The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-09-26
Henry Gardner's Frau
Greets Him at Dock With
Large Family.
IS PUZZLED
Does not Know Whether to Take Care
of Numerous Brood or
Seek Divorce.

Henry Gardner. some time ago of
Hegewisch. and now Of South Chicago,
IS about to take his troubles to the
courts Yesterday he secured an audi
ence with Chicago lawyer and re-
quested him to draw up documents"
The lawyer in question has a large
and comprehensive practice but he
has gone no further with the case than
to enroll it under the head of I'm
usual experiences
Henry Gardner's story is unique and
he told it to the lawyer in a broken
voice and equally broken English
Nine years ago he left Merzig. a
village in Germany. and came to
America to seek out one of the for
tunes that are lying about promis-
lcuously.
Among the fond regrets he left in
the Fatherland We're wife and an
olive branch of one years growth.
This olive branch is Henry, Jr. lie
kissed them farewell at the station
of the railway that leads from Mer-
zig down to the sea, promising TO
write regularly and begin sending
money directly as he closed in on the
first installment of his prospective for
tune
on landing safely in America he
came direct to Chicago where he
thought relatives awaited him. III
Chicago he learned that the cousin.
upon whom he most depended as phil
osopher guide and friend. had moved
with his family to Hegewisch. There
Henry found him eventually. snugly
housed and safely placed in the posi-
ton of assistant foreman The cousin
was glad to see him, which is not
usually the case, and within a few
days, got him a nice light job wheel
Ing pig iron and cleaning castings at
$3.50 per day. He told the timekeeper
that his name was Heinrich Baumgart-
ner, but the unfeeling timekeeper. to
expedite bookkeeping, reduced it to II
Gardner.
Henry eomplacently accepted the
change with the nine dollars that
went with it and his name as been
II. Gardner ever since.
Four and a Half for Anna.
As soon as he could get his 5000 OF
American money translated into the
German language. he sent half of it
to his beloved Anna in Merzig. He re-
membered her every week to greater
or less extent while the job lasted dn
six months he had saved $50 besides
what he sent home.
About that time a piece OF metal
rolled over on him and broke his leg
Six weeks later when he was dis
charged from the hospital, the fac
tory was shut down. the cousin hat
moved to Moline, H.. to take a posi-
tion" in a plow factory. and the S5(
plant" had faded Under cover OF
his last five-cent stamp Henry wrote
10 Anna, bidding her to be OF goot
cheer and assuring her that the pros.
poets for the resumption of the week !,
remittance and the eventual aecumu
lation OF the price of the passag,
ticket was extremely glowing.
Anna wrote back words OF encour
- ement and Henry. as he set out 70
Whiting, Ind. in search Of anothe
job. was happy. He found the Job il
Whiting and set to work joyously. IL
prospered and with each stroke o
prosperity he added another gable t.
the gllded palace he would erect 70
die Frau und das kind" when the,
Joined him in glorious America.
At Last She Comes.
His ambition in this direction grev
with the years and it took him min
, years TO materialize his dream. Il
the meantime he had set himself III
in a small business on the southerl
border OF South Chicago. He worke,
and saved. lie bought a home an
, furnished it. Then he sent for ANA!
and the baby.
He was waiting on the dock il
New York when the ship tied up an
the immigrants swarmed onto tn
4 dock He strained his eyes for a sigh
b of the trim figure he had left in Mer
= zig
There was no trim figure and n
= one at all whom he recognized. Blu
= while he was still anxiously scanning
= the faces in the crowd OF foreigner.
! a woman TO whose skirts three chill
r dren clung. while another was carrie
2 lin her arms, laid a timid hand upo
: his arm. The woman was tTifle over
: stout. but comely. Although She 6i
: not much resemble the Anna of min
Years previous, Tie recognition noE