Show nn n npr Jm r OF THE RED CROSSI CROSS Miss Iss Carn Bartons Temporary for or Waifs of the tho Escapes of Somo Little Ones Whoso Fathers Perished In the tho Storm Christmas Cheer Cheor for Children of the to be from New York u u u u u Special Correspondence Galveston Texas Oct Oct people entertain the Idel idea that ater after any great calamity In whIch a lare large number ot of Ins lives were lost many O orphans hans must be leC left without homes A moments ro no wi will convInce you ou that this can cannot riot not b tor would not time the smallest and weakest naturally be first to 10 go When Whon wid billows from five 00 to feet teet surged over ocr this Island father fathers and mothers to theIr death ileath what chance had the children A few tew did escape almost miraculously one or both their were I lost und and ni all ot of these thele are being well wellI I cared for tor b by the lied Hed Cross I It Is n a new department not provided for tor II ill the treaty of Genoa Geneva and In this I Is not intended to be until suitable homel en con be provided for tor the children or wrecked 1 repaired On oft entire hour or or of time his big beautiful I building which the cIty el mis voted tu to le lIed Crl UI wal Watt Imme 1 given up to the children and andIn In I it every cery was wal comfortably housed Before the flood I asylums were tere tul foil and of the al nil the f 4 children saved lr were Immediately eon on oni i veld to 10 Dalu Dallas The largest age aM St St Marys down on Il a mil matte or r two train town Of OfIl Il its 0 rn univ three e es escaped nt If the buildings which had sheltered ot of little one ones nothing after THAT AWFUL NIGhT r september but an Imil wate waste ot of Wt wet land sand wIth here and there strips of black robes Ind arid blue U U U U U U fluttering from the tre trees small babIes found scattered along the lach beach and three living boys bos were perched In iii a trl tree the having len been le tied to a branch b by his hll Ions Ot Of the ten goo good sisters und and sev eniti servants seven wore weN found lound let scat scattered tHOI miles apart anti and burle burled where time In lay layOne One sister lad 1151 nine ot of time the bab or orphan phan tl tied to her imer b body wih h her r cine tur lure and other others had one or two cla clasped In their anus Sister Sl belh was WIlS p It at market when hen this the storm began and might easily have hao Ive saved but she insisted on returning to her pst poet of dut duty and n as It proe proved to her deth death The Wlter water maim then thien rl rising I so rapidly that site he hall had go hOle on and for tor the last 10 mie mIle or more moore the tho hore horse wa torce forced tu to swift Time The dIsplayed b by these pious women I is a ample sample ot of hundreds or of CIK cases Time The friends or of St Marys find consolation In the tact fact tha that the day ot of this the storm was As the feast of at our ladys nativity Ind and al eli time the sisters l hud tim th receive The convent fared almot almost as al badly Two and twentysix lx holl ha lmae I singe been In Il its grounds rund amid oud doubtless thee there are mi many 1 mor moore In the debris deliria plied arund around 1 Itin ln some me plU place higher than time the sOC 0 und story aC after r the I catastrophe Ih time or of the well ladies were er drawn from time the convent cistern and were burn burned boo be booIng belag lag Ing bond beyond Veritable hae have been tl few for reasons above mentone mentioned anti mOt most ot of them hal had one parent nil ally the tat father her the t member ot of the family Al Mi caine to 10 II mis ened nC 1 and Ih shy as wild lid birds ousted from the dirty and In a gener generally ally dilapidated condition good to tn I p h hr t nn th time Improve under I n ra i n Yo the first timing thing administered II is 1 a square then B a ann wana bath buth and afterwards time the a suit ot of clothe clothes HappIly OF are arc rosily assuaged mind when pet Is restored und and good manners are ot of growth Depend Ul upon n it there Is no mIssionary work In Inthe I time the world QuIte s so a 1 a tul full stomach and clean clothe clothes This odd t coure course under Miss Bartons frt first admin adminIstered by Mr Herbert V Leivis of at Washington formerly superintendent ot of In the of Columbia who Is Ie one ot of time the moat distinguished workers In his lne line In the country Reds and furniture were el loaned b by time the wrecked Orphan ot of Galveston General Scurry provided teams tooms and workmen for tor the moving mit ammil In n a days tn the gret great gloomy looms ot of the old bank began to take on an air or of hornE home sweet home homes As s the Iho family Increased Miss UI ot of WIS was Put In charge us as mat tun ln rule young woman Is the agent ot of time the ladles ladies ot of Topeka who sent her I I hero here with a considerable lum sum ot of ron mooney and Instructions to tal fall into nto lne In Iii tny any work worl ought At Atthe the beginning ot of time h war she was I a Hl Red Cross nur nurse e In India and lef left