The evening world., 1895-09-20

! r. r. ALL HARD LUCK.
r
Tiny Lena Goldschader's Life
"' = Ended When Il Should
: Have Begun.
: ! I +HIs BORN on ELLIS ISLAND.
'--~r.... ....
UnwittingIy Made Mrs. Pol
line Keep a Baby
Farm.
ITS DEATH BETRAYED HER.
The Widowed Mother. who Nurses
Another Baby. Has No Money
i 10 Bury Her own.

%, The story Of the life OF Baby Lena
,iGoldschader is short, but 1t is a
. chronicle Of troubles. and her body,
. scarcely a span long. lies in the Morgue
to-day, with Potters Field as its prob
able destination.
To. begin with, Lena's father, Leo
Goldschader. died in Russia before she
was born. Then her mother. tall. dark
haired. olive-skinned Pearl Goldsch ader,
y was detained three weeks at the Ellis
Island Emigration Bureau while she
sent over to Russia for proof that she
was or had been a wife, and Lena came
into the world on Ellis Island a month
TOO soon. This last misfortune occurred
-FOUR weeks ago to-day.
The hapless. helpless young mother
was permitted to come ashore to free
America three weeks ago with her tiny
baby. For days she walked up and
down. seeking work. but Baby Lena
was hindrance everywhere. At last
Mrs. IRac Frank told the thin and
weak mother that II she would put her
baby oM to board and nurse her little
one she would employ her. Mrs. Gold
schrader found a boarding house for
little Lena and was Installed as nurse
to Mrs. Franks baby. at Is Montgomery
street.
Baby Lena boarded with Mrs. Sarah
Polline. In the basement Of ISL Madison
street. and this caused more trouble.
Tor BABY Lena died there yesterday
afternoon. and. FIRST of all. DIR. O'Han-
Ion. coroner's physician. must find out
whether Mrs. Poillne was to blame for
Lena'E. death.
:, Then. whether Mrs. Polline was TO
blame or not, she may have to answer
to the law for boarding little Lena at
all. for she has no license to keep n
baby EARN. and. besides the so she re-
ceived from little Lena's mother for her
board. she had another baby boarder.
whose mother was paying somethin
towards eking out the expenses OF Mrs
Polline's big family. consisting OF a sick
husband. four little children, and two
bright. big girls. who earn u triie as
sewers on clothing.
And all this constitutes baby farming,
a misdemeanor under section 2ss of the
Penal Code. and punishable by a big
fine or year In the penitentiary. or
both.
So there is woe in the basement at 1871
Madison street. and woe In the heart OF
the widowed mother of the dead baby
pVsiuts HouTHlS HeT DuDy, DEAD,
she has no money with which to bury
the little creature. which should have
been con.ing into the world just at this
time. instead Of going out of 1t.
Mrs Polline Is a religious woman,
and she was at her devotions at the
synagogue all day to-day. but her
daughters. Becky and Fannie, earnest
ly assured an Evening World" repor-
ter that their mother was ignorant of
the law. and that the doctor at Ellis
Island told Baby Lena's mother that
baby couldn't possibly live a month.
THE baby was awful good" said
Miss Becky. tenderly; ''it slept all the
time during the two weeks it was here.
, and then 1t died. We didn't know 1t
was sick. Do you think they will send
my poor mother to prison for trying to
help earn something for the family"
The mother of the other baby boarder
took her babe away this morning, and
nobody knows her name or where she
lives.
The police of the Madison street sta
tion are investigating the baby farm
thus discovered.