Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-10
BABIES GALORE. d,
A Famous Quartette En- Route for
Denver-1hey Hold Court at
the Ellis.
Kids with Wonderful Blue Eyes and scanty
Flaxen Hair That VIII Rule the Museum
Realm in Denver City.

One of the rarest sights of the world
was yesterday visible in room 16 at the
Ellis hotel. 1t was the Quartette of ba-
b1es whose combined age is less than a
twelve-m month, and weight is about
thirty-five pounds.
The Ellis register displayed in an easy !;
business hand, the signature, "E. T.
Page and three ladies' but that was
Knot half the crowd, for the famous baby
Fatsertette of one birth were alternately
slsHRing and Growing on the bed, and an
extFaspair of twins were running about
the roota.
A GAZETTE man heard that the embryo
museRnlswas in No. l6, and walked up,
expecffng TO find half the furniture in
the hallway to let tAs numerous babies
have room to squall "a. good, old fash
Toned baby style in tEeEgoom. But he
was disappointed. The EEpup seemed in
some unknown way TO liars gained an
appreciation of their true 4mportance,
and are exceedingly well behaved kids.
1t is true they didn t Eiesa Ehsh the re-
porter entered. and 6aly two of them
deigned to notice him afterwards, but
that might have been expeeted.
over youder at the head of the he'd
Annie Love, who is number one and
weighs nine pounds, was taking mid
day siesta; here AT the foot OF the bed
Jessie Estelle, who is the third in order
and weighs six pounds, was blinking at
the light with pair of dark blue eyes ;.
She Is the smallest of the group and the
only one who has been at all sick Y Then
Nora Augusta, another nine FOUNDER,
and number two in the births,
sat on Mrs. Pages knee and looked
quite contented over the dinner
which she had just had. Geneva lnolda,
whose weight is seven and one-half
pounds, and who is the beauty of the
family, slept serenely on the bed. There
were babies everywhere. By actual
count there were only four visible but,
they looked like dozen and the reporter
was afraid to stir lest he should step on
some baby concealed elsewhere<
They will be three months old on the
10th of this month aud when weighed
two weeks ago tipped the hay scales at
thirty. one and one half pounds and have
grown rapidly since. 1t is safe to say
they have attained more celebrity in
their short life than the average young
lady. The royal custom is here reversed
and three ladies wait in attendance on
on their way to hold court in Denver,
where many will bring presents of gold
and silver or stay out. Thence they will
go to Lincoln, Omaha. St. 10 and on to
Boston. Thew left this city last night on
the Santa Fe north bound.
MIR. Page is interested in a mill prop
erty at Ingersol, near Texarkana, where
the quartette first sang to an admiring
house. The admiratIonr has not ceased
yet aud the parents are hugely tickled
with the youthful debutantes. They are
as healthy as little steers and made no
fuss at all about travelling in weather
like yesterdays. The entire party would
have stayed over another day but they
were afraid Of being swamped by visitors
as they were in Texarkana when the fact
of their presence became known. So
they boarded their chariot and started
for Denver last night