that feld field to help our boys In bite Philip iines She conic anH horne home wih with to assist In establishing I a refuge for tor lall sail ore and soldiers at Manila to b be cled called the Claa Clara Barton home hom Later the thC fence toree WS was joined b by Mr Robert nobert I NII Neil ot of time Aid Id fl so ot of New York his ml slon being to I I I out with homes Is Ills greatest trouble Is In finding orphans enough to toni ni fill time the or of homes that are of fenda magnificent encomium on the generosity or of the Amelen people In Indle Indeed dle deed 10 so great Is the numbe number ot of leter letters asking for tor children to adopt that Mr Ir Nell hRs Imas been heon compelled to get out a circular explaining time tho scarcity or of orphans M Miss l lar Barton Ion also reche receives I a great many letters In the same are Ino line m ty ot of the sort ort demand tag children n of unexceptIonable cre gree whose ho parents arf are both bolh ded dead anti even specifying the thC color olor or of eyes are an and lulf requited al as It if orphans were manu manufactured to order Tim THE FIRST CHILD to 10 conic under ned lied Cru Cross protection In Galveston lon Wi was Luis Louis sturdy man about two and I a haI years Irs old th the Dutch In appear appearance anle ance but bUI Jabbering a qUeer ot of French German Ind and lie He was brought to the orphanage by an aD I I I I I HH Y 0 Italian 11 Is known along the as time the dead father WI a Frenchman and his Get lies In the await InA lag a surgical operation Having oving been lef left to do his own on training so 80 far tor In Inte life te Loul wa a at 11 first like a wl wild young oung animal Happily hl he at once took to Mr LwIs Lewis who II is bl blessed wih with abundance of tRot tact anti patIence but to thus this da dathe day daytIme tIme the little lad had smili II have nothing to do with women and their smallest attentions wih with 11 all the I ot of lungs and fist Al AI 11 they tong long he trots abut about aCer after Mr Lea I tailing him him In tour four striving with 01 all his tn tiny might tl to heip pip In eU every work imis hs II is In iii and regarding him wih lOOks look if f love lol and ond beautiful to 1111 I FrOnt rl nobody else wi will he accept time smalleSt service and to the full tull limit ut I a set ot of vocal organs In two days he beame became time the bUlY or of the lI easily able II to take cre eare ot of In any wih with his elMI elders No Now after several weeks ot it gradual civIlizing he Is ron con td In time the habits or of hUe hu hUemAn human mAn beings tnt lut the spiritual side I f or of orI him Is yet ct that wi will be th time longest lt to travel But Mr r LewIs sold said that the bright forceful at child hal has In him the tue begin beginnings ot of a 4 Iut great lan alan I if irn he gets proper training mama un one who understands hits his temperament Our child hll rejoices un tinder lr n a tt tithe UI to 10 date II lit longer than h herself no les less than label Mabel Maude Elaine Queen of the Orphanage She was wa born late last JUne or f unwedded about whom the least said the LUC LUCand better and was VIS brouch brought t ti I us by A balmy Imby farm Carm farmen Carmer er en who lIved nest nar the outskirts or of Gal Veston until Ih lime tier her lair hair nA away The puny pun looking little tle creature half nourished and never ner nerre eared for tor tsa 8 one flints mau of dl distressing sores lores re from the thC crown own ot of ls Its hell head to the theole ole I or of Il its dreadful example ot of ottha time tha scrIptural waring warning th time been sins ot of time the She he had literally TilE I FLOOD IOD floating in the Jul gulf and rescued os as b bR by bya R a UI us hop hope for tor Ime purpose urfe In beens plan Never Nver Wa was sen seen marl moore rapid than this In ing infant hn has mt male Now the Irl sores are arc nearly and the tn tiny skeleton L be begins gins to take on nh flesh From It its II clean white cot n a pair Ir of beautiful blue eyes lyell Pet Bel In a face tace that might Le be bengs old lok look out contentedly upon the world tha that hitherto u used d I it 80 O hardlY Then there I is little Mabel abel Martn Martin whose host tart start In life fe Wil was almost lS as few tew months after thorn a aler her fathers death at tb the home of her grandparents on prairie UI In this big State ot of Texas her mother rame caIne to 10 Galveston soon al as able In search of work bringing the baby along anti leaving I It Ly by dB day In the care of at an old woman truman The storm came caine th time mother Ir hed In trying to get to 10 h r and her imer ioor b body tony may yet et be rotting under Hll ot of thel these hoops ot of wreckage Time The faithful old womAn IVO saved the baby though In water UI up to the shoulders cr protecting the little face tace ty by hiding I it under her chIn and ut at lost host carrying the child on her head The marvel tl is that I It dill did not die ot of 01 cold and exposure exposure for tor time the woman toman had hiatt not a dr dry rl rag nor or anything to