Show AMERICAN COLUM BUSES lineal descendant who V i 10 MAC JUKI jual us as bar ltd its me duke auko of 0 Vcra gutt gua for the last f fifty two yea years rs there has lived ved in buffalo Iluf falo a lineal descendant of christopher columbus and around the knees of till this patriarch could be ga gathered today to day eight living children thirty grandchildren and six great grandchildren so BO that there is little danger of the name of columbus becoming extinct or forgotten th the name of this venerable descendant of a famous man says ays the philadelphia press is alexius columbus lie ile is ninety six years old there is ih no doubt about his ago age or nativity for these matters were we r e verified by liis his son john columbus with whom the old man makes his home and who for that purpose paid a visit to quebec near where alexius was born and reared the old man Is in fairly good health his skin Is swarthy and his hair bair is snow white his children childre ii are all lighter complexion except ono one daughter mrs rosa columbus sours of achl chicago who inherits her fathers dusky skin since the death of his wife last spring at the age of seventy alexius has beren been steadily falling in spirit alexius columbus was a ship builder by trade as were ills his ancestors ue ile is the only one of his generation who rho came to tile the states his sisters and brothers lived in tho the province of quebec though it is not known that more than one of them is surviving an uncle of alexius lived to the ago age of one hundred and fourteen the old man is a great lover of tobacco lie he constantly chews or smokes lie ile has always drank and to this day has his bottle of whisky in his room from which he takes a nip whenever he feels so 50 inclined of lato late the old man has not been regular jn in liis ills drinking habits habit sand and will sometimes pass a day ortho or two without taking a dram uis his sons attribute this to approaching dissolution and think the old man has 60 not long to live 1 I have been asked several times said john columbus his son if father would go tile worlds fair some of my sisters are very anxious that hat he should go but I 1 oppose the idea I 1 think the old man would better pass the remainder of his days in quiet here than to be exposed to the danger r of travel and the fatigue 0 beside I 1 hardly think tile the old gentleman would enjoy it ile he is not a learned man ile he never had bad any schooling no he cannot read and lie he hardly appreciates the significance of the columbian exposition 1 ills his son john it may be added is a well educated and prosperous man ale alexius dus the alio father is still an active man and possessed of no mean physical powers the wife of alexius was an english englishwoman woman the grandchildren of this union retain the athletic mold though their features are arc Americ Ameri aoi callif not continental |