IMMIGRANT BOY DISAPPEARS. Found Starving, He Disappears and is Sought by His Benefactors Moses Bernstein, an Austrian immigrant boy, found starving in front of 3 Greenwich Avenue on Wednesday and taken care of afterwards by James Stewart, a restaurant keeper of 15 Greenwich Avenue, disappeared yesterday. He was still weak from having gone three days without food, and it is feared he has been overcome by illness in the street. The boy was found in front of the cigar store of Samuel Band, who carried him inside and revived him. The boy then said he came from Ulonow, Austria, two months ago, after walking through Austria to the Elbe, where he got work on a steamship coming to New York. He had $30 on landing here, and obtained work in a skirt factory. He said he worked from 5 in the morning till 10 at night, and in a month he had swollen feet from standing all day. He had learned operating, but could not work and he had to leave. He slept in parks or in hallways. The boy said that on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday he did not have a bit of food. Mrs. Band took him to her home at 133 West Tenth Street, but the boy could not eat, having passed the hunger stage. Mr. Band took him to St. Vincent's Hospital, where the doctors wanted him to stay, but he demurred, it not being a Jewish institution. Mr. Band then took him to the Charles Street Police Station. The Sergeant there said it would be necessary to lock the boy up to detain him, but Mr. Rand [sic] would not have that, and took him to the restaurant. Mr. Stewart said he would employ him. The boy was able to eat yesterday morning, and seemed a little better. He volunteered to help the restaurant keeper, and was sent on an errand. He did not return. He is 5 feet 4 inches in height, with dark complexion, wearing black clothes, black soft hat, and white outing shirt, without a collar. -- The New York Times, 26 June 1903 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/MA/Middlesex/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -