The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-25
LUCK HITS IN ODD PLACES.
How d Man Who Missed a Train
Made a Million Dollars.

/ A number of years ago an immigrant
boy was passing through a small city
near Chicago on his way 10 the sne-
tropOlis of the middle west. He had
no knowledge of any language save
! German. In a bundle lying on the car
! seat beside him were all his worldly
goods. He had left the old country with
the plucky determination of conquering
| the new world
! The train stopped several minutes in
the little city, and as the Immigrant
/ boy was idly looking out of the car
window he saw a sign in the window
of a saloon across the street from the
railroad station which stated in Ger
man that "hasenpfeffer" could be pur-
chased there. Delighted with the sight
of the familiar German script. and
| tempted by the chance of getting a
| truly German dish, he FASTENED out of
the car. across the station platform and
I into the saloon. thinking that he would
have plenty OF time TO return 10 the
/ train before it had left.
! He eagerly asked in German for
| lunch box full of the German delicacy,
and then hurried back TO the station,
but in the short time he had been away
| the train had gone. AS the immigrant
| boy reached the station the last of
the train was disappearing down the
ran after it, as if he would catch il
! by running. Pell-mell down the track
he FASTENED. but before he had gone
a hundred yards he stopped in despair,
for the train had left him far behind
Slowly, crying with grief over the
loss OF his worldly goods, and with
fright at thus being left destitute in q
strange land among men whose Ian
guage and ways We're unknown TO him.
he returned to the station and tried
to explain in vain about his loss. With
excited gestures and fearful, cultural
German he appealed first to one and
then another of the station officials,
until at length he remembered the man
in the saloon across the way, who had
spoken 10 him in his native tongue. He
hopefully hurried across the street and
told his pTedicament to the friendly
German saloon keeper.
The saloon keeper. after agreeing to
see TO the returning of the boys goods,
began to ask him some questions. Did
he have friends in Chicago; did he have
a job in view: did he have money suf-
ficient to buy another ticket to the
city? On receiving a negative reply to
each OF these questions the friendly
German offered the young lad a job
in his saloon. He needed a porter. he
said: a man 10 sweep out the saloon
each morning, scrub windows and clean
UP generally. The pay would be small,
but the young Immigrant would be
among men of his own race and would
be able to pick up the English language
while earning enough TO keep him go
ing.
Thus the young immigrant, because
of desire for a taste of German
dish settled in that small city in place
of going to Chicago as he had planned.
What would have been his future alone
i'm great city it would be hard to say.
1t is probable that unless he had found
some German acquaintance in Chicago
who would have procured a job for
him his lot would have been a hard
one. But in the small city where he had
settled he soon began to make sue
cess.
Within a short time the saloon keeper |
found that he had a Woodworking and |
sober young helper. After some time |
spent working as porter the young |
German received an offer of a better |
Job. He changed from job TO job dur |
ing the next few years, gaining a |