupin took up his wanderings. From the farm in southern Maryland, he journeyed to Baltimore and thence to New York. In those days before the Pennsylvania tunnel, how to drive mules. While 1 moodily speculated on my difficulties, a farmer approached and offered me a job driving mules. 1 'trains deposited their passengers at Jersey 'City and a ferry took them over from there to New York. Along with the rest of the crowd, ^Pupin was landed in lower New York in the heart of the shipping district. As he walked uncertainly through the unfamiliar neighborhood, he saw a small hotel 'AJvith a German name. It was an oasis in a Vegion of strange sights and sounds. The proprietor had a son about Pupin's own age and the two became friends immediately. Pupin's funds were so limited that the two boys decided their first consideration must be to get him a job. This, however, was no easy "matter. During the previous year the entire country had suffered from the great panic of /i 873. This was the summer of 1874, but the country was not yet settled again. There was widespread unemployment. No matter how early the two boys went in response to advertisements for labor, they were sure to find long lines ahead of them. In those gloomy days men were so desperate they waited all night at the newspaper offices so that they could read the "help wanted" inserts in the first editions and stand all night in line to apply for work the next morning. Pupin and Christian, the son of the hotel keeper, soon discovered that the erstwhile farmhand would never get a job in this way. More drastic methods were necessary in a neighborhood so close to the shipping center. The opportunity finally presented itself. During a strike of longshoremen, Christian,! wjio acted as Pupin's business manager, signed up his client as a scab. "My job was to help the sailors paint the ship," Professor Pupin remembers. " Partly as a means of protecting us from the strikers and partly as a means of getting the work done quickly, we substitute workers were out in. the bay. Of course, 1 knew nothing about pa.inting but bitter need for employment will give us ability to do almost anything. At the end CASTLE GARDEN, NEW YORK Where Pupin landed from the German immigrant ship in 1874. Castle Garden has since been converted into the Aquarium and immigrants no longer land there, hut down the Bay at Ellis Island.
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