Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09

cradle. Won Teuber had made friends with young
German named Offenbach, who occupied the one-wn-
dow, gaset ballroom above him in the reasonable
boarding house of the upper Co.'S who too frettng
under the financial inactivity of clerkship.
The adventurous young Teutons decided that any
chance better than the present unevenu certainty
They pooled their fortunes and departed for Chicago
where they opened little stock brokerage office. The
of "Von Teuber & Offenbach Brokers and Deal
in Stocks and Bonds brief and disastrous
Oenbach spent his share of the firms assets for ticket
to Denver Won Teuber paid his fare back to New York
Won Teuber has since confessed that fear of his
mates ridicue all that kept him from cabling home
1t was December and it cold. AS he tramped
from Office to Office the conviction grew that every job
in New York had been preempted. Pawning his rifle
and his helped little At length he driven
to haunting the sites of buildings where by picking
up odd jobs unloading building materials he managed
to enough to buy bowl of hot soup and shelter
at night.
He had a brief respite from his i'll fortune when an
American friend CHANGED upon him seated dejectedly in
Union Square.
"My wife saying only today that she wished
could find you you could visit at apart
ment for few weeks, the friend prevaricated kindly
and Won Teuber could scarcely conceal the alacrty
with which he accepted the invitation Hardly was he
installed in the comfortable apartment overlooking
Central Park than he became the lion of the series of
home entertainments to which hidden the eligible
young women of his friends acquaintance. He was
mpartialy pleasant to all, but exhibited marked
prediction for any; perceivlng which his friends
limited that anyone of the charming bevy enough
of an heiress to make splendid match. Won Teuber
had read enough of the comment attendant upon
certain international marriages to find the personal ap
pcaton very dstasteful. As the best way out of an
embarrassing predicament he spoke of taking posi-
ton in another city, and left his friends hosptable
roof for the pot luck of job hunting
1OBS as before. day when the
> Municipal Lodging House seemed the only alterna
tive to night of shiverng the snowy benches of
Madison Square He trudgng YEARLY down
Broadway when he bumped into friend of his Wall
Street days, who had associations with official life in
Washington The friend had learned that President
Roosevelt then about to visit Panama, eager to
find to take photographs and Won Teuber seemed
to have the qualifications including knowledge of
tropical maladies and their treatment, that de-
manded.
The young Austrian eager for the opportunity.
He borrowed money to go to Washington. Then the
way paved for him to meet the President, and he
got the job Won Teuber's energy and skill well
his personality gained for him the personal friendship
of Colonel Roosevelt who day found his official pho
tographer in brown study.
whats the matter, Won Teuber?" he asked
3I'm just figuring how to get money together,
Mr.. President" Won Teuber replied candidly
The national executive interested. "The Smith
sonan Institution is going to want full set of pictures