The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-31
AN ASH HEAP.
Kansas is Made One For the
Dumping
OF Waits Which New York
Won't Take Care Of.
A ROSEATE PICTURE
Of a Batch of These New York
Boys
4 ROSEATE PICTURE
To Be UnlOaded on Unsuspect-
ing Kansas Greenhorns.

New York, July 31.-Nine boys, sent
out by the Children's Aid society, left
yesterday afternoon on the o'clock
train over the Erie railroad for FL Do
rado, Kan. They were under the charge
of R. NJ. Brace, the agent of the soci-
ETY. at the farm school, at Kensico.
The boys range from nine to fifteen
years of age, and most of them are or
phans.
The World gives the following ac
count:
Nine boys. spick and span in new
clothes, started for Kansas yesterday,
to become governors and United States
senator's. They were a detachment
from the Children's Aid society.
AS they were passing through Twen-
ty-third street to take the Erie ferry,
boy on the street recognized a friend
among the nine.
Hello jimmy he cried, where yer
goin'?"
'Out to shoot Indians,: was the re-
Gee. I'd like to go. too." was the
comment of the street boy, as he re-
sumed shooting craps.
The nine boys were under the charge
of Robert NJ. Brace, and their destina-
ton is Ell Dorado. Kan.
Sup5rinte dent Rei of tre Newsboys'
home, and Joseph c. Sraveur an officer
of the society, went as far as Jersey
City, to bid them goodby.
1t was a great day for the nine. They
came down from the society's farm a.
Kensico. at o'clock in the morning.
On the farm they had been given in
struction in out-of-door life. so they will
be of value to the Kansas farmers from
the start.
At the office of the Children's Aid So
ciety, in Fourth avenue. at Twenty
second street. Mr.. Sauvier acted as val
ct, and dressed the boys in their new
suits with new underwear. put on their
shoes and gave each an extra pair and
a change of underclothing.
Then they went to a restaurant on
Third avenue and had a feast after
which they boarded a car and went to
an Eighth avenue photographer. where
they posed as New York boys for the
last time.
1t was but a short walk to the ferry
house, whence the boat departed at
O'Clock in the afternoon.
All were safely corralled on the Jer-
sey shore. With them were four fam
lilies, also bound west-a widow with
three children, mother and two chill
dren, mother and one child and a
septuagenarian going to spend his last
days with a son in Nebraska.
How far is it to Kansas" asked one
of the society boys. is it so far 1 can't
walk back if I do not like it?'
0The boy was assured that he could
ride back if necessary. so he consented
to go without further comment.
E. J. Wendell, of the New York Ath-
letic club and the University club. a
trustee of the House of Refuge treated
the boys to box of candy apiece, and
the sweets We're broached before the
train started, and probably lasted as far
as Paterson
The nine boys range from 6 to 16
years old. Three are brothers. the
Asels, 6, s, and 10 years of age. Two are
orphan brothers, Henry and William
Phillips, resigned by an aunt in South
street.
The others are alone in the world.
The brightest of the lot is Arthur Red
mOnd, and if he lives he will be heard
from quarter of a century hence.
There was much cheering and waving
of handkerchiefs when the train moved
out. startling the other staid occupants
of the car. Not tear was shed
Supt. Heig said there would be no
trouble about finding homes for the
boys. The fact of their coming has been
advertised and farmers will be at the
station at Ell Dorado to meet them.
A committee appointed by the town
has the matter in hand and applications
from farmers will have to be made to
the members of the committee. If the
applicant has hard name he will get
no boy.
Mr.. Brace will stay in the neighbor-
hood a few days and after the boys
have been distributed he will drive
around and see how they like it. If a
boy objects to his farmer he will be
transferred.
A western agent is also notified when
a boy writes home that he is not well
treated and investigation follows. If
the boy refuses to be happy in the west
he is brought back to New York.
The society is allowed half rates by
the railroad In nGlplTlS IanllleS At
takes what the would be travellers can
afford to pay and makes up the differ
ence.
In the auditorium of the Newsboys'
Home in Duane street is the picture of
Andrew H. Burke, governor of North
Dakota. 1t was sent by the governor to
his alma mater, the home. He was sent
west many years ago
The new governor of Alaska is also a
graduate of the Children's Aid society.
a Kansas minister, seeking nOtOriety.
recently objected to the. boys from New
York on the ground that they are not
desirable settlers. but all the rest of the
state welcomes the embryo statesmen,
tea acherS, doctors and merchants.
TAn the rest of the state does moth
ing of the kind. We have parentless
boys and girls enough of our own to
take care of: in fact. more than we can
take care of, as Police Matron Thorpe,
the Orphans Home and other Kansas
institutions can we'll testify. If there
were no chumps in Kansas to take
these New York children, we could the
ca sier find places for our own waits
London L'onizes Negro Poet.