CHARLOTTE DAILY OEGEItVEIt, JANUARY 21, ICC 3.
:iiildren?0f The Tenements
Ihi, iEffort Of PMIanthrophy ;;To Solve;; One,
5 or New Torh CItys aretest; Problems:
Correspondence of The Observer. -
New York, Jan. 19, It is estimated
that of New York' 675,000 children a,
jiumber which does not Include the
P warming population of Infanta 14,p00
ttoysand girls between the age of
two and sixteen are In the city's hands
en destitutes, a "Improperly guardian
"d, or as criminals, petty or great
la other words, more than two and
a half per cent, of the next generation
of New Yorkers are to-day In the
Shelter of asylums, reformatories, and
charitable substitutes for homes In
general.
V-'Onry years ago the effort of
philanthropy would have been to cast
5 these thousands in one rnoul, like
, i many buttons subjecting them all
. ' to the same treatment regardless of
their individual characteristics. The
' wiser policy of to-day give the pcr
Bonal equation , first consideration. It
begin by making acquaintances the
intimate acquaintances, such as can he
trained, only by personal contact with
the surroundings that have produced
the young unfortunates and the people
sk have been responsible for their
iare. The New York Juvenile Asylum,
- for Instance the Protestant Institu
tion to which, with thP Catholic and
' Hebrew protectories. th city authori
al! consign most of the waifs who
'om direct Iv under their notice em
". tfloys a visitor to cultivate this per
, Tronal acquaintance In the light of
' ,which so much of Its work Is done.
A" There has boen at the Juvenile Asy-
lum for a mooth now a well-grown
Cterman lad of twelve whose peculiar
; Indifference and hardiness always at-
tracts attention. H1 mother, at home
!ln three rooms of a tenement on the
I 'ttpper East Side, cries about him every
. tJa.y, calling- him ''ray rhlllp."
J-' was not a had boy, my rhlllp,"
' 'he says to the visitor, "only he has
pursed so hart and was always mit
Jde bad boys. Nights he vould stay
food, unt den, because hp is afraid of
fretting a vlpping off his narn. he
don't dast to come back. Sometimes
!jje oomcs bavk and sleeps in the hall
' outside; but he vouldn't never come
"Deri von morning, ven he had been
avay free nights, he comes In unt
' Isiays 'Mama.' he says, 'von't you (tlf
fitme cup of coffe? Unt and I tell
him' I must take him to de
Judge to put him away because I vas
jnot;b'! to keep him from the bud
Itooy; But he broke my heart." wept
lithe patient, stolidly-looking Oerman
'woman.
',Yt In tlris home there appears to
' tfce nothing to drive a boy away. The
rooms are bare but they are clean and
f Wholesome: there Is even an attrac-
jtlveness about them. The mother din
" ttresefully thin and sad. has a touch-
ting tenderness of manner toward her
. JirhUdren; the father 1s a sober hard
, working man who uses his authorl
Uyiwtth his family Justly and kindly.
i Hit pavements that made Philip un- j
inanageable.
' Only two doors away there Is an
in anp ii in in im vi urn nil ,'ijrM. ill '
other Oerman mother whose boy was
f'mmt' to the Asylum from the Child
' ren's Court for stealing a gold watch.
- Hera, too are many things that might
. help a youngster to be good; certainly
. there Is nothing that need estrange
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him from the homo -. Influence, , But
Herman succumbed to temptation one
daytoben .taking a bundle of wash
ing to one of his mother's customers,
he found the watch lying upon s table;
"Herman will do anything to get
money always must he haf money,"
bis mothers told the visitor. "H will
come by roe first, and when he gets
all I have, he will go out und stole
some. Once, he took a wash which gave
a bill of seven dollar und sold it for
eln dollar, Dat boy was cresy with
de theaytre. TJere ain't no night what
he ain't went dere since a long time.
Such are exceptional, however. Most
often squalor, misery and hunger can
be traced in deep lines through the
stories of the Asylum's charges. Four
tots were before the children's court
not long ago for lack, of proper guard
ianship. The home from which, they
came would seem to Justifywould
certainly explain any length of ab
sence on any boy's part.
