Show The Lance Free Fre Lance Soul Q h 4 r Saver of New Yorks York s Slums rn r Self Appointed Self Appointed in Her Hazardous M Mission of Re Reclaiming Reclaim Reclaim- laiming laim- laim y ing ig n Young Girls in in Chinatowns Chinatown's Clutch Ro Rose e Llvy Liv Livingston ivingston iv- iv 1 t. t ingston Has Incurred So Deep a a. a Hatred r Among Denizens of the Underworld Underwo ld That Six Attempts Have Been Made Upon Her Life 3 By N Norah orah Meade But h her methods must always s 's s suit the circumstances Consequently Consequently Con Con- 0 U hate hace read Tead of oj who have hace died tel their they vary considerably with each case yo martyrs for faith of oj Sometimes she gets the prophets who ha have e been hem persecuted mi missionaries iss who have hate ol of if it girl out to the street within re reach hb police help it should be The sight ht of bluecoat blue- blue necessary a n hun been murdered Remote stories storie all the have of off far mm men they y coat will Il cause mouse the trafficker to drop P his prey when under undercover er thrilled not as fact but hut as fiction you cover he hc would fight to the thc death for her It was vas thus twit that t But here is a story ne nearer r home in your own country perhaps per per- she rescued a girl once from a den in Chatham haps hops in your own city It is of oj a woman Rose Livingston Lio by hy They w were re both on the sidewalk before Square name She lives ices in the heart of oj New York them Then he hc hurled the man sighted Miss Livingston ir bodily into a n ceU cellar There is a price on Rose head Six times limes s men mm but terrified at the ha have tried to 10 kill her and f failed ailed struggling victim must possibilities draw of his act and seeing that that that-hi hn his She has h had ad her jaw broken 6 by hy 9 a hiott her lungs pierced cd by hy a r f to escape attention he be fled leaving b both tb knife her eyes ayes almost blinded by hy injuries She has hem been kicked r down doom stone done stairways thrown from a roof Just now norD she is 13 in inthe ON N other oc occasions Miss Livingston direct to the police poUce the Presbyterian Hospital New York City recovering from froman and obtains their prom promise of goes assistance beforehand d. d an operation for internal infernal injuries t. t Under her leadership they have bave made raid amid many a n It was c due ue to her that Irene Gordon popularly known Mown as as s The Gypsy HO is Rose Livingston ask that she should be beso y WHO you came cune e into the hands of the District Attorney in 1910 The Tta V V pursued and so persecuted Gypsy maintained premises at No 13 Pell Poll Street for which Some have called her ber the Angel of Chinatown she was forced to pay some 1700 in fines in addition to To others she is the modern saint ROSE ROE LIVINGSTON the spending three months in jail jan Thirty-five Thirty years ago she was born in Hamilton Ohio At Atthe Angel of Chinatown No wonder they hey hate hato Rose Livingston in in N New w Yorks York's the of twelve she went to New York At twenty-six twenty who has been convalescing in inthe age underworld underworld- i She has disrupted the Chinatown trade I the trade t e Presbyterian y Hospital ta 1 she began her settlement work Experience had taught h her er after injuries received in is the When n she c began her work in In 1907 1901 there were eight hundred that a girl may enter the underworld through no wish or fault course course of her dan dangerous erous work white slaves in its cellars and on its streets of whom three of her own It had taught her too that the usual methods metho of hundred were seventeen years old and under In 1913 not a n mission missionaries the missionaries ri the delivery of a homily on the goodness of the Creator or the pres- pres girl younger than seventeen could be found within Chinatowns Chinatown's confines of a tract on the evils of sin are sin are srn-are i are not the most practical incentive to better When wen you ask Rose Rosc Livingston how it is financially possible for her to do this thia living work being as she is without any income whatever she replies replies- That is why Rose Livingston repudiates the title of reformer That is why It is Gods God's work and He will always see that I am supported ohe Dhe scorns to become a member of a charitable society In the battle for human And so it happens There is always some one to assist her souls she is a lance free-lance fighter against the