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o ride Into Now York on a freight train is a heinous offense. The law says so. Rtailroad companies sug gested the law and secured Its enact ment. They prefer to handle their - passenger traffic In the regular way. Pares cannot so easily be collected rromi passengers who are secreted around the trucks. Fesides, freight train trvelers have gained the repu tation of being uncertain per'sonS. They someties steal small things n--at. richi persons would not think of steailing. Yet, ayxainst them as the law N patrons of the box pour Into New York at all seasons of the year.I An Ohio boy, one rmorning last witelr. was In ouirt for beating his way Into the metropolis. le only sixteen yers old. and rather sall for isage. Ills coat fitted hfim a little too soon and ewas o it. imadn't had time to slick up since hle was pulled from the truck. Still. hie was cheerful. Answered the court.'s questions as :J it ere a pleasure. Tod all about the folk at bitmeo. anid why hie left homne. lIeI and another boy craved the big life. Thef-y wanited to - .o -m the iydst of sonething and be soomething. Only, the m oithe.r boy hatd a little hioth to WA amlcbitions. w ie wanted to go to Chicago, whero he hSd !3n vmmat who, Ilef homer. gen cy, might, be indaced to vrovide food. The boy who stood before M lbio.nor waved his conm xadet avway. -a -told y c h ," he Said, - - "that I would rnther be In New York, broke anI hungry, he Chicgo witha m e liketa.vey to.re r . e ri ther waed hiy fae sfans cud n bat it.hretfthwa. tol il inlsub ttill ithe same wa,ddntha 'fvit hoy' tory wthout beeing -,rngte e iaYor, brokedican min hadry goebc tota preference in (hgo oCiaoadlvn with Nothingi~ cat ellusrt etratr tha lethmy nchumn rht hre. f Naid y taehaps far other culd ever hna it tharet af prtge ofthayrd'.'pua hio ('uled. A byger back, haing "buffed" it neede here, utor withu doencm. Theripoint res thatxl .the ~cii~ had theepower to eatagethpat andeast itno lShe gone, who heomparniless ked comparisoonsb ol his nti twn. tohe sare othrs in eto s.yh asoly Ia h boTh call tdes noth trks thedof hew Yorozen wrld; easti to thgoint whcag and east ins wsth Jh. wes ~'is easJIt. haNho gt evryody tomes btn thisy Sody hears. Moyllions youl ad like gn to et :osrnctay. And uilntoeld husnsdocme'n aloathinkstig ofxltrtebte thmpn 100,00 incide he re nof New York. Pehapsnoohay.t e The lrea forsotmuch omin th s pOlain. Eoul :ryody blies. to biedwor wthan sufed'. The .ngger there sutess thces beotte. NewYor isl ui ijite Waty" hath pover tat a ak throughlth night ands some ofite msto prodmgarisbrs.ero -of te circlatingisil wodum t ~lt that thdazereny -ocmmfu ity cni. .ti as varet asf whieays limes, the esag tl VIx wit is grea Nt severybo come bat evr -of theasilos wondrflbines lierhp the cncspa es ndt teybody wd lke atest to sdte ure. TsiNew York in apeay.vrtemotipr place rnfhich anytccoing iswhlean. hpen. &ryasd lik. oa buh mine upldt masuesor Thred ai ner tr uccessWhedd better. t New York. i Har. builingefellridchest mnua vth wtet 'ayslto.y Hat er. cnega strpek thrug thec iiarkt and soramedo he ankoht pairWhy ver an Iaiany oeray conge, th Russagevou aionist thanish ratrisucmesto thcom acounty whirs wdoerful bgndsA. er . thatewity :s nd u the stnewdo thew mottrk. adteue Ase anr atlnspa ver~ieo the mosadstlendor-o at grea' tot nw.therae sees .ode only tonte astMr Royefellge, pai histanalyut visit to thee ashow. Has Ca r.o Carnegie sled inathe iy Ia m a a PtHE?LREA eSQL/A) /lsi."h w rhas" I h atwr -xrml e pesn'eidsteophnIhm 'evs riwa rnpraionadbadwr bthghlIutteso'aeu nseeywa Itlckdincs. nCsee inCar4tclrp pwld oth'hckerae yuh Itasascn inwihte w rhn wee itig n h stp f rnt chuch.Thesno wa rtn donovrthi thn~ sholdrs rad aa *h"gdwt eetins os-asfe ln ategtmlsa or Nbd okda h r phn.H tth rhnsieta itl pyxs see pier seemo Ohave aIe the st wre clerto thev horsonsohn bust burpdins andm peole, and peplaernoo and board tlte bede boah.Bt the nnsh owa mdetinscably vhat pt ackdit.Ot.eei ~riclr p Theained tshce-raded yth.s Ind wa t ascn i'tnsehichire. two orhas be offtin N thrk Atl orurinte shwwch he sanota driouge rivwtedvto thei splendi sulrf Broadway whe w hole thoughfareanseemedstohim tolew altreng atight mesgn oaeu alood looed rat the r Whay"-ah lit the orphans, ase ha litteampdytso lookind straiendt ahednstrat uo thebsterealac thateening. Nroradway he ianificnit sewl orlth see inter oredoae ct"ea the era.th clea mone tha hericnsar Notru uildveings mad peolad't~e n bu ildiob ngrs taill tand a dgood atoth inishle iwouad fintinbeershal ae bofa The opeada oth cones poordly keel)xt hins sat.a 'rhoepatret sestuad fetd glasy eyed fromthe witer foer. o ien mutp fbnd a too N York. Allhdreisng tih show, nrc he ar nt og day riaetd o the slepdto visaof hoeady mothe whe nthrofringemhe to himkene b a tris e-houe car