The evening world., 1894-06-25
HELP SAVE THE BABES
A Small Contribution May Do a
World of Good.
The Children Suffered Terribly Dur
ing tho Hot Spell.
No Worthter Charity than the Sick
Babies Fund.
The subscriptions.

June's inferno Is over and her reign
Is nearly ended.
Instead Of combining 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 su,ky and petu-
liant 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 bad enough, but last
week they fought for their lives. and
ISL fought In vain.
Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights
the piers were public nurseries. Anx.
ious women sat along the stringp!eces
al night long with gaaping babies in their
laps, and heat-enfeeblel children at their
feet, trying to get n little cool
air and revivlfying sleep. on tne
| piers a t the east and west end
of Thirty-fourth street the planks
were impossible. The carts and
trucks in the neighbour ods were turned
into little dbrmitories. AMI children slept
on. under ana all round them. In one
block of East Thirty-fourth street at 9
v ClOth Sulluy llOIlllDb tltNtu bibits
were being ul.ed to sieep on the sidewalk.
Some OF the nurses were old gray-haired
women. feeble from age anu worn by
the sitting heat of their wretchei homes.
During the week the mortality was
Creates among children. Summer COM
plant carried of eighty-one. all under
five years. only four adults died from
the fatal disease. OF the 3Si deaths of
young children 23S were babies in arms.
The total death rate was SIS, and the
large increase over the previous week
There were 255 cases of dipntheria and
only nifty We're lost. OF III cases OF
measles but nine proved fatal; one of
the eighteen smallpox patients died. and
eighteen recovered. All the eighty-tive
cases OF Summer complaint reported
proved fatal. The unbearable heat that
caused his loss of life had an exhaustive
effect upon the Sick Babies Fund. The
doctors were indefatigablc. They went
the rounds Of misery's abode II gave
relief to hundreds.
All those, who were In town last week
suffered, the rich as well as the desHN
tute, but those who live in comfort
suffered less than the poor whose homes
modern life. Hotel guests and residents
OF private houses may have found II
impossible to sleep. but fancy having to
spend the whole night on a dock. on
a public street. The police officers on
duty along the river edge and In the
densely populated sections OF the city
know how many families slept in the
street last week. but they won't tell,
If your subscription to the Sick Ba-
bies' Fund is not paid up please attend
to IL as soon as possible. Send all the
little clothes and nursery supplies not
in use TO Mrs. Roberts, 22S East Tween
ty-tirst 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 be spared.
There Is not n worthier cause thar
the life n health Of the children of
the poor in the realm of humanity. The
fund has saved n and promoted the
| other, and with the corporation and
assistance of THE Evening World"
readers. will continue to do so.
Help the Sick Babies Fund, and the
fund will make them well babies,