Show THIS KIDS ROMANCE IS THE GENUINE ALGER STUFF Tells of ofa a Cruel Aunt HeI He I Fled t tand and Offer to Become Be Be- come ome a a Robber SLEEPS S UNDER STEP Bi But His Dead Parents Come to iq Life and Shatter an H East Side Epic t EW Cw YORK July 22 Theres There's There's Theres a ft boat boy bo- boyat boyat at at atthe the temporary shelter home of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children whom any normal grownup would want to adopt after one look at his face The reasons why he is not are here set forth I Policeman N guarding the Bowery Bowers paused before the Thalia theatre because he saw at the foot of the stairs leading from the sidewalk I to the basement door a pair of shoes protruding from a dark corner D Descending Des Des- s- s ceding the stairs he found a boy asleep In this same arne Bowery hole slept Ragged Dick Mark the and the other Horatio Alger prodigies who started their climb to diamonds and barouches in packing boxes and doorways doorways doorways door door- ways above Chatham square being a good patrolman wasn wasn't t thinking of Alger He tapped the recumbent re recumbent recumbent re- re shoes gently with his nightstick night night- stick Th The boy sprang up and faced him Why aint aint you home No answer to live So this or to Where do you OU the policeman took the boy bov to the headquarters of the S. 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C and left him That's all of Patrolman Tale Impresses Court In the childrens children's court some hours hour's later the boy sketched a story that en enlisted enlisted enlisted en- en listed the absorbed attention of Justice Jus Jus- Justice tice ce Mayo In brief he was an orphan Frank Englezos 9 years old Two weeks ago he had been thrust into the streets by a cruel aunt at 77 Chrystie street Since then he had not slept Ina In ina a regular bed By Dy day he had foraged in garbage cans roved and satiated his soul with East side adventure At night he had lain in hallways under news newsstands stands beneath any free shelter He was happy he had a dime in hi his pocket which some philanthropist had given him and he lie would never return to his fiendish aunt S The Judge mused He noted that the b boy y l Englezos was the brightest handsomEst handsomest hand hand- cleanest in all aU the childrens children's court also lineup lineup also also that he looked well weIl fed Finally he ie asked the society forthe for forthe forthe the prevention of or cruelty to children to keep him until next Tuesday anyway and to interview the wicked aunt in I Chrystie street meanwhile I In the afternoon the waif watt was Interviewed Inter Inter- viewed d by two rep reporters at the detention detention I tion home hom at fourth Forty street and Second avenue where the society keeps leeps children picked up since the epidemic of infantile p p alsis set in Bro Brown n curly hair Drown eyes that loo looked ed straight at the questioners and n never nver ver turned away round pink cheeks nose i straight enough to have suited hi his Greek ancestors flashing white teeth sunny smile that smile that is Frank FrankEn En Englezos lezos The society had given him hima a a. blue sleeveless shirt and khaki knickerbockers and stockings Except for the shoes he was made over o Enter the Cruel Aunt His parents brought him from Greece when he was six years old he said His fathers father's name was Henry Englezos he Englezos-he he wrote it out What was his fathers father's job Bustin cocoanuts in a candy I factory factor in Brooklyn But his Ms father beat his mother she died and then the father died In June a y year 1 ago Frank I j thought but maybe It was two years I Anyway the they died and were buried burled Ina in j i Ia a cemetery in Brooklyn where there there there-Is is isa I Ia a statue of or Abraham Lincoln Then Aunt Mirope 1 took him into her home at 77 Chrystie street She told him he must always be In Iii by 6 o'clock at night One day he stayed out until 9 S and found the door locked It m must mist st be that he had been homeless for at least two weeks Yes it was longer than that for Pueblo school 65 where he was In Grade AA AA had not closed About the time his hift aunt exiled him he quit school too The teacher beat me with a ruler eighteen inches long so BO I didn't go back A boy told me afterward afterward afterward after- after ward that hat I am promoted to the next grade The first night he went on I slept In a hall baum in Chrystie street near Grand A man woke me up and I T went to another hall In the morning I washed my face In the Jewish park patk- patk that's around Essex street and Market place I J found a big paper fulI or rolls in a hall and ate one I did that every ery morning I played in the swings In the park I T found apples to eat you eat you know p people ople take one bite and calaway cal em n away I went around and looked Into barrels by the parks and found pec pieces s' s of bread and ate them too A man s saw w me eating from a barrel He bought me a piece of calie for one cent It Ito had hd chocolate on top and was brown under under- n neath ath Another day I picked up a wet a-wet paper to read and found a a. dime under it I bought a bottle of soda for three cents and two all day clay suckers I Thad had five cents left and I bought boughs a combee sandwich I A combee sandwich I The narrator elucidated A comb was sandwich was two slices of bread with a slice of combee sometimes two slices between He said everybody knew what a combee sandwich was On One of the Puzzled reporters saw a light lie He suggested A corned beef sandwich Sure a combee sandwich laughed the boy Chance to Be a Robber I. I One day a big boy hailed him and whispered Im Tm a robber Do you want want to be a robber I told him said Frank that I was lost ost He said sald Youre a baby You won wont won't t make a robber Gwan of course I wasn't lost but I didn't want t to be a robber I only got lost once once orce I went down Allen AlIen street looking into wIndows windows win win- dows to see if I could see a suit like my father bought me ma once I I. I went so t far I didn't know where I was was But a I I cop told me Another day I went down own il l to the river There was a man by a ship and he held me up by my feet and ii hit me with a piece of Iron Then he let me ie do down n and gave me two cents What do you think of that 11 d Inevitably the Interviewers asked the II I boy what hed he'd like to be Either a I cop he said or Id I'd Tike like to go to the country aid ard pick apI apples l 8 My My father took me to the country once on a train and I saw v a cow Id I'd like to milk a 1 cow That's the life liCe Leaving Frank Franl with two more dimes climes t to jingle against his one the searchers for truth went down to Chrystie street On the the- top the top floor of the tenement at No 77 where he had lived with his unfeeling unfeeling un un- un feeling Aunt Mirope were only Italian families to whom the name Englezos was wa's Indeed Greek Creek li was Finally nail y from a a- chair In a grocery store in inthe the neighborhood neigh neIgh- borho d a Greek Tony Demitry came forward when he heard the name Englezos coupled with Fr Frank That boy said he lies Hes a devil Conic Come Ill I'll show you lie He led the way to another tenement house house SI 85 Forsyth street street and and Introduced Introduced intro Intro- the visitors to Mr 11 and Mrs Henry Englezos of the second floor Yes Frank was their boy He had run runaway runaway runaway away the night before for before for the first time In his life because life because the mother bad nad scolded him for the suspected stealing of or five lve cents She has cried all aU day said her husband d We hunted till 1 o'clock this morning While Englezos got his hat Mrs Englezos Englezos Englezos En En- glezos said There Is no cruelty here Ask anybody My ry husband is too patient patient patient pa pa- tient with Franky that's the only trouble trouble trou trou- ble and we dont don't know what to do with Franky hes he's so smart a boy In an hour the they were with Frank and hope to have the court today remand hl hI hint to their keeping In two places the boys boy's story was wasI wase true He lie I has beep been promoted e to a higher I i ef grade e his I father not only did but u does earn rn hi living cocoanuts |