The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-17
dIcatiye q . moral qeeadenoe in so-

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 F seviolent hysterfa ls the term ap-
 piled to the present VEli ife slave, az
 itation by Mrs. Barclay EIazard, head
 Of the New sY ork Lranch Of the Ma -
 tiopal Florence Crittenden association
 which looks after women and girls
 who have gone wrong ana who desire
 to reform. The association has pro-
 vided for a series vr Lenten5 lectures on the moral status of the city Tn ah
 effort to counteract the Influence of
 the 'twffte slave type of drama, fie- ton and movies" Mrs. Hazard pro
 poses by means of these free lectures,
 to en1ighten the women who are talk
 ing sentimentally about esthings of which they know nothing and who
 look upon all these girls injured
 innocents, as to the exact conditions
 as they are known ito expertA.'e
 The criticisms leveled at William R. George, founder of the George Ju- nior Republic at Freevi11e, N. Y., by the State Board of Charities investi- gatfng committee came as great
 surprise to MT. Georges friends in New. York. MT. George a country boy of fourteen, came to New York in 1 1880, and in the course of time became 1 successful business man and ] anna ssed a considerable fortune Dur ; ing his first years in this city he knew
 the pinch of poverty, and when he E attained wealth his greatest joy was 1 in helping poor boys and girls. It
 was in 1890 that he began taking par ties of 200 youngsters with him to the
 country to spend a vacation of from i two to four weeks. Twenty years ago l he conceived the plan of requiring l the children to pay in labor for every thing They received. and in additio on I he instituted self-government, Nch 1 has ever since been the basic principle | rfs< 1if.' / 1 Henry Siegel, president Of the Simp- i son-Crawford company and the Four l teenth street store, two of New Yorks big department shops. which were re- l gently placed in the hands of receiv- CTS, has had a spectacular business l career. He was born in Germany 60 years ago, and was one of the ten sons of a farmer. All of the brothers 1 came to America, the future merchant l prince landing in New York when he was fifteen He remained in New l York only a few days and then went l on to Washington, where he got a sit l uation a dry goods clerk at $3.5O a l week. After four years Of hard work and attendance at night school, he had increased his earning capacity to $15 per week. Then he was employed in a store owned by an older brother at Parker sburg, Pa, and later he be-
 came a partner in the store Of S1ege1 | Brothers at Lawrenceburg, Pa- " nen. Henry SiegeI was twenty-four. Chiea- go,s population was considerably i'm creased by the removal there of all of the Siegel brothers. They went into the cloak and suit business, and for
 eight years Henry Sieger travelled on the road for the firm About 1886 he
 form ed a partner ship with Frank H.
 Cooper and launched the big Chicago
 department store of Siegel. Cooper eN
 Company. In 1896 he established the store of Siegel-Cooper Company in
 New York, but this enterprise passed
 from his hands In addition to the two New York departm ent stores, the Fourteenth street store and the Simp
 son-Crawford Company, MT. Siegel also has a department store in. FBos- ton, and a wholesale house in this city.
 Seth Low, former mayor of New
 York, former mayor of Brooklyn, and
 former pr resident of Columbia, Univer- sity, will pass his sixty-fourth mile stone on Sunday. MT. Lew was born
 in Brooklyn,- where his father was en-
 gagged in the tea importing business ssNew York's most public spirited cit
 izen' 'as MT. Low has been called, began his career as clerk in his ia sther's concern He was only a little past thirty when he was elected mayor of Brooklyn, then independ- 1 ent city and not an annex of Man 1 haitian He was reelected. and in 1897 after Brooklyn had been incor- porated w. tn New York, he ran for s1nayo1. Of the Greater City, but was defeated. After eleven years at the head Of Columbia University, Mir Low again entered the political arena and was elected mayor of New-York- Since then he has been one Of the leaders in the NationalzCivfc Fedora ton and a score or more of other or7s ganizations devoted to the welfare Of humanity. In addition to his urban activities the former mayor is an up- state farmer, and, it Is said, has al- most cached the point where the in come from his farm is as great as the expenditure. xr7rrr nU nExNEV,C AJn