New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-20
FATE OF LITTLE JENNIE.
One Sad Story Of a Yictim of
RiUer Disaster.

hlJer OISGSteF
Coming down the steps of the Little Missionary
Day Nursery. IN ST. Marks Place, Saturday after
noon, one German woman met another who was
just going in.
They've found little Jenne's body" said the
first They've brought her home Miss
Curry's been laying her out. I'm going over to see
her VIII you Gomez
The two women passed up Avenue a to a tene-
ment house just below Thrteenth-st.. and through
a dark hallway leading 10 inner court, and
there N small room filed with women sitting
silently around the bier Jennie-happny not
disfgured her face dimpled and round and
her brown curls neatly arranged as when she
led IN the doll drill at the last festival given by
the nursery. Her mother. a working woman a
widow with other child but Jennie, sat beside
her. absolutely stonelIke in her grief
They say she cannot cry Of the women
whispered TO the other they Went out. but !
guess maybe when Jennies taken away and she
begins 10 pick up her little things. then she cries
Everybody who knew anything OF the Little Mis-
sonary Day Nursery knew Jennie Eisler. She
baby when her mother first brought her 10
US" said Miss Curr,. the manager. and when she
uttle more than baby she took care OF the
other babies She q born little mother. When
she was Vtuy tIiug II four or five just promoted
10 the kindergarten, II she CHANGED 10 hear baby
CRYING .u tho nursery behind the kindergarten
ruom-.ett a.uu- I'm It's cradle. perhaps. for
muute-fr-t ching the teacher knew Jennie had
slipped out from the circle. ana she would Ind
her standing tlptoe by the baby side hushing
IL in her uotherly lttle way
on Wednesday morning Jenne's mother. who had
10 work and could NOT so upon the excursion,
put her IN charge OF young girl. neighoor. who
promised 70 take care OF her II is said the girl
lost her life trying TO save the child All Wedues-
DAY night and Thursday Miss curry and Jennie's
mother searched for the who had not
home. and Thursday, at midnight, they found
them in the MorRue.
Were any OF your babies left motherless By the
tragedy" Miss Curry was asked.
None OF our babies. Indeed in most cases the
mothers who went took their young babies with
them. and they died together But many older
children are orphaned. The sadcest know is
that OF the BurSharts who live at No. 43 Temp
bins-st. They nursery children; hap
peued on them while looking FOR some one else. The
father OF this family has been bedrdden with
rheumatism, and his wife supported him and the
six children Some one gave her tickets FOR the
excursion. and the husband told her 70 and take
the baby and the oldest little boy. and the other
children could stay with him. The boy was saved
mother and baby lost. When went into their
room on Friday morning. wretched little room
the man had dragged himself out Of he'd and sat
there head down; 1 could hardly get him to speak
The five children were luddled around him. looking
scared ana hungry While I talking hap
peued 70 mention a remedy 1 thought would help
the rheumatism
You'll only need five cents worth said.
ct haf not FIVE cents he answered. and it was
true: he had not penny in the world Thank God,
could leave some food and gave their names TO
the relief committee.
But these relief committees said woman. who
stood near shaking her head. they have much
red tape"
on Friday morning. as Miss Curry prepar-
ing the bodies OF "a mother and her baby for burial
IN a tenement on Sixth-st- she heard a boy come
running into the rooms the floor below. Nam
ma - he cried. mamma. are you homer" This boy
had boarded the General S.ocum Wednesday
with his mother and slsters-the entire family.
When the panic he somehow separated
from them ALL lie saw . little child that was sep
arated from its mother and fastening it on mis-
back he ashore. He was in the hospital on
injury. and then he sent home. But his mother
ana sisters nave nor come nome ihey are with tle
unidentified dead ana me ooy stays on alone theFe'
looked after by ueiShbors.
Not few are the stories that come to Miss
- - T,s4rf.t f s,Irti,,ors 80 bsina5 -
told in broken English how he had taken
PLAYING sornewheres' he said y talks nit a man.
I thinks ali is safe, ven all AT vunce dere IS fire
everyveres. I tried TO find meme kinder. I know
I trampie on others and hurt them vos insane;
vos all insane. Then 1 see meme kinder; they
ara burning and I cannot reach But I two
little vuLs. not mine fall oterboard, and l thinks
brings dem to land But meine kinder I shall haf
more, he added in the dull tone he had used ali
Most heartbreaktng Of al are the appeals made
10 the workers and those IN authority 70 IND THIS
was passing along Eighth-st on Friday a man
down before her. clutching her skirt A little
white coffin was being carried in at the door from
which had come. Find my wife for me!' he
cried Il have my baby. He is dead, but
have him But ] cant find my wife," He had been
told somewhere that his wife lying unconscious
in the hospital at North Brother Island but when
he tried TO get a pass 10 go there he refused
They told be Off" he said, but you
will get one Miss Curry" Rather hopeleSsly Miss
Curry East Twenty Xth-st., but, although
she. too refused pass. one officer advised her
go to e-hundTed- and hfty-second-st., on the
chance OF finding a boat whose captain would con-
sent to take her across without a pass and in this
she was at last successful But the wife and
mother not IN the hospital on North Brother
Island, she found anywhere