Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1917 — Gales of GOTHAM and other CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gales of GOTHAM and other CITIES

Youngster of Eight Proves Himself a Wonder LOS ANGELES, CAL.—How Max Factor, aged eight, eked out a remarkable existence almost a month, after becoming separated from his parents with whom he recently came to California, was told by the hoy at police detective

headquarters. The boy hermit left the new home of his parents some time ago and after visiting the business district was unable to find his way back. When night fell he perched on the East Seventh street bridge, watching the crowds returning to their homes from work. He said that he believed his father might see him. But darkness found him alone, unclaimed. Hungry and tired, Max says that he returned to the bright lights of the streets and

gathered up discarded newspapers. This took many hours. Being an hohest boy, Max sold the papers to late wayfarers, but always explained that they were old papers and not neatly folded. He gathered up a few pennies, enjoyed a meager midnight lunch and slept in a barrel in an alley of the wholesale business district. He renewed his search the following morning, and when he failed to find the slightest trace of his parents he resumed selling papers. That night he gathered up several gunny sacks and established a hermit’s camp in Boyle Heights. There he slept and tried to keep warm during the long, cold nights. On Sunday he washed his clothing in the river after making a few cents selling papers on the streets. Such was the life of little hermit until the police found him. Shortly before dawn he approached Offlcw Boland at Third and Main street and said: “Won’t you get me something to eat? I am very hungry.” Officers who gathered about the; little hermit were surprised when they noticed how immaculately clean the boy was after his unusual experience. He had 15 centslnhlspocket§—hTssavingsdurrnghiS experience as a nomad. The child’s resourcefulness is considered remarkable, inasmuch as he had always had the comforts of a home, had never worked, and was never without his parents.

“Bad Man” Proved Handy With the Crockery JERSEY CITY. —When Charles V. Hughes was discharged from the construction job of the Lehigh Valley .railroad at lhack Tom, he didn’t like the twinkle in the eyes "of the other ninety-nine who came with him from the

South. It was this embarrassment that awoke the Greenville section of the city with the dread that there had been another munitions disaster when big Charley “busted” five hundred plates, cups and saucers over their heads while they were at breakfast in a freight car. Hughes, a negro, weighs exactly 220 pounds, so when the boss told him he was “canned” and he saw his friends giggle and whisper to one another, he decided to let them know •that he was going to remain with them

morally —and physically—despite the fact that he would work with them no longer, and had to sever amiable sclal relations with them. So after Charley had taken in a few of Greenville’s well-known all-night hostelries he went back to Black Tom. It was just breakfast time, and the crowd was seated about the tables in a big freight car. “If I don’t eat here, nobody will I” he shouted at them. No one invited him to take a seat, so he filled his arms with dishes, plates, saucers and cups and one after another crashed them on .head after head. Then they came in bunches, Charley hurling a dozen at a time. The interrupted diners dropped everywhere, wounded and beaten, while Charley strolled toward the pot of boiling stew. This was the climax. The crash of the dishes attracted people on the fringe of Black Tom and they hurried to spread the news that, “something WAS. exploding.” Then the police cmne and CTia'rleyHughes was placed under arrest as he dropped an armful of knives and forks that he was about to bring into play.

Woman Has Had Her Full Share of Adventure CLEVELAND. —A French father, a German mother, a Russian husband, and yet an American through and through. Her tailored attire and alertness of manner both proclaim her one. It is more than this, however, that has led

the Y. M. C. A. to employ Mrs. Marie A. Leif as Immigration secretary. For Mrs. Left has a history. When “Marie,” as she calls herself, was a little girl, her father, a French attorney practicing in Germany,, died. Marie was sent to Russia under the care of her uncle, then a Gentian consul in Russia. In Russia Marie attended a private school. Meantime a strange society had sprung up in the universities and schools of Russia —the “Order of So-

cial Democracy.” This society, in secret meetings, discussed and spread democratic ideas. At twelve years of age Marie became a member of the order. While teaching her class of peasants she was attacked by a baml of bloodthirsty Cossacks and severely punished. Then she was imprisoned for a number of weeks. When sixteen, she and another reformer were sentenced to life in northern Siberia. On the way she and on 4of the prisoners were married, together they started on the trip to Siberfti, collecting 900 prisoners on the way. Twelve of these tried to escape. Eight were killed in the attempt. Marie reached England seven months later, and shortly afterward joined her husband in America. He died as a result of his ill-treatment in Russia, and Mrs. Less taught night school and acted as Interpreter for the Santa Fe railroad in Topeka, Kan. She loves America and considers Cleveland the “finest city in America.” Yet Cleveland is going to lose Mrs. Less. She is to have charge of a settlement house in Omaha. I To Shut Down on “Goods Sent on Approval” NEW YORK. —“Goods sent on approval.” The chances are that this announcement will soon disappear from dry goods catalogues. The concession la so abused by the public..tlmt the system no longer pays, and it seems likely that the managers of the

big stores will put their heads together and make a mutual agreement to 1 no longer send anything out on approval. ... ’ Women customers are the worst offenders. They go to a shop, make a few trifling purchases so as to get on the list of customers, and then they begin ordering things t “on approval.” * * One day it will be a hat, the next a scarf, and the third a jacket. Each

of these articles is worn for a day or two, then returned. Never by any chance is one kept and paid for. In this way the “on-approval” swindler gets the reputation of being wealthy and well dressed. And when the game falls at one shop she tries another. Everywhere you find folk whose means do not match their and who* are yet so averse to hard work that they are forever Inventing, shady schemes to do their fellows out of the use of requisites. The sample Mend is known to every firm. You find him, or her, haunting the free library, and making notes out of advertisement columns of every firm which sends samples free. ' The wrltar once, by way of experiment, made such a list for himself. It Included two sorts of cocoa, a beef extract, some patent oats, a new sweet- . meat, a pastry flour, two sorts of flavoring, one of scent, one of soap and five patent medicines. •• Women clerks in particular complain that it makes too much work.