When the visitor knocked on the
A Home In the Tenements -From Room Such as This Are Recruited the
Children of the -Streets.
door the father was away, and the
mother was seriously 111 In a hospital.
The kitchen stove had been cold for a
month. A table and a sink. Above
which hung a cracked mirror, alone
kept it company. In the other room
a gorgeous new pink paper was the
background for a table, one shakv
rhalr and a sewing machine nothing
else except a dirty upholstered sofa,
spread over with a cheap, red quilt
which was half thrown back Just as
the father of the family had left It in
the morning.
The spectres of drink and sickness
stalked through the house. The man
spent his money In the neighboring sa
loons, and could never be depended
upon to furnish nine dollars for the
privilege of dwelling for a month in
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most widely
between W
The best
through which
happenings of the world and
SIX DAYS a
the pinched; desolate, repellant Quar
ter. The women like many of her sis
ters of the tenements, had been slow
ly crushed by the struggle to' exist la
the. face of this added , difficulty,. So
only. the sheltering arm of the Asy
um -were left open tor the children.',
In the Asylum' motely company at
Dobh's Ferry there lsv a picturesque
little Italian,. Rorolllov who lately a
bandoned his home and mother- Al
though Romeo is fluent In certain
branches of English," hi mother a
tiny woman whose bright eyes are the
one lively feature of an expression
less' face can still speak no language
but that of her present home.- She
wanted to hear about her boy, though
and hts new - life in the Children's
Village, so h called lit as Interpreter
a neighbor, another tiny daughter of
Italy on whom the impress . of v the
East Bide had been deeply fixed. , ,
The two women with their brood of
little Giovanni and Francescas cling
ing about their skirt, , stood talklnr
with the visitor in the only spot of
the kitchen not cluttered with dilapi
dated furniture, unwashed pans, ket
tles and dishes, refuse rag and pa
pers or dirt, pure and simple. And In
the riot of disheveled uncleanllness the
children were the most disheveled and
uncleanly objects. When the visitor
asked what Romi's father was doing
for a- living, the group of matted' heads
chorused, "Father vdrunk"iwhJch gra-
tultous bit of Information was re
warded with a specially Imperative
call for silence and a particularly
pointed menace of a flatl-cuff. Mild
curiosity, a dull, perverted cause - of
Importance theee seemed to be "the
only feelings excited by Romi's pre
dicament; and the eight besmirched,
neglected children evidently had all
the Inducements in the world to fol
low him as fast as their wobbly leg
would carry them when their oppor
tunity arrived.
From homes such a these the tran
sition to the streets is soyeasv as to
be scarcely perceptible. In some case
the lad Is actually driven out, and in
many he has no apparent reluctance
about going. The parents of one lit
tle fellow now In the Asylum prefer
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read newspaper in
ashington and Atlanta. Results prove this claim beyond
EVERY B7LY
BEST WVOmSiNC;
m THE' COTTON 'BELT'
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afternoon newspaper in tKe Carolinas, and the logical medium
advertisers may reach the best people ot; Charlotte
WEEK,
ring whiskey to work, -began by send
ing him out to beg for the food thev
were unwilling' to earn. . Begging for
money followed naturally. Then Jim-;
my, realising that he was the ' rwl
support of the household,', began to
tay away when he Xelt tike It, spend
ing - the, proceeds Of his Industry, for
himself. When the home broke up en
tlreiy, as it eventually did, of course
the household goods that - had repre
sented the comforts-of Ufa for three
persons were sold at public auction for
sixty-nine cent, and the boy was re
luctantly Compelled to learn .how to
earn an honest Jiving In the Industrial
shops of the Juvenile Asylum. . ' -
There Is no greater contrast between
the wretched hovel with Us sixty-nine
cents worth of furnishings and the U
dy. little, rooms of Philip's mother than
between the; boy that represent the
two homes in the Institution at Dobb's
Ferry. . The philanthropist, the crlmi
inologist,. the. intelligent reformer have
come to -realise : the full meaning t
this, and the youngster guilty of no
greater crime than r improper guardi
anship not treated as If he were an
incorrigible ruffian, predestined to
state's prison.
