| Show baw 3 1 M k P I 1 I 1 v v il amu Z W iv v S I 1 Z g I 1 j ai R 24 4 f r ta 7 czi rl r l 1 nf F F i V n c 11 1 pa yael tj ai k I 1 I 1 A W 1 ll rooklyn bought on deiy may day the oad old man who lived in two bare rooms in the rear tenement of 26 4 pacific street brooklyn was considered a mystery to the neighbors and SL a source of af much innocent amusement to the small boys of the block says saya the new york world he was a quiet inoffensive old fellow a bit queer in some of his actions but he minded his hia own business was never cross to the children and mrs reagan heagan who ho lived on the ground floor had a warm spot in her heart for him she was about the only one in the neighborhood who knew his name john V gilchrist an and it his age 84 years th this is com coming 1119 eprim mrs reagan cooked the old mans meals and looked after him as much as he would permit in his hermit like existence every day the old man went around the corner comer to Seh Sch grocery store to buy a few things to eat arid and a quart of milk his favorite beverage it was concerning the milk that his peculiarities were most pronounced he would never carry rry it home save in a new tin pall pail every day before purchasing milk he bought a shining new tin pall when it was empty he laid it aside never to be used again 1 I guess my time is nearly up said the old man to on friday afternoon as he was having a new pall filled with milk the said he did not think so oh yes it is continued gilchrist 1 and I 1 am ready to go any time before daylight yesterday morning mrs reagan ragan heard him groaning and going upstairs she found him apparently sear rear death she summoned gammo ned a doctor but the old man soon passed away from no particular disease but because he had lived his allotted time when daylight came and the policemen went to take cha charge of the case I 1 they found the worn worm out old body lying on a mattress on the floor there was no furniture save a bureau and two battered barrels but piled head high and occupying halt half the large room were the tin pails that had been used only once to carry home the days supply of milk ther were nearly 30 of them neatly piled up and the boys of the neighborhood had carried away hundreds more that thai the old man had thrown out of the tha window late in the day an undertaker from new jersey appeared and took away the body over in south orange the dead man had two wealthy sisters so the neighbors had heard who had made him an allowance of 10 a week and on this he had lived happily among his tin pails until death carried him out of the two bare rooms in the secluded rear tenement and left the pails behind |
