The evening world., 1890-07-05
GRAVES IN A STRANGE LAND.
Generous Friends Insure Decent
Burial for the Wendlandts.
Tho Body of the Poet Husband and
Father Not Yet Recovered.

The charity that would have gladly aided
sensitive. proud young Poet Franz wend.
landt in life had his distress been known
to those about him now comes forward
nobly, and will bury the bodies OF the loving
company in death.
Dominic Freund, Of St Johns Evangeli-
cal Church, Hoboken, has received upward
of $3.50 from sympathetic people Of Hobo
ken wherewith to inter the bodies OF the
mother and her babe.
Undertaken Crane, however, whose heart
is also big and sympathetic. insists upon
giving these poor children OF mal.fortune
in strange land q decent burial himself,
and asks that the $3.50 raised bo devoted to
the erection of n monument over the graves
which will be filed by this little family.
The body of Franz Wendlandt has not yet
been recovered. Pastor Freund and Herr
Henry Kaiser have journeyed to many points
these two days past to gaze upon the features
Of poor unfortunates who have been found
dead in the waters or by their own hand in
other forms.
The Gradgripds are urging with loud posi-
tiveness that Franz wendlandt was not
practical. He was q poet, a dreamer. a
litterateur without MARKET
Instead Of Offering so many hours Of labor
with the pick and shovel for 10 many shil-
lings pay. Franz wendlandt insisted on
thinking and writing beautiful things which
nobody wanted to pay for.
He was impractical, and the Gradgrinds
would inscribe those three words for his
epitaph.
Herr Kaiser rolisiously guards the poor
rooms OF his former tenants from prying
visitors. but he was induced by Parson
papers which he had been requested by
Wcndlant in his last mission to destroy.
These are letters from Berlin. They show
that Wendlandt'a father was wealthy cigar
dealer and an officer in the German National
Guard.
They show that Franz was also an officer.
and that, on his weddidg day. q little more
than year ago, he was given two years
furlough. Like many another German.
Wendlandt rebelled at the forced military
service of his native land. and came to
equipped he was for the struggle for exist
From comfort and comparative afiuence
in Germany he had brought his wife to
could not return-the bridges were burned
behind them. They must starve or--die,
Wendlandt purchased the acanty furnish-
ipgs Of hrs three little rooms OF Frederick
Cordts, the Washington street dealer, on
the instalment plan. He owed eco on the
lease, and when he mortgaRed the furniture
to Mrs. Amelia Rnobles he did not know
that he was doing an unlawful act.
He first learned that he had offended when
he truthfully answered the usual questions
put to him by second money lender OF
whom he sought to borrow.
This was Wednesday, and was probably
the eliminating incident that brought about
his determination TO die.
Cordts says that he had all along felt that
the sensitive German poet was struggling
against fate and he had never made any ef-
fort to urge his debtor TO promptness in his
He believed implicitly In Wendlandt's
honesty, but realized his helplessness. Now
he says that the female creditor who wAs so
to exact her pound Of flesh that
quickly after the news Of the triple suicide
was known ahe visited Police Headquarters
say ing, Now l suppose j can go to the
rooms and take the furniture. will never
touch All article.
Cordts has q claim upon II, and will take
the furniture, sell 1t and turn the proceeds
in towards the fund for erecting . monu-
ment.
AT Dominic Freund's little church next
Monday the last rites will be performed on
the bodies of Agnes Wendlandt aud Baby
Franz, and they will be laid at rest in the
bosom OF Mother Earth.
Meanwhile, the search for the body OF
Franz Wendlandt, the husband and father,
continues.