Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-28
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV'R. 2S.
The New York Baby Show.

The great national baby show was formally
opened for business to-day at Fourteenth street
and Fifth avenue Notwithstanding the bad
weather the mothers and nurses were present
10 full force with their loads of little humanity,
and by ten o'clock there wero some $50 chill
dren on exhibition The halls, for there arc
two of them, one above the other, are hand.
| somely decorated and a full.toned piano
browns the melody from the $50 inlantie
| throats.
To give complete description of the little
things would be simply impossible. There arc
babies great and babies small. babies short
and babies long, fat babies, leau, wien:
Iookiog babies, blue, brown, black, and
grey eyed babies, blinking babies, and ba.
bic that did nothing but keep. their
eyes on the ceiling, and make vain efforts to
choke themselves with fat little hands. The
triplets had not arrived up to noon, but no
doubt they will be on hand tomorrow if the
| weather clears of.
The total entrees are over four hundred. and
the prizes aggregate about $l,OOO, the hlgn'
est prize being $3.50. The only monsrosly 10
as tho managers have discouraged the sending
of monstrosities. The baby that barks like
dog and the Darwinian baby were not present,
but there we're very many babies that much re-
sembled young monkeys. The fat babies de-
cidedly preponderaed.
They Waddled and tossed and rolled around
the benches, kicked at the visitors, and when
they laughed their eyes and noses were COM
pletely lost sight Of and their faces appeared
all mouths. The nurses or mothers with the
children are ranged all around the hall on raised
cushioned benches, while the centre OF the hall
is occupied similarly leaving good open space
for visitors to promenade around.
Most of the morning was consumed 10 max
Jog the babies acquainted with the nelghDors.
They glowed at each other and showed keen
desire to get at each others hair. Some laugh
ed some cried, sone slept, some eat or drank
and nearly all appeared to treat tho visitors
With the greatest Indifference, as II not the least
bit anxious to gain their votes. =,
Each visitor is entitled to vote for the io'
lowing, and receives coupon with his ticket
accordingly: Handsomest mother, ,prettlest ba.
By, finest trplets, prettiest twins greatest nov
city, prettiest two year old, pretlest three year
old, prettiest four year old. prettlest i've year
DID, The visitors will mark their preference
by numbers opposite each class and deposit the
COUPON 10 box provided for that purpose, and
the baby receiving the highest number OF votes
in its class will receive prize. Among the
collection are Russian Lapland. Iceland ,Germsp.
Swiss, Italian, Irish, Eogllsh, Scotch, Amercao'
Canadian and African babiss and there Is also
Chinese baby. one year old, whose namo is
All Foo.
He is accompanied by his mother. Mrs.
Chung Ling, and wears an embryo .plgtall,
which is source Of the greatest attractive to
| Deighboriug Hibernan baby. THERE'S one baby
| 10 the show who was born ten hours after rs
| mothers death; one baby a month old, and
only weighing three pounds; twins weighing
| Eve pounds each. and one baby, two months
old, and weighing fifteen pounds-N T. Ne10s.
REBUILDING LOCOMOTIVES 1t is the Gus.
tom on many railroads to REBUILD locOmo.
tives, retaining such portions of the boilers and
| machinery as are sound, and replacing worn
out portions with new This practice is a pro-
| life cause of boiler explosions and other acct
| dents, and is proved also to be more expensive
10 the end than to supply the place of old loco
motives with entirely new ones. The Pennsy-
vauia railroad has for several years thrown its
| old engines into the scrap heap, and 10 their
place built new oucs on uniform plans. The
cost of repairs per mile under this system has
decreased from twelve aud twenty one hun
dredths cents, in 1866 to eighth and sixteen
one hunlredths in 1872 and this notwitbstand
| ing the load of engines has been very much IN,
creased. This is the more remark kable as all
the new engines have been charged to the re-
| nair account