The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-12-29

NtAA an one HAtA III AAAAAt AhAt
gle. Years oldfs
Does anyone know an cldesfy
woman. owning property In Liberty
and WYnuna Htreets. Fast Nas
York. Who picked up a little Let
boy in the streets. after The harh-
lnK ~ the steamer Gen. slorum. and
took him away With her.
These are the questions that
beaft-brugcu william Bandeiow. 81
ScN York. father of utfi~ George
nandcfow ia asking Ever since The
si1eum disaster be has been search.
lun for hIa little boy he has sent
out hundreds of posters bearing ite
little boys picture and relating The
circumstance attending bis sup
posed rescue nom the burning ship.
and auhrequruf adoption by an uuz
known woman
uandtiaNa family consisted 81
hla wife d Httlc girl and the boy
George IL Did not know when he
ieu BITS home 90 the morning thai
black 18th - June. that they we're
EuiuE uu the Gen. siu#um When
be eamo home at noon no found
bis house deserted NelEhboFs told
him hla vIfe bal been persuaded. n
the laat minute. 90 Join the picnic
given By her church.
After the horror. Haudel1w faund
the bodies - bis wife and hla
daughter Tho former had been
burned % death. the latter drowned
Side by side 10 buried tbem. and
turned awaY from the grave u
search again Zoe George, whose BODY
had not appeared among those %
the victims. naudsloS WAS tlreisa
In bis quest lie carefully examined
the body or every child brought
ASHORE from the wreck. lie said be
could positively idoutlfy his little
boy by bis teeth. where every other
means % Identification impossible e
and he ia certain hts son was not
among all the little bodies taken
from the river.
Bandainw hired men % dredEe
for the body and diver 70 search
for r. One day. some time after the
disaster. while he vas watching the
search for .his child. Capt BerK. OF
tho United States Volunteer Life
Savings corps. asked him to dc
scribe the missing child. and his
clothes Then he said 10 BaudeioN
7 do not want To raise false hopes
IN your heart but remember dis
tinctly. among the survivors whom
! helped to get ashore. a little boy
who exactly answered the dearrb-
ton Of your son. landed him ht
Oak Point"
Bandelow then began new
search for n living boy. that hhH
lasted without lutermlsaion 20 tHla
day. lie says IL viii continue nuiu
he finds the boy or dies lie ntat
made a house % house canvass of
the district I'm which Oak Point Iis
situated thinking perhaps little
George might have been taken. IN
By some family. but in vain.
One day Ia September BandeloaB
sister-ln-law met n woman who tdld
her that about six weeks previously.
while ahe was In a restaurant I'M
Canarsle. y Y. she had noticed. a
well-dreased. elderly woman. Who
had with her little boy. The
elderly woman. In the course ~
conversation. said that sho mad
found the little boy wandering in
the streets on the day Of tho sio-
cum disaster. She had asked him
his name. but he vas unable TO tell
Il. and sre had taken him 10 her
home. believing his parents had
been Loaf in the horror.
Mrs. Ryan. the woman Who
brought the information TO Bande-
lows slster-ln-law. had not heard
Of Bandelow when she met the
elderly woman. Learning Of the
case later. she haste nod 10 tell what
she knew. She said the little boy
answered perfectly the description
OF little George Bandelow. clothes
and all. The elderly woman had
told her abe was we'll able 10 take
care OF the boy. az she owned prop
erty In Liberty and wynona streets
last New York.
Bandelow has hunted through
every part OF the district named 70