enemy arch the enemy the dealer in white slaves For a while she worked in conjunction with Miss Elizabeth Moss daughter of She is a small woman scarcely over five feet in height At her best she would the former fonner Assistant District Distri t. t Attorney Then she was connected with the Com Corn Committee weigh one hundred and ten pounds At present she would scarcely turn the scales of Fourteen a body of Brooklyn women who were interested in her self self- at ninety Dark hair dark eyes and a foreshortened face lend her an like elf imposed mission mission Then about six years ago she came in contact with some SOD aspect anet that t first brat attracts your attention Th The Th intensity of her expression seems to Suffrage workers with whom she has been allied ever since sines burn like a live coal Were it not for this fire within her Rose Livingston would now be dead To P IT T was M on a dark wet nig night t that Miss Cornelia Corneli and Miss Florence her physician Dr Forbes Hawkes who has attended attend d her through gh many illnesses Irwin Su Suffrage rage workers were coming home in the vicinity of Greenwich her recoveries are little short of marvellous certainly impossible 10 in a woman of Avenue Passing by a basement b they ey heard groans and sounds Bounds of If a n scuffle and lesser calibre But Rose Livingston seems to be sustained by her will t to and going down they discerned the figures of two women grappling one tr trying ing t to prevent pre pre- this will seems to have i its origin vent the other from comm t in her desire to serve tie a. a fr 4 suicide by cutting her throat When with the assistance of F Tj OR R the he older sinner sinner hardened the police poUce they had saved the thein in her sin she t feels eels no call caU IT V r woman from herself herset they took whatsoever It is t to o the younger t I f the rescuer home for Cor a chat and pd girls children almost they almost they t era r I r thus be became ame acquainted with range in age from Crom twelve to i I 1 f t d Rose Livingston Their interest c I ti I r seventeen that seventeen that she devotes all aU t p n in her led to her introduction n to her ri and energy 3 Mrs James L. L Laidlaw The TheTo To save them before they fr a meeting meant real happiness for forthe have passed asked reclamation to the brave little woman an for Mrs Mra warn them of their risks if it they y i Laidlaw at once realized the seem willing wilting to be lured to rescue res res- j worth of her work and James L. L cue them forcibly Y if it the they Y are unwittingly un- un un un- Ir r F Laidlaw proved equa equally y app wittingly being misled that misted that is dative It is he who now heads Rose Livia Livingston's stops stop's work It is 1 I-a I the Committee o of Three Three Three-in- in including done mostly as it must be b by y 1 t J c- c i eluding the Rev M M. Sanderson Sande on night y t tf of Remsen Street Brooklyn and She goes to the back rooms of f Lawrence Chamberlain of No 31 saloons to the low lea gaudy dance M Wall Nall that Street backs R Rose halls haUs and other meeting places place t t L p Livingston Livin in her dangerous work of the east side and there she ehe L t Y rl My y bf y amusements in m life 1 talks to the girls she finds Usually Us Us- R Rose oso Livingston echoed a ques ques- CHE HE t the h bac back k of r saloons 1 to sa pally ua 11 y 5 she h e knows the te faces she will SHE goes e rooms 0 tion U My r My on only I y amusement en t 1 id ii halls to the low gaudy audy dance and talks taUS see see faces faces of long past to the girls she finds playing with a n dear dea child the help but not past helping others daughter of oC Mrs Laidlaw It is through such as these that Rose Livingston does most of her work 4 And my ambition she went on raising a vivid face from her pillow my my When r a new victim is due to arrive they tip her off as to when and where to ambition i is to xo be out of bed ed as soon as possible It seems dreadful to lie here find the unfortunate Then the real work be begins ins She goes to the hou house w where re with so much t to be done That is the worst of all aU these accidents the girl is held steals in over the roof by the fire-escape fire by any way that she can Going back Why of t course ourse I always go back Yes I know Ill I'll be killed an r entrance and sari talks to the t girl cirl irl if the circumstances permit Hermit she said interpreting a look but Ill I'll l have a long rest when I Im I'm m dead |