Arizona republican., 1903-04-20
SHE MADE A
BAD MISTAKE
Plight Of An Unsophisticated
\ Girl in New York
Narrowly Escaped Ruin-Her Yer
dancy Led Her to a Doubtful
Boarding House and She Was Capt
tured in a Police Raid.

| To be a pretty and innocent young
girl alone in New York studying music
or acting; to have occasion to move
from the boarding house in which you-
father or mother has placed you, after
careful investigation as to its comfor,
and responsibility; to transfer your
self and your belongings, on the recon-
mendation of a comparative stranger,
to elegant surroundings a an astonisn-
ingly low price per week; to be awak-
| ened at midnight by policemen who tell
| you that the place has been raided, and
to be taken in a patrol wagon, in COM
| pany with half-drunken men and
women to spend horrible night in
police station-that is what happened
| to pretty Pauline FRANKLIN of Phila-
| delphia, and is what may happen to
any young and innocent girl who finds
herself in New York city without COM
petent and solicitous protectors.
| New York city is this countrys recog-
with artistic ambitions. Hundreds,
| perhaps thousands of young women
whose homes are in interior towns seek
these. advantages every year-just as
Pauline FRANKLIN did. 1t happened
lheil siiC vas ~ lui liiC oDJCSt ASo-
son which applies equally we'll to every
| world metropolis.
To Pauline Franklin the experience
lives and will continue to live. as an
awful nightmare.
A few weeks ago Miss Franklyn, 19
years old. beautiful, the daughter of n
banker of Philadelphia, decided to go
upon the stage. She had had year OF
=
in fact. spent the entire year in con-
vincing her parents that she would
never be happy anywhere else, and
they, after much protesting, consented.
Supplied with beautiful clothes and
jewels and plenty of money. she came
to New York, as many poorer girls
have done, to seek her fortune.
For a few weeks she lived with
friends of her fathers on West Eight
ieth street, near Riverside drive. She
Joined a class in the West Side Lyceum
School of Acting. The head of the
school said she read her lines more in
diligently than any pupil he had ever
had. She danced gracefully and was
merry and natural
Two weeks ago the family on West
Eightieth street needed every room in
the big house because cousins were
coming from Chicago for visit.
You can have my room.'' said the girl
from Philadelphia, cheerfully. II will
find boarding place today. There are
plenty of them in New York. A girl
who is taking dancing at the school
told me yesterday of a nice one on
F'ifty-first street.
That morning little Miss FRANKLIN
looked prettier than usual. She wore
her Persian lamb cloak trimmed with
broad bands of ermine, and her pretty
pale gold hair shone under her broad
ermine hat. Her chatelaine hung from
4 a long slender gold chain. There was
the fragrance of violets about her.
The four-story brownstone house No
24O West Fifty-first street. was much
: handsomer than her fathers red brick
l house, with it's white painted wood
, work, its lines of green paint here and
there and its low stoop. She noticed
that the lace at the windows was as
fine of mesh as the tracery of fros,
upon window pane in the autumn.
Yes, this is the boarding house." she
= said to herself, as she mounted the
, steps; looks very attractive"
A burly negro in green uniform an
swered the bell
. II am looking for a boarding place, -
said Miss FRANKLIN.
t wait one moment" said the negro
She heard him talk with someone in
low tones. then he returned with a
] negress as spick and span as himself
who sent you here honey?" asked
| the colored woman.
! Miss Franklin gave the name of her
classmate, and the negress grinned
hospita bly,.
Come right in. Yes of cose we has
a room for any friend of hers"
The little girl from Philadelphia fol-
: lowed her guide through soft-carpeted
silent rooms, the most beautiful she
had ever seen. The vivid tones of the
walls and hangings, the fur-like thick
, ness of the rugs, the many mirrors an6
the life-siZe paintings bit startling as
f | to theme. but wonderful of execution
2 amazed and delighted her.
: There was one room vacant. The
' negress knew she would like it. OF
course Miss Franklin did. That dream
? of pink silk and white lace, the bear
/ rug on the floor and the dim paintings
of half-draped beauties asleep while
2 the tiny rose colored cupids f1uttered ir
Y clouds above them. And the blue an6
e white bath room with shining silver
l fixtures! And mirrors as tall as her
self everywhere! Nowhere she looked
but she encountered a mirror. Ger
| tainly Miss Franklin liked it, and she
: paid for it a week in advance. She was
i, surprised again. The price was SO low
: but the colored woman said she let hel
> | have it cheaper because she already
8 liked her so much.
I She did not meet any of the othe,
boarders that day. The colored woman
told her it was more convenient to
serve her meals in her room for thu
present. The other boarders slept late
= and most of them dined out.
The work at the school was hard ant
= the little Philadelphia went to bee
. early the first night and slept tbs
j.. | sound sleep of tired childhood. Some
times she heard, or dreamed she heard
laughter and singing. even dancing
:, and sometimes passing foOtSteepS, bu