The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-15
IN THE W|LDS
Of new YORK
How Easy it Is to be Swallowed up In
the Great City Although
Many Are Search
Ing.
WHAT BECOMES OF FIDo
Regular Business Of Binding Horses
to Make Thorn More Tractable
Is Being lnvestl-
gated.
by Carlton Ten Eyck, Written for the
United Press,1

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United Press.1
NEW YORK, July 15.-Helen Nc
Carthy, the 16-year-old daughter of a
wealthy man, living in an ultra-fashion-
able uptown hotel was 'lost" for three
days and nights and her experience
showed that 1t is difficult to imagine
anything to be impossible in the mani
foldly varied life Of the big city. The
Mccarthy girl dropped completely
from the sight Of family and friends
and her whereabo were a mystery
for sixty hours, though the entire po-
lice force of the metropolis was hunt
ing for her. In all that time, too, she
was not under a roof, nor seeking to
hide herself. She simply was swallow
ed up in the "wilds'' of New York, as
completely as though the earth had
yawned at her feet and engulfed her.
though every newspaper in the city
carried her picture and description.
Helen did not like the school to
which her parents sent her and when
she rebelled her father spoke harshly
to her and boxed her ears. Resentful,
the child left home to look for work,
she said. She did not find 1t, and when
night came, knowing no home open to
her save the big hotel to which she
vowed she would not return, she wan
dered away UP into Fort Washington
Park at the northernmost limits Of
Manhattan and slept in the open. The
second day her search for work was
fruitless, according to her story, and
when night came, she again sought the
shelter of the secluded park, because
she knew no other resting place. On
the third day she was so exhausted
| from worry, loss Of sleep and INSULT
cient food, that she had no energy to
leave the park, and 1t was there she
was found.
Two youths reading newspaper stor
| les about her disappearance, saw the
girl, and one suggested, more as joke
than because he thought the girl was
really the missing Helen Mccarthy,
that she must be the missing girl. A
detective working on the case was
even more sure of the girls identity
though she stoutly denied that she was
| the Mccarthy girl. A telephone mes.
sage brought her distracted father,
and he took her home. The police
were amazed to learn that they were
outwitted for three days by slip Of a
girl who was out in the open the
whole time Small wonder that tho
yeggmen and gangsters say that New
York is the safest hiding place avail
able after one has pulled job
What becomes OF Fido wnen he goes
out of fashion? That is the question
that has been worrying a prominent
member of the Society for the Proven
ton OF Cruelty to Animals ever since
he overheard conversation between
two fashionable women in Central
Park. The first woman, the more ul
ira fashionably dressed of the two, was
walking in the park with her dog, a
large Russian wolf hound, when she
met her friend, not quite SO we'll dress
ed, who was leading a diminutIve
poodle by silver chain.
when have l seen a poodle be-
fore?" exclaimed the owner of the big
dog, with her most engaging smile.