“L. Mayer’s descendants are engaged in a wholesale grocery business away up town and are prosperous.
“Harold Von Stein Hansen is an enthusiastic leader of the Socialist party, his great grandfather being one of the leaders of that party in the early 1900’s.
“There are a couple of gentlemen in business whose progenitors were favorably known. I refer to Messrs. Kraner & Stose, whose names appear on a sign on Morrison Street.
“Strange to say Broadway is the leading street of the city. The cutting away of the Seventh Street hill and the three bridges connecting Portland with the State of Washington has been a factor in the upbuilding of this thoroughfare.
“Many newcomers are in business on this street and the names would be strange to you.”
[Chapter VII.]
More Denouements.
By this time, the old lady had finished her memoranda, and she now produced a small book which seemed to contain much data.
“I have not tried to adopt any system in regaling you with my story, but have taken it up by piece-meal, believing that it would be of more interest and, if you do not object, I will continue in the same way.”