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Show COMBS 1 1 UNDERWORLD FOR MILLIONAIRE SON TWO MOTHERS SEARCHING FOR j MISSING BOYS lOne Rich: Other Scrimps to1 I Buy Fliwer for Long Hunt CALLS HER ON PHONE Then Fails to Appear As He Promises; Parent Frantic NEW YORK. March 25 Hy The Associated Press.) A mother, cul- turcd and refined, with all tho ro-. sources of Immense wealth today vain-ly vain-ly combed the dark. Ill-smelling Bowery Bow-ery for her lost son. heir to a million. At the unto time, unother mother, 1 worn by ill-health and hard work put I together her few threadbare clothes land With firm confidence prepared to Journey to find her missing boy. The first mother. Mrs. Graham I'uf-! I'uf-! field, of Chicago, has almost lnt her faith. Por eight days she has h.int-e.l h.int-e.l Todny she visited the haunts of the wrecks who have afiled in th battle of life and dropped out of sight I into tho cauldron known as the Bow-I Bow-I ery But she failed. The second mother, Mrs. Mary Whittaker of Henry street, is supreme I In her confidence. Her boy is iomi-where iomi-where in the west and Tuesday, in accordance with her announcement earlier in tho week, she will leave New York in a cheap little motor cur t which she bough', with her nving, carrying everything she owns und ready to back her faith aguint the hardships of the road. RICH BOY REBI LS Mrs Duffield, whose 17-year-old son, Gordon, rebelled against school life in Plalnfleld, N J , and fled to the Bowery, let her presence be known on her arrival The boy responded re-sponded with telephone calls. But always, al-ways, after telling her he would conic to see her. failed. Tonight his mother appeared on the verge of n breakdown and feured approaching Illness would force her to return home toinorovv She picked up her search today at the point it left off last night, yvhen i telephone call from her son was traced to a drug store on Klrst avenue. ave-nue. MOTHER SEVER I LINC1H S Frail, still youthful in appearance despite the worry she has experienced, she entered squalid rooming houses, rubbing shoulders wilh unkempt dangerous men She never flinched She mingled with the broken derelicts dere-licts of Bowery life, asking if anyone had seen a boy of five feet, nine, dressed In a faded blue suit. At one restaurant she was told that u boy answering the general description of Gordon had washed dishes there up to yesterday. At a squalid. 25-cent-a-bed rooming room-ing house, not more than two bloclfs dlstauce she was informed that a I vouth who might hav been Gordon ' had slopt there up to last night. I FAILS TO FINS HTM. At v another restaurant, a sleepy j habitue roused himself enough to tell ' the mother that s "kid like that w.im down to the Cooper I'nion." But at Cooper Union; which for eight days! has been the center of her frantic! search, there was no sign of tho boy. Gordon, so he has told her over the telephone i- trying a personally con- ducted experiment. He wants to ex- j perience real poverty to sec what it is i like. "But he wants to be good to me. I know he does. " she said. "I can't be- j lleve he wants to make me suffer. He- ; I may be starving. I know he has no money. If he would only come and j see me.'' EYES .i (TED un DOOR. And Gordon, with an nir of bravado, brasses into a pay station telephone J a different one each nli-ht calls up j his mother caliSher 'Moms." prom-j j ises to go at once to her hotel, and ' see her and each night leaves her ( i to sit with eyes glued on a door w hich : never opens. In a Henry street tenement Is a : different scene. A few days ago Mrs. Whittaker told i her neighbors that a! last she had put away eitough pennies to make pos- j i slble her trip into the west and to-1 : night she was pushing forward with j her plans Just as determinedly as'if the west was only as biz as Central park. HIvMis poll K s s CITY. Four years ago. in Oklahoma City. She separated from her boy Sidney who Is two years older than Gordon. Tlie lad drifted to 'he wheat belt and hl.H mother to New York. Seated In her dingy tenement, up three flight of stairs, she told a newspaper man that when she drives out of New York Tuesday wi'h .iust few gallonx of gasoline In the tank of her car. she flrat Li goini! to tr!k'- out for Kan-jia Kan-jia ritv. |