opporstunto horse, hoofd.As when te liht thegsirt thbaze mope alanered forehamWhie Heycalls itis hallrtas He hadi NIewme itr to bae! l grad! Al supas ingly grat! nb h t hkind freds, he goiout t hn lobr rafact, th evening No do his mgtiajobnt jtaree, ghe twante oresubway cresent atri the ofer With sevehe onevrtheleanspares ord so nn te wythe compbyan' loferst, aecnde rygllof bhe iatn' lloioud posfiitihmes. Neher anxa the ounr So, he dnepol fora sixat oent dat ha sidgstht raestauratts of glaosy eyte fom the0 wairepowr not givingicitip fnds natcho 'inhticade thres oulgh th baterne arnight .oda Tan goeo neseepm to drtvfhe ad osthr. Thbway'. Onhi the oy awakdnedy a h mi celeuso andsre tha noises, ranig rohr' elevaes whehelras thores hetter. Atsbreakpuhe hear the shrt therbyayaut motendanerdo hi, to he.a.r. take am suddehn lurch back t tha of BROAD 3TRf7 AD V YORA WA7T*9 FRO#7;1 ROM1 d/[A51Y cvry y big town. Going to run a train driven by electricity! Going to run a train bearing fifteen hundred human be ings, each of whom has put his life, for a time, In her son's keeping! Such confi dence as the company must have had In her boy to in trust him with so grave a responsibility. Oh, it is such a comfort to her to know that her son, whom she has loved since she felt his first heart-beat; for whom she has toiled and suffered and de nied herself-it Is such a comfort to her to know that he has been recognized at what she knows to be his true worth, by the most won derful city in the world. A year later, what rejoicing there was in. the little home when the boy wrote that he was comIng back on a vaca tion. Mother could hardly read the letter, she was so * .~ excited. Ran to the fields to tell father. Ran back to get ___ dinner. Coud hardly cook burned the eggs to a cr-isp, something slie had not done in thirty years, and had to fry sonme more. In such a hurry to put on her "other dr-ess" and run over to Mrs. Pratt's to tell her: "Mly boy is coming home." The boy came home, When he took mother in his arms andl held her for a full minute, she couldn't speak. All choked up. So glad to see him, she couldn't say a word. And, when she did speak, the first thing she said, as she looked up into his brown eyes, was: "Oh, my boy, howv pale you arc!" H-e was pale. Hie knew it. S'ubway air makes no redl blood-corpuscles. Kills some of the red ones tihat exist. Nor does the electric light of the sub way brown the cheek as the sunlight browns the cheek or the far-mier. All the year that he had been away, mother- had carried In her mind the plc tumre of her farnmer boy. Never had dreamed that her farmier boy would come home with a grayish white facq. Didn't need to say she was shocked. Looked it. The boy caught the message and laugh ingly relhied: "Oh, mother, all city folks are pale." During the week that lhe reniained at home, the boy was kept talking. Father and mother con stantly asking questions, Seemed to miother as If she couldn't ask questions enough. Wanted to get first-hiand informationi about everything of which she had read. Six months after he returned to work, his mother had an opportunity to see for herself, just how big was New York. A telegrani told her that her boy had been hurt. She nnd father found him in a hoe pital, with his head bandaged until they could bare ly see his eyes. At the end of his run, he had tried to cross the tracks to catch another traIn back and get to dinner more quickly. Didn't see a train running in the opposite dlirection. Car struck him. Picked up for dead. Seemed to have a fractured skull. Fortunately, did not. Revived in the hos pital and would get well. Oh, but the mother's heart was glad when she heard the best instead of the worst, Glad until she and fathier went to the boy's room, Not his room in the hospital, but his room In a lodging-house, Glad until she saw how miserably he had lived. A dirty street. A dirty house. A dirty hall. A cheer less room. Little light. Bad air. A skimpy bed. A frayed counterpane, Not a decoration, save her own picture, stuck in the edge of a mirror-. Her boy could afford no better place to live. His pay' was only $2.25 a day. That is his pay from the company was only $2.25 a day. The lire of New' York made up the rest that was needed to in duco him to stay, Such is life for millions in New York. Not life as the newspaper dispatches describe it. Not life as the stage pictures it. Life as it is, A few draw colossal prizes. A few more draw good prizes. Bunt if only those should come te New York who can earn a better living here than t! ci can elsewhere, a handcar, running once a-day, wcuild almost bring them in. 'inety-two per cent, of the population have not ( a.wn enough prizes to enable themi to own their own. homes, Yet peopte come. Come from eyery state in the Union. 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