The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-15
GLADYS YREMAYNE WINS OUT
LITTLE GIRL WON'T HAVE TO 60
BACK TO MOTHER SHE LEFT.
Worldly wisdom Of I8-Year.OId Runaway
startles Court-Tale OF Nomadic Ho-
tel Life and Longing 70 he Lake Other
Giris-Gerry Society Man Butts In.

Giris-Ge,ry society Man Butts In
Gladys Mona Tremayne. the thirteen
year-old girl who took her fate into her
own hands and asked to be delivered from
her mothers guar dianship. gained her
point yesterday. BY decree OF the Chill
dren's Court she will live in the custody OF
new friends and see her mother from time
to time in lawyers Office until money Ia
raised for her education. II ia queer
case and Gladys is queer child.
Her mother, Mrs. Mildred Tremayne,
widow and a gentlewoman by birth,
came TO New York five years ago. She
is handsome woman and a singer Of merit.
The earlier years OF her career In New
York were prosperous. The surround-
ings, however were not always good for an
eight-year-old child, the Legal Aid Society
people say. The only perceptible effect
on Gladys is the development OF great
worldly wisdom, which startled Judge
and attorneys yesterday.
This went on for two or three years
Then came trouble. The source OF supply
vanished. Mother and daughter went out
to live nomadio hotel existence. Gladys
was an overdressed hotel child. There
were ups and downs, mostly downs. Last
year, in a period when money was easy,
the little girl was sent for while to con-
vent on Staten Island. There, for the
first time, she saw how other girls lived
heard about their homes.
And wanted to be that way" she said
yesterday. Il wanted to have a nice,
quiet home and be like every other girl.
didn't know anything different-until
then
These are the little girls exact words
The maturity Of her point Of view. the way
she has thought everything out. like the
precocious child of novel, startles every
one
She came back from the convent because
there was no more money. And after that
she says she had to help. She tells Of carry
ing notes to men and women from whom
assistance might be gained. She stood
between her mother and the wrath of
landlords. They drifted from hotel to
hotel, leaving each one, the child says, as
credit was finally stopped and trying again
raise the money for the necessary first
week in advance" They were hungry
sometimes.
But l always managed to dress well
around the hotel she said. 1T was part
Of the game"
The Course ran from Fifth avenue to
Seventh avenue and back again. One
night they sat up in the Grand Central
Station playing that they had missed a
train. and couldn't get room In q hotel
mother and remembering the girls at the
convent and comparing and thinking.
They were in q bad predicament last
week. The little girl was down to one
foolish white frock which she had worn
while they we're we're in some Of the big hS S.,ls
who had been good to them and who is
their physician. She looked him square
in the eye with that straight, honest glance
which she gives when she is-talking ct raight'
and said:
Il want to leave my mother: 1t isn't
good for me to be with her. / want to
be like other girls. Help me to get away"
DI Fiske kne eS most a; Of the story already
with vi The Legal Legal Aid Society, Mrs. Resale
Loew Whitney, through counsel, took UP
the case No one thought to communi
cate with Mrs. Tremayne. They hardly
knew where to find her.
couldn't find her daughter, Mrs. Tremayne
told the police. They found the child two
days ago in the custody of Mrs. Whitney
and Yesterday the case was brought into
daughter sat side by side in court and
talked, but Gladys never budged an inch
from her determination.
IShe's a nice kid" was what the dis
eliminating policemen said Of her in court.
her complexion pale, her big eyes are dark
brown She expresses herself with mar
vellous facility, and her voice IL low and
musical. Never once in court did she lose
her self-possession.
The mother. who sat heavily yelled, put
in no strong opposition to the proposal
that the child be taken from her custody.
But young man from the Gerry society
did. He wanted to know why his society
wasn't consulted. Mrs. Whitney says that
he -butted in" He was ruled out after
skirmish. Then Attorney Grossman, for
Mrs. Tremayne, agreed that Gladys should
20 to live with Mrs. Whitney until next
Wednesday. The mother hopes to interest
some rich people. who will put up the $500
q year to keep her in school and @let her
live like other girls"
There was something OF a scene when
mother and daughter parted. Mrs. Ire
mayne knelt and embraced the little GIRL
crying bitterly. Gladys dropped tear or
and then left court without looking back,
I'VE usually send such cases TO a public
institution" said Mrs. Whitney; "but the
little girl is a gentlewoman, and I've taken
her in here"
give other girls. l wanted a good home
and quiet place to grow up, repeated
Gladys, when she was asked why she did It..
The young man Of the Gerry society
spent about two hours delaying the pro-
ceedings. drawing up papers and tearing
them up. and Grating, but the case was
ruled to be one OF lost child, and 80 it will
be settled between Mrs. Tremayne and
the Legal Aid Society.
Mrs. Tremayne, the girls mother, said
she sent Gladys on errands to borrow money
only few times and the only to two or
three old friends
GLADYS was not neglected by me- Mrs.
Tremayne said. Il couldn't give her all
that she had been accustomed to, because
through illness for year and half have
been unable to get engagements to sing
and have been in financial trouble.
GLADYS seemed changed toward me
in court this morning. She was, indeed,
affectionate, but she acted constrained
and her conversation and answers did not
seem spontaneous to me. She appeared
to talk as il she had been coached.
Il wish it understood that the DISPOSE
ton of the child was made with my consent
and that remain her guardian She is n
bright girl and am anxious that she get
an education"
Business Troubles.