The Newtown bee., 1907-04-26

little fellow threw himself into utter ae jection, and cried as though his heart was brpken. MT Lawrence tried to comfort him. He took him into his arms, and through his interpreter told him he would be as an uncle un- to him. He carried him to his home near by and Mrs Lawrence prepared dainty dinner and set it before him. He then was bathed and put to bed, when after a time he forgot his grief. dream tu him, and as MT Lawrence | came to see how he spent the night, he called him uncle in his own lan- | guage.
 The strangeness of foreign talk rap idly passed away, for his uncle be- | came a pupil of his Italian interpre- ter that he might converse with lit- tie Antonio. And such fun as they two had together, as his uncle stum 1 bled over the simplest words, and they was sent to school and soon learned to speak English. He and his uncle be- came the closest friends, bound by two languages. And when they had little secrets they wished to keep from others, they conyersed in Italian.
 The years sped by and little Antonio grew up as the loved child of MT and Mrs Lawrence. Never did boy have happier home, and never did a boy love more his own father and mother than Antonio Lawrence, as he came to be known, loved them. Yet he never forgot that first day in Lime, and the utter desolatfon that came upon him when he realized that he was abso- lutely alone in the world, He often said that that time was like the black over him, and MT Lawrence was the bright star shining as way for him in this lonely land-
 Paul Kloeffer lived in a poor tene- ment house on the east side in New York City. There were forty families in the tenement, though it was a building of only five stories; and bis little room was on the top floor. He had come to the city only few days before, and was rOOming with his old friend, Nicholas Momson. They both secured work at the factory of Joseph Doelger & Sons on East Fifty. fifth street. Occupying rooms adjoining theirs in the tenement was family by the name of Rodner. The flimsy par tition sseparat1ng the rooms afforded no barrier to confne conversation within family limits, for whatever ary tone those living in the adjoining room could not help hearing. Thus it | was that Kloeffer and his companion | knew of the misfortune among the Rodners, though they had never seen them. MT Rodner's brother, George. |
 work and it cast gloom over the
 whole family. For several weeks he had tramped from morning till night into all kinds of factories and places of employment, and in every place had
 been told that they wanted no help.
 He would return home at night with a | heavy heart, not merely because Christmas was near at hand and he
 had no money to buy for little John
 the Christmas present he had prom hJ1H hn o n
 they had planned to be married at Christmas if he should secure steady employment. On Wednesday night
 there was jubilee in the Rodner's apartments, and Kloeffer could not
 help hearing it and inwardly sharing
 "Now we'n have merry Christmas
 for sure,' cried George, as he returned
 at night after getting employment at
 the Doelger factory, ''and I'll get lit,
 tie John that Teddy bear I promised him.'
 It was with light heart, therefore,
 that Rodner went to his work for the
 first time on Thursday. He was
 a strong young fellow and very willing
 in the labor he was called to perform.
 In the morning the chief engineer, Al
 bert Jaecks, set Rodner, Paul KloeffeI
 and Nicholas MOmSOn cleaning out
 one of the immense ammonia cOndens' ing tanks on the ground floor of the
 oSGd OlIS0m0QU. It was IOuQO QcCoS'
 sarY to remove the large coils of pipe,
 each one of which weighed 1900 pounds. ROdner and KlOefer were at the bot
 tom of the tank, which is eighteen feet high. Momson was standing on 8
 platform built over the top. The rope
 with which they were hoisting one of
 the coils slipped. Rodner saw the
 danger and shouted to his companion
 KlOeffer failed to move out of the way of the swaying mass, which was threat } ening to crush him. Rodner coulC
 easily have saved himself, but, without
 thought of his own life, he rushed t1
 KlOeffer'S aid. As the coils started tC
 fall he grabbed his sfellow-workman by
 the arm and pushed him out of the , way. It was complete sacrifice. The 7 heavy weight fell upon Rodner anc crushed him lifeless to the bottom o1 l the tank. Kloeffer escaped with a few bruises, and was able to walk home. Ii took eight men to lift the coils from the unfortunate mans body.
 KlOeffer did not know that his fel lOw-wOrkman, who sacrificed his life } for him, was George Rodner, who lived ] in the room next to his. So when ht , went home that night he was greatly ) surprised at the grief he heard iron , his nearest neighbors. Sturdy five year. old John cried that he would give ) all the Teddy bears in the world if il , would only bring his uncle back tt