Show 0 1 MR SORROWS BOWSER HE his office boy meets with a fatal accident by X M QUAD 0 1 1911 1031 by mcclure newspaper syndicate sir air bowser came home to dinner with a look of sorrow on its ills face mrs bowser noticed it tile tho hurt hing but thinking lie ho had a slight case of the colic she did not suy say filly aeng at the 06 dinner danne table silo likewise noticed that lie he hall had fears ears in ills his eyes at times and silo sho intended when the file ineal was finished to reCon recommend miend boine eye water to him when they hall had betl retired ed to the sitting room and anil mr air B bowser hall had sat do down doh h anil and sighed six vl or seven times mrs mil bowser kindly inquired dear arent you feeling us its well as usual this evening no im not was iras ills hla reply 1 I have becci through a strenuous day what I 1 have seen today will forever cling to ny my memory even it I 1 should live a tho thousand sand years I 1 then iou have seen something then ile 1 11 I have sirs mrs bowser I 1 have stood fa face ce to face with death ant anil it was tho the 1 I eat I 1 I 1 of one very near to ind me did the root roof of your office fall in dont be silly my aly office boy Is dead one moment he was ellve and tit in bounding spit its tho the next moment lie he wits mas a dead boy why that surely was as a bad accident said birs dowser bowser you told tin ine about it a month ago that hint you had changed your boys was this the now boy 11 it t was ills name was nero fitz nimons I 1 u and ito d lie lind and bern with me luo ja just st a in month 0 nth the old oil boy who ho hid hall 1 bliwn et 1 11 with walh tile ine about five years became fled with lila Is wages lie ile turned to 0 pain minting ng lie ile lot got so lie he could paint it pis pig pen and so lie he joined the er ers 8 union they wc went nt on oil a strike a few lays das ago uga for eight hours a day the five lays days in III a week mid and seven dollars it ildy day find the lie boy shook hands with tile me and dep depart d yes ye tills this was the new boy lie ile was ikas a good boy as all office boys are lie ile carried olt oft my gold pen carried oil off my postage sta stamps nips and picked up any loose lode change lying about but lie he did so with gillim innocent ent intent lie ile believed that things A ere not evenly divided up lie ile believed lint ahat lie he hall had p 0 right to anve my property ty mid so lie he tried to acquire it ioor nerol nero I 1 shall I 1 ever find another like him but about his death queried mrs bowser my Is on the eighth floor of a skyscraper you know there were some nien men working on the lie sidewalk and nero leaned out of tile the whitlow to watch them they sav raw him and asked blin some soine questions As near as I 1 could ry mike tike out his answer was wag that they emplit go to the dev devil it nero was a bit emphatic in ill ills language but he anything by it ills heart was ns as innocent ns dint of a lion one of tho out men thre threatened 1 to punch neros hend head an and the innocent boy leaned fr fim f r out bof if the lie window to make faces and ills his list ile he lanned too far I 1 wa about to reprimand him when it he e fell AM A ins poor nero fell to his death I 1 up ue struck hirthe men and then bounded I 1 alakl poor nero fell to his death to file walk and he had find breathed ills hia lust last before I 1 could get down to hlin him I 1 lifted up his lead head and talked to him in my usual fatherly way but ills soul lind had fled wery every H hone bone in ills his body was bro brok krit n tears sprung sprang to my eyes at once anil and I 1 was wiping them thein away when one of the workmen told me that flint nero had furnished thern them with lie excuse they wanted for higher wages if an office boy was to tall fall on their hicls from an eighth story window thal must have at least four doli sirs move mor e a city there was nn an inquest th there ere inked mrs bowser ats yua certainly I 1 had to attend tile inquest and give my testimony I 1 wept while giving it and the coroner paid me tor for it ile hu said that it a noble heart bent in my breast yta mr ir li bowser you are very emotional jid did the boy have parents lie ile had a father and it a mother and also in sister and a brother it devolved devola d upon me to convey his mortal remains malits re to ills home it ts Is needless to say that I 1 wept most of the time while I 1 wits was conveying one moment lie was sassing the men on the sidewalk side wilk lit below and the kimt ari t ho he was wn among them ly ins ing load dead such Is tho the fate of many office boyst boys 11 well you got there said sirs mrs I 1 bowser otter after giving mr air dow bowser er time to wipe ills his weeping eyes n gil lin faunal yes at last I 1 got there a and ild I 1 found the family eating a late j lunch I 1 had some sorrowful news tor for them mrs bowser and I 1 hardly knew how to communicate it when they saw the tears tn lit my eyes and my iny chin trembling they at once jumped to the conclusion that nero had ribbed me of ten thousand dollars worth woith of liberty bonds and gone off to palm bench beach for it A vao vacation atlon they seemed greatly re ildved ahe ft lion 11 1 I told them to the contrary the only thing that had happened to the toy 1 n s hla de aall they ald if not take the news fco kind lyna lyns I 1 hoped they would in fact they blamed i rie me a good deal fo bof it even when 1 I sto chood 1 I beffre bafo re the them m tears tn in my mj they stuck to it that I 1 ought to hay have pulled him ba back ck out of the window by the hair of hta his head they fulcd talked of suing isling me for dufty thousand dollars damages why they must tie be n hardhearted hard hearted famil faintly 1 exclaimed mi a bowser yes I 1 should judge they were they had a dispute ds as to who should pay the undertaker and they had another ns ng to which cei cemetery lie he should be burled in what seemed to them to be the worst thing about it was wnm tho the fact that they wire were till nil going to coney island or some soine other place that eve 41 11 1 t raa GO k 1 1 1 R R they were fighting about mil his burial ning and my bringing home the body of nero knocked a hole in their program they asked nie me about the price 0 of f the 06 coffin coelln and when I 1 replied that tor for about a hundred dollars they could get one to fit it nero they almost camo came to blows over it it was their unanimous idea that about thirty dollars was ull all they ought to pay they argued they were not to blame for neros death and that lint if 1 lie he was idiot enough to take chantes changes any old way of if getting him inta int the ground was rood enough what a family suld said mrs dowser bowser yes yea I 1 know there were any such people IP in this world orld poor neros body was outside and they were fighting nhouy his burial when they were not jawing cawing ja wing each other they were th threatening reat ening me with adult a suit for nut will there be any suit no I 1 think not we effected a compromise about that what sort of a compromise well I 1 lent the father 25 and he will probably never pay it aneio had overdrawn about 10 lit bat I 1 say it thing about that I 1 handed over the 25 and pot got out but tho the father and the lie brother may corns here this evening to borrow 25 more and I 1 think I 1 hill better po go to bell bed and you can say to them if they come tant I 1 have gone out of town to attend a very important meeting aou bu can come to bell bed when you like the and brother came but they did not see ese mr bowser lie ile hart find anne tr to bl br l with t anra in hla his eyes eves and mrs bowser found them rolling down ills hla cheeks checks ns as he ale slept pt poor nero poor mr bowser t |