| Show TWO TRAGEDIES saturday afternoon in the great city of now new york where many of the working classes have bays to seek abek homes as near the clouds cloude as ag MADY tenements tone can reach two year old maurice was waa playing to in the presence pree ence of his big father RD ao mother on their filth fifth floor flat be careful dear was wae the fathers admonition to the little one an he attempted to lift the bit of planking that covered the ladder bole in the fire escape the child stopped and turned to speak to his bia wife there was a baby a scream and the mother sprang forward and would have jumped out of the window if the father had bad not bot caught her the baby bad fallen through the fire escape and jay in the area dead with his hie golden hair bair spread out on the stones in another house bouse near by on the fifth floor the same afternoon played little rosie connors Con nore two years old she went to the fire escape to last det tool as the baby lips lisped to her H mother close by one misstep mi estep had anil she ahe was gone golle her mother rushed il down to the cellar where lay jay the bedl boda fl of the little one whose lifs life had bad been hian y blotted out by the tall fall eq g tragedies of saturday after noon were but two of many that 1 haab occurred in such places the grief J they brought to loving parents parente and kin dred was as great as though the babee bud bad been snatched from life by till th J hand band of the ass assassin assir yet the murderous murde roua roLis system of of fire escape 1 in tenement houses bouses of great cities Is ia unchanged slid and by the th law that should protect life as we well I 1 from one form of unnecessary daneece another w |
