Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-05-08
sPURNs FILTHY LUCRE
ONE MAN FOUND WHO DOES NOT
CARE FOR MONEY.
Lure of Comfortable Home, With
Greenbaeks In Profuslon, Unable
to neeoy Joseph FIusser From
the Life He Loves.

- you were SuOYeaGS COAL dHd 6oC'
ting no pay for it and sleeping nights
under a wharf and getting such
Hleager bits OF food as just happened
to fall your way and your brother
should come along and discover you
after a long, long search and take
you by the hand and tell you that he
had $4,000 for you and q good home
and plenty to eat, would you run away?
Then. If running away, that brother
should ask the judge to declare that
you were crazy, wouldn't your brother
have good ground for his move?
That's the situation presented in the
singular case of BENJAMIN Flusser,
who keeps a furniture store at 2l4
Springfield avenue, one Of the main
business streets of Newark, n. j., who
has asked the court to look !nto the
state o. mind Of, his brother. Joseph,
who has been sent to the detention
ward of Bellevue hospital, New York,
because he runs away from money
which almost any man will chase for
miles and lose his breath over and
cheat ard lie and scheme and sell gold
bricks for. BENJAMIN had been look
ing for Joseph since their father died
on November rs last leaving an estate
of $4,000 Of which $4,000 was Jo-
seph's share. Benjamin was walking
along Grand street. New York, when
he ran across Joseph busy shoveling
coal into a cellar from sidewalk.
When Benjamin told him what had
happened. Joseph said: II don't want
anybody's money; hate money; give
it away and please 60 away and let
me work. know am your brother,
but do not want money. l am work
ing; so go away and let me finish my
job"
my brother cannot be in his right
senses" says Benjamin. He will not
sleep in home and has place under
the Williamsburg bridge. He hates to
be in a home and won't work in
store. l want to give him a good
home. and I could get him a good job
but he will stay with nobody. He runs
after wood and coal carts until they
are ready to be unloaded and then ne
helps.
Sometimes they give him ten cents,
sometimes Is and maybe quarter
They say he will not take quarter
saying he does not want any ones
money. while lots of times he works
and then goes away without looking
for any money or waiting for It."
The money.hating brother is forty
four years old and came from Austria.
Before leaving Europe he was one
day leaning over bridge watching
bathers below, when the rail against
which he leaned snapped and he fell
on his head many feet below, strik-
ing a pile of lumber. After that ne
was seni-conscious for six months
and did not recover his mental or
physical strength for year Tnat
was % years ago.
With two of his six brothers, Benla-
min and Max the eccentric one came
TO Newark. He worked with his nroth-
ers for while. left them and worked
in Salomons tannery for four or hVe
years. This was the longest ne nau
ever stayed in one place. and he hau
saved up several hundred dollars.
The Chicago Worlds Fair then was
advertised and Joseph went to the
fair. He lost all his money and pc
came lost to his brothers. They look
ed for him in Chicago. traced MIN 70
various parts. and finally found tha'
he was in New York From time 10
time they were told that he had Deeh
seen over there. and they went to LOOK
for him. but without success.
Max Flusser, broker. died In New.
ark, November 25. leaving s14ooo' OF
which $4,000 was in cash and S4.ooo
in second mortgages. Benjamin FINS
ser IS the administrator OF the estate
and as he says $4,000 is Iosephs
share. he wants to protect his brother
and put him in some home or lnstitu-
ton where he will he cared for. 1hls
is the s. .00C that Joseph Spurns.