The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-14
CHILD SIMPLY LEFT MOTHER.
GLADYS TREMAINE WENT TO
LEGAL AID SOCIETY.
PreeociOus Girl Of Fourteen Objected
TO Life With Only Parent She Knew,
Who Is . singer, In Bad Health-Mrs.
whitney He'd Her while Cops Searched.


10 Life With Only Parent She Knew.
Who Is singer. In Bad Health-Mrs.
whitney He'd Her while Cops Searched.
Gladys Winona Tremaine, whose dsap-
pearance on Friday last was made known
on Monday, by her mother, Mrs Mildred
Tremaine was found yesterday at 21l
East Fifteenth street, the home OF Mrs.
Resale Loew Whitney, counsel for the
Legal Aid Society. The child was not kid
mapped, as Mrs Tremaine feared, but left
her mother of her own volition.
Gladys is in her fourteent tn year. She
is described as handsome child Of I'M
usual intelligence and precocity. At one
of the hotels where she and her mother
had stayed she became acquainted with a
gentleman who told her to call upon him
in case she was ever in trouble. When the
child made up her mind to leave her mother,
she went to him, and he advised her to con-
suit the Legal Aid Society. Last Thurs
day Gladys went to the society's Office at
800 Broadway and saw Mrs. Whitney.
Mrs. Whitney said last night that the
child told her that when her mother had
money, instead of applying it to their needs.
she spent it in other ways The girl said
she had no recollection Of her father. Her
mother, she stat ed, had been a singer, but
had been unable to take an engagement
for some time owing to an attack Of pleu-
risy. She said it was true that she had
been in a convent school at Fort Lee. but
not since April.
She and her mother spent the summer
at hotel In the Catskills. Since then, she
said. they had lived at numerous hotels
in this CITY, and among others mentioned
the Vendome, Vanderbilt, Murray Hill
and st. Denis. She and her mother, she
said. had spent one entire night and part
Central Station. The clothing she had on,
she said, was all that she possessed, and
she had worn it since August, sometimes
sleeping in it.
On Friday Mrs. Whitney called on Mrs.
Tremaine at the Aston House, where she
most airectionateiy of her daughter. She
told of her illness, but said she was fully
recovered from its effects and expected
soon to get an engagement. Mrs, Whitney
says she paid Mrs. Tremaines hotel bill
and said she would investigate her case.
Soon after she returned to her office,
Mrs Whitney said. Gladys called and said
she had been to see DR.. James Porter Fiske
of 1890 Broadway. to whom she had told
her story. She was determined not to
sure that Mr. Charles Avery, proprietor
of the Hotel Castleton at ST. George Staten
Island, where she and her mother once
stopped, would take care OF her, and she
went to him.
Mrs. Tremaine reported the child's dis
appearance TO her lawyers. House, Gross
man & vorhaus. who placed the case in
the hands OF Inspector McClusky. When
the news Of tho girls disappearence was
published on Tuesday. Mrs. Whitney took
her TO her own home. where Detective
Day found her last evening. The child 5
clothing was in the laundry and as Mrs,
Whitney promised to produce her in the
Childrens Court. this morning, Gladys
was left where she was. Mrs. Whitney
will ask to have her committed to the
custody Of some responsible person until
the case has been thoroughly investigated.
Mrs. Tremaine is nov stopping at the
Bartholdi