Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-15
DREAMS OF WEALTH
PROMISE TO BECOME
SPLENDID REALITY
Louis Gordon and His
Family Hear News From
Russia That May Bring
Them Millions of Rubles
and the Joy of Ease.

sometlmes-not often--it happens like
this In novels, and then you always put
Il down TO the lively Imagination of yodr
author, but when two millions drop like
bolt from the blue or mama In the
desert at the feet of some unsuspecting
mortal in real life all that is left to you
is TO murmur bromidlcally. Truth is
stranger than fiction" and Wonder what
he'll do with It,"
All his life Louis Gordon, Of l4l South
eth street, has wanted to live in n brown
stone front on Diamond street. When he
was first married.. his little wife Rebecca
planted the idea In the garden of his
dreams, aud together they have cherished
It for years. Later Louis thought that If
he had big s-cyllnder car to run from
the Diamond street home down to his lit
tie confectloner store on 9Th street
where he now exists life would hold no
further joy.
And now Gordon and Rebecca, together
with his sister Mrs. Ida FinScstein, who
has her dreams too. but cannot express
them In good Philadelphia English be-
cause she has confined her vocabulary
to Russian. are in a fair way to realize
an their roseate visions. They are potcn-
tial millionaires.
don, leaning negligently on n counter IN
his shop and smoking a Russian cigar
ette in lordly way: 81 was reading the
Jewish World the other night and just
after I'd been thinking how bad times
We're saw n notice clipped from a Rus
sian paper, the Warsaw Day advertising
for the heirs of Chain Ziseviner (he pro-
nounced it Hyman Wiener). Of Olika. in
the province of Wolllner. near Moscow.
Rebecca, Rebecca! | said to my wife,
so excited could hardly talk Come
here. Uncle Cham Is dead and has left
almost 4,0000O0 rubles. Let's 20 round
and tell Ida about It. and then Wen so
up and see Mr.. Gross. the lawyer"
Rebecca's swapping brown eyes cor
roborated her husbands narrative.
Yes" she added, jubilantly we've
signed all the papers and things and
sent them over on the other side. and
now we're just waiting, and I'm going to
have five servants and pretty clothes and
Abey and Jo and Dave, my boys. will
have fine things. too And well buy n
house up on Diamond street and Louis'
going to have an automobile"
Down at Mrs. Finkelstelns, ut 1908
South 9TH street, where her husband,
Elias keeps a shoe store, the prospect
of the sudden wealth has almost been
too much for them. Like a distracted
hen Mrs. FinlSlestein rushes hack and
ioiAi' huJul4Hb ltI utLuSHlelSs NpsNt re
becca, Dora and Mary, not to count their
chickens before they are hatChed, but
the girls. who range i'm ages from IA to
81, cannot restrain their unbridled mag-
nations.
Mamma doesn't want us to talk too
much about It for fear something will
happen to it on account of too much
talk" said 16-year-old Rosy, unable to
keep the Tilt out of her voice. but
gracious me, how rich we're going to
bel Pretty dresses and plenty of serv-
ants, we can hardly wait"
But, with harsh foreign words, Mrs,
Finklestein nipped her daughters youth
full enthusiasm in the bud and chased
her away on the mornings work.
According to Joseph Gross, the attorney
engaged by the prospective heirs, their
chances of obtaining the money are eX-
cellent