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CASTLE GARDEN
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East Side was only beginning. The Blau flat in Ninth Street near Second Avenue occupied the floor of what had been in the days of President Jackson a fine mansion; there was even a big back yard. Mr. Blau lived very prettily on his salary as floorwalker for a Grand Street department store. For Adolph’s three dollars a week, Mrs. Blau not only gave the little apprentice a clean bed, breakfast, and dinner, but even a put-up luncheon.
He had small temptation for spending beyond these bare necessities for he filled his days and nights with hard work. To the immigrant, the English language stands the first obstacle. This is especially true of the Hungarian. Not that he lacks the gift of tongues; but his native language is a world of philology away from ours. Springing from a different stock, it “goes at things” differently; our vowels, some of our consonants, have no exact equivalent in Hungarian. Established in the fur trade, Adolph Zukor entered a free public night school in Stanton Street, and attended it somewhat irregularly during a three-year residence in New York. Here, he made acquaintance with the English classics. His diamond-hard mind had always a trick of cutting through the medium of expression to the idea beneath. So Shakespeare and most of the other great English poets went past him. Milton and Bunyan, however, made a strong impression; perhaps his early rabbinical education broke the ground for that. He still has his old school copy of PilgrinCs Progress; and at intervals he