"He uniformly over-estimated his prospective income and under-estimated his prospective outgo. He was frequently surprised at times to learn on how small an income a man could live and retain his standing as a lawyer in a great city. But he was one of many. One of his associates, Lewis Dalton, a graduate of an Indiana university, had learned much about hard times in Chicago and he gave Paul many valuable pointers; for instance, he introduced him to a place down a half-flight of stairs on Fifth Avenue which Lew had appropriately named 'Hell's Half Kitchen.' Its chief recommendation lay in the fact that it dispensed a 'stack of wheats' with syrup for the modest sum of a nickel. It was an excellent place to get breakfast."
In August of 2001, attended a North American presidential conference, in Salt Lake City, Utah USA. Trying to bring awareness of his new idea to Rotary leaders, decided to locate some 1905 Liberty "V" Nickels (the year acknowledged as the founding of The Rotary Club of Chicago) at local Salt Lake City coin shops. These rare coins to some of…
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