The evening world. Newspaper, April 21, 1904, Page 10

TLE MBE’ HUNT FR PAP _Henry Billings Boyce Left Home Seven Years Ago, but His Golden-Haired Daughter of Wine Still Hopes to See Him. MABEL BOYCE, WHO ASKS THE EVENING WORLD Zz Pretty Uttle Mabel Boyce, blue-eyed, on golden-haired and just nine years old, has teken matters into her own hands and made an effectual effort to better the condition of herself and her mother. ‘The following ictter war received by The Evening World from her to-day: * Bi. DEAR SIR-I have often rand ‘Si in your papor where litle sirls as! aN you to find their papa thom, is) BT thought I would ask “you to , Please find my papa for me. He ¥ Jeft my mamma and me when I was two years old. My mamma has work- e@ hard for me and she ia not well nows It ts hard for us to ect along ‘We need things, but mamma can't get them for us, My papa’s name fg Harry Billings Boyce, By doing a0, I shall be very thenkful to you. Hoping to hear from you soon, I re- maln vocr Mttle friend, MABEL ROYCE, # Ryerson street, Brooklyn, N. Y. ‘When a reporter from The Evening World reached tho address in the above aot a little girl carying a small bundle > Bf wood was just tolling up the steps bf the house. Bright and Pretty Child, » (Bh was an wnusually bright and | pretty child, with clustering golden ‘curls, big blue eyes and cheeks scar- Met with the cold and ise. *Yes'm, I'm Mubel,” she answered, dn a sweet. cheory voice, to & question from her visitor. “Won't you come in” he added hos: pitably, leading the way up « narrow flight of stairs to a big bleak room in the front of the house. Mabel's manner was that of a simple, Ohildlike Uttle girl. not tn the Ie forward, but graceful and unatte 5 with just a touch of childisi: ed Mabel tatu trying to think | ness, A very sweet iittle maiden wat i peeaeies vous." i} mply, naturally | evident iit ieband? *Dhe roont into which she ushered her Joned the re- talker was bere. cold and nearly un- furnished, No carpet of any kind cov- ered the bare boards. There were two br three chairs, « table, a Kitchen siove in which smouldered a few sticks of Wood and some newspapers, filing ‘he Foom with smoke, and in one corner a bed, upon which lay a frai-looking Woman, stili young, but looking older than her years, owing to work and Ill- health. } \ Little Mapel's eyes and hair were | repetitions of her mother's, now aimmea | | by suffering. A sweet-looking woman = gtill-once probably « very pretty one ‘was Mrs, Boyce. Mabel introduced her mother, sented Mor visitor, and then, with a deftnoas | equired from long experience in looking | Out for herself, filtted about the room, me when Malel war two ii i He | the siove; * Theron running to { yo Then last tal Brooklyn, Mabel J a nil do general house- been trying aguin to Ay to lenve her alone so with @ worried bear to think of t straightening the bed-clothes, feeding rated from her, as we should , the smoking fire from the little bundle her Ina home.’ And, besides, if Of wood and “tidying things wp," as she ae Fr board expresed !t. nthe Vat night. Mabel has to 1 nod for} “How did vou come to write this let. ter to The Evening World, Mabel?" p vearest to us Were @sked the reporter. 4s 1 woud Uke. iy lttie gipl'te | The chiid blushed prettily. Aesoolntod With, But she is a good | Why Wrote Letter, “Oh,” whe said, “f have read in the An Opportunity for Everybody. These Prices. looked affecttonatel; | noticing that her met or the | creased. het to her hese , " ; onc ford testers, trom ther tle eis tis, Des Sour head ache wm: ||] High value and their unapproachably low prices. Would send one too, and perhaps in) "Sho has an old hend on her shoul eerari ro misht find my papas (you ter Pa pie en eand “often that we guarantee the goods and ev @ee, mamma ts sick and it is hard for | UY Ne her to take care of me, so I thought if her My papa knew about it perhaps hy | Bent, brave CIR ‘ And means of existence Would help us. hat often found ii her aa_her own idea,” sald the should lke work “She showed me the letter at-| clean offices,” sald Mrs. Bo nd_asked If sho) would give more time at h Might eond ic At first I told her no; | Mabey fe me mere timo ath then I thought perhaps the child was! In answer to questions cone Re after all, Something Ty expenses Mra. Lio atl about them. » this pretty set Intell