New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
SITS ALL NIGHT
OVER DEAD CHUM
Bow Wood PoaCher. Too
Scared to Get Help,
Guards Subway Trench.
TELLS WORKMEN,
THEN DISAPPEARS
Body of Youngster Who Fell
Found in Pool with Bundle
of Kindling in Arms.

Two small boys climbed down into
the cavern that is TO be the Cana!
Street station Of the Seventh A,cnue
subway Monday afternoon. They had
waited for the last Of the ironworkers
to start homeward. for they were ben.
on a desperate enterprise.
A half hour later one of the boys
came forth alone He was pale and
quaking. For another half hour he
fingered around the timbered shaft
where kiosk is 10 rise. Then. at
sight Of a policeman, he scooted away.
At midnight Tony Chrome. still in his
working clothes, stumbled into the
Macdougal Street police station.
"My boy Frank he's los" he told the
lieutenant. when get home from
work he's notta there. Ny wife says
he's gonna playing. But he no coma
back"
The lieutenant advised Chrome 20 re-
port the case to the Children's Society.
Yesterday morning the .ronworkers
came back to the cavern, to find boy
sitting, crosslegged. beside its mouth.
ITS one o. them damn little wood
thieves" said Bill Gushue. the fore
man. Get out o. this, kid"
The kid, for the moment. got" But
few minutes afterward he was back
again. on guard.
BEAT it," yelled Gushue. "You want
to get pinched?r
This time the oliveskinned boy
stood his ground.
I'm waitin' for a friend he ex-
planned deGantly. Hes sick, think.
Pretty soon he come, and then help
him home
"You wait for your sick friend some
where else" cautioned the foreman.
"Your folks amt going TO burn up any
more of the planking out OF this sta
ton"
Again the boy retreated, only to re-
turn i'm another half hour with half a
dozen other small boys. At the head
of the party Gushuc's friend marched
boldly into the excavation.
I've gotta find Frankie!" cried the
boy. in desperation. Hes down here
somewhere. Last night, when we come
TO get wood. he fall off beam. | was
afraid 10 go dowr where he was, so
just waited
"Sure ne amt come OUT" asked
Gushue.
sure. | watch all night"
where did he fall from
The boy pointed TO beam which be
fore long will be part of the roof OF.
the new subway station. Fifteen feet
below. on what s to be the station
platform, was a pool. 1t was too dark
to see anything but the dull simmer
of the water. Gushue climbed down. He
was a bit pale himself when he came
back.
"Yep. He's there he said, "and l
guess he's dead
By the time the ambulance arrived
the body Of Frank Chrome had been
lifted out of the excavation. In his
arms was clutched the prize for which
he died piece of , by 10 planking,
about three feet long. There was moth
ing the ambulance physician could do
except to enter In his notebook "
o. A. dead on arrival.
The mysterious night watcher chose
that time to disappear without leaving
card or clew for the convenience of the
police. The other boys-Franks
friends. picked up in Sullivan Street
could only say they thought his name
was Tony. He was an alien from anoth-
or street. member of another gang
Frank Cirone's father, carrying in
his hand a crumpled bit of paper bear
ing the address Of the Children's So
ciety. noticed a crowd as he passed
Canal and Varick streets. He he'd no
time 10 stop, and was half block away
before a boy, breathless with his run
and the Importance of his news, over
took him.
"You lookin' for frankie, Mister CT
rome ," painted the boy. Then you bet
ter come back with me-"
And so Tony Chrome found h. miss
ing boy without putting the Children's
Society TO any bother.