The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-05
LIFE SAVED BY SCIENCE:
Baby Anticipated His Welcome on
Earth, but Fares Well, being Brought
up q Tin Germ Incubator.
New York Press. |


Master Joseph Grevert should be
come great man. On June 1e he sur
prised his mother, Mrs. Kate Grever1
of SIS East Twenty-sixth street, by
putting in an appearance three months
before he was expected. Since then he
has resided ina tin germ incubator. He
weighed only two pounds when he
made his first appearance and was four
teen inches long. Now he weighs over
three pounds and has grown almost
three inches.
When the baby appeared three
months ahead of his September engage.
ment all the knowing old women in
the neighborhood shook their heads
and pronounced Joseph, as he was
at once baptized, failure. Even DR..
J. Moorhead, of Eighteenth street and
Second avenue, did not believe he
would survive more than a few hours.
That is was possible that he could cut a
considerable figure in metropolitan life
only one person believed. That person
was W. G. Robinson, maker of nedi-
cal and chemical apparatus, who lives
in the same house with the babes moth
er. He knew all about theireubation of
cholera germs and other microbes, and
for the life of him he could not see why
even such small baby as Joseph could
not be reared in the same way. Ger
tainly Joseph was much bigger than
any caicrobe.
Mr.. Robinson, after seeing Joseph,
went down stairs and took tin germ
incubator he had made for DR.. Bryon,
put wool IN it, lit the lamp that heats
it and put Joseph in it. The box has
a glass cover, and for day or two fos-
ter father Robinson did little but watch
this human germ. He also invented q
way to feed his charge with a medicine
dropper.
Joseph repaid bis attention by grow
ing in most phenominal way. He
soon began to try to eat the wool in the
box. and a narrow escape from strangu-
lation. Next he nearly kicked the box
over. That danger averted, he set up a
lusty howl and tried to push the glass
cover off. He would have been chilled
to death had he succeeded, as the tenn
perature il his tin home must be kept
at not lower than 9S degrees blood
heat. Then his mother forgot to fill
the lamp Friday night, and when the
tired woman awoke from q nap she
found Joseph shivering in an atmos-
,phere Of only 80. She lit the lamp and
he was soon happy again.
After surviving all these dangers in
his short ten days of life the progress
sive Joseph is doing well. Scores of
physicians have been to see him, and
all agree that he is record beater. He
is well formed and healthy looking,
and having three months start on his
generation may turn out Shakespeare,
a John L. Sullivan or Sandow.
WEIGHS THREE AND A QUARTER
POUNDS.
New York Sum-
Yesterday was the fourteenth day of
the existence of little Joseph Grevert,
who is being kept alive by means of an
incubator at his parents home, al5
East Twenty-sixth street. The child
has grown so rapidly the past week
that Tinsmith William G. Robinson
has been obliged to make incubator. A
hole has been bored in the floor of the
room in which the baby lies, through
which gas pipe is to be run to furnish
heat for the new incubator.
Young Joseph, whe weighed only
two pounds at his birth, Gow tips the
scales at three and quarter poundS.
he has also grown several inches. He
has reached that stage of life when
crying has become a necessity, and
screams as Justify as if he had been
brought up in the usual way and not
ln q chicken incubator DR.. Moor
head has no doubt now on the subject
of the child's living. The baby has
discarded the medicine dropper, and
takes his food from the regulation
nursing bottle.
Mrs. Grevert says that more than
one hundred people have called to see
the little fellow and his novel cradle
since the facts in the case were pub
lished.