304 THE UPPER YUKON 



alone for the great unknown, equipped with 

 hope, ambition, youth, health, strength, and a 

 good appetite all of these attributes being of 

 service in helping him on to success. Having 

 at home learned the trade of pastry cook, he 

 was not long in getting a position in St. Louis. 

 From there he went to Chicago, next to Win- 

 nipeg, working a while in each city. He 

 earned good wages and saved his money. He 

 was frugal in his ways, and his wants were few, 

 so he soon had a tidy balance in bank. He 

 was offered a fine position on a through din- 

 ing-car of a train-de-luxe running from Chi- 

 cago to the Pacific Coast, but he would not 

 accept it until he could bring out from Ger- 

 many a younger brother Eugene by name 

 to take his previous place. This youth was 

 also a pastry cook, and ten years younger than 

 Louie. 



Eugene arrived at New York in due time. 

 Before leaving his home, a friend had begged 

 of him to look up a relative who had been last 

 heard of in Philadelphia, and so he went to 

 the Quaker City in search of a man whom he 

 had never seen. 



It is ever amusing when talking to foreign- 

 ers in any of the old countries to be asked if 

 you ever met a nephew, cousin, brother, or 



