The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-09-06
DIED IN A STRANGE LAND
THE END OF JAQUES RACHIEL IN
DAWSON A PATHETIC ONE.
Came Here from France Two Months
Ago Full of Bright Hope. A
Daughter Now Dangerously Ill.

N4nAC AEOLt ANO NAOiAb
Ago Full of Bright Hope. A
Daughter Now Dangerously Ill.
After having reached what had beer
iongingly looked to as a land of prom
use, and having fairly begun the du
ties of position which held out the
hope of bringing prosperity and hap
piness instead of hardship, Jaques
Rachtel died Thursday in a little room
near the Central depot, leaving be-
hind, in the same little room, a wife
and three daughters, one of whom was
at the time tossing with the delirium
of a feVer-racked body, and who still
lies in a critical condition.
The story is a sad one. 1t is of
struggle and hardship and sacrifice
of hope and heart breaking.
Some years ago the brother-in-law
of jacques Rachtel came to America.
He had worked and saved for months
10 buy passage to a country of |
bright promise. 1t may not have
been the Overlooking land of plenty
that his day dreams had pictured it,
but it was good-so much better
than the cramped living he had
lett behind in France. He eventually
came to Dawson and secured employ
ment as an expert workman with the
Variety Works Company. He wanted !
the loved ones at home to join him
here, and before very long q bent and
gray-haired father changed dollars !
tn+o ,Pncs and turned his face west /
ward, ''
= ,.F1rel 1o4oi IA
terrnined that he, too, would ma tho
country of better things, AMI tt1
brother-in-law resolved that it should p
he so. It was long time before the
thing was done, but one May morning
the Rachtel family found themselves
sailing over a sea of sunshine TO q IA
harbor of ended struggle and new
born happiness, 1t was with this feel
ing that they came to Dawson. 1t
was With nope-swelling heart that =,
- aques Rachtel took up his work +
Hard living? What did that mat C
ter? Better things were just little il
way ahead Not one of them could q
speak English, but the-brother, as al =.
ways, was ready to help, and the diff u
Guilty Of being understood was largely a
overcome, Iii - d
All would have turned out we'll IN Il
the end if Rachtel had not become III d
The brother had had sickness 100 p
and his earnings had to go 70 MS ""
family. The Rachtels found 1T nece0- 0
sary to move into an old bu'iolll4
that had once been used as g small I
store house. Then the daughter be- 4
came i'll. They were hardly able TO /
procure the necessarles OF lie, much 8
less delicacies for the sick. IL
There in that one little room, with |
out light and without ventilation al I
most, the entire family existed. There ]
were no longer happiness and hope. i
The father grew worse from day TO t
day. On the other side of the room |
the daughter was burning up with a
temperature of lO5. There was moth 2
ing but emptiness and despair. |
Jacques Rachtel died Thursday died {
in poverty and suffering. I
The family are still in the bare, c
bleak room-so much emptier than S
before. The daughter is still fever c
racked and suffering. None OF them G
can speak word of English. They S
are strangers IN strange land. The f
mother can only answer the daugh- Y
ter's wants with a fearful face. and,
remembering her great weight Of sor- |
row, beseechingly turn her eyes to Y
''Notre Dame" c
And perhaps, after all, the good t
Lady may give back a smile which v
shall make an end To desOlateness. Y