The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-13
EVA AND EDDIE IN NEW YORK.
The Story Ended Rather Sadly, but

The Story Ended Rather Sadly, but
 Better Than Many of Them Do.
 Eva Bedding did not come to New York with her brother, as the police Were given to understand
 Eva came to New York last Friday night because Edward Connor had told her up in Chicopee, Mass, that New York was a wonderful place, where very fine wages might be had for the asking and where there were wonderful things to see and to do She had known Eddie, as she calls him, or called him-they don't speak now-all of two weeks and she knew that what he said must be true.
 They came to town by boat and went to a boarding house at some place in Manilattan. Eva doesn't know where, and got two rooms. The next day they started out to get the very finest of all the fine jobs that would present themselves. Eddie felt pretty sure that he could get job paying him at least $15 week, and then Eva wouldn't have to work at all Eva thought that, perhaps, this was ex- pecting too much, but she went with Eddie hopefully.
 Maybe Eddie wouldn't have sug- gested 1t if he had had enough money to rent two rooms on Sunday night, as he had done on Friday and satur- day night. But Eddie said that he had money enough to rent only one room. Eva and Eddie had been standing in Madison Square when Eddie said this, but now she blushed and began to walk northward She walked silently, her eyes toward the pave ment, northward for many blocks and Eddie walked with her, past theaters and restaurants till they came ito Forty-second Street. Eva turned eastward then because she could not think of anything else to do. And Eddie followed on, bit shamefacedl but with enough self-assurance left Ito suggest that they get only the one room
 After a while they came to the Grand Central Station, and Eva said she would rather go in there and sit up all night in the waiting room than to do what Eddie said The noise of people coming and going and the racket of the announcer baWling trains kept them awake for while, but after a bit their heads nodded and they slept all night sitting on the high backed benches.
 Somehow the wonderful things had lost bit of their attraction on Mon- day when Eva and Eddie rubbed their eyes and crept out into the gray morn- ing to look again for that fine job With the little money that was left they got some coffee, and at noon they still had few cents with which to buy some fruit. But the fine jof didn't appear all day, and one can't walk all day with nothing but a cuI of coffee in the morning and a bi' of fruit several hours later, and alto gether things looked very bad SC when dark began to fall and there was not even the price of one room left Eva was glad to sink down on th' lower step of the elevated station a Third Avnue and Thirty-fourth Stree and rest there at Eddies suggestion while he went away on some myster Ious errand that he had thought of
 For an hour the young girl waited and then she began to walk back ant forth anxiously looking east, west north and south for Eddie to com, back. It was bad enough before, bu without Eddie
 Eergt. Roath was on the desk at th' East Thirty-fifth Street Station earl! in the evening when bedraggled gir wearing a long cheap brown coat tha made brave attempt to appear ella borate, came into the station hous' timidly.
 If you could let me sleep here to night, policeman" said Eva hope fully, maybe tomorrow I could go- some place else"
 They gave Eva something to ca first of all, and she ate it Tn silence They asked her to tell them abou herself after that but she wouldn' But when Matron Mallon came in Eyt began to cry and then she told tn, matron her story, all except that par about Eddie's proposal of singl room.
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 Magistrate Sweetser liked the wa. Eva told her story and turned her ove Ito Miss, Smith, the probation officer, until sch could be sen home. But Eddie was charged witt abduction and held on short affi davit for an examination on Thurday Eva had got different views about Ed die, it seemed, from those of the da, before. When she went back to si on the court bench where he wa after 1t was all over she didn't speal to him. Then Miss. Smith came t. her to take her to a private home fo girls.
 Eva" said Eddie as she was goin' away. Eva"
 But she walked away looking stright before her.-New York Sun.
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