The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-01
cIOUDBURST HERO CONFESSES
piI.L REJERE or THE WEST JUST
4 PROFESSIONAL BEGGAR.
Cav, lie Touched j. ogden Armour for
Money and Free Passes and Frederick
innings for s3O-Tried Mortimer l..
schlr, and Mendicanc Ofricer Got Him.


paul Revere Of Manitou. is leaving town
ina hurry. Shifts Of fortune have followed
t,s, in the life OF L. L. Loeb Last Sunday
morning he touched the zenith OF his career
ai,b page article in coIored Sunday
sirplement, for which ho paid not cent,
srl which should have been good for
touch anywhere in town. Yesterday after
,oon he sat in the sweatboK before Men
delaney Ofioer james Forbes OF the Charity
Accumulation Society and yielded up tie
details of one Of the most beautiful pieces
ofpress a gent work in history Uneducated
and unframed, this rank outsider has made
the work Of the highly paid circus profess
s,ora.s look coarse and unadroit,
For particulars OF Loeb's awful ride.
, glance over the color sections OF last Sun
day You can't miss It. Wandering
through mnze Of pictures, borders job
tyu. and diagrams the tale relates how
the c.oudturst swept down the beautiful
valley Of the Ute Falls Canon in Colorado.
seven thousand souls we're in the path OF
the torrent But Loeb the daring cow
rinoher astride his faithful steed Baby.
s,w h coming. Like mad he rode,
prayer on bis lips
Flee for your livesl" he cried
And when the last soul was out OF the
way Of the torrent the young hero fell
from his steed exhausted. 1t was then that
p,hy planted her left hoof In his side
which paraiyzed him completely.
Right there the daring Loeb showed the
stun Of which heroes are made The people
Of Colorado wanted TO pension him. he
refused He continued his wild and daring
life Tor he could still ride He climbed
Mount Shasta on horseback in pursuit OF
the tandit Tracy, which was a sensible
thing for a paralytic to do. seeing that
Tracy operated in Northern Oregon and
Washington, whole wide State away.
The story wanders out from beneath a
beautiful drawing OF the human muscular
system to tell what the surgeons have done
inan effort TO save Loeb He has been oper-
stei on twenty-six times and been under
enanpsthetic for thirteen hours and twenty
two minutes To hold him together after
the saws quit working the doctors broke
his hin in four places. rolled him In 4S2
yards OF bandaRes. jabbed him with their
tcaluela in eighty-two places took eighty
six stitches in him and tied him to a twenty
nine pound weight. 1t was no use; the hero
remained paraiyzed.
Then j Ogden Armour saw his wan yet
handsome face (see photography and re-
membered his own little daughter.
He shall go to Vienna and be healed by
DR. Lorenz said Mr.. Armour. That was
why Loeb came TO New York.
Colorado hasn't yet seen the last of
Baby and me. the modest young hero IL
quoted as saying. L shall soon be well
man again.
And so hopes every one who reads this
page concludes the author.
II IL a suandalous thing that a man OF Mr.,
Armour's wealth shouldn't have been more
liberal. for when Mr.. Loeb reached New
York he was forced TO apply for help TO
get across the ocean. Last week, few
DAYS before the details of his daring feat
were published, he asked Frederick Bill
liuRs Tor 500 to help him across the ocean,
He first met Mr.. Billings in the West Last
summer. and lifted $40 from him then by the
hero tale Later lest week he came back 10
Mr Billings with tears in his eyes and
asked for $40 more to make up the sum lac
needed Mr. Billings yielded again, moved
this time by letter IRON Eugene L. Schmitz,
the labor union Mayor of San Francisco,
which lndorsed Mr.. Loeb az deserving
person.
Late in the week Loeb made the mistake
Of trying o touch Mortimer l.. Schih. Mr..
schif who has met such as Loeb before,
went straight TO the Charity Organization
Society. Mr. Schiff was touched by the
tale but not quite enough TO be touched
in the pocket without further investig ton.
Then Loeb wrote pathetic appeal TO Kuhn.
Loeb & Co. The same man, 1t happens.
opens the mail for both Kuhn, Loeb Co.
and Mr. ScniG This letter referred to the
Sunday supplement story as an indorse-
meni IT.
The Charity Organization Society had
learned many things in the meantime.
Yesterday morning Officers W. j. Walsh
and Jaus' ". Barry went up to the Grand
Union Hotel where Loeb was residing
In great state. and invited him down to the
Charity Organization headquarters.
Mr Loeb proved to be tall. good looking
young man with polished manners and
enthusiastic when he desert bes those
clothes Loeb walked with a slight halt
10 the left leg
Mr. Forbes first sprang on Loeb a tele-
gram from the Mayor Of Manitou, Col.
the nearest town Of any size TO the canon.
1t said
'Loeb'- claim not genuine. He saved
no lives
Vow. what do you think Of that?' said
Loeb. Il know that man; He's perse,
cutting me because I'm Jew. I'm glad
I've got two officers as Witnesses. for ] m
going ~ sue him. And after all I've done
for Colorado and here the tears streamed
down ii7 face
and when he turned on the water works"
said Nlr Forbes, Il knew | had a pro-
Next Nj Forbes produced letter from
the Charity Organization Society Of Chicago
l. scr forth the pedigree Of the Loeb family
prot-, Golal charity seekers and beggars.
u told now Leo Loeb, the son, had worked
the child paralytic game since his baby
hood When DR.. Lorenz was in Chicago,
said this report, his assistant operated on
Loeb free Nevertheless, a club on the
south Side had given a benefit and raised
1870 ~ pay for the operation. There were
other items Of interest, touching upon
l-oeh'- mother, his sister and his small
brother
Shameful" cried Loeb, weeping again.
70 drag my poor old mother into thisl"
A. tho end Of an hour Mr. Forbes had
reduced the Paul Revere OF Colorado TO
musn Out came the story. bit by bit.
Loci who halls from Chicago, was a
pIalytic from infancy, with only partial
control Of his left arm and leg. At the
age of II, his parents put him to work
selling soap aud spinning a pitiful tale
70 The effect that he was raising money
70 pay for an operation. II paid well.
chicago got too small to hold him. He
extended his operations to the West and
wa n Colorado, working the ldndhearted
mner-. when the Ute Falls cloudburst OF
1892 occurred
The John-town food was fresh In the
Iuhrr mind. 4 reporter borrowed an
Incident from that or from Put Yourself
" Ills Pl8ceS or from the man Charles Rende
borrowed that from TO dress M his tale