Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-25
THIS NEWSDOY A HERO
Took Care Of a Founding for
Five Days.
MERE CHILD HIMSELF
SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF ].
PIERPoNT MORGAN.
Adams, the "Policy King" Arrested,
but His Game Goes ON Just
the Same.
MERE CHILD HIMSELF
ecial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

opcSAoA correspondence VI lue EfeuiuS Sl0r.
80 NEW YORK, April "a. 1908.
Few stories of the streets of Greater
New York are more pathetic than that of
| little shaver OF newsboy who "toined
in four-months' old baby, girls at a
Brooklyn police station the other day. The
newsboy had been Juggling the deserted in-
FAINT about and caring for 1t for five days
before he felt impelled to pass up the
burden that had been thrust upon his little
shoulders.
On raw and rainy afternoon last week
the boy was selling his papers at his ac-
customed corner of Atlantic avenue. In
Brooklyn. when young man and woman.
the latter carrying an infant, approached
him.
Hold this baby for few minutes, son..
said the man. taking the baby from the
arms of the woman, who was weeping,
land I'll give you a quarter"
Sure ting" said the newsboy. who
really wasn't much more than a baby him
self, although. as he afterwards put 1t.
he'd been 'hustlin' FIR me grub for sew
eral years.
The man deposited the infant in the
newsboy's arms, and then the couple hur-
ried around the corner, the woman still
weeping. They didn't come back. The
newsboy, holding the baby on one arm
and his papers on the other. waited for
them for hours. Then. as he subsequently
explained, Il got wise dat dey had done
me. but 1 wasn't goin' t. shake de kid"
He got rid of all of his papers before
the young one began to bawl. The bawl-
ing alarmed him a good deal, but he con-
=cluded that it was due to hunger. So he
went into bake shop and bought the
baby a couple of sweet buns. He was a
good deal puzzled when he found that the
four-months'- baby wouldn't eat such
dQlfC9cfQS a red hl1nS and he scratch
ed his little shock head a good deal over
that situation. Then he suddenly remem-
bered that warm milk was the thing for
infants Of the size of the one he was
packing around Out Of his earnings he
bought a baby's milk bottle and filled 1t
with warm milk that he got at little res
taurant The bottle and the milk made
hit with the baby girl. and she quieted
down.
Question Of Place to Sleep.
The newsboy was in the habit of sleep
ing in Railways. car sheds and unusued
cars. power houses. any old place that Of
fered warmth and concealment but he felt
that. with his new responsibility, camp
In out" as he expressed 1t, was out of the
question.
"a Teller couldn't carry de banner wit
such little kid as dat" he added.
So he chartered bunk for himself and
the baby in an Scent Brooklyn lodging
the quilts. warmed up more milk for 1t on
the following morning and cared for 1t
generally, and then set out to sell his pa
pers, with the baby on one arm and his
papers on the other.
Thus he nurtured the waif for five days.
Then he went broke" His little reserve
fund Of pennies had all been spent in
''blowin' de little geezer"-his own words
again. He didn't mind the constant guying
of his newsboy companions. but he found
that the caring for the baby seriously in
terfered with his paper-selling business.
So he reluctantly carried the baby to
police station.
"Say, Sarge" he said to the desk sergeant
on duty, take dis hard luck tad of me
hans will youse? I'm all in. an dey amt
nottin' dom wit me since got de kid. 1t
yells so much dat can't sell me papes.
But, say, Sarge. youse won't give de kid
none de woist Of it, will youse. hey?" he
added with great solicitude. and then he
told his story of how he had come into pos
session of the mite Of a girl.
The baby Is now in founding asylum.
and the stout-souled and tender-hearted
newsboy Is back on his Atlantic avenue cor
ner selling his ''papes." He is selling more
OF them, four-fold than he ever sold be-
fore, and hundreds of persons who know
the story Of how he took care of the de-
serted baby for five days are telling him to
keep the change these days.
J. p. Morgan's Birthday.
John Pierpont Morgan was sixty-six years
old the other day. He celebrated the an
niversary by forming a s25,OOO,0OO bank
merger. He announced to some of his
friends that he was good for ten more years
of work. At the end Of ten years he intend
ed to rest. he said. At the age of sixty-six
John Pierpont Morgan retains the strength
OF gorilla, which he has possessed ever
since he came to manhood. Leaving aside
the matter of his mental forcefulness, he Is
probably one of the strongest men. physi-
ool1x In ho TInffad States hiQ
He has always, too, been man of what
they call liberal habits in eating and
drinking, but liberal living doesn't have
the slightest deteriorating effect upon his
physique.
Mr.. Morgan is perhaps the gruffest OF
notable Americans in his dealings with per-
sons not on his list of friends. With his
friends he Is companionable and even 5ov1ai
but with strangers, no matter what their
station or Importance, he Is yerftable
bear A large portion of his Office day Is
spent in emitting growls at people who call
upon him, some of them upon errands Of
legitimate business. He simply will not be
interviewed by newspaper men, not even by
financial editors of national fame. The ex-
mem attached to New York papers who
have ambitiously attempted to interview
Morgan" are very funny to listen to, al
though they were tragic enough in the hap
pening. Perhaps it Is the strenuosity of his
career that has fastened this continuous
performance crouch" onto Mr.. Morgan
during his working hours. There are
scores of big men In the world of finance
who dislike to visit Mr.. Morgan during his
office hours because of his peppery temper.
He Is an unostentatiously charitable man.
and in a big way. too. although he never
permits any flourish Of trumpets over his
benefactions. He is extraordinarily liberal
with his employees, and he has made many
time millionaires of all of his partners
most Of whom he picked from obscurity
because he knows brains and capacity
when he comes into contact with them. 1
The set Of Mr.. Morgan's iron Jaw has been
even little harder than usual lately, be-
cause 1t has been claimed-and virtually
proven-that a lot of spurious antiques
have been unloaded upon him by swindling
foreign dealers. New York seems to be
rather Ironically pleased over the contem-
plation that somewhere in the world exist
persons sufficiently willy to do" so difficult
and invuinerable person as their John
Pierpont Morgan. but. then. New York
always did have the habit of smirking over
the calamities Detailing it's most distin-
guished citizens.
Simeon Ford as an Entertainer.
Simeon Ford-"Sim" Ford to his intimates
lis a good deal talked about over here
these days. He was known to the members
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