Show NATHAN MAUSS MILK ROUTE scenes and incidents afan of an afternoon with the philanthropist I 1 wanted to a seo that past master of 0 practical philanthropy nathan straus I 1 mounted to the sixth floor of tho the store where he be ll 11 a controlling genius threaded my iny way through a labyrinth of 0 passa passagem pas sagon gem passed a picket line of employees and met him jut juit leaving he was waa about to turn me over to his aids who attend to the business ot of the concern but when I 1 mentioned milk depots for the tha poor my words made his door fly open with great alacrity lie he ushered me into a large airy office alla rich licit leather upholstered furniture including a lounge but oil one e can never look at such an embodiment of restless energy aa mr astmus and imagine him lying down on a sofa kofa it was waa a hot day but a look at tho the tall slender clean cut philanthropist was its as refreshing as it a coney island e coreze b r ez ile he may before the season la Is out u t lit li t thousands of his fellow citizens cool off in III another way than by looking at him it this ice combine Is 13 maintained said he be 1 I rhall sell bell ice as I 1 did coal last winter at ait a reduced rate I 1 bave already contracted tor for the lee ice in tact fact mr ile straus la Is one of 0 th tho e best dressed merchant fl in new york lie he wore a a faultlessly cut suit of 0 gray his cutaway coat had silk facings out from under his waistcoat gleamed the white collar of the under yest his bis trousers were faultless in fit it hla his brownish board beard not long ions nor dense was carefully trimmed tind and lila his nalls nails bore the evl evidence of a manicures skill from the top lop of his cool panama hat to the pointed docs ot of his slender blender shapely r s set shoes he was the embodiment of neatness I 1 mention all the these details because a 0 little later I 1 saw min him diving in and out of his milk depots handling milk bottles bottle rubbing up against poor and oot not over cleanly boys buying milk and mingling with the crowd in the densely populated regions region a where are his milk depots without losing any 0 of his neatness or aspect ot of a cool citizen impervious to heat boat and scorning the weakness of perspiration even the dust seemed to blip off him like tho the az water ter from a a ducks back we had a can coupe pe driver who knew no more of tho the fast east side than a diffner indian does of sans crit and once a mother ran her baby carriage carr ligo so recklessly near the torsos horses feet that she seemed to have more at heart a pro probable bablo suit for damages against the tha rich merchant thui than the oaf safety ety ot of the th pesky perambulator but even these matters m did not ruffle the writs of 0 mr straus we wa were threading a narrow odoriferous street smelling like a large larce family redolent garlic carno that needed embalming and I 1 asked it if lie he intended to go away on a summer bummer vacation well I 1 dont know was the re spouse 1 I have more tun fun at al this polard K toward one ot of his milk depots when I 1 inquired what suggested the idea ot of providing milk and barley tor for the poor shade of tender sadness came anto his eyes As is he sald said that he be had lost loaf children in infancy and as one ot of them lay sick hla his wife had re marked inar kea wewt chait must poor people lo 10 whose children are sick thus in the luxurious surroundings 0 of f the house on seven ty second street tied had issued from the heart of at a woman sorrowing over her sick acte child the inspiration ehst was to prove how bow sweet are re the uses of adversity ver sity 11 wo brought up children chloren on baby food such as you see advertised mr strauss continued but it cotts costs 00 con cants ts a pound bound and la is no better belter than the poor people get av a the depots tor for 5 cenis long after he had formulated tho the plan pian tor for these milk depots depot lie he talked with dr A jacobi the eminent authority dhority on chil irons diseases and the preventatives thereof find and it Js A under formulae prescribed by him and under the of 0 dr Freet freemin nAn that the children ot at the poor can get healthful diet on mr strauss mills milk route at a minimum cost the poor said bild he pay proportionately tiona tely more mora for or shelter and food than the tha people on fifth avenue the death rate among amona the children of tile poor li 14 something frightful in fit summer nummer A little one ona gets sick the tha mother goes cos to a doctor and ho tor for it it is easy to a write a prescription she sh has to pay at least IS 15 cents to got the prescription titled and when the tha medicine gives elves out she get any more I 1 now a w wa a at aim to give that mother the proper diet for or her infant so EO that she wont havo have to go got medle medicine lne for or it at the foot of east third street is I 1 the headquarters of this milk enterprise on it long pier there jhc thc re are two tents and nd benches full of children and weary mothers were enjoys tile the cool brew breeze on the intensely hot a afternoon when everybody saye save mr strauss was suffering with walh heat beat A girl mother was walking up and down dor n tho elio airle between the benches crooning over her sick baby Fl finally itally it forgot forgat its is troubles and bank into the th cool depths of slumber after sampling ha ft to see how it t tasted ted occasionally the mother lulled to rest rel by the breath ot of neptune would nod with drowsiness on oft a bench jay y a noary draped nian anaa for whom sleep was knitt iric the unraveled ilav |