Show TWINS ASHES CAST UT I fl SEA gEA S Alex Aex Becker of Brooklyn Performs the Rite Bite Rite for Brother Brothel Chicago Tribune Passengers Passenger on a St en island islan ferry fer boat who knew what what the singular ac actions tons of aSi old man meant stood sto d with bared heads heas when Alexander Becker of Brooklyn bowed with grief stood s with wih two friends on the upper deck of the boat and threw to the winds the ashes of his twin brother Louis who died on Feb 24 The body of f Louis ac sin according according cording to his wish was cremated The scattering of his ashes was done dane be because because because cause of oC a codicil to his will wU filed fed In the surrogates es office in rooklyn Brooklyn It read readI I loved the sea all al my life and when I die I want my ashes to be scattered over the Atlantic ocean In obedience to the request quest r Alexander Aleander with wih his friends frends boarded a Staten St aten is I land ferryboat intending to scatter the ashes in the lower bay When off Robbins reef they found the wind then theu blowing would not carry crl the ashes out to the Atlantic ocean They rhey remained on the e boat b t and made a e several trips reached reef reet for the third thir time they found the wind was wa blowing westerly and nd the old man with wih his friends went out on the upper deck dek Becker slowly took toak from his pocket hi a small smal package e which he opened All Al the passengers saw was a a small smal amount of dust dust No one spoke but all took hats hat as a Becker looked loOke al at the the opened package and then with tears running down his wrinkled cheeks tear held hold heldI I it out as a far as a his hIs arm could stretch I The high wind blew the ashes away In a twinkling and the paper followed but this dropped Into the tile water while I the te ashes aes went out toward the ocean cean and the cherished wish of Louis Becker Beckel was granted granted Louis Becker was chemist LuIs a who who af at ter accumulating a ii a fortune in this his country retired and began begun tw tu indulge t I his passion for travel on the ocean He sailed saied to t very every ver part patt of the globe but had bad to give up on account of age a few years year ago He then made his age home in Brooklyn but every ever day he walked to Coney Island Island and gazed on on the ocean for hours At night night he lie would tell his brother and friends of the th love for forthe the water and would always s close with I want mj mJ m ashes scattered wih on the ocean ocean His money aboy he left to Alexander his brother t I |