put in type.

In 1831 he came to New York, convinced that the great city offered him a
better opportunity for success than any other place, and resolved to win
that success. He was very boyish in appearance, frail, delicate-looking,
but hopeful and resolved. For ten years he worked hard in the various
offices of the city, sometimes setting type and sometimes writing
editorials. Sometimes he published his own journal, but generally found
this a "losing business." Failure did not discourage him, and he kept
on, acquiring greater experience and becoming better known every year.
He has himself told so well the story of his early struggles to so large
an audience that I need not repeat it here.

In 1841, ten years from the time he wandered along Nassau street, without
money or friends, and with all his worldly possessions tied up in a
handkerchief, he began the publication of the _New York Tribune_, having
succeeded in obtaining the necessary capital. It was a venture, and a
bold one, but it proved a great success. He chose the name of the
journal himself, and became its responsible editor. Though others have
assisted him in his efforts, the success of the paper is his work. He
has made it a great power in the land, and he is naturally proud of his
work. Those who know him best say that the title dearest to his heart is
that of "Founder of the New York Tribune."

Mr. Greeley's career has been one of incessant labor. His friends say he
was never known to rest as other men do. When he goes to his farm in
Westchester County for recreation, he rests by chopping wood and digging
ditches. His editorial labors make up a daily average of about two
columns of the _Tribune_, and he contributes the equivalent of about six
_Tribune_ columns per week to other journals. He writes from fifteen to
twenty-five letters per day; he has published several large works; he
goes thoroughly through his exchanges every day, and keeps himself well
posted in the current literature of the times; he speaks or lectures
about five or six times a month, and makes monthly visits to Albany and
Washington, to see what is going on behind the scenes in the capitals of
the State and Nation. He is constantly receiving people who come on
business or from curiosity, and yet he never seems tired, though he is
not always even-tempered.

He is somewhat peculiar in his personal appearance. Most people in
thinking of him picture to themselves a slouchy