The daily Gate City., 1912-02-11
One Hundred and Fifty Youngsters
Brought to New York to be
Taken Care of During
the Strike.
DIDN'T MIND THE COLD
First Real Meal Some Of Them Had
Seen for Long Time Was
GobbIed UP
Rapidly.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ] |
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-Amid scenes
wildered children were literally mob
bed by the friendliest mob that prob
ably ever was formed in America, the
little tots whose mothers and fathers
are Drawing hardships of the textile
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
path for the children at Grand Cen
tral station as it was planned to
march them out of the station and
form a parade, Their train was four
hours late however, and more than
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.
! Youngsters, poorly clad, under fed,
and showing traces of the strain
/ which they have undergone in the in
/ dustrial battle that is being waged in
I the Massachusetts town, were snatch
i ed up by eager men and women.
Hoisted up on strong shoulders, they
4 were carried into the street where
finally the fndustrial Workers OF the
4 World leaders who were to direct the
and form the kiddies in line. A man
carrying a big red banner topped
with black crepe, led a cheering
throng through Forty-Second street to
the Third Avenue elevated station
AS they proceeded in confusion, the
shrill little voices piped their own
i strike yell:
who are wee
Who are we?
4 I'VE are the strikers,
4 Don't you see?"
Excited enthusiasts caused d 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 OF
!, the throng were required before the
children were marshaled into an ele.
waited train and taken to the labor
temple in Eighty Fourth street. There
the crowd had grown until entrance
i to the temple was completely barred
and police reserves were summoned
Women among the escorts were com
PEELED to go through busy barroom
{ to get to the stairway. Cold and hun
: 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 haG
: 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. Proninen
/ among those who locked after the chill
. dren tonight was Elizabeth Gurle,
Flynn, famous woman labor leader
Before the arrival of the train tha
brought the children Mrs o. X. F
Belmont went TO the station and asket
for several of the tots, saying sh'
would take them to her home and pre-
vide for them indefinitely. Miss Inc
Ailholland, prominent in society an
= the suffrage movement, witnessed tn
L children's arrival Rev. Percy Stick
s ney Grant, of the Church of the Ascer
j. sion, sent a request for twenty-fy
children: Dr. J. A. Gibbs, of Balsto
Spa, n. Y, DR.. James Warbasse, Q
Brooklyn. asked for six. All these re
e quests were denied because of prs
: vious offers of temporary homes
among the working people of tn
city.
After tue supper delegation G
children of socialist homes in Ne'
York greeted the Lawrence children
e A corps of fifteen physicians. some c
r. them members OF the Italian medics
society of New York, thoroughly e.
amined every child before they wer
given over TO the persons who ha
] volunteered to take care of them.
: In the. bitter cold, the chiIdre
Q stamped their feet and jumped abor
IS to keep warm during the delays ths