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Show Pathetic Incident In Commissioners Bingham's Experience In tho February Woman's Homo Companion Emily Ilarton Held quotes, Genera Hiram lllngham, former l'o lice Commissioner of Now York City, as so) ins thnt fifty thousand girls disappear annually in tho United States. 'Nothing In Ills wholo department service, Gonciai lllnghnm confesses, filled him with greater pity than tho following slnglo Incident: "It was dusk in New York, the hour when tho streets nro full of men and girls hurrying from work. Tho ciouds strenmod across Union Square toward tho subway In n great 'Hood tho wholo population of an avcrago country town passing the corner every minute Suddenly around tho corner whirled n great express wagon. Tho driver whistled Ehrllly, and tho ctowd, mado wary by long oxpcrlcnco, scattered in all directions. All but ono girl. A single moment sho hesltnted, g'onccd both ways, dropped back a step, and then, changing her mind, (lushed forward for-ward In nn attempt to gain tho oth Or sldo. "Tho moment's hesitation was too much. Tho frightened horoos rush ed on. Ten minutes later her lifo less bodv was bomo away In an nm bulnnce to tho city morguo. "Thero wcro no marks of Identic ration on the girl's person. Tho police po-lice wcro reduced to the necessity of ptib'lslilng a description in tho nownpapers, hoping that relatives would come to claim tho body. Airl In answer to thnt description which was mode as detailed and nccurato as poRslblo, moro than threo hundred mothers and sisters wroto or appear d nt tho morgue Moro than throe hundred women within reach of tho Now York papers confessed that girls whom tliey loved, corresponding correspond-ing to tho description of this girl, bad disappeared! Not ono of them was able to Identify her. Sho was burled after a tlmo nt tho clty.s ox-ponso. ox-ponso. "Three hundred women returned to pursuo their fruitless search elsewhere else-where What had become of tho ' threo hundred girls for whom thoy searched?" |