i ys 0 be done for us, so I allowed | $1.15 per week for the 8 yar \to mat) ene lett ie nd Mate re ow ncett re © present necessity,” went on th furnishing. ¥ 16 | Mother, came from Mabel's reiting ion to'this is hardly: sug | Rho measles about two weeks iKo. BN ve up my position in a laun- "Yes, 4 hool,”” sald Mabel, “or 3 ry where I was working in order to|1 did \intll T got sick ‘with the meastes. exe, hom and attend to ber. My place|T hi cin g0 again in a few days} anes of SoueNSi BO naw I am with- mt | ut Work and in poor health myself.) ead better | {7% had a Uttle hemorrhage a couple FOR aie Aa | Gof dave, ago. brought on probatiy. tis Paha repented, when, her vin | Peold and overwork, and this, I think, suggested her amusements, I Uke lace, Cuban heels, eee BANKING AND FINANCIAL. BANKING AND FINANCIAL, _ | NEW YORK CITY 3% ' TAX EXEMPT GOLD BONDS To be. sold Tuesday, May 3d, 1904, as follows: $32,000,000 Corporate Stock Payable in 50 years. ¥ $5,000,000 Refundiag Assessment Bonds Payable in 10 years, OFFERED DIRECT TO INVESTORS. These securities are a legal investment for Trust Funds and exem i Tiered form. for State purposes, and will be issued in coupon amapter 274 of the Laws of 1904, which applies to the sale of of the oo of New York, provides that “all or none” bids ee » considere by the Comptroller unless the bidder offering to pure . ‘all or none’” of the Bonds offered for sale shall also offer to pur- et re oy ltl ieee ids in a sealed envelope, enclosed in an addressed enyel POSIT OF TWO PER CENT. OF THE F AR VALUE IDS BID FOR MUST ACCOMPANY BIDS. Such deposit must Pim money or certified check upon a solvent Banking Corporation. Shad information see “City Record,” published at 2 City any Bank or Trust Company, or address EDWARD M. GROUT, iy @ New York, 280 Broadway, New York, button and lace, $4.50 pair. 1:20 pair Oxfords, in patent leather, black kid and box calf, SD .00 $ pair. it leather and black kid Oxfords ani sizes 846 to 2 6th Ave., Cor. 20th St. R Great Basement Sale. Everybody Can Pay Take advantage of this sale and secure shoes for yourself and your family, Look at the descriptions of the shoes which follow, showing their marvelously This is the whole story—sych are the facts—nothing more need be said _except erything we ay GS Women’s *4.90 and $3.50 Shoes, Patent leather and black kid, button and Women’s $3.00 and g—=— $2.50 Shoes, Black kid and patent leather, Women’s *2,"°and $1,°° Oxfords, Black kid and patent leather, also Women’s $1.50 Black Kid Dianas, Women’s $2.5u and $3.00 patent Icather and black kid Oxfords, welt $] 50 * and McKay sewed Cuban and military ncels, latest toe shapes... . Men’s $3.50 and $3.,0¢! Mien’s $3.50 and $3.00 ‘patent leather, black kid | and box calf Lace Shoes, | welt soles, Men’s Serviceable Lace Shoes, $ Child's §2,00 and $1.50 black kid lace, also $e OO Bere fod Youths’ Satin Calf and Box l pair Pipes Shoes, sizes 11 to2 and 2% TO HELP HER FIND HER LOST rarer. fAlf FTHELYN’S FOUR, HUSBINDS Massachusetts Matrimonial Mix-Up that Puzzles Courts— And the Only Man She Loves She Hasn’t Wedded Yet. BOSTON, April 2.—Her name was Ethelyn Cole. Mark Hook says she annexed him and made It Ethelyn Hook. ‘Theodore Cook eays she left Mark Hook and marriod him. George Parmenter says sho threw him a line after she got tired of Theodore and pulled him aboard, Walter Dahl declares that she froze to jilm soon afterward, but left his side during a thaw and took a snus harbor with Russell Hibbs. Hibbs says It's so, and that if Hook and Cook and Parmenter and Dahl will resign their decent wey he will marry the woman himself. ‘And the fair Ethelyn, only twenty- jelx years old, small and very pretty. with a soft sweet voice that suggests a fresh young college graduate rather than the heroine of the most amazing matrimonial career ever revealed in the \State of Massachusetts, blushes and | suyn ite all true as read in the tndict- | nent, and that Hibbs is the only man she ever loved, He she will wed and no other, she says, 1f the courts will lonly please release Hook, Cook, Par- | menter and Dahl. Four-Voiced Wall of Sorrow. | Bthelyn's four husbands say that she is the Hvellest and most embarrassing proposition that tuey ever took unto | themselves. On two different occasions she attempted suicide, once by gas and once by