The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-11-29
MRS. CLARK'S PILGRIMAGE.
THE WAIF THAT HER HUSBAND WOULD
NOT KEEP IN MS HOUSE.
Mrs. CI.rk Lock,,sg ccr 8. Mother. Mr.. CLARK
for kis tyife. Mr. Shay Looking FOR Work.


aud n Little boy Looking at tho baby.
At midnight on Wednesday, when Benja-
min Clark. a cigarmaker. Of 32l Seventeenth
street. Brooklyn returned home. he found that
his wlfo had in tho house three months old
child. II was pretty and healthy girl. but Mr..
Clark did not take kindly to It, and demanded
to know where bis wife got It, She said that ut
81 T.. NJ. rs she was passing through First
place, she saw woman carry the child
10 tho stoop OF rich mans residence.
leave II and run away Mrs. Clark took
the child in her arms out OF pity.
and carried II TO her home. thinking that her
husband might like to adopt 1t. Her husband.
however. didn't show any inclination to keep
the lttlo stranger In his house. and he reported
the case to the police Of tho Fifth avenue sta
tlon. To the officers who wcro sent by Capt.
Mackellar to investigate 1.-The case Mrs. Clark
said that sho got tho child from a woman
named Nellie Shay. whom she met in Hamilton
avenue. md who told her that II some one did
not take tho child from her. she would leave II
In tho street
The police. on further inquiry learned that
while Mrs. Clark was visiting Mrs. Kenney at
l78 Hamilton avenue che mel a woman Who
said that shc was looking for some one to adopt
the child. and as Mrs. Clark consented TO take
It Tor adoption 1t was given to her. Mr.. Clark
into his houscl old. md Yesterday morning he
ahd his vile had dispute over II. He insisted
ih9l thS child Should be turned over to The
that she would not So dispose Of it. Then he
told her 70 10 with the babe, aud not to
come back until she had returned it TO
its own mother. She would not go
without her own golden-hairol little boy. and
sT 65gsSHnS % RePSd Sd hG5 into nT and She
wont 20 Mrs. Kcnney's house and asked for
s2he ,intormaitop about the waits mother.
child only two days. having met her Mt
tflends house while on visit and learning
that she was in need OF sewing. hirod her to
sew, for her IN preparation for the return Of her
husband. who IS u sailor on u snip now scvcral
days over due. She could not tell where she
Mrs Clark bundcl her tiny charge up In her
shawl and walked for hours and hours about
fsiRcr '2f ~ Mrs. M2" shay Ms1nSI Keanddy ' WHO
lives IN Inlay street. told her that he had
tnTncd Mrs. Shay 9u, IF The house bccousc he
sumntiye. and d!.l In Janunry last was tho
chll rs father. He could not tell what had
bors. Mrs CLARK trudled two or three miles
II tle Cnarity ,Commi-slohrrs ,oIlc9 IN VIII
went to The OH ot Charity Commissioning
hogan ia pHciil' street, Hni found thnt closed.
Shr 'arch"l tor nriy,te charitable in-titu-
tiou IN vntn. nul walked back 20 her friends in
Hamilton Hycnun. huggng the inlnnt ~ her
n'sDm and k'rning IN pind hcr hushnnh.s n;
unfltuu: Don't come back 20 my house Until
YOU have put thut child In It's mothers arms"
\ reporter saw Mrs Clark at Mrs kcnnys
at D. -at. carcs"iuS the wtit AMI playing with
"lout Q. head. Mrs. Clark il stout pietly
young blonde. imuulsiye AMI Viv1ciuu.. " or
course want the baby. md ny husband ought
% want Il too. lts sweet li'tlo thing. aud u II
wouldn't YOU takc n hnly before you'd see II
tt On n stoop; sirs. shay. go, down on her
knees and -wore that she'd leave II IN the street
4 4, ! didn't tsko i and ! ws9u'dR't olnlGGTy
~ OF some rich mans stOop. It's flesh
qnl blood. Sir. not cotton and RAGS.
| t,ld my husband ltue story-hc's such "A
serious mln-that thought It would touch his
heart II ! said pi 'k"d tue poor thiu- N ia"
stoop, But would YOU believe it she add,t I'm:
prr-~iNnS p. II didn't touch his heart q h!t. aud
/. leo rowding about mo N though III com.
mlurd tnUrdct-lu,t be 'uusc my heart warmed
toward ihii inno,"nt thing, ~ h,ISun 10 l1ye
4 - though Il WINS my own. could have rnised
the chi.d Il my husband had loft me. Now
what ilN am In, can't 20 home with the
ghil because my husband won't let mo; can't
find tho caids mother. and won't desert IL.
Mrs. kenny hNd promised her that II the
rhIiis mother couldn't be found she would
herself Iopt the babe.
Mnisht;al Roh,r Clark rNpentcd o. sending
his wife and chil AWAY. because Of the little
stranger. ana he started out 10 look for his wife
but ne didn't know Mucr. TO IND Acr So AT d
Mrs. S4ay, 50 that shc. could rsiurn tho
baby. Nj. shay was boxing for WORK
having removed the object on 81 having
M in amt. Robert Clark was looking for his
ing for nows Of her husbands ship and fear
ng that he would scold hertoc being concerned
IN tho complcnlion Michael h"un 'dy WAS
looking oUt that Mr.. shay should not again
durkcn his door; and the only person looking
At tue stray baby was the golden haired hoy.
who had climbed upto the sofa. VII re- tie dark
.. .ditatlnG on IT. homeless and mothercss sit
uutiOn.