Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-26
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whole neighborhood, had ridden across
| the street on her wheel to the home of
her little friend, Ruth Kruger, at 112
Carr street, and proposed a day of
wheel riding, turn and turn about" "
Little Ruth, who is Rosies chum, said
that she must first go to the grocery
store for butter. Rosie offered to take
| her on the handle bars of her wheel,
common trick of the two children.
Rosa is the larger of the two girls,
and up to yesterday had no trouble
guiding the wheel, with little Ruth in
front.
The two children went as far as Sew
enteenth street on this errand, and al
the intersection of Carr street with
Main, however when a car was rapidly
approaching and four sand wagons, fas-
tened by couples, approached down Carr
street. In turning out for the car the
child evidently became frightened ana
guided her wheel straight into the Sec
ond of the coupled trucks.
Companion Escapes injury
Ruth was thrown from the handle
bars under the wheels of the first team,
but managed TO roll out of the way.
Little Rosa, however, clasping tight
the package of butter and the few dimes
of change which she was carrying for
her little friend, was thrown near the
front wheels of the last load of sand.
She was probably partly stunned, ly-
ing quite inert where she fell. A move
of six inches would have saved her.
AS it was, the heavy wheels passed over
her head, crushing it and killing her in
stantly
G. j. Isaacson the father, almost i'm
mediately hurried to the scene. half
crazed with grief, He blamed the
driver r. Kidson, in wild terms, and
but for intervention might have injured
the man. He now realizes. as do those
who witnessed the cruel scene, that the
driver was quite blameless.
Little Ruth spoke of her friend,
and through eyes big with tears she
tried to keep back said:
She's been my chum, my best chum
for eight months, ever since we came
from Chicago. Rosie has.
"All the time Rosie kept tight hold
of my butter. 1t was in her hand when
her father carried her home. 1 just
couldn't eat any of that butter now"
In fact, the whole neighborhood will
miss Rosie. The women gather at the
doors of their cottages in sad little
groups, telling of how cheerful ami
happy she was, and what a fine lady
the family intended she should be.
1t seems that the parents of the girl,
proud of her charm and talent, had
planned to give her the best advantages
possible. and were about to move into
a larger and finer house, 'just for
Rosie" as they said.
There is but one other child, little
brother Near the family lives the aged
grandmother. who today celebrates her
eighty-fifth birthday.
The saddest part of the whole sad
story is Rosie's little plans for her
grandmother's birthday. A grand
party was W pS BlNoi' dA eHS uS'oilo
worked out by the little black-eyed girl
herself. She had invited the guests.
chosen the goodies and kept the whole
a secret from the old lady.
That the ehilds funeral should occur
on the day on which she was to make
Others so happy has half crazed her
mother and old grandmother.
The former sat yesterday and rocked
back and forth. moaning al afternoon.
refusing to be eomforted by her moth
er or by anyone else.