Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — The tragedy of Life in New York. [ARTICLE]

The tragedy of Life in New York.

Coiti anything be more pathetic than tie story of 11-year-old Sanford Parke rushing out of the miserable Brooltyn tenement house the other day tqearn a few pennies wherewith to buj food for his starving mother, rendeed helpless by dropsy? Poor boy! Ie could earn no pennies, and in dcsper.tion stole the brass handle of a trolley motor, hoping to sell it to a Sikmai, and thus procure money to y fool. But he was nabbed by a polfceman and locked up in a station house. Meanwhile the poor mother died of starvation. Is there any worse distituti»n than this in the most wetchedof London’s slums?