St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-28
FRESH AIR BABIES.
A HEAL LOWING EXCURSION TO IN
VALID LITTLE ONES.
HAPPY BENEVOLENT SCHEME.
Inauguration of a Series of Fresh
Air TRANSFORMATIONS Day,
Enjoyable Occasion and Good
Work Well Begun-Drs. Mead
and O'Brien as Chaperons.

chJOJdOlo OCCaSiOn anu GOOu
Work Well Begun-Drs. Mead
and O'Brien as Chaperons.
Some of the children in st. Paul will
have an event to date from after this.
They are those of the crowd that en-
Joyed the fresh air excursion on the
steamer George Hayes yesterday. The
hour for departure was announced as
7:30, and before that time large part
of the eager crowd was waiting on
the wharf at the foot of Jackson street.
DrS. OBrfen and Mead. who had charge
of the trip, were on hand, and all were
subject to an examination. so as to be
sure that no children having contagious
diseases were permitted to embark. 1t
was desired that mothers having sick
children should be provided with GER
titicateS from theiF-ewn attending phvsi-
clans, and in som eases the mothers
WHO were on the boat yesterday were
so provided, but many were not. 1t
will simplify matters great deal for
those having these beneficent outings
IN charge if all the doctors in the town
who have sick babies among their pa
tients will provide the mothers with
certificates, and induce them to take
their babies on these pleasant trips.
The inspections over, the crowd of
mothers and children, ranging in ages
from two months to four or five years
old, were ready to embark; but the
George Hayes had had a big days work
the day before and was not on hand.
nf ,uI,n
always around and know everything an
nounced that the Hayes was on a sand
bar somewhere up on the other side OF
the river so those tireleSS workers. DrS.
OBrien and Mead, proceeded to embark
their waiting proteges on the smaller
steamer, the Oracle Mower, and its
attendant barge. The embarkatiOn
was hardly complete, however,
when the Hayes came steam
hands standing by to run out the gang
plank and tote" the big rope up the
wharf. where they made it fast; and the
doctors invited their guests 10 pass from
the Oracle Mower onto the vessel first
designed for their pleasure. 1t was
nearer o'clock than 7:30 when the little
steamer swung away from her landing
and turned her nose up stream on her
way to the Minnesota river and the
fresh air and inyigOrating breeZeS that
blow over its green banks. There may
be many who doubt the need of
such expeditions as this for the
deniZenS of so clean and airy a
city as st. Paul. Indeed, some of our
citizens have not heSitated to so express
themselves in vigorous Anglo-SaXon.
But the doctors, who better than any one
else are calculated TO understand the
difficulties that surround delicate chill
dren who come into the world hand-
capped with Inherited weakness and
surrounded by bad sanitation, as we'll as
by ignorance. are not among the scott
ers or filling the seats or the scornful
i'll the matter. That they ear
nestly believe in the good
these fresh air excursions will
do these pitful mites of humanity is
proven by the fact that they are willing
to give of their busy days to this work
and that they are willing to put their
hands into their pockets to find the nee
essafy Sinews of war to carry the mat
ter to a successful issue. They have
funds enough Oh hand to pay for yes
terday's trip and for the one to be given
next week, and more promised for fut-
ure work. Everything is done to Sc
cure the comfort of the little patients as
we'll as to make the outings pleasant to
the mothers.
In announcing the excursion for yes
terday, the mothers were asked to each
bring their own lunch, but these kind
doctors, knowing how hard it is for
mothers to fix lunches when their hands
are feltered by the care of these little
hinderlng things" had thoughtfully in
duced kind Mrs. Hayes, wife of the cap
tain, George Hayes, to make generous
supply of coffee and tea, as we'll as a
+ liberal amount of more filling yiands, to
supplement the hOme-made.luncheS and
these were free as we'll as the ride, the
ice water and the good will OF the Hayes
family.
1t would have done any heart good
to see tie look of, interest and pleas
ure that lit up the wan faces of the
little patients as we steamed along
between the green banks of the Mime
sofa river up to where the Hennepin
bridge stretches its iron length across
the shining water. Here we paused,
because, forsOOth, traction engine had
passed over the bridge and done some
thing to it so it could not be opened.
The children got lot of flowers here,
the well ones, of course, who were
allowed along this time by the kind
ness of the doctors, but will not be
again. The steamer turned back and
steamed to Minnehaha and from there
back to the city, reaching the home
landing between 5 and o'clock.
Beside MrS.and the Misses Hayes and
the DrS. O'Brien and Mead to look after
the welfare of the little ones, was Miss
Lee, daughter of DR.. Lee of Western
avenue, who as representative Kings
Daughter is interested in all the prac-
teal work among the poor of the city,
lent her kindly aid and sympathy
to swell the tide of good feeling yester-
day. The list OF names of those who
went showed that there were sIXtY-nine