The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20

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beats it, or overwOrks and under
feeds the animal. Complaint is made
to the Foster Humane society. The
Identity of the person complaining is
( investigates, and the owner of the ami
NAL is warned to do better, and King
sees that promises are kept Usually
warning is all that is needed
That part of the society's work
which safeguards the interests of chill
dren, has been the cause of several
clashes with other organizations.
Through the instrum entality of some
of these societies orphans have been
adopted into undesirable homes
Clashes resulted when the Kings took
such cases into court. They usually
have been successful in their court
cases
Only this year was a detention
home for children established by the
county The city has no such place.
But for years the King home has been
a detention home
I'm one year we kept fifty-two chill
dren during the time arrangements for
permanent homes for them were be-
ing made Some stayed only one
night, others a week or more and one
little colored girl we kept seven and
One-half months" said Miss King.
I'VE found her in the county Jail. She
was only three years old. Her mother
was serving a sentence in Jail. We
told the jaiIer we expected to start
court proceedings to have the child
placed in better surroundings. That
night the little girl was smuggIed out.
We found her later down at Bee
AdamS's place in the bottoms She
used to amuse herself by climbing up
on chair at a desk and carrying on
an imaginary conversation over the
telephone in which she said she was
ordering the goods She has a good
home now, and is going to school. She
visits US frequently
Keep in Touch With Them
We make it point to keep in
touch with the people we help after
we have helped them We like to
know how they are getting along and
we know where most of the boys and
girls are that We Lave helped There
are several hundred of them now and
they are pretty well scattered, but
scarcely a week goes by that some of
them, many of whom are married men
and women now, do not happen to
be going through Topeka and stop to
visit US. Our home has been the first
stopping place of a good many girls
when first dismissed from the state
industrial school for girls at Beloit-
They come to us and stay while they
are getting their bearings and looking
for something to do, and you may be
sure We do all we can to help them,
and a pleasing thing is that many who
disliked US when they were sent away
come back TO thank u.s."
The King home at 1O17 North
Quincy street is an interesting place
enter the house to know that the per-
sons living there are interested in the
welfare of others. The back yard is
given over to Hfe-saving equipment of
various kinds. There are ropes, lad
derS. pike-poIes and graphing hooks l
\ motorboat ready for instant use is
mounted on specially built set of
running gears to which a horse may
be attached. or which may be drawn
behind an automobile
When a drowning is reported in
Topeka people expect the fire I
department and the Kings to do the ,
rescue work A puIrnotOr is rushed to I
the Kings and their equipment are I
used al the same time to recover the I
body
Before the Topeka fire department (
was as well organized as it is at pres I
ent, the King brothers made it point I
to go to all fires and do firemen's I
work without com peuSation- They (
were at one time members of the Lon I
don fire department The last night !
they were in London they assisted in +
fighting a fire
Fire Alarm in Home
At present. whenever there IS fire +
in Topeka an automatic alarm is {
sounded in the King home. This alarm
is connected with a watar-pressure /
Spouse to fire pressure, contact with /
an electrical alarm IS made
When one first steps into the King i
home his impressions are mixed He f
Is undecided whether he is in a mu-
scum Of antique firearms, or in the .
first aid department of a hospital (
The Kings, who are Scotch have guns
ago by their ancestors in fighting the