New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-26

sls is,t rPash he water Many Of iss% had
than when they Padded sr . rain
the nurses took from the mothers hands, showing
them how tendery they should he handled In the
little mite fourteen months Old was smaller and
thinner than the usy baby four Sad months old %ho
ure to extract nutrment from food. the mother
said and she knew she was going to lose II as
held out strong nope so long the child could have
good air and food on the barge for the rest of the
AZ il a; m. dinner was served. Good beef stew
BREAD nd bows Of tea for the
more milk for the babies. They came down In re-
lays OF 80 which Is the number the ac
upon by gentle-voiced servng-women: who looked
carefully out for their needs ana invited them IKE
experience for the dragged-out mothers-a GOOD
else to carry IL 20 them who seemed 10 ma IL pleas
lip on deck there were barrels OF Ice water for
drinking purposes At about p. m. the boat was
anchored out In the bay about one mile from the
Here the hospital patients taken off In boat.
the Chldren's Friend and rowed over 10 the nos
physician. matron and nurses. To the back of the
building runs fine cedar grove ana AROUND tne
building Here the mothers can battle and there
Is no more secluded or delightful beach within
Within the wards are spacious and airy. and are
furnished with the English patented co's Nv which
the two foot posts OF the cot which are continued
in an arch one-thrd the foot of the bed and
high enough TO allow the C6 to y%ns whom
with her knee. Dinins-rooms are cool and
the mothers ssN are principally we'll and there are
pp pr iite The babies sit or lie in the mothers
arms SO that TIE atmosphere of the pace is cheer
hospital. This is particularly the case when the
loving themselves TO their hearts content. WINE
the babies in charge OF the nurses rev re-
covered patients came back 10 the Doat ana Opd
farewell TO the place with regret ,l, go.
IL costs 600 10 endow Of the hospital cots
hearing the given by the donor Pathenc
the prayer that Others may be saved. NETWORKS
n,liionaires from the spirit Of general charity are
About $40 the Floating Hospital" turned her bow
homcwarl and a, I O'Clock more milk was gwen
ont to the babies whose mothers had al day heen
getting points from doctor and nurses now 10 take
stead Of cure The very sickly ones were entreated
10 come often. and one little girl OF twelve VINO
had serious heart trouble was alintea one ,
f1r he- and after falling from exhaustion on first
getting aboard and being revived by the doctor she
gasped all day for breath. and was pitful niue
light She had come with sick baby and the
mother but she far nearer death tnan the
be BY and her case will now get c1reful atte nlion
Another little baby lay al day In a state OF coma
"IDriggei" the doctor said 1t had been. "A COM
mon occurrence but this has had almost TOO
rruch' Tn. mother az service. and the baby
boarding She had taken :; for this one days aiE
bu, being persuaded OF It's condition mae arr a
side Hospital day or two more ana the htte
one would have been gone ., -, -, =,
ThIrd-si and at $40 at East Twenty-sxth-st on
Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays the piers are OF,
the West sd ie1yns we Is, $40 mn and West
feminist. az a. m.