- The old fashioned barrack that ser
ved as Institutional dormitories a few
years ago have made way for attrac
tive homelike : cottages. Broad lawns
and blue skies', fresh air, pure food and
healthful exercises are depended on as
a subtle, permanent -tonic for minds
and bodies that have grown unwhole
some In. the poisonous atmosphere otf
the brick and mortar wilderness. The
New York Juvenile Asylum, one of the
oldest and most far-reaching philan
thropies in the country, haB succeed
ed in shaking off the dust of the city,
but only the most necessary buildings
have yet been erected. The comple
tion of its Children's Village is still
far off In the future; It will take alow
and patient work, but It has shown it
self so Important to the great city
twenty miles down the Hudson "and,
indeed, to the vast country of which
the metropolis is the chief gateway,
that- It ! hoped Its possibilities may
be expanded fast enough to keep pace.
In some degree, with the grave prob
lems it does so much to solve.
an jAppie's Jtumiiy Tree.
Chicago Chronicle.
, uu. j . tun &aiiiu
are. apples, pears, peaches, plums, cher
ries and quinces, as well as the straw
berries, raspberries and blackberries..
The apple I fruit of long descent.
Among the ruin of the Swiss lake dwel
ler are found remain of small seed ap
ples which show the seed valves and the
grains of flesh, r The crab-apple is a
native of Britain and was the Btock of
whica was grafted the choicest varieties
when brought . from Europe, chiefly
France. Apple of some sort were abun
dant before the conquest and had been
Introduced probably by the Romans.
Yet often a Saxon manuscript speaks
of apples and dcider there is no mention
of named varieties before the 13th cen
tury, - Then one may read of the pear
main and the costard Chaucer's Amel
low costard." .
In the roll of household expenses of
Eleanor, wife of Simon Le Montford, ap
ples and pears are entered. In the year
1286 the royal fruiterers to Edward I pre
sent a bill for apples, pears, quinces,
medlars and nuts. Pippins, believed to be
seedlings, hence called the pips or seeds,
are said not to have been grown in Eng
land beforel526. The exact Drayden writ
ing Of the orchards of Kent at the period,
can name only the apple, the orange, the
russean. the sweeting, the pome water
and the rlenette.
John Winthrop Is Usually held responsi
ble for the Introduction of the apple Into
the New World. ' But as a matter of fact
when Winthrop anchored off Cape Ann
the recluse Blackstone a,ready had apple
trees growing about his cabin at Shaw
mut Neck. Some of the best American
apples were brought over by the Hugue
not who planted there, among others,
the pomm royale or spice apple.
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the cotton belt and the best advertising medium
FOR ONE
the local ;: news
FIFTY 'TWO WEEKS
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tlNQTHK ADVCNTVRK9 OP AN AMATKUft CftACKtWOMAN, At NARRAT
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I am-bathed in tears. ; t have tried
to write of tny sensations, to tell the
story of the Last Adventure of Mrs.'
Van Raffles, la lucid terms but thoueh
my pen runs fast over the paper, the
Ink make no record of the facts. y
woe is so great and. so deep that tnv
tears, falling-Into the ink-pot, turn it
into a flttid so thin It .will not enark the
paper, ana wnen i try .me pencu tne
words '. ere scarce put , down ; before
they're blotted out, And yet with all
this woe X find myself a multi-millionaire
possessed of sums so far beyond
my wildest dream of fortune that my
eye can scarce take In the breadth of
all the figure. My dollars coined into
stiver," placed on top of one another,
would form a bullion tower that, would
reach higher into the air than fifteen
euperlmpoaed dome of "St. Peter's
placed on top of seventeen spire of
Trinity on the summit of Mont Blanc.
