Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-02
AMERICA A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY, EVEN
 FOR STREET WAITS
Former Governor of Alaska, John q. Brady, Taken From an AImhOuse When d Child.

New York, Dec. 1-(Correspond- ence of The Associated Uress.)- America is land of opportunity even for street waifs, orphans and found- lings was recalled by the recent death in Sitka, Alaska, of John G. Brady, former Governor of that territory, and the fact that when a child young Brady had been taken from an aims house and placed in the custory of the Children's Aid Society of New York which educated him and placed him on the road to fame and fortune.
 Hundreds of other cases similar to ex-GOvernor Brady's it is said, could be cited by the organization which for more than half century has been taking homeless boys and girls off city streets and sending them to farms in the West where they grew up to be self-reliant, trustworthy and honored citizens. certain delicacy surrounds the publication of the names of the more noted of these inner Walfs but the report of the Children's Aid Society in 1918 shows the following harvest of careers" up to date: One governor of state, one gover- nor of a territory (John G. Brady of Alaska); two members of Congress, two district attorneys, two sheriffs, two mayors, a justice of the supreme court; federal judge, four state judges, two college professors, seven high school principals, two school su- perintendents, an auditor-general of a state, nine members of state legisla- lures, "A clergymen, one cashier of life insurance company, two art1sus, . Senate clerk, six railroad officials, eighteen journalists, 34 bankers, 19 physicians, 8 lawyers, 12 postmast- CTS, contractors, 97 Ceaa ners, civil engineers "and vast number, of oth- CT business and professional men, clerks, mechanics, farmers and their wives and others who have acquired property and filled positions of honor and trust"
 Among the American forces sent overseas, it is pointed out ill the re- port, are twelve commissioned otfl- cers and about 1000 soldiers and sail ors who were once wards of the Children's Aid Society. All were res cued from the streets or from asylums and correstive institutions.
 l The society since it's foundation on January 9, 1855, has placed 32,031 or phans and deserted children ill good homes in the country where many of them were latet adopted. In addition S1,472 older boys and girls have been sent to farms in the West where they have been put on their feet and, be- coming owners ranches, have shown their appreciation in later years by l taking orphans into their homes. l It has been estimated that the cost of salvaging a child from the streets, according to the plan of the Society, is $50 which not only defrays the cost of placing the yOungster ill comfOrt- able country home but provides for supervision so long as it is necessary. The society keeps in touch with the l boys or girls thus sent out and has on file thousands of grateful letters
 written by them after they have
 grown to manhood and womanhood. An instance of this gratitude was ar forded in the report for 1918 of Edwin G Merrill, treasurer of the society, who acknowledged bequest of $o,-
 900 from the estate Of Dr. Michael A.
 Jordan, physician and educator Of Logansport. Indiana Dr. Jordan many years ago was a friendless orphan Ill New York City and was befrlended by the Chilren's Aid Society. Many slml- lar legacies from former wards have been left to the organization ill the past.