The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-20

| this himself"
LOVING DAUGHTERS LETTER.
One OF the first persons In this city
who knew Of Always death was Mrs.
Love, who received a private cable
gram from Nine. Alvary. Wednesday
mornings mail brought Mrs. Love q
ietter from the tenor's eldest daughter
Marie Louise Achenbach-the tenor's
real name having been Max AIvsrv
Acnenbach-dated from their villa
Haus Gutenberg, In Grosztabarz. Oct
81. AT the time she wrote her fathers
olsease hae almost reached its fatal
o...iiaA' ana ne must hSwe seen death
real Hagen had come l,pon the scene
TO thrust his spear In the defenceless
Siegfried's back.
MY poor father writes this loving
daughter. has been worse again and
ne mas to suffer a good deal. He looks
very, very i'll now and is growing very
sliLn' our poor, dear father.
wish you could see him-how
patent and good he always Is. He
never thinks Of himself and not one
single unk1nd word comes from his
lips. And what a terrible life this is
Tor him since his illness. If you COM
pare 1t with what he used to he
NOW IT is nearly one year since papa
left his bed. He is too weak to get
up and walk about There are DAYS
when he lies for hours without speak
Ing a word. He does nothing. and
mamma, and my sister and T. we are
reading night and day to him, because
he doesn't sleep much. and he wants
us to read to him. He used to read
hlmself, always, but now he is too
weak
Some days he is quite another man
so calm and hopeful. as soon as he
feels bit better-but then again he
mas days when he is unconscious of
everything
Il wish we could go back to Ham
purg on account of papa Nobody
knows what it means to live here in
winter, when our house lies forlorn
and lonely up here and the snow is SO
high that nobody can get up here
sometimes for a week! In Hamburg
ne has friends to talk to-here, we live
as though in desert"
CHARMING CHILDREN.
What sweet yet sad picture Of love
and mutual devotion this letter gives
US: Aivary always prided himself upon
the nnnner in which he was having
MS children educated and his daugh-
ter's letter, which is written in Eng
lsh. shows that his pride was justitia-
I bic.
.arie Louise is the eldest of nine
/ children who survive him. He had in
| all thirteen. The others who are uv-
ing are Elizabeth, Gregor. Max, Eva,
| Nellie, Thekla ruined after his wife,
AK and Irma. Marie Louise is sew
/ enteen years old, Irma two and a
half. Nellie was born IN this country.
! she, Eva and Thekla are so alike in
In Lee I.aF
Tor the other. Max is believed to in
herit much OF his fathers talent He
( certainly has the artistic tempera-
ment, and whether it VIII develop mu-
sically or in the direction of archItec-
ture or designing, in which his father
also excelled, cannot now be determin-
/ ed lG
SOME FAMILY TROUBLES.
Art comes TO the Achenbachs by in
heritance. and Always father is a
le4 Gus German landscape painter OF
the Dusseldorf school-Andreas Achen-
bach, still living, and still painting
diligently, though over eighty. Alva-
rvs father had educated Max for IN
architect, and was deeply chagrined
when the tenor decided to go upon the
stage, and bitterly opposed his doing
SO. AlVary took great pride in having
meoe his own way in spite of his nith-
which kept him from letting Europe
know Of his sickness and poverty So
proud was he Of his self-made career
that he shrank from letting the misery
Of its end become d matter of public
1 knowledge $780,. yaG a1a-d
His marriage also aroused great bit
! te-ress. His father, who had become
partially reconciled to him on account
of his success. opposed the marriage on
! religious grounds, and the charming
| ladys family declined to sanction the
match because they did not wish her
| to marry nm artist
1t is known that Andreas Achen-
! bach was at one time very wealthy
! and those who do not know the exact
circumstances have asked why he did
not come to his sons aid while the lat
ter was lying at Grosztabarz stricken
with disease and poverty. Various ex-
/ planations are given. Some say that
! Alvary's marriage put an end to all
| prospects of reconciliation with his
father, and that the old mans bitter
ness was such that even the sons mis-
| fortunes did not touch him.
CAUSE OF HIS. ILLNESS.
What makes the tenor's death pecu-
| llarly pathetic is the fact that his fatal
! disease was brought on through no
| fault or neglect Of his own but through