, 1875-09-05
BABY FARMING.
discovery Of the Peculiar In
stitution in Chicago
Tho 1Id Woman, and the Neg
lected and Dying
Babies.
uhat the Neighbors Know OF
the mfantile Nor.
tality.
,pdbtr Rachel Weeping for Her Child
Ills This Ny Blue.
Erred Boy 2"
Feeding the Weaklings on
Brandy and Soothing
Syrup.
People in The Vicinity Tormtnted by
the Cries Of The Sufferers.
AV;at to the Ho1se---Six Gents a
Day the Cost Of Feeding.
1,,, Il The Deaths appear On tue Register
Of Burial Permits.
False Statements About The Home tor
the griend;ess.
re,ding the Weaklings on
Brandy and Soothing
S Syrup.
,.on1a IN tbe Vicinity Tormented by
fbe Cries Of The Sufferers.
AViit to the Hodse--si1 Gents a
Day the Cost Of Feeding.
ro1se Statements About the Home for
the griend.ess.


the griend;ess.
o,t,a uonstrous things Of which everybody
H.. heard. sod because OF the very moastroslty
., them has doubted, mono have bee7 received
9TH mara mingled incredulity and horror than
N. .ceounts that have occasionally gone the
rurnds Of the press OF baby-farming. Though
t,.s. reports have been frequent enough to slTe
to ,he phrase "bapy-farming precise elgnlt-
c.ooe indicating the most cruel. co~ardly, ana
e7rs mole Of numbering infants b. nominally
vcttnq them ont to board, but in fact abandon
inr them to slow starvation. dosing with oplates,
nsa}sct md torture, uutil death merci-
frlI7 relieved them, people have been
.nu TO belieye that there was
Foundation in fact for those reports, which rend
like crioalties OF the literature Of CRIME, rather
tim the recital OF grim facts. Doubtless read
IN Ct The TRmCSE have asked themselves
ehssher the tean.ng iaiau!ty OF st. Giles, OF OF
the Fire Points could have developed = sufficient
number Of unnatural mothers whom any consid-
er1tion could induce to consign their helpless
o1smiDg to the lingering tolture and certain
death Of baby-tarm, to "stock" single insti-
tuann Of the kind. When the sub
teet has been mooted, men have
thought Of their own mothers ard OF
mothsr's lore ~ tho deepest and holiest emotion
thz1 inepires the human hoart-haVe recalled
the pnmberless instances amidst the lowest and
mosk depraycd, in which mothers have delbe1-
a.s|s sacritce3 life itself for their little ones
md have pronounced it an lmpossibility that IN
this age IN auy Christian land there should. at
xny place., always be found unnatural mothers
enough to regularly sustain IN institution OF
s1eh sort. And yet
rnzRE IS, N CHICAGO, TO-DAY,
i baby-farm that finds regular patron
sge, and which, Judging from what
Ia been ELECTED by = TRIBUNE
reporter, with quito a8 uno11ing certainty as
hose We read OF. transfers it's victims 10 ths
fs1Eey1rd.
Upon information received at TIE TRIBUNE
nice, . reporter WAS detailed to look up this
baby-farmIng establishment Processing to
fven.y-0rst street, cast OF State. the locality
Indicated, he entered ono OF a row OF three-sto-y
lnck houses. numbered from ITO to 1853 Twenty
eTdeotly quite recently were good private resi-
tcnces, but Are now someWhat out Of repair,
nd appear to hare been let in compartments.
Tn reporter in quest Of Information entered
tse first Of these to find the family nt dinner,
md IN response to his first question: Was aerce-
l9gfeeted By
TIE EAsTEn or THE HousE,
n honest, hard-wo:k;ug mechanic, IN this wise
"Now. lookee here, Mister, il thofo's going
70 Be aEy names printed OF any 1umpus going
to b made about this ERE affair, nv wife an't
EonE 70 to tell you word about it. We are
sstaG6ed things ant right in there, but my wife
Ut going to be mixed mp in such doings."
The reportes hasteaed to assure the good man
sat neither himself nor his wife we're going to
hsEs their nanes printed in the paper:
taat Ill that was desired WAS tn 1earu whether
matters vero Ill right ' in there" and it ther
ssse GOT night, to expose the whole iniquitr Of
u Which might put stop to it.
only half f-Assured at this, the man said he
aunt knoW wl4at was going on III M. 18::, but
TH1sab wAsS'T 7 GOING RIGHT n THERE
baby had died there in Ap:1l, and then in
oas Te7k IL June three other babies had died
eaese and he'd made up his mind that the next
eoe thst died there he would inform the authori-
&see tea see toa: tnere waE an inquest.
1a md tneTe~was
THE PAT BABY,"
tpoke up the wife, come!y. tiy-loodng young
"ousa. Eho vas herself nursing chubby little
e@ot' - pretty child as ever body set eyes
sn left there. We used sometimes to see it
easnt there more than four or five
9ls sod it faded nway and died
lae little fellow cried all the time for three davn
aea agats as ii his heart woaid break. don't
1noa What they did, but know it couldn't have
~ n a. ael for that child must have cried iteelf
e, 3, d;nt Of di'ieent cross-examining the TO-
Porter ellc1ed that
PART OF NO. 1e3
"euped by IN old woman named Quacken-
. paAa. who took babies 10 board, aud that her
.I.Aa.ef-m:law, w "Dr." Stewart. with lis wife.
~ ..o 1sed in the earae house. When the bus
r. as9 nad begun none OF the peighbors could tell
&102&&lFs RUt - Arr1f Y,a+inAti a rIaif6 d
~ months Old there Somebody made inquiry
t...ts. ~. Quackeobus:l, mud eae SAID she hnd
~hao hsso to poatd for its mother. In httle
! hsa!e me child died. Then there we're more
fn.u faea u 40. 183. In Juno there we're four OF
rssl 1aen il vas that three died within =
~ foA4 sna The bodies we're Beeu beng removed
~ h%a 1ae psemises- The MN and his wife both
kteeen eeen the tenaius carTicd away. Still other
nosa ass a3o boen brought there since then. but
H. ~ asa been kept there but little whi1e, aud
s~ " seemed to have sickaned and been sent
l. 7. lne{e was baby taluen .say from there
=, "aen It ~as brought there it looked rs healthy
ea,a ,uouta be. saw It when it came. It IVES
~ ~ teE weeks old, but had pretty. round.
H. ffSnp tl. lsce - mv owu baby,"-looking down 1t
tr,1 sse one IN her lap,-" and when it Was taken
'"@5 N = few daya.
...., ITS FACE HAD sHRuxK AWAIT,
e.s vas shriselod up unit: It didn't look big
"a "a .o4n newborn babe. Whep it got sick the
~. *onan mast have been fdghtend, for eho
f. doctor lustesd Of having Stewart tend
iii aoa the mother took 1t awav, the
b kt'Toan ITooan said because the doctor eaid it must
~a4en oack to its mother or it would die"
p,u.. ANOTHER or TIE SH0HBoRs
49,, "nom the reporter called substantially
@t.s @teoooiated the above, aad stated that the
-. ~ osos, As it came to be known in the block,
H.. pretty that ali the women folks fell in
hr5saa u and when it slcdened and cried till
~ 70 III lie out, it aroused tho sympathy
D.. 4uaenahon Of the neiRhboys to such pitch
A. ~ ance then they have kept careful watch
- taa* trsnspired 1t No. LIS.
da7e Sou Witnessed any
R u|IHEATAKHT or TIE olu1nnN
~ aaked tho reporter.
oaa only tall whit Iva ssaa mrse0.~ H.