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Show A Baron as a Car Driver. Hundreds of street car conductors and drivers gathered at the morgue of the General Gen-eral hospital ou the morning of July 2(1 to attend the funeral of their late comrade, Car Driver Erwlu (Baron Frey von Schoen-steiu), Schoen-steiu), the lost male member of a very noble no-ble family. Tho heavily draped hearse, drawn by four horses, was quite in contrast with the simple mourners who followed it and the costly metal casket in which the remains rested, hidden under many costly floral gifts. When Biuron Scboenstein became of ago he Inherited several million florins and big estates, which he squandered. Everything gone, he resigned his commissiou as tirst lieutenuut in tho dragoons, aud wheu cou-frouied cou-frouied by poverty he did not resort to the pistol, but took a more philosophic view of life, aud accepted a position as supervisor of the street railways. Once tn awhile, when brought into contact la a business wuy with those who in former years were only too glad to toady to him, the hurou became be-came otlousive to such a degree that at lost his employers found it necessary lo reduce him to the rank of cardriver. This posttiou he tilled with military punctuality, and only once in awhile, when he received a small remittance from some relative, did he absent himself long enough to spend it. Tho barons widow and her brother, o captain in the dragoons, attended the funeral, the expenses of which were defrayed de-frayed by a well kuowu Vienna countess, llorr Yon Turba, the director of the tramway tram-way company, aud several prominent olli-eisls olli-eisls attended the funeral. Vienna Freie Presse. |