The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-27
Emily Emmet Is Directed First of All to the ssCaba- ret Boarding House" Dis trict Where Her Shabby Attire Makes Poor I'm pression.
Furnished Rooms" Sign is
 Not Often For the Girl With Little Cash Emily
 Gets Promise of a Job and
 Meets Some Kind People.
(By Emily Ennet. )


 told yesterday of starting forth into the night, no longer Emily Elm met. newspaper woman, but Emily Es4nmet, homeless friendless. almost penniless girl. in Bridgeport seeking work and seaFnhAng for decent place of shelter. [ made it a point to reach the railroad station Sunday night just as the 6sSS train from New Haven arrived. and ningling with the, alightinE passeng gers Joined in the harrying, Josf1ing crowd hast ening from the tracks into the station
 walked through the well-h1led station but the passing, disinterest- ed dances which I encountered had already begun to assure me that my costume so pletely changed my identity that no friend would look closely enough to discover me No one looks twice at the poorly clothed unattractive shop girl
 A policeman stood just without the door.
 .evvi1a you tell me where can get room 2s' asked in tones whose tremuIousness was not arected
 The escop looked hard at me be- fore replying
 <Yez [ can tell you where to get a room Go right ID Fairfield avenue to number and aek for Mrs. M and tell her sent you Teu her the policeman at ths station sent you mp and she'll give you q room 1FieA lastk sentence was added with enn- 10 ca3rE out my supposed 1gnor- ance Of every thing concerning the city, made the policeman tell me where E4frf1e1d aves1ue was and how to find Mrs. On being di- recAsd, proceeded to che designated lIuxnber which I know perfectly was in Chs cabaxet boaEd1ng housB dis triot
 MrzL 1E------ was saA nefne. A 1lttze girl Eet me In. but got no farther Mrs. M looked aef me quizdcal1y as I asked for lodgings, and told her of the pollcemanss sending ne- But was not promising looking roon- .-RSo. was told T haven't any room but yos. might try 19ra- p in the next block and tell her sent you and ahe may have 8 room P
 Mrs D. likewise surveyed me from head b foot particularly the bundle and decided that aR1e too had no room but tlaat might e.fi1sd one In the long block across the street that Weu1d be cheap, ,s--tfl5s last with emphasis Then, as a sort of a con- science sa1ve she added:
 hs too bad to have to be looking for room in such q hard rain-ss
 It was evident that my bundle and ! were sAOl p1CSQ01OuS Sl2OU$A EoOkl0S for the caberet district and so I deter z mined that 1t would be most natural to wander down Broad street in the seareh and this did While I had not purpoBe1y chosen a rainy night, the clements favored me for the rain was coming down in torrents and it was so dark that found it hard to distinguish the little urnished rooms for rents signs, which were mum erDus enough to be sure
 Every where the answer was the same, once [ had been thoroughly looked over. we are filled up here but you might try next door. or across the street. 2
 At one place short, woman with sharp black eyes had an actic room for S1-25 a week might go up and look at it if wanted too but she couldn't climb the stairs herself l hesitated on the s1.25I had only $2 and didn't have any ssJobY yet
 Well couldn't let it go for less than s1-25 and anyway I was expect ing man to come and take it. thought it was him ringing the bell when you came. think hell be was told in such d way that knew room.
 On a little farther woman n with akinder tone in her voice than I had yet heard that evening told me the 9Id story that they were "au full'i there and directed me next door.
 Here bright and active young wo. man sent me across the street, ad-
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