 After staying with a teacher who treated her like a "maid," she joined one of her brothers in New York City.She worked for him and his wife at their fish market on 8th Avenue in Harlem but they became displeased when, out of sympathy, she gave a family more fish than they had paid for.A wealthy woman saw her sleeping on a park bench and offered her a job as a babysitter at a home overlooking Central Park.