Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-07
TNIEL We INVITED TO DINNER,
NAVY "MO7HER" BRINGS 80
Mrs. Moore. Who Has Aided
Sailors IS Years, Says Those
Of Today Are Better Men
Than Those Of Other Years
With Three Sons in Service.
" oman Takes Delight in
Helping Warship H'orkers.
Distributes Fruit in Hospital

When YOU find olive drab and nay
blue uniforms almost as thick as pigeons
ABOUT the City Hall plaza on Sunday
mornings don't think the birds are the
drawing card. True. the marine and
sailor boys who gather there usually
nave lot of fun watching their fcath
cr"d friends gobblr M peanuts. but
all the time tho pigeons are dcvouring
nuts the boys are thinking of little
later in the day when they themselves
will b" "gobbing'' dclicactcs.
For the City Hall Plaza is whore
Mother Moore. who is really Mrs.
c. \. Moore. of 701 North Sixteenth
street, meets her 'poys" on Sunday
mornings and leads them to homes where
they arc entertained for tho day. There
isn t sailor or marine at the Navy
Yard who doesn't know "Mothcr"
Moore. That's why. when she invites a
dozen. she usually has twice or three
| times as many.
Three Sons in Service
/ In neat looking dus cap and apron
She was cleaning house today. getting
ready for the return Of the last of her
three Sous who entered service. She
sat down in the midst of piled up brir.
brac. disarranged furniture and clean
| ing paraphernalia to talk about her
hundreds of boys at the navy yards.
"One Sunday members of an uptown
church had asked me to bring n dozen
boys for them to take to dinner and on
tertain. found the dozen waiting for
me at City Hall and we started to walk
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smiled rcminiSceutly. "As we passed a
corner three sailors hailed MS with
! Where are YOU going After eats. an
sworcd one Of the boys. And tho three
strays looked so lonesome | asked them
to Join us. thought three more would
not make any difference.
"When We got to the church ono of
the hostosscs gasped and cried. Mrs.
Moore. what have You done? Why, We
said to bring twelve WELL ! an
swered. three more won't make much
difference But when | looked back at
my family | counted thirty three. All
along the street. as other service men
spied us, they got the message eats
and fell in line. II really was a big
joke. but they were all taken care OF
and they had great time"
Fifteen Years of Work
Mrs. Moore is not Just war
mother. For moro than fifteen years
she has been mothering the boys at the
navy yard and her work has just inten
sifed with the activities of the last few
years.
There is a vast difference between
the sailor boys OF today and those Of ter
years ago. Mrs. Moore id "rv'
hold Sunday services on board ship whcr
the boys came barefooted. some Will
bottles in their pockets. The morale Of
the men today is splendid. think tho
difference is due largely to public opin
ion. Before tho war the sailor was
regarded as a sort of good for moth
ing A man in sailors uniform was
not welcomed except to places he should
: not visit With the coming of the wal
and the enlistment of hundreds of boys
who proved their worth to Uncle San
the attitude Of the people changed. Th
best homes wore thrown wide open L
sailors and marines. ns well as the sol
ders, and the boys fclt the love and re