New-York tribune., 1912-02-12
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me LAWRENCE GIRL
D GO HOME WITH PAPA
.IIe Gets Police Aid-She's Happy,
! but, Being 'Untagged,' Reused
Committeeman's Suspicious.
1000 MAY COME SATURDAY
children Welcomed Without Re-
oard to Race or Religion for
Period of Strike-Commit-
tee Visits Homes.

tee Visits Homes.
o,s member Of the band OF Lawrence
--.sitdren who arrived in New York on Sat
,,urday to the accompaniment OF flying flags
'.,s rousing cheers, will go back TO her
$50 to-day. There will be no flags and
no. cheers,
rbs Lawrence Police Department called
..o New York Detective Bureau on the
,.,.nbone Yesterday and asked that they
.rdsayor to find Mary sullivan, a ten-year-
Ia Girl who disappeared from her home
on Saturday morning.
Detectiye James Murphy, of the East S5th
s,reet station, was ordered to take charge
Of tba case. and he found that Mary Sulli-
van was among the children who were dis
,r;buted from the Labor Temple on Satur-
Cay night
NATIONAL lines were strained and some
.,ynes broken in that distribution, but the
adjective was a little bit surprised to find
that the Sullivan girl had been sent to the
home Of Frank Polarevetzky, at No. 536
West l43d street.
and learned that Mary was very we'll con-
tent with her new surroundings, The child
had written a letter to her father, Timothy
sullivan. presenting the advantages of
New York over Lawrence, but when he
was Informed by the detective bureau that
his daughter had been found he telegraphed
that he would come TO New York TO BRING
her back.
The girl explained that she had gone TO
the station TO see the departure OF some OF
her friends, but that when the train start
ed before she had chance to get on shc
hSzs well content and did not reveal herseh
as an accidental passenger.
., Henri Eindwirth, of the Industrial work
.rs Of the World, who was one Of the COM
mittee which took charge Of the children
on the trip from Lawrence, said that ne
counted the members Of the partly shortly
after the train left, and discovered that
there was one more than he had on his list.
Little Girl Wasn't Tagged.
Upon closer examination he found one
sirI who was not tagged with her name
and address like her fellows.
suspecting "a capitalistic plot of one
kind or another" he found out from the
o Thus it was that Mary Sullivan went 10
the homo of the Polarevetzkys.
,s The transfer Of the children of strikers
from one city to another, move never pe-
fore attempted in a labor dispute in this
country, may in the present instance be
undertaken on a scale which VIII make IL
UNIQUE In the la Dor annals Of the world
If the present plans are carried out no
less than one Thousand children viii be
brought TO New York, and 1t Is possible
that others may be sent TO Boston ana
towns in the neighborhood Of Lawrence
The one hundred and fifty children VINO
iarrived on Saturday were distributed IN
NINETY homes. Twelve hundred applicants
kemain to be satisfied and many others
hre likely to come forward when another
sarty OF children is brought.
Z II is planned to bring the next consisn-
ment on Saturday. Those who have taken
the children have placed no limit on the
length of their guardianship, except that
ii shall terminate when the strike in Law
renee ceases. No one has sought to quail
~ the terms of this agreement in any
manner.
Committee lnspeets Homes.
will investigate every home to-day to
make certain that its wards have oeeh
placed in comfortable surroundings. On
next Saturday mass meeting and enter
fanment will be held, with the CHILDREN OF
Nawrence as guests.
Miss Carrie Zaikaner, member OF the
tommittee, took occasion yesterday to
deny that the children would be exploited
In any manner TO secure funds for the
strike.
II the children Of Lawrence remain in
New York more than week II VIII be
necessary 10 send them to school. They
Mill probably be sent to the public schools
although some of their guardians favor the
Francisco Ferrer Association, school OF
socialistic leanings.
Henri LindWirth and Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn will go to Lawrence to-day TO ar
gange for the transfer of another body OIL
children. Lindwirth, in commenting on
Sonditions in Lawrence said: The various
sationalities are organized on a communis-
Kic basis, each group having Its own
Kitchen We hnd that the French, the
Polish and the Italian groups are anxious
10 send their children to New York, but
the Germans, who are more skilled labor
eTs and higher paid, have beer less ready
we nope TO convince them that the
move is for strike efficiency. There Is no
lack Of funds at present, for contributions
have been coming into the strike commit
tee rapidly
At the Office Of The Call the New
York daily Socialist paper II was said
last night that letters from persons who
were anxious TO take charge of strike chill
dren we're still coming in large patches.
The spirit OF all the letters was the same.
ut was the spirit OF the applicant who
wfote: I'VE are Jews. and we were driven
from Russia, but send us child, Jew or
christian. or Of any religion or any color,
and We will care for 1t in the name OF the
work class revolution"
Those who have applied are mostly the
possessors Of large families. but in even
the largest of these groups there seems
to be feeling that there is room for one
more if lit be strike child from Law
renee.