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Iron Puddler, The my life in the rolling mills and what came of it. James Davis
The Iron Puddler, my life in the rolling mills and what came of it. BY James J. Davis
276 pages, Hard cover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has damage. Copyright 1922.
MY LIFE IN THE ROLLING MILLS AND WHAT CAME OF IT
THE IRON PUDDLER by JAMES J. DAVIS Secretary of Labor
THE steel that made New York a city in the sky was wrought in my own time. My father and his sons helped puddle the iron that has braced this city's rising towers. A town that crawled now stands erect. And we whose backs were bent above the puddling hearths know how it got its spine. A mossy town of wood and stone changed .in my generation to a towering city of glittering glass and steel. "All of which"-I can say in the words of the poet--"all of which I saw and part of which I was."--From The Iron Puddler.
THE IRON PUDDLER is the life story of James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, written that his son might know the pit from which the father was digged, and with no other purpose or intention.
At the Secretary's request a distinguished literary man read the manuscript and was so impressed by it that he urged its immediate publication.
Moved but not convinced, Mr. Davis took other friends into his confidence. All were of like opinion; so here is the book ready to speak for itself, after being introduced by the Honorable Joseph G. Cannon.
THE IRON PUDDLER
All the promise that is America is realized in this life story. All our boasts of equal opportunity are made good.
When a small boy, Jimmy Davis came to this country in an immigrant ship. All the family's worldly goods his mother bore on her back. Poor, obscure, igno, the boy went to work. It wasn't a hardship; it was an opportunity.
Bootblack; messenger; helper in the mills; iron puddler; a tramp in search of work; tin-plate roller; city clerk; county recorder; organizer; philanthropist; a member of the Harding Cabinet-all in forty years.
Secretary Davis has asall his interest in The Iron Puddler for child welfare work at Moose-heart, the school that trains for life.
CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
I THE HOME-MADE SUIT OF
CLOTHES 17
II A TRAIT OF THE WELSH
PEOPLE 26
III No GIFT FROM THE FAIRIES 30
IV SHE SINGS TO HER NEST . 35
V THE LOST FEATHER BED . 40
VI HUNTING FOR LOST CHILDREN 44
VII HARD SLEDDING IN AMERICA . 51
VIII MY FIRST REGULAR JOB . . 56
IX THE SCATTERED FAMILY . . 62
X MELODRAMA BECOMES COMEDY 68
XI KEEPING OPEN HOUSE . 73
XII My HAND TOUCHES IRON .79
XIII SCENE IN A ROLLING MILL . 85
XIV BOILING DOWN THE PIGS . 90
XV THE IRON BISCUITS . . 96
XVI WRESTING A PRIZE FROM
NATURE'S HAND . . . 101
XVII MAN IS IRON Too . .. 106
XVIII ON BEING A GOOD GUESSER 110
XIX I START ON MY TRAVELS . 114
XX THE RED FLAG AND THE WATERMELONS . . .119
XXI ENVY IS THE SULPHUR IN HUMAN PIG-IRON . . . 125
XXII LOADED DOWN WITH LITERATURE129
XXIII THE PUDDLER HAS A VISION 134
XXIV JOE THE POOR BRAKEMAN . . 140
XXV A DROP IN THE BUCKET OF BLOOD . . . . . . 145
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