Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-03-26
| MOTHER RICH.
| POOR SEARCH
FOR LOST SONS
Mrs. DuffieId Seeks Hers
In New York BoWery;
Mrs. Whitaker to Hunt
for Hers in the West.

New York, March 70 (py the AS
sociated Press. "A mother, cul-
tured and refined, with all the re-
sources of immense wealth today
Ivainly combed the dark, ill-smell-
in bowery for her lost son, heir
to a million.
At the same time another mother,
worn by ill-health and hard work,
put together her few threadhafe
clothes and with firm confidence
prepared to journey to find her
missing boy.
The first mother, Mrs Graham
Duffield, of Chicago has almost
lost her faith. For eight days sne
has hunted Today she visited the
haunts Of the wrecks who have
failed in the battle of life lnd
dropped out of sight into the calld-
ron known as the Bowcry But she
| failed.
The second mother Mrs. Mary
| Whitaker, Of Henry street, Is Su-
preme in her confidence. Her hoy
/ is somewhere in the west and to-
morrow or Tuesday, in accordance
with her announcement Garner IN
the week, she will leave New fpEk
lin a cheap little motor car WricE
! she bought with her savings, carry
ing everything she owns, and ready
| TO back her faith against the hard
ships Of the road.
Rcbelicd Against School.
| Mrs. Duffield, whose 1T-year
Ison, Gordon, rebelled against school
| life in Plainfield, and fled to the
| Bowery, let her presence be known
on her arrival. The boy responded
with telephone calls. But Away )
after telling her he would come 10
see her, failed. Tonight his mother
appeared on the verge Of break
down and feared approaching ul-
mess would force her to relurn nome
tomorrow. she picked up ner
search today at the point where 1t
! left off last night, when te'A-
phone call from her SON was traced
| TO a drug store on First avenue.
| Frail, still youthful in appear"
lance despite the worry She has en-
perienced, she entered squalid
rooming houses. rubbing shoulders
with unkempt dangerous men. She
never flinched
llinglcs With Derelicts.
She mingled with the btoaen
IuGIGIlGlD VI IDONNAy AAANf b'Ah'A'd9
!any one had seen a boy of five teet
nine. dressed in a faded blue suit.
At one restaurant she was ;old that
a boy answering the general de-
scription of Gordon had washed
dishes there-up to yesterday At
a squalid rs cents a bed rooming
house, not more than two blocks
distant, she was informed that a
youth might have been Gordon mad
slept there-up TO last night.
At another restaurant, a sleepy
! habitue aroused himyalf enough to
I tell the mother that "a kid like
that guy was down to the Cooper
Union" But at Cooper Union,
which for eight days has been the
center Of her frantic search, there
was no sign of the boy.
Gordon, so he told her over the
/ telephone, is trying a personally
conducted experiment. He wants
to experience real poverty TO see
what it is like.
Boy Has No Money.
"But he wants to be good to me.
know he does" she said. Il can't
believe he wants to make me suf-
fer. He may be starving. | know
he has no money If he would
only come and see me-"
And Gordon, with an air of
bravado, breezes into a pay station
| telephone-a different one each
nlght-calls up his mother. calls
her mons" promises to go at
once to her hotel and see her-and
every night leave her to sit with
eyes glued on door which never
opens.
In a Henry street tenement. is a
different scene.
A few days ago Mrs. Whitaker
/ told her neighbors that at last she
had put away enough pennies to
make possible her trip into the
west and tonight she was pushing
forward with her plans just as de-
E. terminedly as If the west was only
as big as Central park.
Separated -Four Years.
/ Four years ago. in Oklahoma
City, she was separated from her
boy, Sidney-who is two years old
er than Gordon Duffield. The lad
| drifted into the wheat belt and his
mother to New York. Seated in
I her dingy tenement, UP three
| flights of stairs, she told a news
paper man that when she drives
out Of New York Tuesday
with just a few gallons Of gasoline
in the tank of her car. she is first
| going to strike out for Kansas
| City.
For it was from Kansas City that
Mrs Whitaker last heard from
her son. Later she received word
from an employment agency in Sa-
Ipulpa, Okla, that boy resembling
her son had contracted there for
work in the Kansas and Missouri
wheat fields.
Il can find him." she said. II
know / can because l know it in
,Imy mothers mind"
The heart of Henry street goes
with her. More than that, a small
purse will be given her, for al
Though the neighbors can afford
only few pennies they are gather