"When Paul Revere Rode for Liberty" reproduced from the original painting by j. henry hintermeister. published and copyrighted by the osborne company, newark, new jersey, u s. a. Early in 1775 General Gage, the British Commander in Boston, received orders to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock, the patriot leaders, and send them to England for trial. Hancock and Adams had left Boston and were stay­ing at the house of their friend, the Rev. Jonas Clark, at Lexington. On the night of the 18th of April, Gage ordered a force of 800 troops to proceed to Lexington, arrest the two Americans, and con­tinue on to Concord to seize or destroy the military stores that were being gathered there for the Min­ute Men. The British preparations were secret, but the Boston patriots were not to be deceived. No citi­zen was permitted to leave Boston that night, so read General Gage's orders to the town, which was under martial law. But Paul Revere crossed the Charles River under the very guns of the British fleet, waited on the further shore until he learned by the signal lantern in the belfry of the old North Church that the British had marched, and then leaped to his horse and began his immortal ride in the cause of Liberty. As he galloped over the old Medford road, he thundered his alarm at every farmhouse-"The Red Coats are coming! To arms!" At last, he reached Clark's house and found it guarded by eight Minute Men, with a sergeant in command. Adams and Hancock were asleep, and the sergeant warned Revere not to make a noise and disturb them. "Noise!" yelled Revere. "You'll soon have noise enough-the Red Coats are coming." Hancock was roused from his sleep by the dis­turbance before the door. He threw up the win­dow and ordered the guard to admit the horseman. The British plan was frustrated, Adams and Han­cock escaped across the fields. When the Red Coats reached Lexington, finding their prey gone, they shot down the little group of Minute Men there, and proceeded to Concord to destroy the stores. But Revere's ride had mobilized the Minute Men. They met the British at Concord Bridge, "fired the shot heard 'round the world," and the War for Inde­pendence had begun. To Paul Revere was given opportunity to sound an alarm that overnight turned a Colony into a Nation. His call to arms lighted a fire that went blazing through the land to culminate at Yorktown. Paul Revere, quiet Boston merchant, made possible the Declaration of Independence. Had the British captured the Patriot Leaders and seized the military stores, there would have been no Concord, no Bunker Hill, no Independence. The Revolution would have been crushed in its very beginning. Of Paul Revere's Ride, Longfellow rightly says: "The fate of a Nation was riding that night." Paul Revere was a merchant and an artist-a Boston business man like most of us. He had a little Boston shop, where he created and sold his wares. His heroic deeds are not all that live after him; he is remembered for his designs in silverware, still widely used. He made artificial teeth in a day when dentistry was almost unknown. He was an honest, successful merchant, who risked every­thing he had in the cause of patriotism. During the critical years that followed the outbreak of war, he was the special messenger of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety! He was a Lieutenant- Colonel in Washington's Army. When peace came, he resumed his career as a business man of enter­prise and resourcefulness. It is said that he estab­lished the first copper smelting works in America, and also the first copper rolling-mill. He was a pioneer in American metal industry. J. Henry Hintermeister, who painted "When Paul Revere Rode For Liberty," is a Swiss by birth (born in Zurich) but an American by adoption, and a keen and accurate student of American his­tory, as well as a painter of distinguished ability. He has given to the land of his adoption several splendid paintings of events supremely important in our history. His "Foundation of American Prosperity" dealt with the establishment of Ameri­can credit under Hamilton's administration of the Treasury; his "Birth of Our Country," pictured the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. At the time of the Peace Conference in Washington a few years ago, Hintermeister painted a wonderful group portrait of the chief delegates from all over the world. The painting was called "They Shall Beat Their Swords Into Ploughshares" and was not only published widely as an art calendar, but was exhibited throughout the United States in the in­terest of peace and good will among the nations.