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Show REPORTER FINDS PITIABLE AFFAIRS AT HASH HONE A 1 hanging t cut dMii wa opened by a bright I. -.king though dirty, little girl of about i: years; four smsll poorly clad children played on a dirty door In a half hen riM manner, a atocklly huill, intelligent in-telligent looking man stood over a wash-tub wash-tub mil of i .... i, water sial dirty clothe with the perspiration running down hi fc: and looking in the direction direc-tion from which the heat wn coming wnc could v . a thin. al k. worried hxiklns email woman hnddi. m a chair a neat tho stove aa ah could crowd. The air In PM room wa retld. the light wa poor and as for furniture, there was none. Can win itii.tciiH uurf stMiidlna in a roum which arfordetl audi a plctorc? Huch are th oniidltlone und the sur-iutitK.ii.sa sur-iutitK.ii.sa which confront Tony Mash, the father of l n. .11 hlldrrn and the hue-hand hue-hand of a sick wifr. Tony came to thl eoiintry twent ' four vrara Hgo fiom Italv and with him oime hit wile, but no chll-dreti. chll-dreti. for all or the hlldn n have been tj in there arrat free proppsrou Cnll-' Cnll-' el 8tntM. Vtji lrual(lln for an ex-I ex-I itince In New York for nine vntin, he came wet to the Und of opportunities, ii nd for thr peat fifteen years he ha been fttrlvlng to tske advantage, of these op-rHO-tunltlea. TVny worked hard in thi mines end smelters of this state, hut never could he get northing ahesd .is ilmi went by and more mouth wre to be fail In the family. fam-ily. He worked nv. years in the Mucra mmi I-. - but aftei three serious sl k apell he had to quit for. aa he aald It, 'Tioctor, he tellg m If I no mitt I die a soon, 1 ketche too much dual. Tony he workod lately for the railroad at 1 a day. aldrh he aa Is not enough to feed the ehc hungry mouths and provide for his wife Of late Tony has not been able to work at all. for hi wife. Lucratla, lie been operated on tor appendicitis and owing to the poor care and food he ha received, re-ceived, is In a feeble condition Todav was the first time she ha even been out of her bunkllke bed for tnanr days. The children at, very badly In need of doth or anything to protect them from the cold. They are all well as poulble under the rlTvumstanrea, but owlua to the lack of clothing they hex e 6vere colds, which may develop Into more serious seri-ous ailments. Their sg-s r aa follows, finale. J years; T; Tony. 4; Clrace, 12. Nick. 9. and Steve, IK, who would like to get some kind of work, he says. Now that hi wife Is aide to get around a little. Tony aay that he want to go to work no a he can take care of hi family. |