In Ave pound notes laid side by side
they'd suffice to paper every scrap of
bedroom wall In all the Astor, houses
in the world, and Invested in Amalga
mated Copper they would turn the
system green with envy and yet I
am not happy. My well-beloved Hen
rietta's last adventure has turned my
fortune Into bitterest gall, and plain
unvarnished wormwood forms the fin
ish of my Interior, for she is gonel ; I,
amid the splendor- of my new-found
possessions, able to keep not one but
a hundred-motor-cars, and to pay the
cbaffeur' fines, to endow chairs in
universities, to build libraries in every
hamlet in the land from Podunk to
Richard Mansfield, to eat three meals
a day and lodge at the 81. Regicide,
and to evade tny taxes without excit
ing' suspicion, am desolate and forlorn,
for, I repeat, Henrietta, has gone! The
very nature of her last edventure by
a successful Issue has blown out the
light of my. life.
She has stole Constant-Scrappet
If I could be light of heart In this
tragic hour I would call this story the
Adventure of the Ufed Fiasco, but
that would fte so out of key with my
emotions , that I cannot bring myself
to do it. I must content myself with
a narration of the simple fact of the
lengths to which my beloved's amtsT
tion led her, without frivolity and with
a heavy heart.
Of course you know that all New
port has known for months, that the
ConstantrScrappes were seeking di
vorce, hot that they loved one an
other less, but that both parties to the
South Dakota suit loved some one else
more. Colonel Sorappe had long been
the most ardent admirer of Mrs. Oush-ington-Andrews,
and Mrs. Constant
Scrappe's devotion' to young Harry de
Lakwit had been at least for two sea
sons evident to , every observer with
half an eye. Oushinton-Andrews had
considerately taken himself out of the
way by eloping to South Africa with
Tottle Dlmpleton, of the Frivolity Bur-
lesquers, and Harry de Lakwlts s only
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of the day f at
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recorded marriage vbad ' been -annulled
by the courts, because at the time or
his wedding to the forty-year-old maid
of the Bellevue Boarding .school for
Boys at Bkidgeway, Rhode Island, he
braa ortlv ften years, old, Cbnse-
iquentty, they, both were eligible and.
provided the Constant-Scrappes couia
be so operated on by the laws of
J South, Dakota as to .free tbern from
ont another, there were no valid rea
son why the yearnings of these ar
dent souls should not be gratified.- to
deed,; both, engagement had ' been an
nounced tentatively and only the sign
ing of the decree releasing the 'Con
stant-Scrappes from their obligations
to one another now stood in. th way
of two tiuptlal ceremonies which would
make four hearts beat as one. ; Mrs-.
Oushlnton Andrews' trousseaii was
ready and that of the future Mrs; de
Lakwits had been ordered t both ladles
had received ' their engagement rings
when that ' inscrutable. Henrietta
marked Constant-Scrappe for her own.
Colonel Scrappe ' bad returned from
Mont Carlo, having broken the bank
twice, and Henrlette had met him at
a little dinner given In his honor by
Mrs. Oushlngton-Andrews. He turned
out to be a most Charming man and
It didn't require a ' much more keen
perception than my ewn to take In the
fact that he . had made a great im
pression upon Henrlette,; though she
never mentioned it to me until the
final blow came. I merely noticed .
growing preoccupation in her manner
and her attitude toward ne, which
changed perceptibly. U ' V u
"I think,' Bunny," she . said to n
one morning as I brought her a mar
malade toast, "that - considering onr
relations toward each other you should
not call me Henrietta. . After all, yott
know, you are here primarily as my
butler, and there1 are eorae proprieties
that should be observed even la this
Newport atmosphere.
"But," I protested, "am X no more
than thatT I am your partner, am I
not?"
"You are fny business partner not
my social, Bunny,", she said. "We
must not . mix society ' and business.
In thl house I am mistress of the
situation: you are the butler that is
the precise condition, and I think It
well that hereafter you should recog
nize the real truth and avoid over-familiarity
by addressing sne ' as Mrs.
Van Raffle If we should ever open
an .office for our Burglar Company in
New York or elsewhere you may call
me anything you please there. Here,
however, you must be governed by the
etiquette of your environment. Let.lt
be Mrs. Van Raffles hereafter."
"And is it to be Mr, Bunny?" I in
putted, sarcastlcallv.
Her reply was a cold glance of the
eye and a majestic sweep from the
room.
