Ironwood Advocate (Newspaper) - February 14, 1892, Ironwood, Michigan WOMAN'S 6,OF MRS Interested In or Slut In heard at Palo established by the that state his wife in of their son who died in his sixteenth year in Every one in San knows also Stanford's ' - MRS. inie how this idea of establishing in the oi San I I - - ten she a lady came solicit help in she already low quarters of the but iff financial well and seamed snch a trial at last 1 asked carry on a She said would it her to go .to others and and back to me three weeks only succeeded in gave her first instal twelve the My son Leland went me. 1' thought 1 would not go I bought and toys tor the 1 had heen in that quarter of the city I imagined there was squalor 1 Was a revelation to me. always lived snch a selfish 5 had lued up for my own but of that day joy bv little over insignificant gifts that i had brought opened my eyes to a phase of life 1 did not realize and 1 God that 1 have never closed ' ' X dear boy was so happy that Seeing poverty pinched at their ganies and were so that it They crowded and of me for bringing to ' came out my boy 1 is the best thing did linked to write me winter of the success of the one of came would leave anything doing to come and listen mid how the kindergarten was After a visit to Europe we went to the Tho children ns this and had made great So wo wore given quite the short time 1' dear he made By his own hail a little was in the 111 his own During his I one day trying to entertain PALO what the money you have in the von thought W m ins sweet fiico toward me and taking my hand in his two vues I want you to money for mo. I want you to very children v. ho haven't comfortable homes can't go to and help thorn with my that continued after a little have tried in every way relievo want and but 1 have hot used his If is. still in tho 1 could not bring myself to touch it while 1 so much of my And with all 1 do so whole she wont ou to from that my manner if thought my vary soul was created Bur 1 can never live idowu those wasted schools have been established by Mrs. in San at the extreme ends of tho city in the I; most disreputable and two in ' tbi The influence of these years of kindergarten work lit 1S10'city,! not alone on the children on the is The public schools that once looked forward with dread to the influx of pupils from these quarters now receive them with the influence of tire kindergarten the superintendent pi tlie city which contain in SOU lief ween tho ages of fifteen months and seven The largest school is of Mission ami Fourth and contains with four Every school is supplied with a to which the little ones always need to be immediately But it js surprising how quickly a sense of shanio and is and somehow manage after a few weeks to have this duty performed before bath each child is put into a clean apron and given a clean the use of which is of necessity one of the first things taught v In every there is a The singing marching attracts tho children and make them liko to In almost every instance tho little ones learn here for the first time of and a deep impression is eacy is Sometimes they direct their prayers toward Mrs. experience She cafi easily respond to their One of the pretty in the work that told illustrates how much good is being One a little boy to tho Though evincing 1111 abject in his manner and hi his clean patched clothes that showed that he was superior 1.0 the | As 1 In- went by tho teacher was more and more impressed with this and called Mrs. Cooper's attention the She went with liinl to his mother and ascertain their The was and the mother was a pitiable looking When Mrs. Cooper introduced herself the put her face in her bands and began ' j ' j ' to have you know my 1 I she said j that her husband was sou of a iv ho got into bail now he was ' JR. a and all they had to live on was the mere pittance she earned with her I After a at tho j was Mill pleased to observe a decided change in the dress and of the He warm a new very | Mrs. Cooper made another call upon woman in time she was not with | 1 want to tell your kindergarten has done for She then told how her boy would come home at night and sing the songs and tell the pretty stories ho had and praise the kind who had established the and say the prayers sue nua ner t tier ami en- he learned at ho went with him and put Whim he caine batik he was dim instead of going was his custom in silence ho saiiC we have got of the smartest and brightest boys in the 1 have made up my mind that he be ashamed of his father liny And he kept repaid for nil The school has now an established tho work not stop for warit after her placed in trust carry it on j Mrs. fias matter a hasJ discovered in reform houses prisons not a boy girl found ever been That and of the public school teacher the of simple sons on tlie til nils of the * San and the the country near tie home of thO has which are under her own cost her a ' These schools were the They no moans represent of There is in California had and tho have to of She this at native with which provides for an Mrs. Stanford's Mrs. M. iih has neighbor hi his quiet retreat at in. tho person of Kalph P. a veteran He is old and has reached fourscore f of were many in the pioneer days of tiis romance has had a long and pleasant The a the grandfather having served as a captain in the its volunteer under Hull in tho war of 18113. Like many notable - of the rough time in getting on his feet as a lie worked on a in a in a as a river or whatever turned meanwhile studying to become mitted to the in 18i!!l and wrote ' editorials for tho Toledo He it wak a Tavlor a of the Republican legislature in out lawyer and legislator put aside