The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-04-04
INCUBATOR FOR BABY.
aow The DAUGHTER OF A MILLION
AIREIs BEING RAISED.

the Life of a Little One Whose Mother
Died at Its Birth.
New York, March lin an incuba-
sor in the Madison avenue mansion of
one Of Gutham's milionaires, wee bit
of baby girl. weighing less than two
pounds and measuring less than twelve
inches from the tips of her little pink
toes TO the top of her little doll like
head, is being nurtured.
The father of the child is E. Clarence
Haight, of the wealthy family of that
name, which occupy the two brown
stone mansions at Nos. 284 and 286
Madison avenue. The family has the
wealth and the prestige which enable it
to stand in the front rank of society In
this city. The birth OF the little girl
which occurred on the night of Febru-
airy "a, was three months premature.
Drs Walker and Carleton, both eminent
spec alists were called. The mother
died shortly after. The little child,
which had been placed in the care of one
of the trained nurses who had been cal
led, did not die, as it was expected ii
surely would The purse wrapped it up
in warm hannels and kept it very
warm.
The doctors did not think it would be
possible to proICns the life of the human
mite for more than an hour or two at
the most, but as they talked over the
matter, the thought of adopting the rare
method of calling baby incubator into
requisition came to them. The fathers
grief over the death of his wife, they
thought, would in a measure assuaged,
if the little girl baby could be kept alive
to grow up of other little girl babies do,
and, although they had not much faith
in their plan, they decided to get an in
cubator, if there was one to be had.
Probably the only place in America
where such thing could have been gor-
Ten, was the very place that DR.. Garlic
ton happened to know about. 1t was
the queer little shop of w. G. Robinson,
No. 315 East Twenty Sixth street.
Robinson is a young man who has built
up a business in his own peculiar line
by convincing physicians and chemists
that there are essential articles which
they have to use in their profession, pots,
pans, ovens, etc, that he could make
fOVoi,r1 IynrC from
whom they had all previously been
buying.
Nine months ago Robinson bet anne
widely known to the newspaper reading
public through the successful raising OF
a prematurely born baby, Joseph Grew
ert, in an Incubator which he had pro
vided. He has since given much thought
to the construction of better incuba-
tor for prematurely born babies than the
one which carried baby Grevert through
to the time when he was in proper
physical condition to start out in the
world, and he believes that he has now
got such an incubator.
1OWGfSI, IL vas W HIS D1stOC SA1ItO I4AN
physicians hastily sent a messenger
with an order to him to bring around
his bary incubator without moments
delay Robinson happened to be away
from his home, which Is right over his
shop, when the messenger arrived. He
was searched for high and low, but he
60 apH in
that time the mite of girl baby, which
that night had been born motherless, in
to the Haight family, nearly died.
But late at night Robinson returned
to his home. got his summons and hast
ened to get an incubator. He found one
available in his shop, and started post
haste for the Haight residence. There
the doctors were anxiously awaiting
him. Robinson was taken right into
the room where the mother had died,
and where the child had been born.
There, with some rubber tubing, he con-
snected the incubator with the gas fix
ture, and soon had a current of heat
passing through it, which heated the
water wall through which it passed and
gave to the oven within the proper tenn
psrature, about 100 degrees or slightly
over.
Into the little swinging bed of cotton
wadding within the oven the wee girl
baby was then placed and the glass
doors xuara Sbu% novaIOnamautS were
then eagerly watched by the physicians
and nurses. The baby had not been in
the incuhatnr moro than two hours