That evening Colonel Scrappe call
ed, ostensibly to look over the house
as a landlord to see If there was any
thing .he could do to make it more
comfortable, and I. blind fool that X
was for the momenthelleved that that
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vas Ha re :il errand, anil ventnn.il to
remind Ilenriette of a leak in the rwf.
at' which-they-both, I - thought, x -changed
amused glances and he grave
ly mounted the stair to the top of the
house . to look at it. On our return,
Henrlette dismissed' rne and told me
that she would not need my services1
a jralc - during the evening. Kven then ; . , . ; i
my suspicions were ' not aroused, al- '.
though there was . a dull, disturbed '
feeling about my- heart whose precise
cause I could not define. I X ent to. . ' -the
club and put in a miserable even- )'.;' ,
ing, returning about ' mldnigrht to find - 1
that' Colonel Scrappe was ' still there. ' ,
He was apperently giving "the house .'
nd Its content a thorough Inspection, - 1
for when 1 arrived, .HenTiett . was ' -,
testing the fifty-thousand dollar piano; v.. ' .
in the drawing room for him with fvV,,
brilliant rendering of "O, Promise 'Me.'A..
What decision they reached as to its"
tone and quality I never knew, for In V - s
spite of my hint oft the subject Hen- - '
rlette never spoke of the- matter , to $ - ;
me- s J suppose I should have begun to i- t.
guess what was" happening under, my
very nose( but thank Heaved I am not,':"
of a usplclous nature, and although --7
ftvttarhlA .maanltlfl, Ae.-4KAl. atMnrt.-)M...'rfiSi
havtor never even , dawned urxm tny - "r-
knlnd.' Kven when two - night later "f -'? '
Colonel . Scrappe-, escorted Henrlette
home at1 midnight "from a lecture on..,'!?'
the 'Inscrutability of Sartor Resartu , t '
at ''Mrs. GushlngtOn-Andrew' -stt did
not strike .'me a unusual, although, " ,'
Instead of going home immediately, as ,
most escorts do' under the dreiunt-,'1'.' . "h
stances,' he remained about two hour, " , J
testing that infernal piano again, and
with the same old tune, ' m j,v f H I
Then the automobile ride began, arid . i
prettey nearly every morning, long bev '
fore poltts eociety was awake, -Colo- 1 - ,
nei Sorappe and Henrietta took iqng '.I.,,
runs togetner tnrougn tne country in,
her Mercedes machine, for -what pur-'
nose I never knew, for whatever inter s
Aaf ffiA MitnttAl- tmtvfit -ItlBva iai1 -f n . mll'
welfare as a landlord I could not for'
the life of me guess hew it could he
extended.: t oaf. automobiles. Cme
thlnar I did notice, however, was ??
growing coldness between Henrlette
and .Mrs. Qushlngton-Andre ws., The
latter came .to a card party at Bolivar
Lodge one afternoon about two weeks
aftes Colonel Scrappe's return and her
greeting to her hostess instead of hat-,
ing the old time effusiveness was frig
id to A degree. In fact, as they clasp-
ed hands I ' doubt if more than the
tips rof their fingers touched. , More
over, .Mrs. Oushlngton-Andrews, hlthy
erto , considered one of the beat fists
at bride or hearts In the 400. actually '
won the booby prise, which X saw her
throw into the street when she de- ,
parted.; It was evident 1 something
had happened""; dlstureb their equar'
nlmity.. . ,
" My eyes' were finally opened by a
remark made at the club by Digby,
Reggie de Pelt's valet, who asked me
how I liked my new boss, and whose;
explanation of the question led to
complete . revelation of the true facts ,
In the case. Everybody knew, he said, .
that from the moment she had met
him Mrs. Vsn Baffles had set her cap
for Colonel 8crappe, and that meeting .
her for the first time he had fallen
bead over heels In love with her even
in the presence of 1 hie fiancee. Of;
course I hotly denied Dlgby's Inslnu-, :
atlons, and we got so warm over the
discussion that when I returned home
that night I had two badly discolored
eyes, and Digby well,' Dlgby didn't;:
go home at all. Both of. us were sus
pended from the Gentleman's Gentle-
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