The evening world., 1894-06-25
The Children Suffered Terribly Dur
ing the Hot Spell.
No Worthier Charity than the Sick
Babies' Fund.
TSlr authorizations.
Junes inferno is over and her reign
Ia nearly pndel

June's Inferno Is over and her reign
Is nearly ended.
Instead of confining her talents to rose
blooming. fruit painting and school clos
Ing. she tried her very best to set the
earth on fire. She behaved very badly
on her arrival: she was sulky and petu-
ant the following week, and there has
been no getting along with her the last
four days.
The way she treated the poor babies
OF New York was unforgivable. The
week before 1t was pad enough. but last
week they fought for their lives, and
3Sl fought in vain.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights
the piers were public nurseries. Anx-
ious women sat Along the stringpieces
ali night long with gasping babies in their
laps. and heat-enfeebled children at their
feet. trying to get a little cool
air and revivlfying sleep. On the
piers the east and west end
OF Thirty-foWth street the planks
we're impossible. The carts and
trucks in the neighborhoo oods were turned
into little dormitories. ana children slept
on. under and all round them. In one
block OF East Thirty-fourth street at 6
o clock Sunday morning eleven babies
were being .ul.ed TO seep on the sidewalk.
Some of the nurses were old grdy-haired
women, feeble from age and worn by
the sitting heat of their wretcned homes.
During the week thee mortality was
greatest among children. Summer COM
p!aint carried off e!ghty-one. all under
tiye years. Only four adults died from
the fatal disease. OF the ISL deaths of
The total death rate was s35, and the
large increase over the previous week
was caused by diaCrhoeal troubles.
There We're $50 cases OF diphtheria and
measles but nine proved fatal; one OF
the eighten smallpox patients died. and
out OF llO cases OF scarlet lever all put
eighteen recovered. All the eighty-itve
proved fatal. The unbearaole heat that
caused this loss OF life had an exhaustive
effect upon the Sick Babies Fund. The
the rounds of misery's abode and gave
relief to hundreds.
All those who were in town last week
suffered. the rich as well as the desti-
tute. but those who live in comfort
suffered less than the poor whose homes
are deficient in the conveniences OF
modern life. Hotel guests and residents
impossible to sleep, but fancy having to
spend the whole night on a dock, on
the housetop or the hlthy pavement OF
a public street. The police officers on
densely populated sections of the city
know how many families slept in the
street last week, but they won't tell.
IL your subscription to the Sick Ba-
bies' Fund is not paid up please attend
to 1t es soon as possible. Send all the
little clothes and nursery supplies not
in use to Mrs. Roberts, 22S East Twen-
ty-trst street. She knows where they
will be appreciated at their real value.
Address the letter to the cashier and
let 1t contain all the small change that
can he spared.
There Is not worthler cause than
the life and health Of the children of
the poor In the realm of humanity. The
fund has saved one and promoted the
other, and with the cooperation and
assistance OF "The Evening World
readers, will continue to do so.
Help the Sick Babies Fund. and the
fund will make them we'll babies.