Show IONf SAO STORY OF F THE WAR WHAT I HAS COST A SAILORS WIFE I Unable to Work and Too Proud to ad Beg She Went to the Poor House When Her Husband Died Chicago Aug 8Miss E B Holmes assistant superintendent of the bureau of associated charities and acting superintendent su-perintendent of the army and navy league has played the part of good Samaritan in a drama of hardship and patient suffering in which the closing scene will be the burial of one of Uncle Sams sailors whose death was due to his service to his country Last week a large Chicago business house received word from the Mare Island Is-land hospital at San Francisco that a manofwars man who had been em I ployed by the firm at the outbreak of I hostilities with Span had died from the effects of the intense heat he had suffered while serving in the engine room of the Philadelphia The messenger messen-ger requested that his family be informed in-formed A search was begun by the management manage-ment of the concern for the sailors relatives I rel-atives as i was known he had a wife and two children living in Chicago I They were not to be found however I and it was when the search had almost I been abandoned that it was learned the widow had taken her two little chil dren and had gone to the Dunning poorhouse poor-house She knew of the Army and Navy league and its willingness to assist as-sist persons in her position but having I been once in comfortable circumstances and being of a proud nature she chose rather to take what the county offered than to be dependent upon charitable Her brought organizations case was to the attention of Miss Holmes and a few minutes after the telephone message mes-sage had been received at the office in the Masonic Temple she was on the way to the county institution There she found a wan little woman about to become a mother The sailors I 5dow it was learned never had done I vrd days work in her life and her appearance was entirely out of keeping keep-ing with her surroundings She remained re-mained there no longer however but was taken under the personal care of Miss Holmes She ha a sister in San Francisco who is caring for one of her children and who is willing to give the woman and her little ones a home The mother has no money to pay her way across the continent however and would not ask aid of anybody Under an assumed name she preferred to suf the at fer in silence among paupers Dunning Wednesday she will be place aboard a Santa Fe train and will depart de-part for the scene of her husbands death and her future home The story of the dead husband is one of devotion to his country Reverses of a few years ago had driven him from a condition of comparative affluence af-fluence to the position of mail carrier Later prosperity returned and he t b tamed a position in a leading wholesale house of the city Then came the war In his younger days and before his marriage he had spent 15 years in the United States navy A large part of his travel had been in the Pacific and he went to Mare Island the day atter war was declared |