The record-union., 1895-07-11
NORTON BUSH'S LITTLE GRANDSON.
The Child an Object of Charity at an
Infants Home.
His Father is Dead, His Mother Dis
sipated Woman, and His Uncle
Won't Own Him.

The little grandson of the late Norton
Bush, artist, is an object of charity at
public institution, says the San FRANCISCO
Bulletin OF last evening.
Little johnny Bush, as he is known,
finds a home under the protecting care
of the Little Sisters Infant Shelter.
Seated at the long dining-table. hungrily
devouring the goodly meal set before
him. johnny could not see that there was
ANYTHING to render him an object OF IN
terested pity. Lifting PAIR OF large
ewes like luminous sapphires, Johnny
professed to be having q very good time,
and related the story of the vicissitudes
of his family as hero relate his adven-
lures.
He remembers his grand dfather as a
moneyed parsonage who dived into capa-
cious pockets filled with silver and fished
up a nickel for his grandson.
On one occasion Johnny remembers
seeing a five-dollar gold piece in his
grand fathers extended palm.
1t seems Mr.. Bush was always very
kind to the child, petting him, giving
him clothes and promising 10 remem Der
him III his will.
Nevertheless, the kind grandfather is
dead, and Johnny is as haplesS an object
of charity as there is in the orphan
asyIums of the city. The will provided
that one third OF his estate, in which
were included several OF the artists pic
lures should 90 to the child, but after the
funeral expenses were paid il was found
that the estate had ali melted away. Tho
pictures have not yet been disposed OF,
and it is doubtful ii they can be sold TO
great advantage.
There is not much to be hoped from
Johnny's ether relatives. His uncle,
David Bush, refuses to admit the rela-
tionship even. Johnny's parents do not
figure on the credit side OF his account at
all. His own innocent story OF their
poverty and chickering's is even more
painful than the details which his pro-
tectors have been able to find out about
them.
His father, Eugene Bush, gave trouble
from his cradle TO his death, which is
ago at Salt Lake City. He vas wild,
reckless, imprOvident fellow, and seems
to have been separated from his wife very
shortly after their marriage. Johnny's
earliest recollectous are of being taken
TO pay occasional visits to lis father, who
was rooming by himself on Golden Gate
avenue.
his mother. now married 10 nAck-
man at the Palace Hotel, is a dissipated
woman who has never had any natural
feeling for her child. a year ago last
February she took the boy, then years
old, to the Little Sisters Infant Shelter,
paying 81 in advance for him. Since
then nothing has been seen or heard OF
her, and by the law she has forfeited all
claim to the child.
johnny says his grandmother took care
l.; !, -hn, a
to board with tailor on Third street.
The tailor. not receiving any money ior
board, turned the child into the street on
one occasion. 1t was at this Junctufe
that Johnny himself begged TO be taken
to the Little Sisters Infant Shelter. lie
did not even have any clothes to begin
with at his new home, for these the
tailor claimed in payment OF his deot.
John is apparently quite bright, and in
clined to be loquacious, but does not al
together belle his origin. lie does not
instinctlvely discriminate between good