Arizona republican., 1922-03-26
Mother Seeks Heir
To Million Dollars
In Neu York SIur1 S
TRepubIIcan A. p. Leased WlreI

IRGpuOiiCdn a =. L-CGSC0 fNICl
NEW YORK, Mar. 25-A mother
cultured and refined. with all the re-
sources of immense wealth today
vainlv conabed the dark, ill-smelling
bowery for her lost son, heir TO
million.
At the same time another mother
worn by ILL health and hard work
put together her few threadbare
clothes and with firm confidence pre-
pared to journey to find her missing
The first mother. Mrs Graham
Duffield OF Chicago. has almost lost
her faith. For eight days she mas
hunted. Today she visited the haunts
of the -eaks wno have failed IN
the battle Il life aud dropped out Of
sight into the cauldron known as the
Bowery. But she failed.
The second mother. Mrs. Mary
Whitaker Of Henry street, Is su-
prenae in her confidence. Her boy IS
somewhere in the west and tomorrow
or Tuesday. in accordance with her
announcement earlier in the Week.
she viii leave New York in a cheap
little motor car which she bought
with her savings, carrying everything
she owns. and ready to back her
faith against the hardshlps OF lhe
road. "a
son Gordon. rebelled against schooi
life i'm Plainfield, and fled TO the
Rowerv let her presence be known
on her arrival. The boy responded
with telephone calls. But always
after telling her he would come 70
see her failed. Tonight his mother
anneared on the verge OF break
down and feared approaching illness
would force her to return home To-
she nicked up her search today at
the noint where it left off last night
when a telephone call from her son
was traced TO a drug store on FIRST
avenue. i:.4
FraiI still youthful in appearance
DESPITE the worry she has eXperlehceu'
She entered squalid roomlng houses
rubbing shoulders with unhelnp'
dangerous men. She never tllncheu.
she mingled with the proken ue
relicts of Bowery life. ASKING y oas
one had seen a boy OF iiVe leee Ai"N'
dressed in q faded blue sun. .o,a
.hat hov answering the general de-
scrintion OF Gordan had washed aish-
es there-up to yesterday. AZ
eoualid Ok cents a bed rooming mouse
,,at more than two blocks distant
Che was informed that youth wno WV.
n,ioht have been Gordon had slepe
there-up to last night. s,oonv
another restaurant sleepy
,,.hi+,a aroused himself enough 10
t,s1 ta1i tI,o noother that "a kid like that
49,. ,,-ss down to the Cooper Union.
by " Cooper Union, which for eight
5".e. has been the center OF her
f,.sntic search, there was no sign "a
the boy. - hor over the
telephone, is trying a peIsotie'itS pI.s ~
conducted experiment. he wa''rs ,,7bef
evnerience real poverty 10 see
it is like. - - me
80, he does" she said. i cannot
t11iey-e i1;t he wants to make me sullel.
L. IT, .,,sv he starving. ] know he nas
~ .aoIev .,,oT Ir he would only come
ai9 9nd Gordon, with an air OF BRAY
do breezes into pay station Leae
s,taone--a different one each nlsnt !,
oalIe nm his mother calls her M3ins,l 3Int'al
nron1ises to go at once 70 neI iiJ %e,
and see her-each nlght leate aoo,.
~ sit with eyes bAuSN
which never opens. RAJ
other Mother Has Faitn
Tn a Henry Street tenement IS
different scene. 1r-,,it+sl,er
Iii - few days ago Mrs. Whlttak,ea f,-l
.oid her neighbors that at last slle
Sna to mt away enough pennies 70
nnaize rr,sI possible her trip into the Wes1
nnd tonight she was pushing lor
MAR ward with her plans just as oeeel
r,inedlv as IL the west was oniy do
-Four years ago in Oklahomsa., Sley
she separated from her boy 9luiley
who is two years older thah tloiVIil tIn
Dvffield. The lad drifted TO tile
wheat belt and his mother 10 ne"
6 SEATED in her dingy tenement up
tbree flights of stairs, she told
,,o,ysnapernan Taa- that when she dr!Ves
ont of New York Tuesday, with lust
= few gallons of gasoline in the tank
~ her car. she first is going to strlhe
ont for Kansas City.
For it was from Kansas Clty thd0
Mrs. Whitaker last heard from leI
son. Later she received Word Iroln
an employment agency in Sapuipa'
Okla. that a boy resembling her son
had contracted there for work in the
Kansas and Missouri wheat fields.