The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-14
SEWING MACHINES POUR IN ID HELP DOYLE CHILDREN Offers of Aid Come to Mrs. Searight From Every
 Direction FAMILY IS MOVED
 TO CHILDREN'S AID Mrs. Searight Comments on Attitude of the Associated Charities in
 Not Visiting the
 Scene
Nv RICHARD Y. LUssIER


 Eight sewing machines We're offered Mrs. Wilson ,Searight, the head of the welfare department. yesterday by zeal ous ladies rho had beerl affected by the sta tement of Mrs, Julia Yother, the elder lS widow, that all she needed was a sewing ma chine SO that she could mend the clothes of the little Doyle children The plea for the sewing machine was not in vain as within few hours of the publication in The Age-HIerald Yes- terday morning. Mrs. Sear1ght was hi- e1allx sl1owered with sewing machines, money, clothes and offers of aid from al quarters of the city-
 A feature of the many offers of aid was that every person requested the head of the welfare department that there should be no publicity connected with the philanthropy This is the reason why the names of the ladies who gave the sew ing ma chimes is withheld,
 Unknown Man Helps
 From the moment that Mrs Searight opened her office a the city hall yes terday morning at s oclock she was kept busy answering the telephone from clubs societies and people offering and to the Doyle children An unknown man walked in and peeling off sS from ms foli salu This is all l can afford today, adyi but I'll drop in sometime next week and give you some fnore-
 But what is this money for?' ques- toned Mrs Searight.
 For anything that you want to do with it l know that | cannot put my money to better use than to leave lt Tn your hands-your angel hands as one of the Doyle children SO well said Was the answer as the stranger hurried out r. $ Smith, a well known citizen and father of Judge Frank Smith, called on Mls. Seamgh and donated a neat sum for the benefit of the Doyle children. MT. Smith sa id
 k Mrs Searight, you should lave called on me before this you should not take all this work and expenses on your Shoul- ders: call on me whenever there IS any case of distress-we are all kind people in Blrmin gham and all ahe willing to help the unfcrtunate
 Children Are Moved
 Yesterday morning the Doyle children Were taken from Mrs Julia Nothers .'housep at SO7 Thirty-nlrlth street, Mill Village, by Dr. Cecil Gaston to the Chil- flren's Aid society in the old De Barde- < lel1en home al Fifteenth street and Ave nue c. pr. GaSton is attending the ehll- dren all of whom have not had d square meal in their lifetime. peIhaps-and all thin and emaciated from living in poverty and squalor It is thought that Ola who is II years of age and who has been working in the cotton mills at Sluria since she was 10 years old will not live very oIng as she Is affected by the great white plague" The phys icia1 relieves that the other children can be saved with proper nourishn1ent and fresh nI'
 As for John Doyle. the eldest and the ys.ii'stey of the family now that the par snts are dead as well as the two eldest sisters, he is worl<ing- That is not un- usual. as John has been working cease- lessly from his early youth in vain effort to feed all the little mo Tt hs de- pending on the product of his labor II IS not much of a job that John has bu il pays s-5o a day. And that is prooabls more than John is worth for he IS onlS 70 years old and is not strong from his years spent within the confines of a cot ton mill The fact that he Is very Hit crate lso counts against the value of John as workman. In fact the only worthy thing about John is that he is willing to work, and that he has worked for years and turned over all of his earnings to his parents, and when his parents died, his wages went to feed hi 3 brothers and sisters. John is now over' loved that he is able to work He hopes to be able so work great many years longer and the money he earns Is fol his bro thers and sisters.
 Mrs. Searight's Attitude
 In regard to the affidavit of Mss kath1yn Donahoe, printed in yester- day mornings Age-HeraId in a 1ettei to the editor written by H. K Milner president of the Ass sociated Charities Mrs. Wilson Searight denied that the affidavit stated in any manner the ac- tuaI facts of what took place in her office last Saturday, morning. Ae sfn ed rp m V Searight, -1 have no criticism to mak of the Associated Charities The asso. cfation un dou btedly does good work hut the affidavit of Miss Dona hoe mis- >states the facts in the case,
 "As far as can recall there was n talk of tube re ul osis in the Doyle fam ily, Miss Moore and Miss Dona hoe stated that they were over he line with work on Saturday and could not possibly go and irlves tigate the case of Anna Doyle Rochester before Monday morning at the earliest, Mrs Jul -Yot her then replied that Monday mo rn- ing Wonld be too Ia te as the girl would d be dead by that time, Mrs Yother stated that all she wanted for the dy. ing girl was doctor and a cot as she had only one bed Tn her house and she wanted to place Mrs. Rochester on a cot- The visitors from the associated Charfties replied that they would look Into the case on Monday and then Mrs, Y Yother turned with her plea to me
 "But then after the bllcation Tn s.indav mornings Age-Herad of the n1ieht of the Doyle children and the death of Anna Doyle Rochester. it ap- hears to me that the case of the Doyle children was so urgent that the Asso- cfnfed Charities could have talk en a har,d ir, the burial of Anna Koch ester-- Ina fl thev could have imm ediately taken hand in giving aid 70 the surviving