The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-29

drama should be laid in the City of
Brotherly Love. There, thirty five
years ago, when the principals of this
story were aged respectively Q and 2
years, their father died. Within a year
their mother re e-married and shortly af-
forwards she passed away. The older
brother in the interim was sent to an
industrial school some distance out
side of Philadelphia by the step ia ther
and kept from communicating in any
way with his home. His childish
yearnings, however, prompted him to
run away from the school and return
to see his father, but his long trudge
and the many hardshps he endured
We're ill-rewarded. The house was va
cant and locked and all he could learn
from the neighbors-or rather from
those who lived in the vicinity-was
that his mother had been buried three
days before and that his infant BROTH
er was dying of smallpox in the house
of woman nearby.
LOST ALL TRACES.
He was too young to think OF MAX
ing any detailed inquiries and went
back to the industrial school, where he
remained until he was sixteen. When
he came to an age when his neglect
of childhood's years was appreciable
the neighborhoOd of his former home
had lost all trace of those who could
tell him aught of his relatives more
than he had CLEANED seven years pre-
viously. He was firmly convinced that
his brother had died and scarcely in
dulged in even a passing hope that
such was not the case and that long
years afterward they would meet
again. He continued to live in Phila-
delphia, entered the employment of
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
and Is now the engineer on one of the
Atlantic City flyers.
The younger brother, after long
illness, recovered from the smallpox.
and, as the good woman who had
taken him in and nursed him was
widow with three children of her own
TO support. she felt she had done her
share. and sent the friendless, penni-
less babe to an orphan asylum. She
knew very little, or nothing, of the
boy or his family and about all she
could furnish for the records of the in
stitution was his names She only
knew that imperfectly. as the sequel
liam Guile" and by that name he has
ever since been known.
William was kept at the orphanage
until he was about 6 years of age,
when he was indentured to farmer
living near Manunka Chunk. The far
mer treated him badly and finally
turned him adrift without cent. He
sought work with other farmers and
managed to eke out miserable exist
ence working for his board and clothes
until he was sixteen, when he quit
farming and secured job as brake
man on the Delaware. Lackawanna
and Western road.
LIVES ON ADAMS AVENUE.
When he was leaving the last far
mer he worked for he was rewarded
for his years labor with present of
II cents, cents from the farmer.
cents from the farmers wife and a
penny from their daughter. lie came
to live in scranton and now Tesides on
Adams avenue. He is married to
daughter of Professor Gross, formerly
organist at st. Peters cathedral, and
is the father of three children.
Ever since arriving at the age of
reason the impression that .he had a
brother living took firm hold of him.
and as years rolled by this became a
with him, ana his constant
thought was the solution % the mya-
terry of his birth and the discovery of
his brother. 1t was almost mania
with him. Hundreds who will read
this Will tell of Guile" having talked
to them about it apd of his having
made inquiries of them as to whether
or not they ever heard of man Of his
name.
Something tells me have a |
brother living and sometimes l have
a fancy that ! also had a sister," he
would say. Almost every one he talk