Commonly, orphanages found work for older children, ending any opportunity for additional education. On October 2, 1896, Jeffersonville's Evening Journal reported that 13 year-old Virgil Brannan, whose parents died in Memphis, Indiana, sought help from the Indianapolis police when the agent engaged to take him to his new place of employment failed to meet him. The child wandered out of the bewilderingly enormous Union Station in Indianapolis to seek help. The article fails to mention whether the child reached his destination.