Arizona republican., 1898-04-04
HER SONS LETTER.

HER SONS LETTER.
 Found in the Room of Poor Old Woman Who Died in New York
 New York, April 3-Mrs. Catherine White was found dead in bed yesterday morning at 514 West Twenty-seventh
 street, where she had been living for seven weeks with friends. She had been more or less ill for year. This letter, recently received from her son, was found in her room:
 1920 Cambridge Street, Philadelphia, Pa, March If, 1898.
 Dear Mother: I received your let ter, and was very sorry that you are ! in such deep distress. I am also sorry to say that 1 am in no condition to render you any aid. I will be through with my seminary work in about three weeks; then am going to California to preach for eight months. What lit tie money have need for clothes and other necessaries for my trip to ihe far west
 You must remember that I had hard struggle to get my education, and that it has been a hand to mouth struggle with me. l. have been many, many times without a dollar in my pocket and did not know where the next was coming from. You must also remember that you never gave me | dollar to secure my course in any college, and I cannot see how I can owe you much. Of course, I am your son, but a mother that has only been
 with her child eight years out of twenty-six can have very little claim l on that child's support You left me in homes and asylums till I was de- termined to dig out for myself, and now, when you have lost me, who is to blame? The only way to keep a child i is to have a home and keep him in that home
 Besides all this, I have now come to the time in life when I must com mence to think about getting a wife ] and home. It may be two or three years, or perhaps longer, before I get | married. In the meantime I must
 provide a home for one who will be
 my companion in life. It takes money
 to provide for wife and home, and
 if l do not begin to lay by little why
 l am about tired of knocking about 1 from place to place. I want to settle | down as soon as possible.
 T am very sorry to tell you that
 cannot help you at present; possibly
 when l begin my work at California
 may be able to do something for you
 How is it that you are at 514 West i Twenty seventh street? I thought you
 were still where last heard from you. They will, I am sure, at least give l you bed and something to eat. I cannot write more at present as I am very busy with my studies. I remain
 your son, H. CARROLL WHITE"
 "P. S.I hope you will consider the
 position I am in and not trouble me with calls for help, for I cannot help you at present. have to pay my own
 way, and the position I occupy makes
 that way an exceedingly expensive
 way H. c. w." Mrs. White was 63 years old. The
 people with whom she had been living
 said last night that she had been a
 hard working, good woman all hel
 life. Her husband died twenty-foul years ago, leaving her to care for the
 son who has written her this letter Finding the task incompatible with F her attempts to support herself, she placed him in a juvenile asylum where he remained until he was old
 enough to paddle his own canoe. He
 then went west, and by his own exer- , tions succeeded in getting an educa- tion. The institution from which he , speaks of being graduated soon is Q Presbyterian theological seminary, SC Mrs. Whites friends say.
 About a year ago Mrs. White: F health became so broken that sht could not work, and she was com I mitted to the almshouse. She re mained there until about ten week:
 ago, when, her health having i'm
 proved somewhat, she tried to earn he
 own living She again broke dowI
 and her friends were obliged to pro l vide for her. She then appealed tt
 her son with the foregoing result.