Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-07-07

the old sc6emSer win make a vigorous fight,
sndswiIl pull every wireto.winsuceess; and
4 he has money, orgrnizatinna and is entire
Ne ,A;tbout = yunsoiehee, It IS going to be
rstHer harasjob to beat him. We shall beat
him bui it viii take. hard work to do IL
20 9a doe sKTalSe. 4ae esi
The psopie Of New York ought tObe the
eleanest people in the world; for certainly
they have facilities for bathing unknown
in any other city in the world. The city Is
an. island. with water everywhere; but yet
there is no opportunity for bathing. The
city authorities prohibit bathing in any Of
the waters within the city limits, except
in such houses as see provided in the city,
Of which, for a pegplation of million,
there are two. The oSeE-niee people OBJ
ieet to seeing the naked bodies of the poor
people and con sequently the heated boy,
the dusty, grimy laborer, who walks along
the river and longs TO plunge into its cool
waters, is obliged to go dusty and dry to
his attic and satisfy himself with pint of
water in a basin. It is absolutely awful
this prohibition. The city IS now an oven,
the miles Of brick walls hold heat all sum
mer. the pavements are scorehing night and
day, the air is full of dust, which eats into
the skin like yermin, and TO prohibit the
poor from enjoying the water that IS all
around the city is only one degree less
eruel than it would be to deprive them Of
air. But so il is. They have no delightful
bath-tub at home, as have the richs nor
can they get out of the city when the ther-
mometer goes up into the nineties. So
here they stay, and sweat and suffer, with
relief under their noses which they dare
not enjoy, God help the poor in New
York. All seasons are unkind to them.
They freeze in the winter and bake in the
summer. 5aaa 9i'1 g
M IiTs, BABY FARMING. - 20
The attention Of the authorities has been
called to the brutal system Of baby farm
ing, and as the investigation proceeds, the
extent Of it becomes absolutely appalling.
One woman in Hester street locked her
doors and left her lodgings. The neigh
bors in the block adjoining heard low
means in her rooms, and breaking the door
open, found therein twenty-three babies,
from three months to three years of age, all
Of them in condition Of wretchedness
that defes description, 5i.,. s,.ff
One Of them. when some food was put to
its mouth, held the dish 50 desperately with
its teeth that it bit pieces out Of the glass.
They were all starved, all filthy to degree
that is past telling, and every one of them
would have been dead in a few hours more.
The woman who had thus cruelty aban-
doHed these innoeents was arrested short |
time afterwArd, and the particulars of the |
cruel system were forced out of her. It /
appeared on. her examination that she had !
had as many as fifty under her care at a
time, the babies being, as a rule, lie
gitimate, the fathers being in positions |
which made;it inconvenient to aeknowl- |
edge their progeny, and the mothers being
unable to care for them. One child was
the daughter of lady cashier of an extern
siye manufacturing establishment down
town, by the head of the firm, in whose
employ she was, the father being man Of /
high standing, both in society and busi-
nessj others were the children of unfortu-
nate shop girls, and others of adventures
es, who did not care what became of their
children so that they were out of their
hands. The neighbors testified that there
were funerals every day from the rooms of
the woman, and whenever sight could be
had of the corpses, the fact that they had
died of starvation was evident. The hag
put on bold front, and said that while
she did not starTs the babies. they were
left with her for that purpose, that neither
father nor mother ever wanted to see them |
again, and that the only complaint she
ever received, except from an occasional
working girl, who had some feeling for her
child, was that she treated them too well.
1t was aseertained that she never stayed in
the same lodgings more than two months
that her system was to collect pay for six
months care Of the children, and then
abandon them to the chance charity of the
neighbops. As the poor innocents were
certain Of being taken to the aluIs-houses
and orphan asylums, all traces of them
were lost, and the ends Of their unfeeling
parents gained. She simply took new
rooms, an advertisement in the Herald /
brought her new customers, and so the |
game of ehild-murder went on The ex-
animation was the cause Of the meeting Of |
a large number of wealthy and philan-a
thropie ladies up town last Thursday night,
who determined to raise funds to establish
a foundling hospital for the reception Of |
the vast number of waits that the city pro
duees. A house is to be purchased, and,
under proper management, all children are
to be received and no questions asked.
There viii be revolving pillar with bell,
and on that pillar basket. The mother
who has a babe which she cannot care for
viii deposit it in the basket, pull the bell,
the pillar viii turn half. round, and thein-
fant is in. safe hands, It viii, be cared for,
educated, and If not reclaimed viii be
placed in life as well as possible. This plan
is older than the hills in Europe and its
adoption here only marks step in the pro
gress Of the country toward the higher but
more corrupt civilization Of the old world. |
ButWholshal say it is not right and prop
err The child is not responsible for its |
birth, and the iHlhI!gmahIty Of putting it in
charge Of mafderous old bag to &ill it, |
cannot be argued. It is estimated that
there are four hundred Of these baby-farm-
ing establishments in the city alone.
THE FASHIONS.
Coarse, black straw hats, wide enough to
shade the face well, are worn everywhere,
turned upa the side with plumes. Toilets
are admired in which the undersl1irt of
the costume and the umbrella are of the
same color. Thus, an ecru over-dress is
worn with bright aean blue silk skirt, and