The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-06
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WHERE IS ADA Ia NDBRS?
A Pretty Fifteen Year-Old
School Graduate
Missing.
LEFT HER HOME At STROUDSBURG, PA.
Seen in Hobokeu, Where All Trace
is Lost-BeIieyed to Be
Stage-struek.
EFT HER HOME At STROUDSBURG, PA.

O6teCUlV6 hSEFIkdu VI tAo oODoAOu
Police Department is engaged today in
trying to locate the whereabouts of a
pretty young Pennsyl yania girl, who left
her home in Stroudsburg. Pa. last FRI
day, and arrived in Hoboken Friday
evening about eight O'Clock. Charles
Smedes, residing at Washington street.
Hoboken, and employed as Superinte nd
ent of the New Jersey Ice Company,
whose delivery pier is at the foot OF
Fourteenth street, Hoboken, claims to
have seen the girl Sunday. but since
then all trace OF her Is lost.
There was not a prettier or more Viva
cious girl in Stroudsburg, Pa, than Miss
Miss Ada Landers. Though ouly uf-
teen years of age she was endowed with
shrewdness aud common sense usu ally
common only in girls much Older She
was fair, small of stature, but decidedly
plump. She was al apt scholar, and a
Lrime favorite among the pupils OF the
public school. Unfortunately, she had a
strong liking for the stage, and the de-
sire 10 go out into the world and do for
herself was heightened by the fact that
she resided with her grandparents most
all her life, and firing of the old peoples
whims and ~fancies, sought recreation
and pleasure lao strangers.
IL FoLKs' PET.
Ada was the youngest OF three chill
dren of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Landers. The
father conducted a foundry in Strouds-
burg. When but a babe Ada was
taken sick at the home of her grand
parents. her fathers parents. who lived
nearby. The grandmother nursed the
child to health, and became SO attached
to her that she requested her sou to LET
her live with them. He and his vile
aopoantod Roth familjAS iVad' mar ana
another, so that Ada WAS frequently at
home during the day. During her early
years she Was seemingly contented wit b
The cid folks, our the last five years
since she became a big girl, as it Were i,
she became DISCONTINUED, as she was
often forced TO give up enjoyment With
her young companious to tend TO the
wants of her grand parents. She longed
to return to her fathers home, to have
the company of her brother aud sister,
but she was evidently not allowed. as up
TO the time of her absence, she resided
with her grand parents.
Under these circumstances it Is not
surprising that the young girl became
moody at times, and, Drooding ovsr what
she considered a hardship, decided to
break the monotony of her life by run
ming away. This she had often told her
school mates, and frequently showed
them letters from parties from out of
town, aud supposed 60 be New Yorkers !,
telling her of the opportunity that await
ed her upon the stage. The last letter
she showed her school mates was from a
friend, she said. with directions to go to
Fourteenth street. Whether New York
OR Hoboken, is not known; butas she was
seen on Fourteenth street, Hoboken, it is
thought this was the city.
GRADUATES FRIDAY.
Last Friday the annual graduating ex-
ercises Look place the Stroudsburg public
school, and one OF the graduates was
Ada. She was the most admired Of all
the graduates. and her essay won the
plaudlts of the large audience present. -
was a proud day for tbs parents.
grandparents of Ada. buf she seemSSN
taRe it as a matter OF cFurse aud to be
thinking of things FAM away. She was
Decomingly attired N 1eat black SUI.
the waist trimm3d with red,
and wore a black, sailor suit.
After the exercises she babe
good bye TO a number OF fef, school
mates, and, in company with a young
clerk, who was considered her beau, buG
only in the sense of such young people,
started to walk TO Wafer Gap. apout five
young mai she was going away, but
where to, except New York. she didn't
say. He walked part of the way with
her. and says he tried to dissuade her
from going, but she persisted, and he re-
turned to his store. Some hour later he
went to the father and told
him of his daughters resolve.
The father was mad clear through, and
upbraided the young man for not telling
him sooner. The father went to his par-
ents and found his daughter had not re-
turned there from the school. The
grandparents didn't miss her, as they
thought she was at her fathers house.
The father hurried TO the Water Gap, and
there learned that his daughter had
bought a ticket for Hoboken. The next
train was at three A.. M, and this he Took
to Hoboken.
NO TRACE OF HER
When be got there lie could find no
trace whatever of his daughter. Instead
of notifying the Hoboken authorities he
went to New York.
Charles Sinedes, the ice company super
%intendent, says that Sunday morning,
about nalf-past eight O'Clock, he was
walking along Fourteenth street when
his attention was attracted to q young
girl who seemed a stranger. She inquired
of a laboriug man directions for some
where, and the last Smedes saw OF her
she was walking over towards he dry
dock. Why she should go In that direc-
ton Is not known. as OF sunday there Is
no Que on the docks. An excursion from
the Hill left one of the piers that morn
ing, but it is not thought she went
aboard this.
There is no dramatic agency in Hobo
ken. All the hotels were visited, but
none had given accommodation to a
young lady alone, or to one answering
Ada's description.
This morning the father nee ompanied
Detective Kerrigan to Eldorado. where it
it is presumed the girl will go IL she de-
sires 10 go on the stage. The manage
ment just now is preparing for their
summer season, engaging young and
pretty girls Tor the ballet.
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