The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-09

A little mother eleven and one-half years
of age timidy made her way from Wa
bash train yesterday afternoon, bearing
this tag firmly tied to her dress. sister
for their lives TO lose sight of her, were
moving and lodging three others. The
whole lot of them had come all the way
from Ireland b. themselves. the eleven
year-old having the sole responsibility. The
long voyage and the railroad journey had
been made with the best of good fortune,
and both terminated when half minute
later the little party of immigrants got
through the depot gates and caught sight
of their real mother.
1t was a dead heat. The whole lot caught
hold of the expectant woman at the same
time, and there was the greatest mixup OF
mother and six BARNS that ever the depot
officials behe1d. Nobody spoke, and then
again everybody spoke.
A roll call, according to the books Of the
Alton Railroad, which company booked the
business, showed as follows:
Ellie Agnes, eleven and one-half years.
Michael Patrick, ten and one-half years
Alice Bridget nine years.
Kathleen four and one-half years
Edmond Joseph, three and one-half years.
Elizabeth Anne, two and one-half years.
Mrs. Daley, mother of this interesting
family. is an uncommon women. She has
a pious horror of publicity Therefore. she
planned that there should be no public
demonstration when Ellie should bring the
rest of the 'childher over. AS soon as she
six dust begrimed faces. which threatened
to smother her the spot, she hustled
them to the toilet room and for half an
hour kept them there.
The change was great Six little Irish
lads and lassies had come into the depot
half hour before. the observed of all,
but nobody cast an eye at the six boys and
girls who passed through the waiting room
cars. Their thoughtful mother, knowing
no doubt full well of the disaster to cloth
ing of a steerage voyage and an overland
cached in which were shoes, stockings,
new cotton dress for every one of the girls
and cap for Paddy and little Joey.
And Paddy needed that same cap by
this and by that but there was not enough
a cap bechune the whull six thin to
make a plaisther for the fut gnat,
moind thot. will yez. And the legs av
had a pair of stockings and the rist av
thin had socks. and thin same socks wuz
made an inch thick by some old cratur at
home"
So they all got their faces polished The
affable colored FORTRESS says they were
stripped to the buff and scrubbed with
rosin soap till they shined' which is prob
ably correct. If the little voyagers had not
had a wash since they left Ireland they
broke even when they got away from that
yellow soap, for their rosy cheeks reflected
the SunShips and their noses glowed like
small door knobs.
The children look like any other children.
Little Joseph is just like most other little
Irishmen. While his mother was counting
her brood for the edification of the man at
the wicket of the cable road at the depot,
Joey got into fight with Doorkeepe- Nc
Neil. beating him off with his chubby fist
He had grown since his mother saw him i'm
Ireland a year and half ago and the
straw hat bought in anticipation of his ar
rival with only a wig for covering stuck
up on him like q dCughnut of a fat man.
In the melee the hat fell off. Ellie replaced
1t the mother ushered two of them
through. Ellie got the rest of them IN. and
finally the party was loaded on the car.
The devotion of Ellie to her younger broth
ers and sisters recalled that of the fond
mother.
1t was big job for little woman, and
barring the dust that made them like Gu
bans, Ellie brought her own little self and
every chick and child safe through a trail
of some $500 miles, which is something to
be proud of.
Matron Shull says the greatest voyagers
she had ever had pass through her hands
were two little children from Russia des-
tined for a point in Colorado. but it Is
marvellous" she reflects. "the way this
-year-old child has brought these
children across the water
Mrs. Daleys home is on Seventeenth and
Virginia The childrens tag bore an old
address.