Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-29
SICK AND DESTITUTE
Superintendent Morris Found Man Sh-
 dng Beside Railroad Track.

Superintendent Morris of the de- partment of charities Is kept on the hustle these days and if business keeps pouring in upon him he will have to get an automobile, for the horse will not be able to get from one place to another fast enough. This morning after arranging to send . woman and her three small children to Blackstone, Mass, an East Farm street lady entered the office and in- formed MT Morris that an old gentle man was sick beside the railroad track near her house and she was of the opinion that If he was not re- moved very soon he would crawl onto the track and be killed by the first train that came along. A train was due in half an hour or so and there was no time to be lost in get ting there. Mir Morris jumped into his carriage and gave the horse the whip and kept the animal on h run until he reached the spot where the old fellow was sitting just beside the track and in such a position that 1t would seem he was preparing to throw himself under the wheels of a railroad train that was laundering along towards him and not over a few hundred feet away. MT Morris got him to a place of safety and then drove him back to the city hall and from there to the BrOokside home.
 He gave his name as Henry Dauge, native of France, but resident of this country for the past thirty three years. He Is 54 years of age and cl4me here from Terryville. He said his health Is very poor and that in wandering around he lay down there and was not able to go any farther He was hungry, not having had any food for two days, and when he was given something to eat he pitched into it in a manner which would have made many man and woman wish for his appetite. He has heart trouble and notwithstanding his ability to eat, he does not look like man who is likely to live much longer. He never was married and has no relatives and his 'pitlable con dition gives additional strength to the proverb ''that it is not we'll for man to be alone"
 The case of the woman and chil- dren referred to at the opening of this article was still worse. Her husband has abandoned her and she had been managing to maintain q home on Ward street, but got behind with the rent, and yesterday the children, one a baby six months old, another a year and half, and the other abeautiful girl of five years, together with all their household fur niture, were put into the street by q couple of officers. The woman has brother in Blackstone and she thought if she could get there he would give her helping hand and the authorities decided to send her to him.
 An, but this is a cruel world, and people who have occasion to get around and see what's going on, see lots of things from day to day that re mind one of the old adage, "one-half the world don't know how the other half lives" Whatever the cause, It is certain that great many men thing nothing of skipping out aud leaving their wives and children to shift for themselves and from all ac- counts Waterbury is no worse in thls respect than other places. Talk about the whipping post, but if its use ever was justifiable 1t is in these days when man appears bent upon taking retrograde step so that those who contend that sort of punishment should be revived are not by any means as unreasonable as some would have you believe.