The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-06-12
AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS.
Two Brothers are Reunited
in New York.
HOW THEY WERE KEPT SEPARATED.

Through Newspaper Personal oliver
Jurgensen Meets His Brother Whom lie
Supposed Was Drowned in shipwreck
Many Years Ago-The Lost Brothers.
Experience at Sea and in Siam.
New York, June 12.-Oliver Jurgensen,
Dane. and confidential man for Gustave
Frohman. the theatrical manager, was a
very happy man yesterday. lie met in
this city brother he believed dead for fiji
teen years There is much romance in the
story of how the brothers came to be sepa-
rated Paul Jurgensen, the long lost
brother arrived here last week from Siam,
where he is an intimate of the royal fam
lily. He speaks Danish and Chinese fluent
ly, but as yet does not thoroughly under
stand English. Oliver Jurgensen learned
of his brothers arrival in this country
through an advertisement in morning
paper last week.
Gustave Frohman first noticed it and
forwarded it to Mr.. Jurgensen, who was
visiting friends in Philadelphia.
"To say that | was surprised puts it
mildly, said Oliver Jurgenson yesterday.
"1here were three boys in our family in
Copenhagen. | left in 1873 to find gold in
the streets of New York as things here
were pictured in Denmark in those days.
| went to S nth Dakota, where | was soon
joined by second brother, who is now a
clergyman in the west. In 1880 my third
brother, Paul, left home to come TO this
country in a sailing vessel which was
sunk in collision with an ocean steamer.
1t was reported at the time that the sail
ing ship went to the bottom Immediately,
only two OF the crew being saved. / felt
sure my brother was lost
"a peculiarly sad side of his disappear
ance was the suicide of the young woman
in Copenhagen to whom he was engaged.
"The reason for his silence all these
years is strange one. When the ship
collided in the dead of night with the ocean
steamer they were half way across the At
lantic He bound himself to a spar before
the ship went down, and that was the last
he remembered for some days When he
came to consciousness he was aboard a
steamer bound for China. He had been
picked up the second day after the collision.
4 floating piece of wreckage had dealt him
Llow in the head and his mind became
affected He would have brief spells OF
reason, but would soon lapse into coma
UOSe SUdUe. On DOdTu Uue TeSCulIlB SJedlllSI
was an animal dealer, who took quite a
fancy to Paul, and when he left the ship al
Hong Kong took him along with him.
Everything possible was done for Paul
N medical way, but he did not fully re
over his reason till couple of years later
Iy brother was made Siamese agent by the
animal dealer 1t was his business to buy
elephants and other wild animals from. the
natives and ship them to the animal dealer
in Hamburg Or San Francisco, as the case
might be. He has been in Siam even
since. and tells me he wrote to Copenhagen
some years ago, but found that the old
people were all gone. He tried to learn
the address of myself and brother when
he fully recovered his senses, but failed, SC
he stayed in Siam and made his fortune
lie is now quite wealty and is a great
favorite with the royal family. The crown
prince gave him IA photograph of himself
the latest taken, just before he left Sian
to visit this country"