The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-17
Purser's Receipt For All His ! Savings Is Lost From
 Body of Man Washed Up
 on Irish Coast.
WANTED TO MAKE HIS
 DAUGHTER A SINGER
Also Desired That His Body
 Should Lie in a Vault
 Which Two Years Ago He Erected for Wife and Self.


 Because a. purser's receipt for. be- tween s1.OoO and. $1,2oo disappeared from the body of James Harrison of this city, between the time the Lusi- tania. went down and when he was taken to Queenstown, the two ambi- tions he always cherished are likely to fail of realization
 T have two desires-two anbi- tions,'' said Harrison to a close friend before he left this country on the liner that was torpedoed. tOne is that Doris shall become great sing CT and the other that when I die. my body may be placed at the side of my wife in Norwich. " E.
 Harrison carried his life's savings with him across the water and be- line officials made no mention of the money in their report to John Harri- son in this city that James had been found, it is assumed it is lost.
 Two years ago. Harrison went to England on the biennial visit he shas made since he emigrated from the country. and visited his daughter Doris, who is in boarding school in HorWich a village just outside Bolton, Eng.
 At that time he prepared a vault for two persons in the village church cemetery. Then he caused the body of his wife to be buried there and he made provisions for the%reception of his own
 His 16-year-o1d daughter was then and is now dependent on what has come from him in this country. Sev- eraI years ago. she showed talent as a singer and Harrison placed her5in 9 1 conservatory of music to develop heI voice When his wife died, his heart and soul became wrapped up in the child, and he has spared no expense to educate her. He watched hel natural talent turn into ability under the instruction of music superVis- l ors.
 Harrison had been working in the shops of the Crane Co., where he 1 came because conditions were poor ir England. Recently however, he was informed that he could procure work England, and because of the oppor- 1 unity it afforded to be near his daugh- 1ter,g he decided to go over.s | He took his entire savings, some thing less than 1$1.2O0 and procured passage on the Lusitania He left on 1y a nephew here At the urging o1 friends he changed the $1,20O into
 English money and turned it over tc
 the purser of the ship for safe keep
 ing. He procured a receipt for it.
 Harrison went down at the scene O.
 the disaster and his body later hoateC
 ashore near a fishing village on thu southern coast of Ireland. When i
 was taken to Queenstown, it is believed the receipt was not found Bereft of her support and alone il the world except for a young cousin Doris must earn what she can witl ; her voice to live. In view of the wa
 conditions, she is likely to earn little | a. %o n { money to her education. That ambi tion. has been defeated. Without mon ! ey Doris can scarcely arrange fo bringing the body of her father iron ] Queenstown to. Horwieh, and his am 7 bition to be placed at the side of hi beloved wife, will not be realized. n is expected to be buried with othe 3 Lusitania, victims in a poor man ] grave in Ireland.
 F A friend who had been close to liar l rison for the last 0 months, declar : ed last night:
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