The evening world., 1889-02-12
The Man Who Made the SEQUEL to
Byram Anderson's Dream.
lie Might Have Been the Risen Brother Of
the Dreamer.
The Living and the Dead Alike in Fea-
turo and in Name.
The letter which is appended has just been
received by TIE EVENING WORLD:


received by TIE EVENING WORLD:
voa NEw York, Feb. II, 1888
i desire to have the following dream recorded
nm | those which THE EVENING WORLD is now
lost my brother some years ago, Jan. 90,
While in business in Twenty-ffth street I had
great need Of an assistant, and had often ex-
pressed a wish that my brother had lived TO be
WITH me IN my business.
my, brother walked into my Office and asked IL
hadn't ADJ a position for him.; This awakened me-.
which appeared in in Tnr Won ans" OF q y an man
who wanted n position III n real estate office,
telling him to call with a specimen OF his hand.
While sitting at my desk the next day. Sept.
40 Nv, tne GoHr opened and in came a young man
iRy3lnntsrily called him by my brothers rame,
T.. he I, an, 9Hmswero@, That is my name, sir, but how
hi ! then hsms aI xIs led to , him. It turned on. that
inS we're nT the ''S sa@o. f fnalos adndT yoa
m " b% "@S 'nF 'f dsted 1i N.Y. spPliG 80. 1895 saa a s RSss 81
how exact the signatures are.
send them as proof that my statement Ia
Is Broadway, Room les.
Byron W. Anderson. the writer of the
above letter, was found in his Office by o re.
porter of The EVENING WORLD. He is in the
real estate and insurance business.
"Th facts as stated In my letter, Z" said
Mr.. Anderson, " are perfectly authentic, and
/ think the series of condolences as there
related is the strangest that I ever
heard of. / have not yet recovered from the
shock which that first sight of the Young man
gave me, although 1t happened nearly six
months ago"
I" Was the resemblance SO perfect. then p'
well, ! have heard OF doubles and I
have seen twins 80 exactly alike that you
could not tell them apart but this
was a case of an exact image.
l had the face Of my brother in mind all that
morning for having dreamed Of him SO
recently, and when / turned around to tell
my caller to sit down l could feel my hair
begin to rise and cold chills ran up and down
my back.
brother Andrew was a good deal Of An aih-
lete; the same expression of face. the same
black hair and mustache. and / could swear
to the very twist Of the latter that 1t was my
own brother who stood before me.
:" was going to take him up to my mother,
lut upon reflection l thought better of it and
decided not to do so. for the effect upon my
self was so powerful that / was afraid it
might affect her more seriously"
Did you employ the young man ?"
No. ] could not bring myself to do that.
for the whole thing seemed 30 uncanny that
| could not bear to see him around.
About two weeks after he came in
s started m0'1%ip WEI u fSr KANSAS %H "dy cisy;. Z
gave him q letter to the agent in that city Of
the Adams Express Company. of which I had
been q correspondent for many years. and I
heard soon afterwards that my brothers.
double had obtained a good position in q
hank OF that city.
"He wrote me himself, and I have had
several letters from him since he estab-
llshed himself in Kansas City thank
ing me for what l did for him. He
had a photograph of my brother and
will soon send 1t back. together with one Of
his own. l wish | had them here now to show
you, for the likeness is striking"
" Do you know anything OF his antece-
dents ?"
~ only know what he told me-that ha
came from Glasgow, Scotland. to make his
way in this country, for his family had been
broken up by deaths. He had only been in
this country two weeks when he advertised,
and he said he wanted to 90 to som live and
growing city.
=" declare. It seems to be almost o dream
to me now. That | should have mistaken
him for Arthur before / even knew his name,
and theu to find that his name was Identical
with that of my brother, almost stupetied
me. And then the dream, too! l am not Q
believer in signs and omens, but this was O
little too much, and | must confess that i was
ratified.
II found out, too. that there was only Two
months and two davs' difference in the ages
of my brother and this Anderson, which
makes the coincidence still more astound-
ing"
The fac smiles OF the signatures of the two
Arthurs are given, so that our EVENING
World readers may note the striking simi-
larlty in the handwriting: