Show Sa Salt It Lake Po Police lice Station Haven for Lost Children Hello Is this the police n Have you heard anything of my lit little little littie tle tie boy about three years ears old oldred red hair freckled face had on brown trousers Youve got him down there Oh my How can I get got him All right Ill be down right away The foregoing Is of or dally daily and some days almost hourly occurrence at the Salt Lake police pollee headquarters Mother comes down town shopping and of course little Willie not being old enough to take care of himself and Johnny who rejoICes s in the tho accumulated accumulated age and experience of nine sum aum summers mers mere and eight winters while amply competent to look after himself Is still too Immature to trust in charge of two Willie So down town with mamma he goes It is a strange and wonderful experience experience experience for Willie The many cars ears the crowded streets and continuous procession procession sion siGn of or different vehicles all attract him and while mamma is closely scrutinizing ing the bargain marked down from tr m 1 to 98 cents Willie decides to stroll out and take one more look at the fascinating fascinating fascinatIng ing procession on the sidewalk and street The next thing he knows a big bigman bigman bigman man in blue is grabbing him from under the feet of an unruly horse or a fast moving automobile and not nol being eing able to identify himself he is taken to the police station and given in charge of the matron Child Is Missing After mamma has decided that the reduction of 2 cents is not enough to justify the purchase she reaches around for Willie Willie has disappeared A I hurried search of the store tails falls to re reveal reveal reveal veal him Nobody knows anything about him Hysteria Is in the air when the manager of the store suggests that the police station statton be called Then comes the telephone call quoted above and soon the dimpled darling Is once more moreIn moreIn morein In his mothers arms She boards the first car for home forgetting her de desire desire desire sire for bargain hunting Different temperaments temperament are no nowhere nowhere nowhere where more strikingly shown than in these lost children cases Sometimes a child will be kept at the police sta eta station station tion the greater part of ot the day da before being claimed There are some mothers in Salt Lake who leave their children to their own resources until darkness falls Excitement reigns when the child falls fails to t return It prevails until Napoleon is returned spanked and put to bed There is the woman who calls the station four or five times within an hour This happened yesterday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon The woman was frantic and Lieutenant John Hempel had about de decided decided decided to have the Jordan river dragged when the woman called up to say she sheI had found the child asleep behind the I stove Yesterday afternoon an Italian came into the station gesticulating wildly and talking so fast that even Patrolman Cassady understand Behind him came Patrolman Tom Kast carry carryIng carryIng I Ing a little girl he ho had picked up on onI State street The Italian turned around to Include a larger scope of hearers In his voluminous discourse saw Kast with the thc little tittle girl and ceasing his in coherent oratory clasped the girl In his arms It was wag one of the quickest cases of restoring a lost child on rec record record ord Lost at Depot Yesterday a stranger In the th city tele telephoned telephoned telephoned phoned the police station that she had lost her two children while waiting to change trains at the O 0 S L depot Within twenty minutes a patrolman p called in and said he had found two little boys wandering near the Temple grounds The description given glen by the woman answered and In a few tew min minutes minutes mm utes a happily reunited family boarded their train for the cast east Most people do not understand that the police department can get a line lineon lIneon lineon on a lost child quicker than anybody else and it is generally only as a last resort that the police pollee station Is notified Quite often the police matrons room resembles a nursery Several children are brought In at the same time and it itis itIs Itis is not an unfamiliar sight to see little Archibald from Brigham street disputing the possession of some plaything with some little tittle waif picked up on Second South street streetor or fraternizing with the son of some sonic Italian fruit vendor With the forget forgetfulness forgetfulness forgetfulness of class and station that only childhood carries with It the children themselves are always the ones least disturbed by the situation |