The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-21
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THE AIRCASTLE THAT DREW
ON TUNNEL BUILDER AND RE-
SUITED IN HIS DEATH.

I New YORK, Jan. lt.-1SddC rlHhci-
stein, bad man. This story, right
out of the heart of the east side, isn't
intended to lionize him, but simply to
tell how he turned wicked, says the
Post.
It was bad enough on last Thanks
giving day for the Finkelsteins to be
living, with their five children, in a
room on the third floor of the tene-
ment at So Ludlow street; they had
striven for better things. But to have
no turkey for the brave little wife
and the FIVE smart-as-a-whip chill
dren.
Isaac sat at the window and look
ed across the street and over the
roofs to where the wall of the Grand
street bank with it's red giant-lettered
sign boosted that the strong boxes
within had 's10,O0O,e0O resources. y
Was An Honest Man.
Isaac had always been honest. He
was like other men. Hadn't he fall
en- in love, as other men do; didn't he
run away from the Russian army
when it tried to take him from her;
hadn't he married her; didn't he be-
come a proud papa in the quiet out
of-the-way corner of Russia in which
they were hiding; and when three
children had come. didn't he make up
his mind that he would take them all
to the great America, where, If
man works, he can make his children
fine ladies and gentlemen; and hadn't
he come over here alone, and worked
like dog at mending shoes for two
years; and didn't he toll many night
until morning; and didn't his eyes
pain him; and didn't he go hungry
to see the pile of coins grow; and
one day wasn't he the proudest faith
er in the United States when he went
down to the pier to meet the girl
he had loved and the children, Min
ME, Sarah and Johnny?
They were all in America at last.
Worked Very Hard.
And Isaac set to work harder than
ever before He added house and
sign painting to his shoemaking task.
Many days he worked 16 and IS
| hours.
And two more children came.
1t began to be hard to pay the
butcher bills and the grocery bills
His wages grew smaller and smaller;
| leather cost more: the rent went ur
from $40 to $12 week.
And that's the way it was Thanks
giving evening when Isaac turned his
big black tired eyes to the bank sign
$40, 900, 900 resources.
He got up and went down stairs
the back way into the alley; he turn
ed into the rear of an unfinished
building two doors away from hi:
home, and in the dark crept into thu
basement, and up the front, under thu
the Ludlow street sidewalk. He hat
brought with him a little ash shovel
Began to Dig.
He began to dig, not downward
but under the sidewalk, toward tn
bank, which stood 100 feet away
across the street He worked lat
that night, and when Anna, his wife
asked him where he had been, h
told her he had gone out to find som
wood, but he had failed
The next night he dug again, AM
he lied again to Anna when he cam
home
After that he left home ever
evening. 1t was thing he had no
done before But every night h
burrowed further and further. TIL
hole was so small he could haril
work his way through it; he bracet
I'D the sides with small boards an
laths
New Year day came without
single extra pleasure in the bal
mans home; the holidays were onl
workadays-bu Isaac still dug.
He had worked his way nearl
across the street; the hole was
burrow that no human being woul
care to enter. but to Isaac ever
inch of it was as familiar as hi
own hand, and he had no fear.
Isaac Was Gone.
Then one morning Anna and tn
children found Isaac's bed empty
The little son Isador was sent to tn
dark basement with a lantern, TO
by this time the family knew wher
husband and father went every night
The boy looked into the hole an
heard groans. With cry he rushe
to the sidewalk and told a police
man, who laughed at him first.
The policeman got John Jaffney
daring underground worker, dow
into the hole For 10 feet he crawl
ed then he backed out.
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