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'' TE-MrffW-yWH-MMIH ORPHANS LIVE IN FILTH NEW YORK PAYS' $2,600 FOR DOG KENNELS READ THIS New York, Feb. 14. "Otiver Twist," the story with its pitiable child vic tims drawn from life in English work houses, is being outdone by asylums and orphapages in New York and vi cinity, according to investigators. Boys lapping soup from sloppy ta bles; children scarred by whippings; filth that made rooms resemble pig pens; boys and girls weak and anae mic from lack of nourishment; show er baths used only as punishment; lit tle girls doing the work of women, are conditions being described daily by Deputy Charities Commissioner Wm. J. Doherty before a commission appointed by Gov. Whitman to inves tigate charges against various insti tutions. Doherty testified that in an orphan asylum in W. 259th st, the beds were springless, encrusted with dirt and covered with hard, thin pads and dirty linen. Doherty said that in a certain mis sion on Staten Island he found the play hall and dining room disgusting ly filthy, that food was served in greasy pails by boys who had not washed their hands, and that dinner was stew, stew, stew. For 200 boys there was one soap dish and not a single tooth brush, he testified, and in the girls' department there were 54 children with vermin on their heads. The plight of many children at a Yonkers institution was described as most pitiful. A physician stated bet ter physical types of children could usually be found at a tuberculosis hospital Doherty testified that following his visit to the institution he received a letter saying some of the children had been hidden away in a closet because blood had been drawn from them by a yvhlppjng strap. , NOW READ THIS New York, Feb. 14. While sensa tional disclosures are being made re garding treatment of children in in stitutions New York is buying $100 dolls and $500 bird cages. But $500 to house a bird in a gilded cage when poor orphans are suffer ing was outdone when P. P. Avery of New York paid $2,600 for a kennel for a dog. The kennel, auctioned at the American art galleries with the dolls, bird cages and other items in the Ya manaka collection, is a brass struc ture on four wheels, all ornamented with cloisonne enamel picturing dragons among the clouds, in turquoise-blue, white, vermilion and yel low on a deep lapis-blue ground. The roof is of gilded rods, arching to a bell-shaped dome in champleve enamel. The kennel is of the Ch'ienlung dy nasty, according to an inscroption. The dog can drink from a Ch'ien lung water or milk dish inscribed with the seal of the reign, and can eat from a feedtub of the same period. For the dog and his kennel there is a night covering of blue silk embroid ered in gold thread with peonies, pomegranates and peaches. Two other kennels in the Yama naka collection also brought fancy prices. One, an antique red lacquer affair, was provided with a Chinese silk brocade quilted mat Japanese dolls auctioned were cos tumed in the richest silks and bro cades. o o Philadelphia. "Chicken flotilla" is under ban at League Island navy yard. Lieut Commander Davis or dered officers to refuse admission to numerous young women flocking to greet sailors. Jji,tfifcmrarJMfo&-ateat - -- r- '