The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-11
One Hundred and Fifty Youngsters
Brought to New York to be
Taken Care of During
tho Strike.
DIDN'T MIND THE COLD
Firat Real Meal Some of Them Had
Seen for Long Time Was
GobbIed Up
Rapidly.

| GUnited Press Leased Wire Service.
/ NEW YORK, Feb. 10.--Amid scenes
of widest excitement in which $50 be-
1 wildered children were literally mob
] bed by the friendliest mob that prob
ably ever was formed in America, the
I little tots whose mothers and fathers
4 are Drawing hardships of the textile
1 workers strike in Lawrence, Mass,
were greeted at the Grand Central sta
ton here tonight. The children were
sent here to be housed and fed while
parents and older brothers and sisters
fight cut their differences with the
+ Lawrence mill owners. The bitterest
! cold of the winter was confronted.
A squad of policemen had roped off
a path for the children at Grand Cen
tral station as it was planned to
march them out of the station and
form parade. Their train was four
4 hours late however, and more than a
thousand socialists and labor men and
women had waited until they grew
impatient.
AS the children filed out of the train
the police lost control of the crowd.
4 Youngsters, poorly clad, under fed,
i and showing traces of the strain
which they have undergone in the in
! dustrial battle that is being waged in
the Massachusetts town, were snatch
4 ed up by eager men and women
4 Hoisted up on strong shoulders, they
were carried into the street where
z finally the Industrial Workers Oh tht
] World leaders who were to direct the
! parade, were unable to calm the crowt
and form the kiddies in line. A mar
carrying big red banner, topped
with black crepe, led a cheering
4 throng through Forty-Second street to
the Third Avenue elevated station
. AS they proceeded in confusion, the
shrilI little voices piped their own
strike yell:
who are we?
i who are we?
Il We are the strikers,
Don't you see?"
i Excited enthusiasts caused a small
panic when they rushed at the chill
dren again and again and hugged and
kissed them. More strenuous efforts
on the part of the calmer members oi
the throng We're required before the
children were marshaled into an eIe
waited train and taken to the labor
J temple in EIghty-Fourth street. There
the crowd had grown until entrance
to the temple was completely barred
and police reserves were summoned
Women among the escorts were com
PEELED to go through a busy barroon
i. CRY, unconscious of the attention they
were attracting, once they reached
the waiting supper tables, every little
one fell to the work of devouring the
first real meal many of them hat
. faced since the strike at Lawrence
began.
The children fed upon rice, mea
and potatoes. and tried hard but II
vain. to force back tears that home
sickness and the unusual excitemen
had sent to their eyes. Prominen
: among those who looked after the chill
. dren tonight was Elizabeth Gurle,
Flynn, famous woman labor leader.
Before the arrival of The train tina
brought the children, Mrs. o. III. P
! Belmont went TO the station and asked
for several of the tots, saying sh.
would take them to her home and pro
. vide for them indefinitely. Miss Inc
MilholIand, prominent in society ant
: the suffrage movement, witnessed tn
: children's arrival Rev. Percy Stick
5 ney Grant, of the Church of the Ascen
: sion, sent a request for twenty-five
children. Dr. J. A. Gibbs, of Balstol
Spa, N. Y, DR.. James Warbasse, o
Brooklyn, asked for six. All these re
quests were denied because of pre-
-ivious offers of temporary homes
among the working people OF tn
city.
After the supper a delegation o
children of socialist homes in Ney
York greeted the Lawrence children
A corps of fifteen physicians, some o
r them members of the Italian medica
society of New York, thoroughly es
amined every child before they wer
given over to the persons who ha
volunteered to take care of them.
In the bitter cold, the childrel
stamped their feet and jumped abou
to keep warm during the delays tha
: were caused by the crowd. Thei