The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-01
YHIS BOY WOULD 4 SOIGEE BIZ.
ESCrIiPIAN AMBITION LED TO
HIILY EOGIN'S DOWNFALL.
Ne Did ~ want TO BE n snwbOnes That He
1.ot a Job In The IrrUs Store TO Learn
PrenminarIcs -BuiItJp quite a Practice
stole 2 TO Help Along Patients

HrglinilAIAF IT'S -buAtNt pNsuttc& FENCllCr
stole S25 Ia Help Along Patients
There are few things that afford more
Measure TO an East Side boy than a chase
rprter the fire engines. But little Billy Login
Il an exception. He woul rather follow
en- the wake Of an ambulance than stand
! inside the fire lines at a five alarm fire.
Rry worships the Whitehead surgeons who
-de on the pack of the Bellevue and Cow
.rneur ambulances; the changing of the bells
! music 70 his ear. and a glimpse Of an
INJURED person having a split head stitched
AZ a broken leg mended commands more
attention than a game OF ball.
Blly isn't a morbid boy; neither is he
curious. It is Just downright ambition that
makes this thirteen-year-old different from
o,her Youngsters and impels him to leave
|. Al a GOOD game or go on the hook 20 run
,fter an Ambulance. Ever since he was a
,ipv younCster he has been bubbling over
nth ambition. He has always wanted to
become a doctor, and a doctor he would be,
even if his father was poor and couldn't
.Hord 10 send him to college.
When Rachel Mardowitz fell on the pave
uent in Henry street and got a bad cash
oil her lOItDcdl IL "do Dhy IL ubhCu
into his house, at 25i, and swiped needle and
thread, tho family wash basin n his
mothers best white petticoat. He bathed
Rachel's wound Just a he had seen the
surgeons do. and then proceeded to put a
Tow stitches in the cut. The arrival OF DR..
Gordon Lindsay from Bellevue Hospital
Interrupted the sewing operation. and.
when a biz policeman who came on the job
wanted 70 arrest Billy for malpractice the
.urycon wouldn't stand for il. He said
-t5e boy had lone more good than harm and
wss TO be commended for what he did to
stsnch the flow of blood n lean the
wound.
Billy gathered up his surgical parapher-
malta and his mothers petticoat, which was
TO have been used for a bandage. and de-
nsrted after the ambulance rolled away.
lila little chest vas swelled with pride
because Doc Lindsay had patted him on
the head and said he was o. X. and some
dav he would be an ambulance surgeon.
1t was early this month when Billy got his
first legitimate start in the medical profess
sion. He saw a boy Wanted" sign in the
window of Max F~laumenbaum's drug store
at So Canal street and he marched in and
asked the boss for the Job. There were a
dozen or more youngsters telling the drug
gist why they should get the job when
Billy came in.
Il wants ter be a ambulance soigen wen
Igrow up" said Billy IAN dis is a job wot'l
give me a boost. l knows a lot about de
soigen's end O. de game, but wot wants
ammonia, dip'teria, smallpox an dem
tings wot doesn't need sewin' up, but wot
yolse has ter know jest de same il you SO
wants ter be a ambulance soigen. 1 chases
ali de ambulances l sees an all de soigens
knows me. Sometimes dey let's me git
water fer dem an sometimes dey lets me
hold DER bandages. II youse gives me de
lob | kin learn wot medicine ter give ter
sick peepul an ! won't have ter go ter
college ter be a soigen.
Billy's plea made a hit with F~laumenbaum
and the boy got the job without further
argument. He reported for duty az the
store at 7 O'Clock every morning, cleaned
up and hurried of to school at o. In tho
afternoon he was kept busy delivering,
medicines to the druggists customers and
learning how to prepare chocolate SOFA
and orange phosphate, ne naant Dse IN
! sell seidlitz powders, rough-on-rats and
other wares in the store.
While Billy saw and heard a lot about
medicines, what he wanted was surgical
practice. He oonfiscated to his own use
Quantities Of bandages, guaze, silver needles,
catgut, splints and most anything he knew
the use of. After working hours 1t was
Bily's wont TO practise surgery on the lads
Of the ueighborhood, who for Biiy's sake
we're supposed To have broken heads ana
arms.
Two weeks ago F~Ianmenbaum sent Billy
to the Van Norden Trust Company to de-
, post S25 in cash and several checks. Then
Billy dropped out of sight. The next day
alad walApd into the drug store and handed
Flaumennaum the bank book and the checks,
remarking thea Billy had instructed HIM 10
turn thera sV5r. he mat Dill pau
The drrgS.t waited several da ys, be-
lieying that Billy would show up and ex-
Eplsin about the SIS. But Billy kept out OF
sight. Fl4umenbaum then notified the
police and the lad was arrested yesterday
morning.
The Old timers upgin the pen room of the
Children's Court told Billy hat he didn't
\ have a ghost of a chance OF escaping a
stretch in the KEEP.
Wen youse pinch any dough from yer
boss it's a cinch dat youseW git a blt IN de
KEEP said consolinG Kid Mooney, who has
been in the coop many times. -Oe JedgeIl
let up on vouse fer any kind O. n squea!,
but wen youse rob de boss yer gifts a troll
lop.'
When Billy was led before the bar Of JUS
tce he promptly entered a plea OF gnllty.
Flsunenbaum told about the theft OF the
i25. and it certainly seemed that tho prisoner
would get Just what Kid Mooney said he
wouid.
Have you anything TO say Willie, before
rass s~entence?" asked Justice Wyatt.
Il sure has" replied Billy. Il wants to
ftell vcuse dat ! swipcd de darby all right,
IAN amt agoin' ter lie ter youse: but
wen | tells youse why l done 1t yuh am I
agoln' ter be tough on me. | wants ter be
a ambulance soigen, IN dat's why. l takes
DC JOB in de drug store, SOS 1 kin learn de
hiz. Well, wen de poor peepul down me
nelghborhood hears dat I'm learnin ter
he a soigen and dat I'm woiken in de drug
store dey sees a chanst ter git me ter help
dem. | cope wot l kin in de store Ter dc
SICK peepul--dem wot amt got nun Hazuma
Ter buy medicine, an / gifts away wild ~
wld0ut de boss gittin' hep ter me.
But | seen sech a pile o sickness cat l
sez ter neself, Billy, desc peePul need de
Cush. an it's up ter youse ter GIT 1t. mas
y IN me COCO right along dat / has ter raise
de maZuma, an tw'en de boss gives me dc
ter put in de bank ! sezs ter meset,
Billy, yer chanst has came
Istarts out an goes trough de tenement
down me neighborhood In dem wot needed
acopeck l gives IL to dem. 1 didn't spend
W darby shootin' crap or buyin clggIes'
E@YaDDh-ferwot dey<Ha1SnNR9DUkshy ca2se--
l takes me dyin' oat', JudEg, dot I amt
anything but de goods-de real goods at dat.
tnn bring peepul to youse wotH tel