Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-02-09
TEXTILE WORKERS
GIVE UP BABIES
TO WIN THEIR
BIG STRIKE
Mothers Send a Carload of In
fants to New York City for
Adoption Because They Can
Not Feed Them.
FIVE THOUSAND LITTLE
MOUTHS CRY FOR FOOD

(Now York Letter to Evening Herald)
New York. Feb. S.--A carload OF
children with polished shoes and poll
lshed faces, ready for adoption. were
brought to New York city to-day. The
occasion OF the importation h not a
Juvenile asylum clearing sale, but Is
step TO support the textile strike at
Lawrence. Mass, by eliminating tenn
porarily the necessity of feeding hun
cry little mouths while the strike IS
In progress.
Three hundred OF the strikers chill
dren, some OF them as young as 2
years. and others almost old enough
for the mills. started from Lawrence
early In the morning under the convoy
Of William ID. Haywood, executive
head OF the Industrial Workers of the
World There is TO be q parade in
Faith avenue from the Grand Central
station to Union square. When the
parade Is transformed into mass
meeting at It's end IL will be possible
for anyone who can present tho prop
or credentials TO become the tempo
rary foster parent OF q child.
If the three hundred are taken 9TH
ers viii be sent here. II Is estimated
that there are five thousand children
IN the families OF the strikers on short
rations in the absence of the usual in
come.
Fun for the Lonesome Rich.
THE international Coz Operative As.
ISOLATION for the Prevention OF Lone
someness Among the Poor Unmarried
Rich" with offices In New York,
Paris, London. Berlin and Vienna,
with Baroness Won Groyss president.
manager. entertainer and proylder u
husbands. was formally organized
yesterday afternoon In the baroness
quaint little flat 6S West Tenth
street The principal object OF the
association IL 10 furnish amusement
for Lonesome widows and widowers
with money and to prevent them
from having 90 sit around hotel lob
bics wishing for oongeniai companion
ship. The baroness guarantees that
she win provide cOngeniality and good
comradcship.
Man Who Threatened CarusO Missing.
Antonio Muslano. one OF the Brook
Ign Italians arrested the night Of
March 6, 1910, charged with trying to
cxtort $4,000 from EnTico Caruso,
the tenor, Is missing The police have
been looking for Musiano since the
appellate division refused last week
60 set aside the conviction on the
charge recently obtained. Pending
the appeal Musiano has been out on
$4,000 bail
New Works smallest Thcater.
The Little theater, the playhouse
for the presentation Of Intimate drama
which Winthrop Amas h. building on
Forty-fourth street. Broadway, IL rap
idly nearing completion. The build
eTs promise 10 deliver Il To Mr. Ames
the latter part OF this month, and the
first performance will be- early In
March. The play chosen by Mr..
Ames To open the theater is "The
Pigeon a new comedy by John Gales
worthy, the author Of strife" jus
tice" and the silver Box" and OF
novels and short stories. The thcater
IL the smallest playhouse ia the city
for the production Of dramatic attrac-
lions. It's seating capacity being con-
siderably less than 500, There are no
boxes, balconies or gallery. The view
II just as good from the outside seat
IN the fifteenth row as from any other
seat. II win have revolving stage.
the only one In New York aside from
the Century.
Garbage CAUSED Pneumonia.
An epidomi. OF pneumonia, confined
TO five blocks of villa avenue. mar
row street In the upper part Of New
York city, Is attracting the attention
% physicians and health experts.
dOre than eighty cases of the disease
have Oeen reported Ia the last few
days According to physicians. the III
ness Ia partly due 90 the condition OF
the streets. which are piled high with
ash cans. garbage and debris of every
description. Most OF the houses are
two-family structures occupied By for
oigncrs.
Streets More PerilOus Than Battlefield
The annual report OF the New York
board OF corOners shows that $500
sudden deaths were reported % the
coroner's office In 1911. the total bee
ing goo greater than IN 1910. or these
$3.50 proved Co be due Co natural
causes leaving 1850 OF "a violent char
acter. These include suicides. MUIR
ders and accidents. THE streets OF
this city are becoming more perilous
than a battlefield" the report says.
"And II IL high time some change Ia
the laws governing the operation Of
motor cars be- enacted