The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-15
LEROY SCOTT.

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 had taken a car over to Painters s Mall and Painters Row and got off at the farther end of a dingy, smoke hung settlement went through and about the houses which the great Car nsgie Company lenses fol fts workers (wfth no trouble about collecting the rent, for that is taken from their wages),-houses so close to the mill, some even wall to wall with 1t, that nnin its smoke and grirne and clangor s-houses which had been as unsanitary and disease-breeding as any l saw of fered the poor even by hardened slum landlords. And then. after had gone through the rows of houses. at the end of the settlement nearest Pittsburg. l came upon a. sudden contrast It was an open space, with a portion of it canoFded, and over the canopy this 1ack-lettered sign:
 LITTLE JIM PARK.
 1k wasn't much of a park-just a lit- tie bit of ground. in area hardly more than an average city lot, with 8 sec ond-hand iron fence around 1t. with and few flower beds bordered with Nhftewaahed briclcH A poor, pitiaIbly insixniflcant little place, yet star rtlingly pleasant when con1pared with its sur roundings on the one slde. with 2 and belched the u1dll: at its back was ~ Uttered waste; at its front, across the street. was a steep hill topped by Z the rq1mShackle houses of Stewart's Row, and this h1n was muddy. stub h1ed oyer with hank dead weeds. gull Med with foul-looking, foul-smelling streams of waste water and garbage
 entered the park sat down De neath the canopy, and my ina ginatfon Aqtoceed0d to explain how the park had been establiahed- It's nalne was cer-i tin due. Little JdIHd Park, :" that (1so1ne rich woman had been emotion 11IT stirred by the stories of the cheer f1eG1 1ffe Of tenement ch3larei4 the Lit Z IT. Jime and the Little Marys; she had Ele TIE life Of the children of Painters {nQr 1ho hazh estAhhshed the park, fAm4 Gtven 1t as fitle the more or less s04nag1c name by which tenement chil- lEo4 are known to seAetnenf. Little \ ssT- had iust credited. the park to my 6ntU Bountiful.-had just finished N11h Romance. when Realism saunter- m of my bench. He was a working nm, whose decent clothes and white {&nz14r told me this Wa4 his day off. m coat collar waS stRgned mp. his C HILL Q&11t&30 44etfE~ ~ellS JeL~ &&ood out with a qufd of tobacco, and | t1l16 4Ace was deeply wrfnkled- He was 4DHhGlp9 tWenty-One. ss 1Q6nst you teA me H. asked. "who G&N8 Ahi9 park to Painters Row?''s $
 Ao smiled good at me. Who give 1t? Nobody give it,
 sEllen how adtd you gHt sdt?' t3 4 we took 1t, 9aid he
 look it. But the name
 fDt. we just took that, too"
 4 Hare was something new in the park bn11dinG line. I drew nearer. IT wish S3Quid tell me about il. . asked.
 sure, I'll tell, said he, and could dafect pride in the park in both the ypunx feIlow,s tone and manner He toGped his ,Qszfd- down upon the tan-5 hnr1k tUsed osbe a, little odd church 5f1q9ddn8 Here. Little Jdxn church they ca1led 1t, queer name for a. church, N1nrt it2 Damned if know why they named 1t that For the last five or 1T years it wasn't; used at alL and elnAt spring it Just collapsed. The HunkIes come scrambiing oven it and cnxrfef away all the wood to burn. and what was left was certainly a mess.
 ssWeH, don't know just who started thel idea I guess 1t was a John Dona- Aue and Jdm Leary (they works around {he rolls in the milD, but pretty soon