Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-03-26
SON NPLAYSH HIDE
AND SEEK WITH
NAAND MILLION
Calls Little Woman Up
Every Night But Dod-
ges Her to Be Poor.
Another Mother Of N. Y.
Cauldron Fits Flivver
to Find Her Boy, Too.

New York. March 25.-(By The
tured and refined, with all the re-
sources Of immense wealth, is vainly
combing the dark. i'll smelling Bowery
for her lost son. heir to a million.
At the same time another mother,
worn by i'll health and hard work. put
together her few threadbare clothes
and with firm confidence prepared to
journey to find her missing boy.
The first mother. Mrs. Graham Duff
field of Chicago, has almost lost her
faith. For eight days she has
hunted. Saturday she visited the
haunts of the wrecks who have failed
in the battle of life and dropped out
of sight into the cauldron known as
the Bowery. But she failed.
Every Cent Put In Quest
The second mother, Mrs. Mary
Whitaker of Henry street, is su-
preme in her confidence. Her boy is
somewhere in the west and Tuesday.
in accordance with her announcement
earlier IN the week. she will leave
New York in cheap little motor car
which she bought with her savings.
carrying everything she owns, ana
ready to back her faith against the
hardships Of the s~saat.~ssssses..r
Mrs Duffield. whose 17-year-old
son. Gordon. rebelled against school
life in rlainfield. \. J.. and fled to
the Bowery. let her presence be
known on her arrival. The boy re
sponded with telephone calls. But
always after telling her he would
come to see her. failed. Saturday
l. onnaarpd fhp
verge of q breakdown and feared ap-
nroarhinc illness would force her to
return home.
Always Too Late On Trail
Mrs. Duffield picked up her search
Saturday at the point it lett Off last
night. when a telephone call from her
son was traced to drug store on
First avenue.
Erail still youthful in. appearance
acspite the worry she has expert
erced she entered snuallid rooming
houses, rubbing shoulders with I'M ]
kermit. dangerous men. She never
flinched.
She mingled with the broken dere-
lets Of Bowcry life. asking if anyone
had seen boy of ) feet, 8, dressed in
a faded blue suit.
AT one restaurant she was told that
q boy answering the general descrlp-
tion Of Gordon had washed dishes there
up 70 Friday.
At squaIid 25-cents- s-a-bed rooming |!
house. not two blocks distant. she was !
informed that a youth who might have
been Gordon had slept there up to last /
night
Wants to Taste Real Poverty
At another restaurant. a sleepy hab
itue reused himself enough to 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 scene of her frantic hope,
there was no sign of the boy.
Gordon. she says, told her over the
telephone he is trying personally
conducted experiment. He wants to
experience real poverty to see wat it
is like
but he wants to be good to me,
! know he does she said. II can't
believe he wants to make me suffer.
He may be starving. ! know ne has no
If he wu&ld only come and see
NE"
Separated in Oklahoma
And Gordon. with an air Of bra sddo.
b, eezes into a pay station telephone
q different one each night-calls up
his mofhef, calls hef mons. PROMISES
tC go AT once TO her hotel and see Ter
--arG leaves he~ each night to sit with
eyes glued t" a door Which never opens
In Il Henry street tenement is diff
ferent scene.
4 few days ago Mrs. Whitaker told
her ne;shbors that at last she had
saved up enough pennies to make her
first trip into the west end Saturday,
night she was pushing Toward with
her plans just as determinedIy as if
the west was only as big as Central
park.
Four years ago in Oklahoma City.
she separated from her boy. Sidney,
who is two years older than Gordon.
The lad drifted to the wheat belt and
his mother to New York.
Seated in her dingy tenement up
three flights of stairs. she told news
paper man that when she drives out
Of New York Tuesday with just few /
gallons Of gasoline in the tank Of her
'ar. she first is going to strike out
for Kansas City. 4
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