Show 1 U > MIU HIT POOR According to tile Chicago Times Herald Viof nilsha Troy the Inven 10 at the telephone Is I spending the evening of his life In poverty He 4 a now Blxtvthieci yeais of Ago anti Is I llvlrc In n humble house In the very shadow or the palaces of men whom his ginlU3 made mllllonalics Th story Is I pathetic Irufssr Gray when ho had any on91olclUhlo Amount of money ai vvnvs thought It vias enough to last him Ids lifetime lie spent a Year In molting on Impromnl on the let phone It vvas bogght up on night for SCO 000 He thought this was cnoiuh EO he sent hIs family to Europe and they spent money for pictures and statuary It waR Boon gone und they came bark home to live In extreme mant The professor then undertook to send autographic messages by telegraph He borrowed nil the money he could get from his Wends und tilled his birn full pf wires and machinery lie became so absorlcd In his Idea that lie 1 uy hi a horn station In the cars from Chicago Ills mind was In a per petual dream Mow this genius Is 0 ii < i7t141 v sold to have lost all Ills buoyancy IT has clonel his laboratory and spent the i list year working on n bicycle lamp When It was nntohed he gut but mile I fir It His financial hard I ick has nbput crushed him |