The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-06-29
WISHED NJ 4 DsArH NOrICE.
4 New Yorker. t>pertroce 81 . Funeral
After Meeting an md temrsde.

A death NOTES, In a newspaper attracted
the attention 20 a New Yorker the other
day II announced the decrease u n man
Who had ben h- Intimate hovhoo-i friend
Ia. two had driftcd apart as they grow
! older aud years had pa--.d without their
meeting. About two weeks before the death
I notice Appeared they had been thrown to-
g.ther For IN. first time In wears they
had taIk.Si over the lays 81 their old ffi-nd-
shiU
AID prumuily on the heels 81! th,s n~,eeting
the New Yorker read that hi- friend had
died W B.HYkivu Their" Wa nothing
/ stated IA %, 1urourC-iucn beyund Tia,
fact ~ he hath ard 'he time ~ the iun"raI
service, They wcr" To- IT, held ~ ~" hou-''
and thithor tile NoN Yorker went "a the
day S"t
II seemed to him that Il would be curious
10 80. after 49, many years the home ~ his
old friend and pnssihlv his fricnd's family
Rayond ,ha fact learned In his recent talk
that his friend had two children "" was
uuite ignorant - What the social SITUATION
- his friend Wa.
Uo was to learn this now for the first
! time when the head ~ the family was no
more. lie himself had prosiered IA the
Affairs II tins III" and u was with a certain
Kindly CURIOSITY thai hc wondered whether
or NOT ~ friend had com" through lie
~ we'll They had both t~cn poor enough
AZ the OH GOT d.
lie remembered how we'll the man looked
al their la-' meeting They had rdf''~i
promising 'u arrsHg, an engagement Tor
luncheon at an early daN
H. - ,c % all IN" YEAR gnn" Wv and ~"
white, Iaii AMI l-ari - had tsrn able ="
r-,usu. %. IN. i'icud ~ has Youth VIC"
nos, Wn- a. .'-siElf Jui ~" aka nearly So
clear ~ formerly. and III" clear ga" "N-,
had not Lost nIl thrir Spark!o II" cJul'
not r-pr.-s n feeling q wonder whether
h.. retained a. much oi his youth A. ms
friend who Ma now d''ti
Tie found The huu~' after a whl'" II
wa comfortable, hut ~ a. Suggestion 81
wealth, however. ant ia" app 'aranon al
IA. mnurrrrS gathered " ~" having
roam Wa rather huml'i"r than NJ" hai OK
ts.ct.i He saw two y r-pu- that H. sup
nl...d 10 H.. IN" children II ht- dead fr"nd.
and Wa rather di-aIp in'"d ~ them ""
had EXPECTED that they would - more a.
Inc remembered their father IN M youth
The services vcrr cpnduc'"d hN a clergy
man who mads a few r'frrruce- 10 tn"
DECEASED mans occupation ~ mat OF q
plut THIS suTIri-"d 'hc New N"rh't,
Who had never heard THAI M, i'l'h" MAI
b.pg IA his employment AMI WI" Won
dar",l when ne HAD taken tot
But A long time had clap ed since they
Ncr. clerks together and al their last m'"'i-
.ng the subject az not t--.n discussed
sill. h. could scarcely fancy hrs old chtin
A. "a pilot
Au.r ,hc Simple ceremony, ID" persons
ia The hoI-, advanced go .o'k at ia" body
b"'pir the c,fiu Wa closed 10" V"
Yorker thought. N N.'N - M 'hI'ttlihtN
II tho funeral. that ~" widow might u"
IN 'h,. room Bu. ha saw u"'-dy that
corn =. nd"i 20 hs .d"a II What ~" would
l.. and waited hi turn - hook ~ hh- Oh
Cltlm'- II - uis-. ts'r"
Whom tho n'i.rS had fallen back. he
valaed toward th" ouNtn lie leai'~i
forward To liuk a. "a" ia~'
To his astoni-hm"bt thcrr was quit"
another -or' II y rSpu ~ ~" comm ~"
hndy vas that ui a short, stout mar W."
wa. swupth ia"rt and hr KIN ~a-
wriukI.t and saaincd Ike that "i a man
who had passed AL 81 IN ~" IN W"
,prn air
'Bu tho nau,~ vas PRECISELY 'h" same
A. that ~ his friend u" ld"s iilat n"
might have got IN 20 ~" wrong nous
lrt he New Yorker g. look M ~ IA" nous
lumber and al, 10 find out 10" mans ~
the street again.
t. The hpus, indicated IN the motto" ""
took tho further pr-cautio" Ut a-h'hr q
man whom n. law coming uu' % tie nuu-''
II A uar-Uu low the name 81 h'~ TREND hid
mot Iycd 'h,re ~" reviewed an Affrma-
tiyr pp'y
Ih.r - thought - the CITY dircctory
and found n copy In "A drug -tor" There
"A. saw thai there wrr Two persons vain
Tho sauc name a. nls friend
Thsr, w.t. r,irf for HIM ~ that discovery
h. took tho trluhI" 90 call up hi- friend
,u rEa telephone 'hn t.Nt dav 70 max"
,rrain thai Ue had not died Ana he
wa the twentieth person who dld ~.