The sun., 1901-12-04

For days, he says, he would lie on the salt
bags, only moving when the rats ettaok
became so heres that he couldn't stand II.
He had no wafer. and his coffee failed to
fruits served to increase his thirst, but
they kept him alive until the moment when
he heard the pounding at che matches ana
knew that the Palatia wac at her DOCK
The letter which Schaefier and Neumilier,
Of the Union Square Hotel received from
Beck was as follows ---
From j Beck, Hamburg, Nov. Is.
In time with speed TO New York.
SIR: Without work and without means
s% my at ss boat sns and d at $
az and W goods t By y the ne sSlp Paiats Capt Re.snS
viii SrsG ssasrs me snSn aSnpssssas have
am not AFRAID OF any work and should like
ssa copia. q .ns sish fala.i4 already
toned. leave Hamburg on Sunday, Nov. III
h.a,s h ths hopd Of arriving In New York In good
6sv: need to beg toI ny ~ s.su'eM MS ss Sss, Ssl
JOHANN BECK
Neither Of the hotel men had ever heard
Of Beck. and Beck admitted in the hospital
that he didn't know them. But II seems
that over a week ago the American Express
Company got a way bill from Germany
for It's freight on the Palatia. and that
among other things on this bill was the boz
containing model shipped to Schaeher
and Neumiller. few days later when
the company got a despatch saying that
the box supposed to contain a model really
contained a live man, Assistant Manager
Brown, Of the American Express Companys
foreign department, rang up Messrs'
Sohaeifer and Neumiller, and asked them
il they knew anything about the box CON
tanning a model. They said they didn't,
but didn't mention Beck's letter. which
they then had. and Mr.. Brown didn't men
tion his despatch.
As far as the express company has been
able to find out, their foreign office was
TO whom he wrote just before he sailed
This friend evidently became worried
when the Palatia didn't get in on time :.
Beck's box was taken out of the hold OF
the Palata yesterday. II looks very much
like a dry goods case, Is feet 10 inches
long, 4 feet high and feet 10 inches wide.
There was foot of hay on the bottom
and this was covered with burlap. At one
end was an old-fashioned valise flled with
socks and underclothes. Beck had evil
IDENTIFY used this as a pillow. There was
also long. thick overcoat. gray soft
hat and high hat split down the crown.
On a rack under the lid Of the box we're
a number Of shirts and collars camels-
hair brush and footrule.
There was also n cardboard box contain
ing number of letters addressed TO Beck
The letters were all from a young woman
who signed herself johanna and who
wrote from the Verein Hospital at Ham
burg. They were love letters and there
was letter from Beck to the woman. half
finished. in which he said that he was COM
ing TO this country and that he would send
her some money so that she could follow
him.
A number OF other articles were found
in the box, among them a lot OF maps and
books and about two dozen pint soda-water
bottles which had contained coffee. There
were fragments of food around, too. Inside
OF the lid of the box was spring lock
which allowed a man 10 secure the cover
from the inside. card found In the
pocket OF Beck's coat shows that he was
born at Muschau, Mahren, Germany, on
Nov. 80, 1871 and that on March Is, 1891,
he joined the Hamburg Painters Union.
His card was No. 40,024 and all his dues
had been paid up. Beck will be sent 70
Ellis Island as soon as he is able TO leave
the hospital. Newton Bennington,
broker, who has a number Of racehorses'
telephoned Commissioner McSweeny yes
terday that any man who was as anxious
as that to get 20 America ought to be al
lowed TO stay. He said that he would give
a bond for Beck when he WAS well enough
to be about and would see that he got
start over here. Bennington said that
he had made a bet of 81 900 with a friend
that year after ne got started Beck would
be making q good living at his trade here.
He wouldn't tell his friends name.