Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1912 — Family Safe; Feeds Men [ARTICLE]

Family Safe; Feeds Men

Man, Fearing Children Would Be Massacred Because of Treaty Abrogation, Offers to Celebrate. Detroit, Mich.—A Hebrew with a strong foreign accent inquired several times at the telegraph office in the Griswold house If a cablegram had come for him. “J. S. Groenlng is my name,” be told the operator. As he sat listlessly in a chair In the hotel office, a page called “Mr. Groenlng.” The map Jumped to his feet, walked swiftly towards the page and seized from his hand a cablegram. An instant’s glance acquainted him with its contents. He burled his face in his bands. “My children, my little ones are safe,” be muttered In German. Suddenly straightening himself he walked to J toe clerk and said: "I want to make as many people happy ha possible today. 1 have just had a great happiness and 1 want to share it. I shall walk out Into your Detroit streets, find a dozen men that look hungry and send them in here to be fed." - Later he returned and with him were a dozen men, not nondescript tramps, but men neat in appearance, that looked' as If they were temporarily in hard luck. “That Is the type us man 1 like to help,” said Groenlng. Fred Postal, proprietor of toe hotel, provided toe party with a private dining room, and the meal the dozen men got was the best the hotel could pro-

vide. Groenlng told Postal that be had feared the Russians, aggrieved at the attitude taken by the United States in regard to Jewish passports in Russia, wou|4 be infuriated and massacre the Jews. “I sent money to my wife and children to leave for the United States immediately, and this cablegram told me they bad crossed toe German frontier and were safe," said Groenlng quietly.