The evening world., 1890-05-27
+ Tho Evening Worlds Corps Will Be
ReOrganizel This Summer.
l ast Years Good Work Among
Sick Babies TO Be Repeated.
send in Your Pennies and start The
Fund A-bIoving.


operation of its readers, break the record
of sweet compassion already made.
The time Ms yet is too previous for
nctivo service. Mature is in her happiest
mood. and the tiniest, homellcst found
ling enjoys in full measure. along with
the princeling of Fortune, the priceless
favor of her radiant, fragrant, lne-RiVing
warmth and sunshine.
Every breath of Mny is q tonic, and
eServ sweet odor of June time will be
stimulant. Each dny is dream, and
every hour On interest bearing bond for
future health.
60 bountiful is the sweetness of earth
at this season, that living is feasting.
But while Mother Nature takes caro- OF
hor own the future must be looked to.
the enfeebling heats of midsummer antici.
noted and provision made to reduce the
frightful mortality common to the COM
munity of great city like New York.
whero poverty is supreme and the infrmi-
ties of the third and fourth generations
The only legncy of childhood.
Skill, sympathy and practical intelli-
pence are needed to save the little ones
of the metropolis not only from death,
but contagion and ignorance. They
must not only be cured Of disease, but
protected from exposure.
Young and inexperienced mothers must
be enlightened: attention must be called
TO bad sanitation; swill-milk dealers must
be eradcated, murderous hucksters of
noiled fruit routed, and the tiny. help.
less mortas preserved from the killing
qualities of kindness.
There are thousands and hundreds of
thousands of people in this city who will
willingly lend help to betterthe condition
of the poor sick babies Of New York, and
to this end The EVENING WORLD will be
the medium.
What it has accomplished in previous
wears rebounds to its experience, and as
so much capital will bring about the tri-
umph on which success is based.
Innumerable letters testified the appro-
baton of the public. but superior to the
consciousness of earnest, honest endeavor
wns the acknowledgment Of the New
York Board of Health that without the
assistance of The EVENING WoRLD's
Sick Baby Fund and Summer Corps of
Free Physicians its splendid record in
lhe tenement quarters during the Sum-
ner of 1889 never could have been
achieved.
This was a qualification that The EVEN
ING WORLD divided with every contrib
utor whose interest alone made the cru
sade against infantile distress possible.
Now, the time for action is here again
and the need for work greater than ever.
How great cnn be measured in degree
by glance at Poverty Lane.
Take IN afternoon and go to the De.
partment of Public Health in Mulberry
street. Don't burden your memory with
the number. You won't need it. for the
moment, you leave Bleecker street you
will see tho crowd. Ohl such pitiable
throng of mothers, most of them bare
headed. some shoeless and all in distress
they and their frightened little ones.
Some have children tugging at their
skirts. and every pair of arms is wrapped
about an infant.
The poor women sit about the door
way. crowd the pavement and line the
curbstone, unmIndful of sun. rain, wind
or dust, Indifferent to meal hours, which
come with perverted punctuality, calmly
waiting their turn for vaccination.
There are representatives of all nations,
but the diminutive subjects are freedom
Americans almost without exception.
1t is unnecessary to ask about their
condition, for poverty is unmistaknble
when it pinches the face, hollows the
sheeks and saps the life from muscles,
lips and limbs.
There is splendid sturdiness of health
and yoluptuousness of vitality that
SCOTS at the rags of necessity, but in this
locality health, fortune and raiment are
in tatters.
Turn your steps, If you will, into Stan
ton, Pell or Rivington street, and count
the feeble children of three years and the
distorted little ones of one and two,
creeping about the doorways, II you
would know how sadly are the needs of
these poor people-not for material help
but medical advice, the condition Of their
offspring being the result Of mal-nutri-
tirn.
These are the children on whom the
parents will depend and rely for support
IN their declining wears. aud yet the lit
tie lint are permitledto knot into shape
less, useless form, the joints to bow. the
spine TO curve. the eyes to cross and the
domestic crumble away, when q card OF
admission or letter from an intelligent
physician would put them in the care of
an able, willing and humane specialist
The city iE filled with free dispensaries
and charity hospitals, where suffering can
be and Is relieved; whe.e physical and
mental health is nurtuTed.
The instruction of these simple people
aud the placing of their poor sickly and
aeiormed little ones is part of the good
he EVENING WoRLD's Corps Of Free
physicians hopes 10 accomplish
Before, however, the band Of helpers
can be selected and their work organized
provision must be made, salaries
guaranteed aud facilities completed for
carrying out the programme.
1here must be a reserve fund at the
disposal Of each doctor, approved by tho