New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-15
TWO RUNAWAY SCHOOLGIRLS.
THEY LEFT A WESTCHESTER INSTITUTION
FOUND By A POLICEMAN ON AN
ELEVATED STATION

Two sixteen year-old girls who had run away
from the Nazareth Industrial School at Bronx
vile. Westchester County. were arragncd before
Magistrate Wentworth. at the Harlem Court. yes
terday morning. One of them is Emma II. Cum
mings, daughter of William H. Cummings. COM
mission merchant No. 290 Westinghouse, this
city, living at No 126 Bergen-ave. Jersey City
Heights The other is Margaret II. Wilson. whose
parents live at No. i5I Beekman-st. Boston The
girls found by Policeman Bowden of the
East One-hundred- nd twenty sxth-st station, on
the elevated railroad station at One-hundred-and
twenty -ninthst and Thrd-ave.. $50 o'clock yes
terday morning. They said they had come from
White Plains TO take servants positions in the
city, and that they could go no further. as they
had no money They added that they were almost
famished. having had little nothing to eat.
The kind officer took them to neighbor-
ing restaurant and gave them a meal prepare tory
10 taking them to the police station for safe-keep-
ing In the restaurant the girls became commune
cative. and acknowledged to him that they were
runaways They said that they had been for some
time inmates Of the Nazareth Industrial School,
which is in charge of Sister Elizabeth. the Mother
Superior, and four teachers. There were IN all
nine girls in the school The girls said that they
had been unable to endure the treatment they re-
ceved at the school, and had run away in conse-
Quence.
The girls in the school. they said. were the ser
wants of the teachers. and were obliged to do all
the mental work of the institution. The food was
absolutely inadequate and consisted OF the very
plainest articles of diet 80 49,, -, i,
On Wednesday afternoon. the girls said, they de-
termined TO run away, and So when they were
clothing into bundles which they threw out OF me
cellar window. ard at o'clock IN the evening, theS
slipped out of the front door OF the mousse, pchVu
IN their bundles and started off.
They walked four miles 10 Mount vernon, "heie
they took trolley-car to West Farms anu,
after walking around for a tmei Ihe? Ion
anothcr trolley to One hundred-and-twenty
ninth-st and Third-ave. reaching there apout
1880 o'clock in the evening. Their money pe!hs
exhausted they walked down Thrd-aVe TO the
elevated station at One-hundred and siXteenth-sl'
and entered the waiiing-room, where they re-
NAMED until 3 o'clock in the morning lheh they
walked 10 the -hundred-and illhth-st
station where Policeman Bowden 1ouha .h, IN,
The Girls were cared for during the night by me
ma ron ~ the East ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS enty,slNth-
81 station They repeated their story 10 Maels-
,rata Wentworth when taken TO the Harlem court.
T'he MAGISTRATE directed the police TO return r.rH"
f,nmnoinps 10 her father. and ordered that MarSac
rel Wilson be sent TO Superintendent 5iahe, -,
nc Outdoor Poor until her parents could ne sent
sister Elizabeth absent when reportcr
osIeld ar the institution last night, but SISTER
her assistant spoke for her . ,, ,,,
This is not a charitable institution 10 peeln Win,
rIs %nv 70 become useful Christian women. 1t Is
Protestant Episcopal institution. and Is open only
70 those who paw a nominal sum for their instruc,,
lion The stories told by Emma cummings anG
Marparot Wilson untrue: 1n~y were wen
,reated here and had plenty of good. pam. whoe-
some food They were obnged 10 woik apcu t-, ~ Nv.
bouse AS that w1s part Of their training they
were exnected TO pass certain hours or thel' lfh'
I'm washing sewing. cooking and In learning o'hcr
bnuGphold work