The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-26
SpURNS HER INCUBATOR.
PrematureIy Born Baby Haight Eats
RavenOusly and Yells for More.

NEW YORK, May 25.-Having lain dor
mant i'm her wire cradle in the Robinson
baby incubator exactly three months, the
baby heiress of Edward Clarence Haight
was yesterday removed, placed in swad-
ding clothes and turned over 10 the manip
ulations of her trained nurse. Little Miss
Haight was prematurely born at No. 2S6
Madison avenue on Feb. "A. She arrived
three months earlier than expected,
and her mother, nee Florence Hedden
Granger, died in giving her birth, after DR..
Carleton and his assistants had exhausted
their scientific resources to save the moth
er's life.
Dr. Carleton determined to try to save
the infant, and sent hurried note to the
w. f. Ford Surgical Instrument Company.
of No. 315 Fifth avenue. Mr.. Ford tele-
graphed to William G. Robinson, tinsmith,
of No. S15 East Twenty-sixth street, the
inventor and maker OF baby incubators.
Robinson hurriedly drove up TO the Haight
mansion with his apparatus, and the fragile,
feeble and almost inanimate infant was
placed inside There she has remained for
three months. having been taken out but
twice thrice daily for a moment while
her toilet was hastily made. The young
lady was fed upon indicated milk Yearn-
ing eyes watched her day and night. AS
she grew older and stronger she stretched
her little limbs, shrugged her wee shoul-
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what all the fuss was about, anyhow. I'm
der ordinary circumstances she should have
been born to-day instead of three months
ago, but she commenced her natural life
with a three months novel experience.
Soon she will be christened. She looked
very comfortable in her new clothes last
night.
DR.. Carleton is pleased, Mr.. Haight is
joyful, and inventor Robinson is proud OF
the successful issue Of the experiment.
They call Robinson the "tin father" A
year ago his neighbor, Mrs. Grevert, was
confined three months before she had made
any preparations for such event. The
doctor pronounced the child still-born. and
the nurse wrapped Ii In a sheet and laid IL
at the foot of the bed, ready for burial
The mother wished her dead babe baptized.
and the neighborS were invited in 10 wit
ness the ceremony: Robinson declared the
baby was not dead. he ran for his incu-
bator. In three months little Joseph Rob-
inson Grevert opened his eyes and plainly
wanted to be taken out of his hot house
nue. and Sixtieth street The Grevert baby
is poor: the Haight baby is rich, but there
is common bond of sympathy between
them Robinson visited the Haight mansion
ten times during the three months I'm order
TO that his apparatus was all right. He
can rent his incubators for SIS per month
but millionaires like Haight must pay more.
The incubator is twenty-nine inches long,
fifteen wide and eighteen high. The inside
cradle. watch measures twenty-five inches
is made Of tin and wire netting and lined
with cotton The weight of the apparatus
is sixty pounds. IL Is made of timed cop
per, and has double walls and double glass
doors. Tie outside is covered by sheet
of asbestos with cabinet trimming ornate
with brass. The first compartment contains
the 'air body" 10 equalize the heat the sec
ond the water body and the third con-
fame circulates TO keep the water at its
proper temperature on all sides. Hundreds
OF friends of the Haight family from the
South and West have been TO see the baby
In the incubator.