New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

She was a wisp of a little old Irish
woman. gray haired and about four feet
high. hut there was giant determination in
the way she thrust her bare feet out of
the bed which was hers for a night in
the Municipal Lodging House, down at the
foot of East e5th street, and stood erect.
q funny figure in her abbreviated municipal
niehtsown.
Sure an I'll not be vaccinated this
night. not even TO plaze you. doctor, she
declared.
DR.. Mary Hoffman Jones. the physician
who was appointed by Commissioner Heb
berd of the Department of Charities short
u before he gave place TO Michael ].
Drummond. of the Gaynor regime, TO look
after the health OF the women who seek
refuge at this lodging house. and who is
the first woman to receive such an ap-
pointment from the city. laid her hand on
the little old woman's shoulder and argued
with her persuasively. The bathroom at
tendant who is six feet tall and boDy.
adiured the insurgent in a deep voice TO
.-be sinsible. now.'' Miss Kate Griffin. the
matron. one OF whose arms would have
made a woman big as the one before
her. tried what threat would DO
Its the rule TO be vaccinated when ye
come here, an IL ye don't mind the rules
ye'n be put out the street in the pour
tn' rain, an We won't get the rs cents ye
brought in with ye," she warned. The
waits in the other beds added their per-
suasions.
"Ah, mother, be good" they chorused-
1--WE was vaccinated. an it didn't hurt"
But the little old woman stood to her
guns. NO doubt vaccinatin is good she
conceded. but I'm an ould woman. an 1
,,l sief oh
Where's me cioes? I'll go out on the
strate, but I'll not be vaccinated.''
rs there any one like the Irish for sass?"
said the matron to the doctor. as the three
defeated ones moved away. well, now.
we're supposed to report her an call the
patrol, but she's too old woman TO be
bothered" And the doctor laughed, and
moved on TO bandage a sore toe for the
next waif
Though DR.. Jones has apartments at the
Ansonia and strong liking for pretty
clothes and list Of patients whose worldly
circumstances are as far as possible from
those OF the women who seek shelter In
the Municipal Lodging House she declares
there is no part of her work that she likes
so well as that which takes her TO East
25th street every evening.
-'On the rare occasions when / am pre-
vented from coming she told the reporter.
II miss il: I'd rather be here than any
where else. You get close TO human nature
here You see Il in the raw. People ask
me il the poverty OF these women doesn't
depress me. No, never. I've been doctor
q good many years, and doctor gets too
accustomed to tragedies TO be depressed by
them. Besides, there is this about Utmost
Of the women who come here have been so
battered and cuffed that they don't mind
homelessness and want you or | would.
OF course, some feel IL terribly. The
women who corle in with little babies. the
women who have been deserted by their
husbands the girls just out of the hos
pitfalls with babies-these are the pitiful
cases. 4 woman came in last night, a
frail creature, pretty well educated. evil
IDENTITY; she said her father a judge.
now dead. On one arm she held tiny in
FAINT in the ether a small newspaper bun
die containing all her worldly possessions,
a few ragged bits of clothes. She was one
Of those that tug at your heartstrings."
Just then an attendant came through the
dormitory TO DR.. Jt ness little Office.
There's a woman downstairs pretty
drunk" she announced Would ye just