New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-15
Corpse Revives
As Loved Ones
Weep at Train
hearse Creefs Hungarian
When He Arrives in Al
lantic City to join His
Family After p Years
a 'SHears Disease Victim''
Danghsor Making Trip With
Him From n. Y. Had Been
Told Of Sudden Death

ATLANTIC CITY. Jan. 1A.-An I'M
dertaker, hearse and an array of
weeping sons and daughters greeted
doseph Staub to-day when he reached
this city from Hungary to join his
children after an absence Of twenty
three years. The tears were for hin,
and SO were tho hearsa and the under
taker, but he waved them all aside and
SAID pipe would taste pretty good.
Ais family, who lives at SIS North
Michigan Avenue, were notified YES
terday that Staub had arrived and
would be ready to proceed to this city
today. lie is sixty-eight years ola
ana unaccustomed to American WAYS.
and his daughter, Mrs. Yettie Limver.
went to New York TO meet him. They
lett that city on the Nellie Rly, Of the
Pennsylvania Line.
Before they had gone Tar Mr.. staub
told his daughter that he wanted to
smoke, and went into the next coach,
which was the smoking car. Mrs. Lin
Vers happy reflections upon the family
reunion soon to take place were rudely
interrupted at Elizabeth A trainman
broke the news to her that her father
had collapsed in his seat and a physi-
clan who examined him had pro
nounced him dead. His body had been
taken to the baggage car.
Diagnosed as Heart Disease
Mrs. Limver tolegraphed to her
brothers and sisters and went forward
to the baggage car. Her fathers rigid
nody lay upon a trunk, the waistcoat
and shirt still open where the physi-
cian had sought in vain to discover a
heartbeat The physician told her that
heart disease, probably induced by the
excitement of the approaching meeting
with his children, had caused the old
mans death.
A baggage man reverently handed
her the pipe which had been in her
fathers mouth when he was found. 1t
was still warm. Mrs. Limver clutched
it and fondled it carefully. She was
of the ash should be lost from it. 1t
should be her dearest possession.
Wrapping 1t in her handkerchief, she,
placed it in her handbag and returned
to her seat to finish the tragic journey.
When the train had passed Trenton,
a tralnman approached her again He
felt that perhaps he had been too
abrupt with his first message and the
troubled countenance which aroused
new fears in Mrs. Limver indicated
merely his resolution to save her feel
ings at any cost in thought and cir
"Corpse' Comes to Life
"rhe old gent" said the diplomatic
trainman, "ain't so dead as he might
be-"
He was prepared to follow the con-
versational campaign he had mapped
out, which would have appraised Mrs.
Limver that her father was completely
alive just about as the train was pull
ing into Atlantic City, but, 10 his
establishment, the quick-witted woman
grasped the entire fact from his first
words and pushed past him into the
baggage car.
Her father was seated upon the trunk
which lately had been his bier, and
slipping an amber colored restorative
offered by the attending physician. Mrs.
),imver flung herself into his arms.
STEADY, Yettie, steady" gasped Mr..
Staub, "a little more care, girl, or YOU
will spill this and it is Il rare beverage
they tell me, in this land of yours"
Mrs. Llmver was still clinging to her
father and crying with hysterical ioy,
however, when they got oil She train
and confronted the dismal cortege as
sembled to meet them
Now, Yettie," grumbed her father
when explanations had been made and
the undertaken, still smiling with pro-
ssional cheer, had driven away with
the hearse, you upset me so went
and left my best pipe on the train,
Could we telegraph 2"
Mrs. Limver opened her bag, un-