The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-03-20
sQUALoR In THE METROPOLIS.
Pictures OF Life In Shanty Town, New
York.-A Big-Headed Prodigy

York.-A Big-Headed Prodigy
It is one of the odd features OF New
York that among imposing apartment
houses and rows Of brownstote fronts
there should exist such u sqialI settle
ment of bushwhackers as certainly is
6hanty Town.
The Inhabitants of that unattractive
village are 10y no means poverts-sirleken,
however They all have ready aoncr
and many of them more than y sullic.-
ency of it. though their dwellings, and The
furnishings thereof ere primitive IA the
extreme. Family pride is as rampant
there as in tho houses thatlinc tho broader
and straighter avenues of.the city.
In one of the huts, in, the lower part of
Shanty Town, there is q physical mon
srrosiry that would make the heart OF @.
dino ntasa<atsaa man leap with 10Y and
excite the iyclest interest OF tho scien-
tist playiiig with the children and dogs
of that detachable locality Is a child six
years of age whose head when he was
ten months old measured twenty-five and
half inches in circumference.
In company with a physician, whose
past services had placed him on u
familiar footing with tho family, q Trl-
bune reporter went the other day TO WON
the young man thus afflicted with the big
head.
Sure Doctor, an I'm very bad re-
spondcd the mistress of the shanty In
reply to the usual inquiries. II have the
matary orful and my nerves arc all UNI
steang."
Mrs. Murphy had large, clear blue eyes,
and her face showed the relics of youth.
full beauty, but q heavy diagonal scar
across her upper lip had drawn it partly
out OF shape.
"How Is willie?" asked the doctor.
+" want to measure his head again"
Willie toddled up the walk ut this
point TO answer for himself.
He was certainly a NEST remarkable
| specimen OF humanity. His slender
| limbs shook under the weight of his
| enormous head. The neck and lower
part of the head were unusually small
! but above plane passing Through e.,
| eyes and upper part OF the ears tho sk0ll
| fiared out like the sides OF well-nllca
| balloon, running out tofa circumference
| of tweuty-six and one-half inches, aud IL,
| to height of Ave or six inches Tbs
| eyebrows were drawn up an inch and thl
deserted eyes were weak and expressions
less.
The child staggered little and wob
| bled along like an emigrant woman with
an overload OF household goods on hen
head thin, narrow chest and pipe
stem arms seemed to hunger for the vi
tally that the overgrown head had alb.
sorhed, whilc the stomach alone showed
aldermanic tendencies. There was intel
ligence in the child and the ability to
talk, but no promise of q second Daniel
Webster.
A big bruIse on the forehead showed
where the attraction OF gravtatlon had
gotten the better OF Willie's underplntne
so that "the globe which we inhablt
and the lesser globe that served him
for an upper story had como together.
"Sure, and he's aither bumpla' his
head all the WHILE" said Mrs. Murphy
IN explanation. Tho b'ys run away
from him, an he tries ter foler. I'll
have ter got him goat ter play wild
wasa't that a nice one we caught up nj
| High Bridge last Sunday, Willie? But
ter brute OF o gateman wouldn't let us
bring II down on the elevated. Let tel
doctor measure your head. Willie" and
Willie submitted with evident apprecla
ton OF the honor.