The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-28
YOUNG MAN AIDS
 EMILY EMMET IN QUEST FOR ROOM
She Asks in Vain For Direc-- tion To Some Place Where She May Get Assistance From Charitable Organ izations.
Informants Tell Her There is No Such Place-Finally Gets Cheap Furnished Room With Kindly Peo- pie.

Room With Kindly Peo
 pie. l
 It was after leaving the house where I had met with such kindness that I encountered what proved to be one of the most interesting adven- lures of my experience. This was the 1 meeting with a young man whose 1 genuine sympathy and thorough man liness made on me a lasting impres- sion
 This absolute stranger treated me with as much consideration as he might have shown his own mother. or his sister. He was SO earnest and sincere in his desire to help me, l yet so careful not to embarrass me, that I rejoiced at having met him. Never have met a man who treated cere kindness or whose charity came more truly from the heart,
 I'm fdigressing from my story. for just a minute to talk about him. It a, mighty splendid thing, after having been sickened with stories of the loose morals of the socially prominent, to go among the working people and find a man who is, instinctively, a gen. tIeman. Don't tell me there isn' hope for the girl stranger when there are such men as he to protect them.
 I told yesterday of meeting kindly people in the home at 590 Broad street [ had made tentative ar rangement for room. there, and was to return if found nothing bet ter Then I started out anew. It was still pouring rain and although early in the evening, there were few CT houses where lighted windows in- vited a summons at the bell.
 Have you ever trudged along lower Broad street on 8 rainy night, tired, step lunging forward as your heel caught in the uneven flag pavement and at the next sinking into puddles of water formed in its deficiencies?
 It was as was returning from this fruitIess end of the search that a young man who had heard me in- during for Q room at one of the houses, stepped down to me from the veranda and asked, in a kindly tone, if I had been successful. xt N
 He walked along with me a short distance, asking me where had tried for lodgings, where had come from, and in general the same questions concerning my people and plans for work that had been asked at the house where I was so kindly received as told in yesterdays story. to all of which I made the same replies.
 Finally he said:
 q think I know where you could get room but I don't know how much you want to pay for it, How much do you think you would want to pay ?''
 I thought moment and answer ed:
 l Well. have only about s2 with me so I couldn't pay very much I'm afraid this room would be n olrs ,11+F f111 so+ I'll do. [ know it isn't proper. and I don't want you to think that mean anything wrong by it, but I hate to see a girl in, such "a. fix, and if you want to take the room I'll be willing to see that it's all right for this | weeIx.'' sel @zsseaIss
 ssoh, but that wouldn't be right, protested.
 NOV, don't want you to think I mean anything out of the way at all, but I feel sorry for anyone who hasn't any parents because I have such 3, fine mother and father and a l good home in New York state, : decided to accompany the young
 man. His words rang with sheer ity.
 But there was no one at home where he thought could get this room for a dollar and a half He thought of an- other place down a very little way where it was perfectly respectable for a girl to stay and here as at so many I other places that evening we were told l the old story of stno room The young man remembered a. number of different places in thatN district but at each place it was the same
 ] The young mans sympathy grew as
 it seemed more likely that was not to find 8 place and heN told me not te
 worry because he would see that ]
 found one before he left me.
 Fearing that I would give myself away if I talked much, left most ,o1
 the conversation to him, only asking
 now and then question to prompt
 him to impart the information which
 I was seeking.
 Isn't there any place at all where g
 girl can go when she hasn't any place : to stay and hasn't much money?''
 asked.
 He answered in the negative ana
 then suggested that perhaps [ migh- go back to the police station and ask for help there which he considered ter wouldn't let any girl do.
 stBut what do the girls do here?'' asked.
 well, most of the girls don't care, , my informant replied.
 You see,' he continued, there's
 pretty tough bunch of girls around
 here and what makes them so is tn poor pay that they get. Most of then work in factories and room down her in these houses and if you don't nint my speaking plain, they're not the sor for you to know. ---- stNows most of these houses a1onl Broad street that you tried are not al
 right and they are certainly no place fo1-s