New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-09-30
4 FRIEND IN need.
lust a Bit Of Life as 1t Cropped
Out on a Railway Train.

Out on a Railway Train.
"A TOUCH OF REAL HUMANITY.
The Rough Looking Man Who Proved
That His Heart Was Big and In the
Right Place and the Shabby pu.
! Grateful Foreigner He Befrie nc,ed.
Whenever l hear anything nova.
days about mans inhumanity Ia
man. said Providence citizen tn.
other day, II am reminded of IL little
incident. was coming back fro.::
Boston with a friend on the midnight
train. and. getting on board ut the
Back Bay station. we found seat
near the rear end of the car.
"Soon after the train pulled out !
happened to look around and saw the
conductor apparently expostulating
with rather shabby looking specimen
of humanity who was sitting in the
last seat. At first thought the man
was drunk. but as watched saw
that he was a foreigner who couldn't
understand English. He was holding
out crumpled one dollar bill to the
conductor and saying New York over
and over again.
Finally the conductor shook his
head. said something l. couldn't catch
and went on. The foreigner, rather
decent looking young fellow, gazed at
aim despairingly. then buried his face
IN his hands and began to cry. With
the usual callous Indifference Of the
travelling public to the troubles of any
one else. ! paid no more attention to
the man and prepared to take nap.
Il was just beginning to doze when
became aware that man was stand
Ing beside l:'e. in the aisle, speaking to
me I sat up and looked at him. He
was a rough appearing man. far from
prepossessing; clean shaver, with a
sort Of bulldog face
Say. gents lie began. i want to
know If YOU wouldn't like to help a fel.
Ter OUT
II stiffellel Iistin,tively. determined
to f4fistA to let him make touch
There's poor young foreigner
back there. he went on with a jerk of
his thumb toward the alien. still sit
ting with bowed head and he's up
against it for fair. He cant speak a
word of English. and he wants to go
to New York. where he has friends.
HE got the idea somehow he could
do it for Il dollar. all he's got; but, of
course. he can't. and they're going to
put him off the train when we get to
Providence. It's mighty hard on fell
Ter like him. and there amt any tell
ing what.ll happen to him getting put
off in a strange city at ! o'clock in the
morning ! thought maybe you'd be
willing to give a little to help him
along
"He stopped. looked us straight in
the eye and smiled sheepishly as if he
were ashamed Of what he was doing.
We gave him dollar. and he went on
through the car, and there were few of
the passengers who didn't respond to
the appeal. He came back counting
the money. and as he got to our seat
heard him say:
There's dollar more needed-l'll
make it up myself! and he pulled out
a couple of fifty cent pieces and added
them to the amount.
'The conductor and the brakeman
were standing at the door of the car
near the foreigners seat.
"'Here.' said the man who had col
lected the money to the alien: give me
your dollar
"Dumbly, but trustingly, the young
fellow handed it over. and. giving it
to the conductor with the rest. the bull
dog man said gruff1y:
There's his fare
1T slowly dawned on the alien what
had been done for him, and as the con-
ductor punched the rebate check and
handed it to him the gratitude in his
face was indescribable. He couldn't
speak. but he took his cap off and
bowed again and again to the official.
but the latter pointed to the passenger
who was sitting in his seat across the
aisle and told the youth that he was
the one to thank.
THE foreigner crossed the aisle till
he stood squarely in front of his bene-
factor took off his cap and. with tears
of gratitude in his eyes, bowed again
and again. 1t was evident enough that
the benefactor was embarrassed by
this unexpected outburst. At first he
waved his hand around the car to indi-
cate that everybody had had hand in
it. But he couldn't make the foreigner
understand. The latter kept on bow
ing. whereupon the uncomfortable in
dividual in the seat grunted and turn
ed to look ont OF the window.
II have never seem concluded the