LIFE ROMANCE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 4 September 1930, Page 15

LIFE ROMANCE.

MISER'S HOARD IN NEW YORK. LEGACY FOR SYDNEY WOMAN. (FBOlt ora OWX COBMBPOXMKT.) SYDNEY, August 28. A cablo message published during the week-end announced that the police in Now York had accidentally unearthed a miser 'a hoard of more than £2OOO, which, on the death of the owner, was intended for a Sydney woman. The curious part of the discovery was that the owner could not be found. The woman who, according to tne will found with the hoard, is to benefit ia Mrs Neva Mabel Kelty, of Granville, Svdney, who was pleasantly surprised when she heard the news, but somewhat bewildered by the strange action of her brother, Fred. Clark, who left Australia 40 years ago. The suddenness of the information left her devoid of any theory as to how he might havo accumulated the hoard, excepl that possibly he was putting the money by with the object of returning to Australia. . _ Mrs Kelty's maiden name was Deering, and she said that was the real name of her brother, who had been referred to in the cable message, tie was now approximately 58 years or age. He hacl stated in a that his reason for changing his nrtme to Clark was that he found it much easier to obtain employment in America under that name, than Deeding, which sounded rather too English for the Americans. . ■ « j "My brother was born in Sydney, in Balmain," sajd Mrs Kelty. "He was 18 when he left home. He had worked with a solicitor, and later with a bookseller. He was a great reader, and had always expressed a desire to travel. Though he hated the sea he always had an idea that he wanted to see the world. He knew that my father would not give his consent to his going away, so he left suddenly, without telling mother or father that he wras going. One day he set out for nis work, but he did not arrive, and nothing was heard from him until a letter was received from San _ Francisco He had secured a position as cabin hoy on a sailing vessel, Star of Russia, and had worked his way to San Francisco."

Mrs Kelty said that her brother had been in every important city in America. He had last written from Newark, New Jersey, and had stated that ho would be away from that city for a time, and he advised lier not to write until she heard from him again. That was twelve months ago, and she had not hoard from him since. His letters up to then had come regularly every three months. , She did not know what her brother did in America. He never informed her in his letters Her last letter to him was returned, as he could not be found. Her brother's disappearance was a trreat blow to her parents, who hoped that some day he would return. They both died about six years ago, within several months of one another, without seeing the son for whom they had constantly pined.

Two conscripts, one at Estrees-St. Denis and one at Metz, have just been rejected for service in the French Army, owing to their', height and weight, ,The first man was 6ft lOin in height, and he broke the scales when being weighed. The second was 3ft 6in in height, and he weighed four stone. Of special interest is a machine exhibited at the fourteenth Swiss Industries Fair at Basle. It is catalogued as a Fog-Removing Apparatus, and its immediate use is the dispersal of steam, dust-cloud, and local fogginess in factories, whether induced by the industry itself or by weather conditions. It is upon the future development of this device • that - interest is being focused. It may be possible to disperse mist and foe in places of special danger—around railway stations, aerodromes, bus stations, and the spots in a big city where the nrasence of fog adds » real menace to life..