te feed I it and no noWhere Where to go but the th open cam camp on the boh Therl the nl lIed Cross erOtH I it two tto days daYI later still wet et and almot from cold rold and Ad bunger Time Wll will not permit toe ne to tel tell you OU of the 1 2 oilier tall eases Pully equally interesting but we tte not nol quite omit Tommy omm Cobb time the oldest bo 10 In the orphanage e ele le lie la ip hits hll fifteenth handsome lad with brown wih brn eyes that his hll curling hIr hair A tew fets short weeks ago he wis Wal en import umit nt factor In a happy home hear thi the western end ot of the city t where hil his tat father her owned u a dairy and smal somali trunk farm tarm anti time the family including Tommys two sisters llers vent at left least midway 01 ott time the social lad ladder der In the midst t or of the storm th thre they vere re al alt clinging to a dor doorjamb jamb and when the huu house fell the were probably pinned It anti swept Into thE bl bodie having never nevor helm found and hi his father tather lam swam out alone Ind and at once onre beme became separated In the general The frantic father Cather searched the that t ft tow before had been hom hut ni nil Wee vere gone Drifting wih time the current he fInally caught hold ot of 1 a floating tk oak l and wal was Tm my hal halt to death th llY by byA A hUGE MOCCASIN SIN S SNAKE Alm had pr time the othe other end ot of the log The snake was equally and dispatched and 9 ao Tommy omne caine 0 us until hi iris father can n lit get straightened out anti go Into business again cin Speaking or of of the tim hor none ot of the storm tonn ass I the numbers ot of them that were swept Into the along with human humen beings II all for ther lives Ther Timers man m moo oasis and amid rattlers In unoccupied parts arl arlof of this Island and especially on Ue time main land Among mong I a hundred gue grue Imo sonic atones told ot of encounters with them n time the fo flood I ha have space to r me et hut but one which I know to be true In fifteen mites from ton a 11 lad lady from time the North WL was stopping at the hotel awaiting her hem hema a as a C sells ns return from Cram some me bu business trip During the no flood he managed to climb a til tree but har hardly I had site h reached t a place ot of tet before R a rattlesnake which lied had before tier her attacked her In n trem frenay she he seized time Ole reptile just Illow below Il hend anti crushed I its le life OUt When houn hater they thought sue she IA tras cru crazy when ot of time the they found It its limp b body dangling front a lower branch anc anti examined II its neck and lien her bloodstained h nd scenes Art are continually o oc In our orphanage when lia liar knowing that It II I a temporary home for tor wal waifs or of the flood rome come searching for tor their lot lost G children Thou Though h assured beforehand that we e knew of at the antecedents ot of every lvery one ot of the and that theirs ran cannot not possibly b be among them hope springs eternal In th the human breast nop they Insist on masking a personal onal One of at the Ull mOt most THINUS 0 Is to see n a bereaved Id mother anxiously y scanning the lite little tact faces In the chili t drens or and nl th le led aWI away by I seIne re kind OlIn who wears ar th Jl Cross rou hutton huon on her lut Hut there Ue are bright spots l for tor In iii anticipation ot of he aP holiday reason alon w will I be madl happy for tor these little 0 ott and andor Cor or other unfortunates aU over the lime theland land b by that beautiful charity the New York Tr th The plan ot of this the league by that or of the Examiner known n for tor al all the up sup pi PlY who would otherwise b be 1 cheer on the I day wih gifts suite suited to their years er and KAd everywhere meeting meUng wih with generous Judging front the unbounded caused L by a small box of t dama damaged ed toys some kind lul soul contributed to our JD joy oC at the Uel lt roes Oa boys and aM girls W viii be ni all telling when J Christmas tf tree gets etl around this n wi wIll b be whips whip anti nd to toya and toJ tools fo for th the boys wooli and ant roton cotton cats to for the bb babies end and wool dolls for tor the minIature IUt little oU 1 dul And man mans I a hUd WhO start In life h hn has been n so 0 Id sail wil go to happy wih th precious gifts ot of unknown friends Ia hasped d to hil hits Th lur dOme JOI charity Is eual equally In families ot of southern who lott lost al all but Ut life In tl the flood od ThIN II Is pIRI true o a a score ot or mainland villages and aad farming vla fann om corn Where conditIons Would ha aL absolutely hopeless It not for Cr rica ll ail aid V l are to give he I d an GI cud old to Ive live on until the nut next n t m Y Y o crops eal caim sro grow This I is the grat great strawberry section ot of the United States Slate yo you or was a before the flood Miss JI ha has decided to pUt o one thousand ulai Into straw br berr Plants alone and I if 11 1 goes tea rea welt ell hy by net next AIrl Arii I the straw berry growers re wil will b be on their feet |