The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-25
PARTS WITH CHILD
SON OF MRS. KATE SMITH SENT TO EAST LAKE.
Deserted by Her Husband Montgomery Mother Is Forced to Be Sepa- rated From Little
 Ones.


 Deserted by her husband and inca pacitated to support and care for her children, Mrs. Kate Smith, the mother of.four small boys and two little girls, appeared before Judge w. II. Thomas of the City Court at 10A o'clock yester- day morning and voluntarily had her oldest son, Howard Perry smith, sent enced to the Boys Industrial School at East Lake
 with her feelings that Mrs. Smith de- cided that 1t would be better for .her 1f-year-old son to be safe in the East Lake School than to remain footlooEe in Montgomery, possibly to share her .s lot of extreme poverty. Her heart had already been torn a few days ago when she parted with her two little daugh- ters. 3 and years old. respectively, who were taken to Mobile by their lit tie brather who. after finding an abode for his sisters in the Episcopal Home of that city. returned to his mother.
 Since his return to Montgomery How ard Smith. q bright-eyed yoangster, has several times annoyed his grief-strick- en mother by staying away from his home. The boy was not guilty of any infraction of the law but Mrs. Smith in her humble plight, realized that she must do something to keep him out of mischief, and at the same time to afford him an education. The solution of the problem came when she was ad- vised that the industrial school would be the best place for her son. <
 On appearing before Judge Thomas, the unseifish mother gladly, but with tears in her face. saw her first born committed to the East Lake School to remain there until he reaches his 2ist year.
 In tender voice Judge Thomas spoke to the youth with paternal advice. He told him he was being sent to the school that he might make man or himself. that he might secure an ed- uaction and be fitted for the struggles of life. The judge urged the son to conduct himself rightly and. in con rlusion, impressed upon the youth the importance of writing home occasion ally from the school in order that his mother and those interested in him might know thatGhe was sprogressinE- e.
 The sentence passed, Mrs. Smith kiss ed her son farewell and he was deliy- cred into tho hands of the proper au- thorities to be taken to East Lake this morning. The sacrificing mother re- traced her steps to her home on Heron Street, there to take care of her baby boy.
 Since Mrs. Smith has given up her two little girls to the Episcopal Home in Mobile and has parted with her old
  The youngest being baby boy, year and half old, 7-year-old son at lending school. and another 12-year-oid son who is employed at Montgomery laundry.
 The Mobile Register, chronicling the arrival of the Smith children in Mobile recently, said:
 Louisville and Nashville train No. 1 brought to Mobile yesterday three very unusual passengers-three little chtl- aren-who had travelled from Montgom- hry all alone to find a home in Mobile prphanage. They were the children of Mrs. Smith, who resides in Montgom- cry, and who had been deserted by her husband. The party consisted of a lit tie boy, aged years, and his two little sisters, aged and , years, who were Tn the care of the manly brother. They had evidently been sent to Mobile by Eome of the good people of Montgonfxa ery. who wanted to find home for them. When they reached Mobile they were met by members of~ the police