Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-06-15
HOARD SPENT FOR
P0MP AT FUNERAL
Little Nick's Life Secret Re-
vealed at Death.

Who that knew It ever suspected
f1arsat Of Little Niekss rag-pieking
Cellar would emerge Fortune. Fra
EleIde anil Phantasiae Only a dincv
basement in Fourth street under the
L Il seemed 50 utterly common
Place let il was there the Brothers
EelIlnI picking oyer the rags one day
found a limp dollar bill and fought
Until n was stabbed to death. And
X vas there. too, that Little Nick
conceived the Incredible. Gerald
EreIti=am reports, in the New York
World Telegram.
lie eame @ the cellar first as a
humble peddler. pushing a cart all
aaT through Thompson and Mac
HpE@atI and Sullivan, throngh
Bleeeker and the other teeming
streets OF the Italian quarter south
OF the Square. He seemed TO have
been IN that district forever. vet
rlssEle recalled him as a boy. lie had
come as a hilIman already matured
from some little village in the Pied
EHonr- with his years upon him and
his obscure life in the past.
# There was that in his embitferad
eyes masked by brows like cliffs
WIEh gray furze ON the rims which
seemed tt his life held broken
dreams. What we're those dreams of
the swart little man-shattered. I'M
realized dreams perhaps IF hot love
perhaps OF riehes7 Who knows Ger
f.Alfziy hot his ~neighbors in Ninetfa
lane
10 them he was only Little Nick.
the ra-pieker. a fellow with no fun
En fais system, no capacity for mirth
assahbIing out over cheese and q hot-
lie with eronies. Tn fact, he had no
eruFtfas.
LIE lived alone on the top floor
sf che OF those ancient houses in
sfsaF Harrow why. the one just at he
h@nef- where the lane turns like y
srs*sEed elbow. Today the house still
sgafsfs- with its winding stairway
eisswfE which the burial club carried
IdFFle Sickss wonderful coffin. and
ain ffs rIme~woFn handrail. RElt.
&c %eeFIrse- the arty crovd has rome
IN Little Nick il gone. and aone
F04t- are all his fellow countrymen
wse once made an islet there for
themselves against the cruel citv.
LII the years when he lived there
fsAsasl@h. Little Nick became d legend.
IL was the Lanes miSer. 40 men
falstsFf him. and NOTWITHSTANDING.
saas Essls market haskefed. bahipd
HEY were forced 10 believe thar ha
as making money. for he had come.
ln TIME 10 acquire the cellar. with
Ta-Esfkers working for him. Rnt
what DIED he do with his Some
saii he bought houses. others fhat
hz sent remiftances home to btly an
&dlvss farm in the hills. But none
rTalfy krlew anything except that he
never spent ON himself. that he had
neEfh@F wife nor sweetheart thar he
was alone
Then NJ day tile old woman who
locked after his room found him dead
am important lawyer came over
fTssF1 Eleeeker street.
Do this" he said. 4no that
= coffin was ordered. with silver
handles All the members Of the burr
M1 TT
81 eflab received magnificent largesse
of . full days pay, 50 they could
naareh IN procession, enjoy the tuner
~ #Eaes and meats. A band came
10 play
Coaches arrived for everybody and
some were piled high with flowers.
III was u great funeral and ii reached
IN aEss=ee In the Church Of Our Lady
of Pornp@iI when all those candles
were lighted How they gleamedl
Mass Eas 20 be said for DAYS.
Re story came out when the will
ws= made public. Little Nick had
lived aII his days friendless. in di-
rest poverty. In order that he might
- oar g1ariousiy in the end. He
lad efE MI his hoard OF $4,000 for
A funeral