The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-11
BAREFOOT, DEcREPlT AND HUN
CRY SHE ASKED AIMS FROM
HOSPrTAL
YET ALL THE WHILE SHE
WAS CARRYING MONEY
For Year Good Sisters Fed Apparently
Starving Old Woman But Last Week
Found Rags She Had With Her Con-
tanned Coin and She Has Large Rolls
of Bills.

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-Stooped of
shoulder, shabby of gown, wrinkled of
face and apparently lettering to a
death only a few. months away. Hos
pital Annie nevertheless has been put
under a ban by the sisters in st. Vim
cents hospital. Those good women are
patient and long suffering, but even
their gentle souls rise to something like
anger when it is realized that they
have been befooled.
So Hospital Annie never again will
get her rolls and hot coffee in the
morning in the institution in West
Twelfth street. If she goes to the door
whining for a "bite and sup to keep
the life in" she will be told coldly to
go to Sherry's. Then, if Eddie GIea-
son, the ambulance driver, is near by,
the torrents of her wrath will fall upon
him in a redhot shower that will beat
Pelee. For it was Eddie that made
the discovery that took her forever
out of the eleenosynary ranks.
For year she has been calling at
st. VincentS every morning. Every
thing about her, from her wisp of gray
hair down through her tattered shawl
and ragged skirt to the battered bro
gans, on her feet has proclaimed abject
poverty Indeed, in warm weather
even the clumsy shoes have been miss
ing, and she has crawled barefoot up
to the hospital steps to plead for the
charity that never has been lacking.
MsIays BundIecW Money.
In all these calls rshe has carried a
little bundle-some stuff of a nature
unknown, tied in a faded sred petit
coat. AS she stood at the door of the
hospital kitchen yesterday waiting for
her coffee and rolls, 9she put the bundle
down on the Tagging. BY that mad
Vertence she wrought her own undoing.
Gleason came along just then. He
had made a record run with a diving
man in the ambulance. and was whist
ling cheerfully when his foot struck
Hospital Armies bundle. The impact
produced a clink- clink so cheerful that
the ambulance mann was amazed. He
looked around for Hospital Annie. She
had gone inside for her daily DOLE
Gleason picked up the bundle. Clink-
clink it went again,
A couple of minutes later the nun in
charge of the kitchen was surprised
to see Eddie Gleason tiptoeing toward
her, holding a bundle at arms length,
while he whispered, SSH sister, look
into it,"
Out of the old red petticoat the sis
ter drew the dozen safety pins that
had made it into a compact bundle.
With the withdrawal of the last pin
she simply stared and gasped, while
Eddie nodded, as if to say, "What'd I
tell your
For there fell upon the table about
two quarts of coppers, nickels, dimes
and quarters.
The. sister looked at Eddie. he. re-
turned the glance. Her gaze was one
OF sadness, for an ideal had been shat
tereda She nodded toward the glitter
ing pile of coin, and he, understanding,
wrapped up the money in the old red
skirt Then he took the jingling bur-
den back to the door. 90
Abuses Finder and Shows More.
He found Hespita LAnnie on her
knees, gr@ping under chairs and tables,
while wondering folk looked on. Glea-.
son nudged her holding the precious
bundle behind his back.
What's lost, Annie?" he asked.
My bundle" she walled. Then, try
ing to make the loss seem trivial. TT
was the rags. / picked them up here
and there. I was taking them home to
make my bed soft"
Soft, hey said Gleason, scoffingly.
That's a nice, soft pillow, isn't it ?"
AND he banged the slzirtful of coins
down on desk.
Rugged it to her bosom. Realizing that
her tale of,poverty would find no more
credence, she jingled the money in
Gleason's face and said:
Ana! and so you're the fine boy that
found out what poor Hospital Annie
had in her bundle2 Welt now, nv
LAD, warm your heart with a sight of
that!"
And from the BOSOM of her tattered
waist she drew "a roll of banknotes so
large that Gleason said afterward,