The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-07-31

nowhere TO be found. A. last resort.
the newspapers Were used. and adver-
tiSementS We're inserted ofTeriuza reward
for the recovery Of the boy. and these
brought responses. \ few DAYS after the
appearance Of the first verti>em-ut. a
notice appeared in the Ledger a. follows.
Rp>---'N- be ready 70 negotiate.
Further advertisements drew out an
swer> until a correspondence was effect
Ell which revealed horror scarcely To
br credited in this day and age of the
world The child had been enticed into
a wagon by two men who had driven ii
of and had il safely hidden. The ran
~om demanded was 81. 900, The Kid
ETpg-r~ informed Mr.. Ross that they
knew Lr could not of his own means
raise S2H. Coo. bur they knew he. had
wealthy friends who would advance that
amount rather than have the child come
10 harm. and that unless their coudi-
tons We're complied with the boy would
b. destroyed. The father and mother.
in their terror. consented 10 the terms.
ana the negotiations for the payment Of
the money are now in progress. Mr.
Ross. the father, Is n member OF large
wholesale dry goods house in PhiladeI
pilia, who lost i'll the panic last fall the
bulk of his fortune. The payment of
his enonnouS sum will ruin him. but
love for his child * paramount and he
viii du IL
The question that comes up i. whose
children are safe. Here i Il little four-
year old boy taken up on the public
street and spirited away, and SO securely
hidden that the police fail to get any
clue to his whereabouts. They cannot
even get any trace of his abductOrs. and
the father, To regain possession of his
child, i compelled TO paw an enormous
ransom. Such things We're done wears
ago i'll the semi-barbarOus parts of itaIy
and GypsieS have traded in the lives Of
children of the rich, but it has been uI.-
known till now in America Is it to be
made n regular business. II seems to
be safer than hOuse-breaking or forgery.
For all the police have done or seem
likely To do. the kidnappers will make IL
pecuniary success OF the venture. and
get OIL scot free.
THE POOR OF NEW YORK
are not altogether neglected The New
York Times some years ago inauSurated
Il system OF excursions for the poor chill
dren which was Srandly successful
They chartered boats and loaded them
with children and took n long sail a
halliday sail up. the River or Sound to
some beautiful grove. and diSembarl1ing
gave the children games and sports, and
what was better for them, IL plentiful
lunch of good things. These excursions
take place twice q week, and no one can
estimate the good they have accom-
plished- \ proposition has been made
to give regular excursions to the sea, OF
the working women of the city. They
labor year in and year out in factories or
in their garretS for the merest possible
pittance. Just enough TO keep soul and
body together and such thing as a day
on the water or in the green fields is
something beyond their means 10 this
class, excursions, such rs the poor chill
dren have been enjoying for three years,
would prove an inestimable boon. 1t
will be- done. for New York i a clIarita-
blt. city when called upon.
THE CITY IN SUMMER
New York is all away from home just
now. Jones is mt Long Branch, Smith
at Newport. Brown in the White Noun
tains, Thompson in Europe, and where
the rest are the Lord only knows. One
thing is certain, they are not a5 home,
or if they are they keep the front shut
tcrs closed and are in the back parlOrs,
to make believe they are out of town,
for no woman Of fashion. though she
las the coolest and most delightful house
on the Island, would consent TO live IN
the city during the months of July and
August. No matter though she has to
take a room at Il watering place scarcely
larger than the Saratoga trunk that con
tains her thirty dresses no matter if she
is compelled 20 endure heat, dust, worry
and discomfort of all kinds, when she
might be entirely comfortable in her
own home, fashion decrees Il residence
out Of town during the summer, and she
bows to this rs she does to all its other
,lrcrp"s. She comes back in the fall
worn and faded TO degree, but she has
been 'out OF town and her duty il
done.