The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-15
A LITTLE CHILD IN THE DARK.
WANDERED TO THE moor EDGE
AND so WAS LOST.


Doesn't AssuaEe the Grief over One
That Poor Mother Now Misses.
Little Hansohe Ormstein cried all day
Thursday with the toothache In q bare,
dark room on the top floor Of a tenement
at 9S5 Rivington street, where she lived
with her mother and father and brother
and sister Hansche was only three and
the tooth did hurt a good deal.
HAnsche's father was out with a p,ishcart
somewhere on the great East Side, shoul-
dering about with thousands Of other ped
lers, trying TO make enough TO face the
landlord tomorrow. Her mother didn't
have much time 10 take care OF the child
She was busy making paper flowers, Of
which an incredible number must be fash
Toned 10 earn rs cents.
When Anna came home from school with
her brother Max, the tired mother turned
the baby over 10 her with a sigh Of relief.
Anna is and a useful little girl. She can
talk English rapidly with just the sugges-
ton Of accent and she can read a lot-all
but the very big words. Most Of the
mothering, as we'll as such housework as
the gloomy living room required, Is done by
her quick fingers.
Take the baby, Anna said her mother.
Take her out for a walk where she may
see the 80 interesting people and the grand
policemen and the pedler men selling
strange things in the street. Maybe she
will see her papa
Mrs. Omstein went 10 the cupboard
and took penny from underneath PAPER
There were not very many pennies there.
she gave II to Anna quite proudly, telling
her 70 buy the baby something.
AT Suffolk street an old pushcart man
was selling wonderful cakes, cakes with
raisins In them, very thick and satisfying.
Hansche's tooth was better at the sight
and she stopped crying TO demand cake
and got II, Then hand in hand, the little
people wandered through the crowds TIL
0ey got TO Attorney street.
Anna's mothers sister, Mrs. Sinreich,
lives at l2l Attorney street, and there are
several little Sinreichs, agreeable and
amiable little persons, with whom Anna
liked to play. and the small Ormsteins and
the small Sinreichs had a delightful time
for an hour playing synagogue, under the
orange cart Of old Eisenman on the corner,
Anna being the rabbi.
Five o'clock came and Anna thought 1t
time 10 60 home. 1t was getting pretty
chilly and Hansche was shivering. They
went TO Mrs. Sinreichs's house where Anna
had left a cape a day or two before. She
left HansChe in the hall while she ran up
stairs TO get the cape. There were plenty
Of children about.
When she came back downstairs little
Hansche wasn't In sight. Anna wasn't
scared then, but after she had hunted
through the house and all over the block
she was a badly frightened little girl. Mrs.
Sinreichs, the Goldsteins, all the neighbors
Joined in the hunt for the missing baby,
but they couldn't find trace Of her. Old
Eisenman hadn't seen her. None Of the
children could remember just when they
had seen her last. She wasn't In any OF
the houses along the block. They sought
the child until s o'clock at night, all the
men Joining in when they came home from
work but 1t didn't do bit Of good
Then Anna went home almost heart
broken and told her mother and father.
1t Is true that there are more children on
the East Side than most anything else,
but for all that Mrs. OTmstein nearly went
crazy. The neighbors did all they could
for her, but that wasn't a great deal
The mother took Morris TO the Delaney
street police station and told the sergeant
about II. The sergeant was really a kindly
man, but the most common Of his expert
ences were reports Of lozt children. In
precisely $40 cases out Of 80 the lost ones
are found within a few hours, and all is
well SO he smiled at the mother, entered
tho case IN matter Of fact way and told
her TO go home
She couldn't. All night long. while
the policemen looked for a little girl in
blue skirt and a white waist, whose hair
was long and black the mother sat in the /
police station crying softly, but starting |
up hopefully every time the big door swung |
open. Daylight found her still there and |
not a word had come about the lost child.
Il was about o'clock yesterday morning |
when Mrs. Sarah Kotcher, who lives on |
the top floor Of the tenement az l24 Attorney |
street lust across the way from the big /
grammar school, No. ia, went 70 the window /
and looked down into the schoolyard.
"Ach" she said, what a careless man |
is that Janitor Grossl He does not keep /
his yard clean"
What she saw was a bundle Of clothes |
by the schoolhouse wall-a most untidy |
bundle, all crumpled and dirty, OF so II !,
looked from her window. Gross, the jan |
itor, came into the street. and she called /
out playfully to him that he was an untidy 1
man Gross went back to investigate.
When he stepped into the girls play
ground. adjoining the tenement at 1871, |
he stopped quite suddenly, Then he looked |
upward TO the roof Of the tenement, six |
stories above ground, and back to the |
crumped heap by the schoolhouse wall. |
Poor little thing, said he. -Oh, that Ia
too bad too bad
Before he called in policeman he took |
white cloth and spread 1t over the little body !
hiding a dead face that still bore marks |
OF Tears Ahtll llN sent NOIN 70 NllN VI M
stein family that Hansche had been found |
and that somebody else would go to them .
and tell them about Il.
The child had been dead for hours,
zaid the ambulance surgeon.
He noticed that in one grimy little hand |
Hansche clutched a bit Of raisin cake. By |
the skylight on the roof Of l2l we're cake |
crumbs. The little girl must have wan
iered up TO the roof and played there a |
while Then, when il grew dark, she |
couldn't find her way down again and event. /
uBlly got 10 the edge Of the roof.
MY mother tells me, said little Morris |
luite simply, that she will take a knife |
and stick II in her heart. She loved Hansche
ots."
CANADIAN WRONGLY LOCKED UP.