his briefs and Ohio lie soon joined alul at Shiloh one In the he also led 11 brigade and 0/ military in the latter position he acquitted himself the Forrest surprised and city one Sunday morning ill ' Forrest dashed in with things his own But Buckland rallied his guards and last of the bold in Memphis was a desperate fight for The getting qht than tlie getting in. served iii and was one of the delegates nominated Tlie general near neighbors in and as veterans fraternize and light their battles over with the papers 1812, is now in 1. WITH THE 1TY. ' I lint Ho inent Since Seth Low president of Columbia college ho hiis his time and energies to that institution lie said the other the college has a groat future before it. It will stand as long us Properly can bo exert a powerful enco not only upon the city but upon tho country at My aim is to develop it into a as it now in and to its scope to greatest possible It is to this 1 thought and ' ' there is not a busier man in So occupied is he with his that it is with tho greatest that an can be The only way to see him at any given is i an Although ho an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon during which he gives himself up to whoever there are usually so many callers in the lino The other hours of the day is compelled to set apart for his own ' in no other way that he can accomplish said his explaining this seclusion to an impatient and disappointed who had vain to see SETH Feta 12. record tor marriage has broken in this city an old gentleman from Keokuk who came met an old love with was procured a license and was married to all inside of thirty minutes the tirne he laid on I say not only because Mr. Low still his but because lie looks as though ho were only in his In of a groat educational institution liko Columbia one expects gray a wrinkled spectacled eyes and a bowed But has yet to attain the characteristics that imagination with ago and His bushy standing up from a molded is black as His likewise aid Lis t. shaven except a thick is incapable of a stern or surly It is 0110 of those faces that appear a He is looking altogether like a well happy and business possibly like a small merchant or hanker never permitted anything to disturb his ' ' ' were Mr. Low solicitous regarding comfort he would never have 6'f Brooklyn and tho vast possibilities of an honest and administration of municipal Nor would he have burden himself He would have life that would have given him more time in the large and library in his on tho corner of Fifty-sixth street and Madison But tho that he anxious to do his wherever he is ho loaves his house early in tho takes his place desk in one of dingy buildings 011 East Forty-ninth railroad and there works until late in deliver any to the I asked he time is taken tip entirely with matters pertaining to of the lost your interest in the of effective municipal hope ' Indeed I am still so much interested in the subject that 1 am now study of the government city York from 1830 down to tho present I expect to embody the results qf my investigation paper to be read before tho New York Historical see that the newspapers that spoke so highly of your work while mayor of think that It has not been ' THE HOTEL The It A ' 1 1 I iter in Now oik was precisely been It is precisely bo expected in other hotel or public and whore the samo conditions HOTEL ROYAL Tho number of such firo traps in every large in the country is by no means A spark of liro in tho silent of tho when tho chances against its aro and every is oblivious to tho threatened is all that is to disclose their existence and appal tho ' Tho conditions for a disaster wero in the Hotel * Tho building was an old Its interior was of dry as In the from the to tho ran an elevator shaft around which wound the only stairways that led to the corridors on the different This shaft j these stairways and those corridors all of tho most With an fire in the rubbish that permitted to gather at the bottom of what was to the lightninglike extension of. flames from basement to from this column of firo to the to tho farthest every in the enso of tho in the case of every other structure liko it. Under such circumstances what fato awaited tho 105 or 170 guests in tho rooms off the burning Could it bo different from tho one that overtook tho unknown burned to death and tho greater number severely The moment thoy opened their doors on being awakened by tho alarm of tiro flames and smoke barred to tho But even if the corridors had clear escape was cut off in that Tho fire from the shaft had already the stairways Tho only remaining chanco for was through windows of tho One can imagino tho conditions under this would have been But conditions did not exist iu the There wero only two firo It was for the panic stricken and frantic guests to seek safety through these in tho few minutes HOTEL that separated them from Four or escapes would have been none ' For shut from this avenue there remained only the ropo escapes so much derided by hotol But with one of these not every room was provided in obedience to tho Alany in the rooms that did have enabled to save This is the reason why tho death list was not It is the why tho criminal responsibility of somo was not greater tinned there or taken Do you entertain the dismal views that they do about the future of municipal certainly do 1 think there is hope for a bottor administration of municipal affairs in every city in the you take any active part in politics 1 have no time for While I tako a deep in politics it is rather as an observer than as a ' like most men of and speaks quietly and His manners aro and however driven he may be by his work they give no bint of it
