New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-27

take them out Of town. had to work late into tho
night TO get something for them TO ear. 30 theS
were shut In here TO smother like rats IN noe Ny
baby-she was such pretty baby ohos gone
already, and now
She STONED and changed the cloth on Dams face,
looking at his whitening lips
The Saints ewes followed Prryance with an awlui
accusation In them. Where were your mountain
air and Your sea beachesF he SAID here are tue
little ones He left in your care and you smut them up
to die like rats in hole
''He shall go tomorrow"
at il too late. Look" He pointed to the boy,
whose eyes were slowly turned with strange mean
ing on his mother They grew fixed and still.
Sheduno back tho ragged sheet and dragged him
mn 70 her breast 'He shall not die! He shall not
Dao-Danw she cried. But he did not move.
:" Came awayp The Saint led Puryiance out OF
the cellar.
Are there other little children that have died in
this city of Christian people for lack OF fresh air
he said Purvance answered as though the woros
were dragged ont of him. "They have died here by
the thousand every Summer. did not think oil
them when took care of my own, As God hears
me. did not think of them"
The Saint did not answer, and they went on in
silence. But Puryiances conscience goaded him
into words and would not let him be quiet. " There
is help and an asylum for every kind OF disease and
wretchedness in this great city but for sick children
For them there is none. There was Child's Hos
pitaI at Atlantic City this Summer. to which II
would have cost a triie to send Dan and his sister.
BIT New-York had no share in it,
The morning had dawned meantime, but dawned
without breath of fresh air to lift the pressure OF
foul smells aud iutolerable heat As they passed
down the street. miserable. puny little children OF
all ages swarmed out OF every cellar and fiat in
dirty night gowns to sit duly on the pavement or
lie exhausted on the steps There not a smile
on single childish face. On tho steps of
Churchsome rough laborers sitting with babies
in their arms having brought them out before gong
TO their work, that they might catch the morning
air. such as it was before the days intolerable heat
drove them into their foul den5 again.
"To think" said the SAINT q" of the sunny Penn
svlvania farms, and mountains aud the sea-beaches
near at hand Is this your civilization, then Is
this glancing up at the costly spire and carved
arches overhead all that Christianity comes TO
Do men but mock Christ when they celebrate his
birthday
This was all, of conrse many years ago. Dr. Pur-
viances dream reused him to become Christian for
the whole year. lie considers the poor IA much
now in July as in December. IL was at his instance
that the Children's Hospital was established in New
York with it's branches during the Summer at Cape
May and III the mountain counties, to which all our
citizens can point with pride. They are indeed
Free Excursions enlarged and made doubly effective
In consequence of this, the bills of mortality so far
as children are concerned during this Summer as we
all know numbered no victims!fr0m want or disease
which could have been relieved, and New YORK no
longer takes her part in the Murder fthe lnnocents