The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-21
TRADE In BABIES.
A NEW ENTERPRISE STARTED BY A
CHICAGO WOMAN.
Getting the Little Ones from Their
r;siher. tor Fair Promises and
seaipe Them ut SO Apiece
10 Chinese.

CHICAGO, Jan 2L-A white chilli ) or 0
weeks Old was discovered Monday BY officer
Dudley Of the Humane society in n Chinese
opium JOINT at 201 south Clark street The
place, which IS filthy basement, was occu-
pied by seven adult Chimes, one of them
wJiEan, and all were engaged in
smoking opium The dense smoke
flied every crevice, AMI the in
ianc sick ami wheeling with mild
form q the Group, lay IN little crib. Whet
uss the pig-taiIei foreigners hal Tor ths.
baby Mr.. Dudley could not divine. but ne
was satisfied that it could not live long in
that atm ).phsre and with such heashenish
lack Of care, Tia proprietor, who said his
name was Koa- wa Long, told the officer
that hi, friend, lee Wang, who
lived "a the corner Of Thirty first
street and Cottage Grove avenue, and
whose wife was a German woman,
was given white baby few weeks ago. 1t
pleased Kong Wa Long so well that he asked
Mrs. Lee Nung 70 get him a white baby to
bring up and he would pay her S.. She con-
Quoted him II Mrs. Rosa Reitmeier, . Midwife
at 272l Cottage Grove avenue, who, it IS
said, agreed u sell him a child as soon as
Size found one Sunday night he says she
walked into Kong Wa Longs phase sad sold
him for ! y baby which she brSusat in her
arms. MR.. Re.tuleier was alarase when
she found that her trade had been discov-
cred. She said she asked Dr. Eddy d the
Hahnemana hospital for baby to give
away, and he referred her to a woman in the
hospital who had a child 10 dhpose of she
secured the little oas and took sl2 from
the Chinaman Tor her trouble not as
the price OF the babe. Leaving the mid
wife in a disturbed state of mind, the re-
porter called on DR. Eddy. He said:
Mrs. Reitmeier proposed to the chihs
mother Mrs Bailey Of Atchison, kas., to
get it adopted into the family Of highly
respectable artist on the north side. This
artist was wealthy German, she said, and
Mrs Bailey'5 boy would be clothed and
schOolei as carefully as il he were
the son of a banker But SIZE must
consent to give up the baby without ever
knowing the name Of its benefaeFor. as he did
not wish the mother 70 interfere, a. she
might when the child grew older, with his
rights as its protector With maRy rniSgiv-
ings the mother went 10 Arnold street, got
her child from the wet-nurse she WAS paying
TO keep it, and with parting kiss handel it
over to Mrs. Reitmeier / believed that
Mrs Reitmeier intended to do what she
said, for / could not conceive Of a party
wanting 50 young child for purposes other
than adoption
Officer Dudley took,ths child to the Home
for the Friendless Mrs. Reitmsler has but
one baby in her house at present, but She ad-
mittei that she had given away a great
many babies Why, she said, i thought
there certainly could be no harm in what
dii A girl up ON South Park avenue kept
her baby in a box on the street for several
weeks last summer. and yet the Humane So
ciety dill not raise any such fuss. On, what
shall do! l would give 500 if I had mol
given away that baby