The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-13
AFTER 20 YEARS
FOUND HIS COUSIN.
RELATIVES UNITED THRU MEDI-
UM oF JOURNAL INTERVIEW.
Thomas o'Hara Saw His Cousin s Name
Among Those of Bridge Square
Habitues Who Discussed Sunday
Closing and Saved Him from q Winter
at Shoveling Snow.

There was happy reunion of long
parted relatives in Minneapolis Mon
day evening as result Of the Sunday
closing interview published in L h g
Journal of that day with twenty
five Bridge square habitues..
One Of the men, Charles O1Hara, mao
booked with gang Of railroad laborers
and was at Union station Monday even
ing awaiting the train which was TO
take some sixty snow shovelers to
Minot. N. d. The train was called and
O'Hara drifted, stick in the jam OF
human driftwood, toward the gate. In a
few moments more he would have
passed the gates. -,
WCharles O'Hara! Charles O'Hara!''
The name was called loudly and re-
peated and echoed thru the packed walt
mo room. There was a murmur of ex.
citement. Whispers Of stand pat
cit IS a fly bob game, :, and similar e1-
pressions were heard in the crowd.
O'Hara went on unmoved. just as ne
was about to pass the gates he was &C,
costed and turning saw Well-dressed
man whom he did not know. -,
care YOU Charles o 'Hara, who lived
in Williamstown, Ky.7" eagerly IN
anfFff5 IN The t. stFWRhhg y7, was the 1aeonio
response. "a 49,
o,H no saloon 4l6 Nicollet avenue,
threw his arm around the, would be
snow shoveler and pulling him OUT OF
the crowd, remarked:
HEThen you're my long-lost cousin.
Explanations followed and the cous-
ms checked up enough to ind there
was no mistake.
III ii take care Of you for the pres,
|, IL. raorn1ItQn and Inc
wanderer heaved sigh Of relief
TAI right,' he responded. Here,
pal,1 he said, turning to a bewhisker1ed
Spectator, "you re the goods; take
this. You'll probably find some use
For them - and the newly discovered
relative handed his turkey contain
ing all his worldly clothing and P Posses ;ns J.
sions, to his ssside kicker. 6ldd1ng
him an affectionate goodbye, he turned
and followed his cousin.
Today Charles is transformed from
He says he likes the change and he
will remain in Minneapolis thru the
winter, where his cousin promises to
find some suitable work for him. "
HWhy, we thought Charles was
dead," explained Tom O'Hara to T h e
J i rn al. "He disappeared twenty
years ago from Williamstown. I knew
him as a KID, put long ago we had al
given up seeing him in this world. l
happened to read in Mondays jour
n a i an interview with Charles O'Hara
among those Bridge square Sunday.
closing talks. It struck me at once
that he was my cousin, and set out
in search of him. - 49, i
CT tell you I'm mighty glad to find
| him. believe I've saved him from
a winter Of hardship at least There's
good in that man, I know, and I'm go
ing to give him a chance to bring it
| OUT
The newly found cousin is man of
! about IS, altho' he looks much older
He has been a wanderer for twenty
years. He has worked on railroads all
over the country and has turned his
hand to almost every kind of smanual
labor, from that Of lumberjack in the
northern woods to road work in warmer
chimes. He bears the marks Of vicis
STUDIES and is worldly wise. His reti
cence concerning himself, is not that
Of i'll nature, but of philosophy learned
from hard knocks. = -.
IT was headed all right,'' he said
last night, 'fbut I'm glad my cousin
found me, and I hope it will all be fo1
other thing.' :