strangling herself with @ stock- ing. On another occasion she becamo |o peevish that Husband Dahl knocked her down and kicked her until he thought she was dead, and on still an- other occasion she chased Dahl about with a hatpin, firmly determined to sick It In his heart 1f she could catch him, But Dahl established a record as a sprinter and she gave up the chase. There are other episodes in the lives of Ethelyn and che gentlemen sho has lived with aa wife, but they are irrele- vant and the Maseachusetts court will aot tolerate an Invasion of the domestic hearth unless tt is necessary to the case, in this case the charge ia bigamy and the defendant pleads guilty, only she nics most vigorously the charge thnt macried Hibbs. She never married hy Milings Qoyee sees Uits tet. | jim at all, merely wont to live with he Evening World from lils It- | «says, Judge Berry in the Lynn ‘olice Court mopped his brow after OO pair. o= several claims and do it in a legal and | > Sere is Sol utoet ae ane Ga ae ds | See Sues dit f] FAMOUS IRISH BAND COMING. Court: we previa aenanas Ethelyn's Advice to Girls. oe ve let City of Dublin Mastcians Will Ar- “I was only a little girl of fourteen ued mé just on rive on the Etraria. eg eh ate gtr erected fest’ tne tor font one: ny atta *. 28] Among the passengers on the Cunant 01 ve livi apy, at with him forever, but in a few months me all over our deme, and Tad au bcp babe ped arrive bcd he left me alone in Hampstead, N, H., rT was. sa a) with, Sha nad todo something. “f couidn't | te yitedated RM AeONRG (ex BECK | Dubitn Band, whley ts coming to take I sue him for divorce. I had no money, | choked me horribly. but I kept right | Part In the St. Louls Exposition. The and I didn't know where he was, So,]at it and wae doing finely, wh ’ 2 ti ‘ ftir: waltink a: Secsonabie. time. fon a ly,, When in| band, which ts one of the most popular him, to come ‘back T married Theodore vi the worst an tee eonine ah organizations of the kind in Great at the wrong time was ever mat-| Britain, will be accompanied by @ num- Boston, reg to. ber of opera singers and Irish jig and so. tir T stood "Qveli, ater thet 1 mad ree aan But tt was no. use, He. bor notte dle at all, but to beat, Sel canes’, end ft 18) expeered <hat. death. My advice to girls {8 never to| if h ‘me the combination will be one of the most artists. a attractive musical featur at St. Louis. my ming him back 6 ever fo tried i tapes . They mean well, but] sll Gogh loaiy ost, grenees @ hatot they're never on earth. went after him. ow he 1 The steamer wi = “Well, I deserted Theodore, I really | makes me Inugh yet of it. |tine by a delegation of iriah-Amerioan deserted him just like Mark deserted; That wound us up, Aft who will escort the Etruria up me. I couldn't divorce him without | him. That was last June. In Septem- and As soon as the band is making a lot of trouble for him and he | ber 1 met Hibbs and we went to live dw ty to its didn't deserve such treatment. Then 1| together, He is my king and I am his | hotel. and on Monday night the entire George Parmenter. ‘hat was | aieep- All T want ls @ chance to marty’) pany will be given a formal reception A le was a nice an, too, but and ¢ we differed on so many things.” He + lat te Reved pleased me anyway, and we got Ga Re ET to quarrelling. We separated an FELL FROM PILE-DRIVER, oe went to Lynneand there f met Dai. Malica Burns, thirty-elght years old, TWO LINEMEN KILLED. “He waa the worst of them all. 1] fell from the top of a pile-driver while | PHILADELPHIA, Pa. April %2— advise girls never to marry Germans.| at work to-day at the foot of West | Michael Coll and Eniilo Latquille, tele- ey're brutes, German 10 y 1 ‘est : i quille, t rey re a trutee. an but Daht beae| Twenty-sixth street, to the ground and | sph lnemen, employed by the Ponn- beat me; no one but a German would| received possible fracture of the | sylvanin Railroad Company, were strucir ha’ He was so brutal| skull, He waa taken to the New York | by A train on the Pennsylvania Rail that T became despondent and resolved | Hospital inan ambulance, He lives in| fama to-day and inatantly killed, to kilt myself. After four tries If I| Hudson Terrace, Fort Lee, N. J. Laiquille’s home was in Montreal. K. |. NAMPA Fulton Street, = + Brooklyn. 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