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Show CEQQAn'3 DANK ACCOUNT. rellhlal Dos Kirna.l ail.ooo for lie SUiter. for the past ten years thenlcr-gors and other pleasure aeekera who walked walk-ed on the llroadway of New York'i Tenderloin after dark were wont to glance naldo to the curbing nt the attenuated at-tenuated harmonics of a hand-organ, says the New York Times The glance showed them n ragged old mnn, grinding grind-ing out the wheezy greeting of age to youth, but It also showed n grlzxly-lialred grlzxly-lialred dog hard by, with a basket half full of coin In hla mouth Tho men who saw It merely grumbled: "Pshaw! Only a hand organ beggar Probibly worth more than I nm " Hut their feminine companions were not to be put off In that wise "Hut look nt tho faithful dog," they would ery And the result waa that the dug'a basket liecame heavier every moment that he waa on duty. It v.aa the tribute ot wuman to the dog. "Now, mind," the male escort would any. "I do It simply out of 'gnrd for the dog. Several daya ago llroadway mlaeed the dog llroadway wondered nnd then sieedlly forgot nit nbuut It. The dog's home waa In lh tenement bouie, 401 West Thirty-eighth atreet, where n week ago he died. Ills matter, ilnce dead, the neighbors any, starved both himself and the dog to death. Tho log la dead and tho neighborhood knows not his name, but there la left tlo guard his memory n noble monument. monu-ment. The mvlnga of tho master that tho dog earned amount to something 3vcr llfj.000. Timothy McOrath was tha dog's master. Tor years ho lived In n tmill room In the tenement In Thirty-eighth atreet. Ot late, since the death of tho dog ho himself had been nlllng. and James Ilronn, n tnltor, who had his shop on the ground floor, had been accustomed to do the meager shopping of MrDrath. Yeaterday morning, na usual, Drown went up to the top floor, but could K't no nnsner to hla knocking. A policeman police-man finally broke In tho door. Mc-(Irath Mc-(Irath waa dead. The ambulance surgeon sur-geon said that lack of proper nourishment nourish-ment was tha cause. In u tin box secreted se-creted In tho room they found two bank notes, one on tho Emigrants' Savings bank, and one on Iho Hank for Savings, showing to McOrath's credit $16,000. There was also tht deeds for a house on Fortieth street, off Fifth avenue, n Ufa Insurance policy, pol-icy, nnd deeds for a lot and monument In Calvary cemetery. |