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From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine By: Alexander Irvine (1863-1941) |
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The Life Story of Alexander Irvine Illustrated [Illustration: Alexander Irvine, 1909.
Photograph by Vanderweyde]
New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1910
All Rights Reserved, Including that of Translation
into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian
Copyright, 1909, 1910 by Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, February, 1910
TO MAUDE HAZEN IRVINE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Boyhood in Ireland 3 II. The Beginning of an Education 24 III. On Board a Man o' War 40 IV. Problems and Places 53 V. The Gordon Relief Expedition 63 VI. Beginnings in the New World 82 VII. Fishing for Men on the Bowery 90 VIII. A Bunk house and Some Bunk house Men 105 IX. The Waif's Story 119 X. I Meet Some Outcasts 126 XI. A Church in the Ghetto 144 XII. Working Way Down 156 XIII. Life and Doubt on the Bottoms 166 XIV. My Fight in New Haven 183 XV. A Visit Home 193 XVI. New Haven Again and a Fight 207 XVII. I Join a Labour Union and Have Something
to Do with Strikes 213 XVIII. I Become a Socialist 235 XIX. I Introduce Jack London to Yale 250 XX. My Experiences as a Labourer in the Muscle
Market of the South 256 XXI. At the Church of the Ascension 274 XXII. My Socialism, My Religion and My Home 285
ILLUSTRATIONS
Alexander Irvine, 1909 Frontispiece FACING PAGE
Mr. Irvine's Birthplace 4 Where Irvine Spent His Boyhood 8 Alexander Irvine as a Marine 38 Officers of H.M.S. "Alexandra" Ashore at Cattaro 50 A Page from Mr. Irvine's Diary 54 Dowling, Tinker and Colporter 110 Alexander Irvine. From a sketch by Juliet Thompson 146 State Convention of the Socialist Party of Connecticut 238 The Lunch Hour in an Interborough Shop 248 Alexander Irvine and Jack London 252 In Muckers' Camp in Alabama 258 Irvine and Three Other Muckers as They Left Greenwich
Street for the South 258 Irvine, Punching Logs in the Gulf of Mexico, 1907 270 The Church of the Ascension 276 "Happy Hollow," Mr. Irvine's Present Home Near
Peekskill, New York 294 Happy Hollow in the Winter, Looking from the House 298
FROM THE BOTTOM UP
CHAPTER I BOYHOOD IN IRELAND
The world in which I first found myself was a world of hungry people. My earliest sufferings were the sufferings of hunger physical hunger.
It was not an unusual sight to see the children of our neighbourhood
scratching the offal in the dunghills and the gutterways for scraps of
meat, vegetables, and refuse. Many times I have done it myself. My father was a shoemaker; but something had gone wrong with the
making of shoes. Improvements in machinery are pushed out into the
commercial world, and explanations follow. A new shoemaker had
arrived a machine and my father had to content himself with the
mending of the work that the machine produced. It took him about ten
years to find out what had happened to him. There were twelve children in our family, five of whom died in
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