San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-01
Has Sold Technical Articles
But He Lacks a Type
writer-Is Inmate Of
, Bexar County Tubercular
Camp-Once Was Man
aver Of Big Chemical
Plant.


There is man in the Bexar county
tubercular colony at Southton. who
has only one thing left to wish for
In this world. He is not SO very old
Just entering the prime of his life.
There was time when this down.
and-outer was the manager of a great
chemical manufacturing company in
the East. Powerful machinery and
tall smokestacks and masses of labor
ers waited for his word to do his
bidding, and his name was well known
among men of affairs in that section
where many people live who have real
~ accomplished a goal and a place in
this everyday world.
Now, even the bleached-white little
tent which shelters him belongs to
others, and there is not one person in
the world whom he can look to for
existence except to that great mother
OF the poor-Charity.
1t was not because of extravaganza
or poor management that this used
to-be rich man is a charity client
today. He was slave to science.
to hard work that might have carried
him still further along in the whirl-
pool of success. There came n time
when his body could not stand the
grind and the strain attendant to his
business, and soon the breakdown be-
came So disastrous that he was cobl-
PEELED to retire from active business,
IN an effort to regain his health.
Has Been Writer.
But years of patient effort, of use
less expense which consumed the
earnings of lifetime, proved at last
that his strength and his good health
were gone. There was nothing left
for him to do; with his money gone,
without friends or relatives who could
help him, and in part of the co,In-
try remote from old acQuaintanceships
or business associations, he was COM
PEELED to accept the charity of Bexar
county. The Associated Charities
helped him to obtain space in the
little colony of tubercular people.
There is only one thing left that
this man wants. He once was known
as a very good writer on technical
subjects; more than once his name
appeared on articles that were fea-
tured in good magazines. He spent
the, last bit of money he had on a
correspondence course in writing. so
shos hV ihtSut ust TIC Out
sickness had left him so employ. His
physicians say that he may safely try
to write, but he has no typewriter.
What C0rnet Did.
Has anyone in San Antonio a type
writer that this would-bc writer can
use? 1t would not have TO be a new
/ typewriter. or even a very good ma
chine-just so it will type. If there
is 4 person in this city who would
like to crafty the only wish of a
penniless man, and perhaps be the
cause of his removal from charity. the
Associated Charities will be glad TO
acqnaint the donor with the case.
Once the Associated Charities
caused whole family to make a
Ngood living, by giving the destitute
father cornet. 4 truck wagon
helped another family to help them
selves. The typewriter might be the
means of releasing the maybe writer
from poverty. At least, it would
make the days in the little white tent
somewhat shorter, and would ease the
pain that memory must bring 10 the
sick man in his patient fight with u
treacherous, insidious disease.