Of course those weren’t Horace Greeley’s exact words. What he actually said to Aspiring Young Men was, “Turn your face to the great west, and there build up a home and fortune.” But young Ho Rothman had heard of Greeley’s advice, and it was westward that he headed that night—west across the Hudson on the ferry to Newark, figuring, sensibly enough, that crossing a state line would place him handily out of Rachel’s reach. He spent that first night on a bench in the ferry terminal, as what a later generation would call a homeless person, alternately sleeping and trying to figure out what to do next. His only experience, he decided, was in the jewelry business, and he guessed he might be able to pass himself off as having been previously employed by the Sadye Rothman Jewelry Store in Manhattan. In the morning he bought a newspaper, and studied the Help Wanted ads. He was in luck! A jewelry store on Passaic Avenue was advertising for a delivery boy. He set off on foot through the unfamiliar city looking for the address.
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