The farmer and mechanic., 1915-04-20
HAS PUT TWELVE. THOUSAND
BOYS ON THE ROAD TO HOPE

cIeaned, and clothed. not only in gar
,ilehts out with renewed self-respect.
Mr.. Eva does not wait to investioate
tnelr past. but helps their present
needs, and afterWard they are helm
ca 70 get work. and in 85 per cent. of
the case success is complete. No
large checks have ever reached the
nome. The largest that ever came
was Tor 1900, and that enabled him
70 keep up the fourth house which he
nad taken for last winter 1t was a
red letter day when that check came.
LOT win IT and two smaller contribu-
tionS the home managed to carry on
the extra work for the grown-up un-
employed who, as the Superintendent
expressed it, are really as hungry in
warm weather as in cold" And these
nave included clerks, stenographers
ana DOOkkeepers who had never be-
fore sought aid
Boys Misft Wooden Leg.
Much Of the food is collected with a
morse and wagon owned by the Home
The dr8er, French boy, came first
to theHome through his fondness for
riding on freight trains, which cost
took up the drivers work and has
remained faithful to his job He is
now l9 and his wooden leg does not
mt and causes him much discomfort
but he does Aot complain and is hope
full that some day new leg will
arrive.
The Superintendent spoke about an
other little boy, Freddie Hoffman. Mr.
Eva found him in a Bowery doorway
trying to sleep in the cold He die
not want to go home, he was scar
ed, and afraid Of men, but he wen'
along when Mr. Eva showed hi:
Charities Department card. carried
solely for Identification. But tn.
world had been too hard on the lit
tie fellow, and he developed consump
ton, and died at ST. JOSeph's Hospital
) He begged SO pitifully Of Mr.. Eva tha
he be not buried in Potter's Field tha
other arrangements were made. II
|. is the only boy in the 1900 who ha
, died.
The Ash Can Sleeper
And there is the story of the bo
: and the ash can: Near the Brookly
Bridge on a cold October night NJ,
, Eva saw the soles of pair of shoe
and a boys cap very close togethe
5 and investigated. They were on lii
4 tie chap. abandoned and lonely, VIII
t had endeavOred to sleep on three as
4 cans. In his sleep he had doubled u
and slipped into the middle can. H
: was eXtrcated, fed, and clothed, an
v eventually was adopted by Connect
1 Their eWas another case, that of
boy of II, who looked much younge
a from New Jersey, an orphan, who ha
= wandered about for two days with n
o food. At the window of a small hous
a he saw a woman sitting who, /
I thought, looked like his dead mothe
SO he ventured up and rang the be-
e The woman came to the door, and +
e told her of his hunger and asked II
e food. She told him to wait and ST
It would attend to his case She di
: She telephOned TO a station house ar
the policeman who respond I W.
= obliged to arrest him for vagranc
l. When brought into court, the Magi
Y, trate asked the boy what he had
d say for himself. He faltered out tn
3 he had done no wrong; he had had I
IT food for two days, and the woman
n the window looked so like his moth
20 and SO pleasant that he asked T.
l. something to eat, and then he almo
is screamed out, please, please, NJ
n Judge, don't send me to jail!'
The Judge telephoned to Mr.. E
about the boy and asked him to tai
i him This all took place last winte
N and the boy is now earning s12
I'd week.
m 1t is only within the last ty
it months that Mr.. Evas work, Whi
d has absorbed all his time and ener
k for nearly sixteen years, has attrat
VS. ed attention., but now that those w
ed have learned about ii have arrang
lis this meeting at the Waldorf, it W
ut doubtless be large and interest
EN- audience that he will address
b. April 13.