Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-21
SEARCHES FOR
BROTHER WITH
WEALTH READY
Follows Dim Trail
Six Years
Fortune Is Waiting In a Hungarian
Bank for Max SeItzer When
He Is Found to
Claim II

Almost at the end of six years in
search that has extended from little
village in Austria Hungary to this
country, and from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and Winnipeg to the gulf,
Joseph Seltzer of Budapest has ar
rived in Los Angeles high In hope that
here he may find his older brother
Max, who left his home twenty-five
years ago to seek his fortune in Amer
lea Joseph Seltzer comes here on the
definite information secured in Chicago
that his older brother is somewhere in
the state of California, and when he
left the middle west metropolis for
this coast he was directed to come to
Los Angeles as the most likely place
from which to conduct his search.
Max Seltzer was the oldest son of
q we'll to do merchant in Hungary, and
had fine prospects of succeeding his
father in business, but the humdrum
life of q small merchant did not appeal
to him. From some of his forbears
he had inherited the taint of the wan
der lust, and one day way back In
1885 he announced his determination
to seek fortune and adventure in the
United States.
Comes to the United States
He sailed away and for three years
his family heard regularly from him.
He did not tell much of his life in the
new country, only that he was getting
along and was in hope that soon he
would be on the road to that fortune
which he wished to carve out for him
self. Then all at once his letters
ceased and no word came from him.
1t was in New York that his last
letter was written, and when, many
years later, young Joe Seltzer started
out to find the long missing brother,
4I,;.z I,N1 oh, ,rcI &c
sion, was the only clew he had to
go on.
In the meantime, in the old Hun
garian home the father had passed
away and his estate was left in trust
to be divided among all the children
when the oldest brother Max should
be found or his death established. So
If Max Setzer is alive today there is
quite a handsome sum awaiting him
in the Golfers of a big Hungarian bank.
In New York young Seltzer found
the old mission from which his
brothers last letter had been written,
but it was many long weeks before
search through old records and musty
memoranda revealed that Max Seltzer
had gone from New York to Buffalo
and there fallen in with evil COM
panions.
Arrested as Vaerant
In Buffalo it was learned that he
had been arrested as a vagrant and
consigned to the care of a home find
ing society, for he was not yet of age.
The superintendent of this ociety took
a great interest in the young Hun
garian boy and sent him to q farm In
upper Michigan, owned by relative.
There young Max lived for a long
time, but he became dissatisfied and
finally left without the preliminary of
leave taking and with no trace of his
destination.
At this point in his search young
Joe Settler became almost discouraged
There was absolutely no trace on
which he had to go, and it was not
for many long months that he acci-
dentally ran across man who had
known his brother, and who sent him
into the great lake country and the
woods of Canada. From there the
brother was traced to Chicago, and
from that city to points in Kansas
and Nebraska and finally to California.
Where in California Max Seltzer
may be he does not know, but he has
asked the police to aid him in his
search, and the officials of various
cities have been appealed to also.
Knows Many Trades
In all his years of travelling Joe
SeltZer has supported himself and paid
his expenses by working from city to
city and town to town, sometimes as
a laborer, sometimes as a waiter and
bartender.
He has been a property and wardrobe
man with travelling theatrical combi-
nations and has mixed cocktails and
fizzes behind some of the best bars
in the country. He has also slung
beer and tossed free lunch in less
pretentious resorts, but all with the
object in view of ultimately finding his
older brother.
He is well educated and unassum-
ing young man, and impresses every
one with whom he comes in contact
with the earnestness of his purpose.
The Los Angeles police will give him
every aid possible in his search in this
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