Homeless children ride orphan train to Texas

The last “Orphan Train” left New York City on May 31, 1929 bound for Sulphur Springs and points west ln the Lone Star State.Charles Loring Brace was a college- educated minister and social reformer working in the slums of New York City in the middle of the nineteenth century. A person of rare compassion, he was moved most by the plight of the 30,000 homeless children forced to fend f...