Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-11
SEEK THEIR MOTHER
Two Founding Boys Who
Have Romantic Histories.
ASKED ABOUT THEM ONCE
Poor When She Left Them at Asy-
! lum, Richly Dressed Second Time.
ONE OF THE LADS PROSPEROUS
The Other Meets With Many Mis-
fortunes, Including the
Loss Of His Leg.
ASKED ABOUT THEM ONCE
ONE OF THE LADS PROSPEROUS

II If there Is a woman who remembers
Il leaving Montgomery Scott and James
II Oliver Scott at the Washington City Or
Il phan Asylum in September, 1891. the
i board Of children's guardians at the Dis
/ trict building would be very pleased to
hear from her.
Agent John A. Cisco Of the board would
be very glad to hear from her also, for
he has been devoting a great deal Of his
time recently trying to bring together
these two boys and their mysterious
II mother, who left them at the asylum.
| when she was rather poor-looking, and
| who turned up suddenly two years ago
| richly dressed-but who did not stay long
enough for any one to find out who she
is and where she lives.
And not only does Mr. Cisco want to
know where the woman is, but very
plucky and very unfortunate cripple in
Philadelphia wants to know who his
mother is and why she has deserted him
so long. He has asked that the board of
I, children's guardians of this city, who
looked out for him for many years,
should help him locate his mysterious
mother.
Their Lives Differ.
One of the boys has had an easy exist
/
about twenty-three years old now, locat-
ed in some western town. Montgomery
| Scott, however. has had about as much
| adventure and cruelty and color to his
life as one could possibly have and live.
His page in the records Of the board Of
children's guardians at the District build
: ing is a record Of cruelty and q lack of
mother cry into her pillow for hours
could she realize what terrible life the
boy has had.
In the first place. Montgomery grew to
| know the people at the Washington City
Orphan Asylum as his own. He was one
Of the little boys you will see running
around an asylum eating and sleeping
and studying and playing by rule and by
every single comfort that scientific and
well conducted asylum can g1ve-but who
lack the one thing that only the boys
mother has in her heart. He wore his
women made for him until he was one
Of the big boys"-and then, being ten
years old and fun Of promise, he left
the asylum.
when ten years old Montgomery was
indentured to man who treated him
brutally. as scar now on his arm will
prove"
Born to Ill Luck.
This boy, who was beaten SO that he
will carry for life the memento of the
man who took him as a foster son, was
evidently born to see great share OF
i'll luck. The foster parent died, and
instead Of things becoming easier for
the little boy-he was not over twelve
years then-things became worse. THE
authorities" found another foster parent
even more cruel than the first. The boy
grew defiant and stoical, and then, get
ting ideas of his own into his head, he
slipped out of a window one night, and
several days, and finally ended his pdre-
| CARNATIONS at the Bell Home, Colonial
| Beach. Va. He was a sorry-loking
little fellow when he ran up to her front
door. They acted little drama from
David Copperfield," too. right at that
| moment, for even il the famous kite
flying Mr.. Dick was not present to advise
the one thing imminently needful the first
thing this modern Betsy Trotwood did
was to give the boy bath
Sent Back to the Board.
Mrs. Davenport noticed that the brutal
ity of the two men who had enslaved
Montgomery had left a deep impression
| on the boys nervous system. She made
life as comfortable for him as she possi-
bly, could. and believing that he had bet
ter be taken care of by the board of chill
dren's guardians in Warrington, she
| turned him over to them again. By this
time Montgomery was getting used to the
continual move on order of society In
general. spoken against the orphan in
general.
And then 1t was that Montgomery be-
gan to see what life meant. for the board
Of children's guardians placed the lad
over among the young citizens OF the Ma
tional Junior Republic He took an active
part in the life and juvenile politics of
the republic, and learned lot OF manli-
ness and uprightness that he had never
dreamed Of before. In fact, he grew to
be so reliant on his own e1orts that after
few months of the best kind of a time
he thought he was man enough to start
out on his own hook.
He landed in New York. 1t was too
| swift a town for the youngster, and the
bright lights of the Bowery and other de-
| lectable streets attracted him, so that he
swirled into a vortex OF evil according to
the record Of his doings. However. par
allel with the record of "evil companions
is the record of the fact that for years he
! was self-supporting, sold shoe strings,
| newspapers. got odd jobs here and there,
slept in boxes, cars, wagons, newsboys'
lodging houses, was a street gamin,
wharf rat, and occasionally held q good
job. He began following ''the ponies"
and this stable life struck him SO agree
ably that he got job on a stock farm at
Greensburg, Pa.
Lost His Right Leg.
Hard luck fell upon him again. He was
bringing a horse in a boxcar from some
place in Ohio and lost his right leg by
having a train run over him. His left
leg was SO seriously injured, also. that
it has been Of little use ever since. His
right leg was cut off by surgeons as he
lay fully conscious under the car. That
was in 1902. In an effort to do every
| thing for him possible. the surgeons have
had the boy under ether four times since
then. and the last time the record says,
the ether nearly got the better of him.
The shock of those four years and the
| broken life of the little ten-year-old or
phan in the homes of two foster fathers
began to tell after that, because his
pluck deserted him, lea = ,g him almost
| helpless cripple. He came back to WASH
ington. where the authorities" placed
: him in the Home for Incurables An in
vestigator. who left on the records a trace
, of his visit to the boy, said then: Il found
him a miserable sick boy, suffering from
toothache, neuralgia. neuritis. indigestion
and most wretched eyesight."
Now in Philadelphia.
His nerves were very bad. and he con-
stantly imagined that people were MAX