The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-03
Eva SEARCHED FOR HER AUNT
MISSING CHILDTURNS UP IN HAR-
LEN, I'LL AND HUNGRY.

Wandered From Concord, staten Island
90 south BrOOkIyn'S WIlds-spent
Nights Under FaetOFy steps (WheFe
We're the COpS7)-ResOlutely Kept Dime
Eva Anderson, the eleven -year-old girl
who ran away from her homo In Concord
Staten Island, last Saturday afternoon TO
find her Aunt Mamie, across the water, 4"
found her Monday evening. Bhs wan
dered into the outskirts Of Brooklyn and
slept two nights in the open air before
reaching her destination, the home Of Mrs.
Jesse d. Anderson, at sos West i1s th street,
Manhattan.
Eva Is the oldest daughter Of Gilbert
Anderson, an s. p. G. A. agent Of Staten Is
land. Her mother died when she was Q
months old, so she was turned over 10 her
fathers sisters TO be brought up, She
liked them all, but she cared most for her
Aunt Mamie who was the wife Of Jesse
d. Anderson, her mole. She lived with her
until her father took her away TO Staten Is
land 10 live. He had married again and
there were little stepbrotherB and sisters
for Eva 10 play with.
That was three years ago. Eva, who
was a stout girl for her age, helped with
the dishes In her fathers house and also
in the care Of the Anderson babies, who
increased to four. During the three yeRB
she was never taken TO New York TO see
her Aunt Mamie" who had been 30 good
TO her, or 10 another Aunt Mamie, at whose
house in Comelia street, Brooklyn, she
had often been.
Last Saturday afternoon the babies and
the dishes and the fields Of Staten Island
became too monotOnous for Eva. She
quietly went up stairs and put on the plaid
dress, blue jacket and red hat with white
feather which she always wore on Sunday.
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that she was going 10 Aunt Mamie and
set out. She had 10 cents In her purse,
besides the rs cent piece from her toy bank.
She determined TO look for her Brooklyn
Aunt Mamie first.
BY car and ferry the little girl reached
the Battery. Then she took the Thirty
ninth street ferry, because she thought
IL was the right one, and then rode in a
car, as she says, till she thought II was
about time to get on
But she couldn't find her aunt's house,
nor could she when she had taken anot her
car. When she got of the second time
il was dark and she didn't know where 70
sleep. She sat on the steps Of big red
factory until II was quite dark, and then
Crept under them. The wind blew, Il was
very cold and she didn't sleep wink, she
says. All the next day she spent watching
some boys play in field near by and others
rowing on the water. She discovered that
she was near the ferry again, and deter
mined to 60 to New York to seek her other
Aunt Mamie. But there were 30 few people
about that she thought the boat didn't
run on Sunday, 80 she went back under
the steps that night and tried to sleep
again. An day she had resisted the tempta-
ton to buy cookies and candy in the shops
and had chung TO the ten remaining pennies
that must take her to her New York Aunt
Mamie.
Monday morning. she crept out from
under the factory steps and took the first
ferry to the city. A Third avenue train
bore her TO l25th street, which she thought
@must be about where aunty lives. Then
she wandered about until she reached the
house in West nth street where she re-
membered having been three years ago
A neighbor told her that Mrs. Anderson
had moved TO the next street in the same
block. So Eva went from doorway. TO
doorway on il6th street between Columbus
and Manhattan avenues until she found
her aunt's name. Then YEARLY she climbed
the stairs until finally she reached her
Aunt MRmie's arms.
Ms, Anderson found the child suffering
from a heavy cold and ravenous with
hunger. She had had nothing TO eat since
Saturday. Her father was promptly noti-
fed Of her arrival and after Eva has staid a
few days in New York and visited all her
aunts she thinks she won't mind going
back TO Concord and playing little mother
a pain.