The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
PRIZE BABIES
At THE FAIR
Wee Native Sons and
Daughters Line Up for
Premiums.
HOME PRODUCT EXHIBIT
Yellow : Tressed Saxons and
Dark-Haired Tots of
Latin Blood.
SPECIAL PRIZE FOR TWINS.
Fifteen Winners and Several Hun.
dred That Were Mixed-The
Judges Escaped.

Yesterday was q Native Son and Daugh-
ter day at the Mechanics Pavilion and the
principal exhibits were indeed a home
production. There was not an alien
among them. They swarmed in the great
building, from the yellow-tressed flossies
of the Saxon breed to the dark-haired,
brown-faced tots of the rich blooded Latin
race. All of those hundreds of juveniles
were premium babies, too. and as they
held their pretty faces up for judgment
they knew they all deserved special men,
ton.
There were only fifteen prizes given and
there should have been ten times that
many, and the distracted judges in the
midst OF the great crowd of wee contest
ants were at their wits ends to make a
choice. In two cases there was no trouble
in picking the winners, these being twin
boys-Gussie and Rudolph Kraus-two
sturdy young fellows 26 months old.
They were dressed in brown knickers
and their small yellow heads surmoun ted
with wide Mexican som breros. They were
so inexpressibly "cute" that the lady
judges gave them a special prize. The
other specials were twin girls-Helen and
Charlotte Crown - brown-haired and
brown-eyed, and pretty enough to be
crowns tor any woman's motherhood.
There was another girl, an exquisite little
white silken clad creature named Hazel
Jones, OF 24O Third street, Who in the Jam
OF babies missed the necessa sary inspection.
If she caught no prize, the small Third
streeter may have the satisfaction of know
ing that she was as pretty as the prettiest
In all that assemblage.
Altar each aYnantanf -h1 IA
no doubt as to whom a prize should be
awarded, had taken her stand with her
young competitor for inspection, R. P.
Doolan, Joseph Cunning and S. H. Tacy,
the committee on babies, started down the
line. Before they had got half way
through that nursery company they had
100 names picked out. Every pretty infant
and every infant who had pretty mother
was written down as a prize winner. This
was generous, but deplorable for a final
choice. Ihe result was that when they
went down into Secretary Gilmour's office
to deliberate, host of babies followed
tnem and clamored for recognition. They
discussed and discussed until three more
prizes were added to the original dozen.
they knew they would be voted "mean
Things" by somebody, hence their distress.
The committee finally made the follow
ing awards and escaped with their lives:
Handsomest girl baby between 2 and years
Bernardlne Bruse. dainty little blonde liy-
ing at 100 Golden Gate avenue prize a bevei
edged French dressing-mirror rom w. p. Fn1-
Ter d Co.; second prize, Ethel Campbell, 1I5lI<
Folsom street, order for a Iife-sized colored
photograph by Marceau
Handsomest girl between 2 and.A vaars
1erIuoe Davis Verona place, silver toilet
set, by the Trophy Baking Powder Company:
seeono prize, baby lis, fur set, by Marx.
,aahusomest girl between 4 and 5 years-Ger-
alolne f!ooo. 90 Webster street, solid silver
musn SET, Johnson-Locke COMPANY; second
Pre- pre- 6qep 6e1hors Maria Sweeny, 1119 Fiber.
street. oakland, baby bonnet, by Alma Keith.
,lal aanuso51est girl twins, Charlotte and Helen
Crown, SIS Hayes street, special prize,
Efsayn LatnaIn, lIO6 Buchanan street.
Hanqsomest baby boy between ana 3
years, FREDDY Gauze, 400 Sutter street. solid
silver mug, by Laumeister Mills; second prize,
Iats Me'VL.ie Coakly, 673 Cough street, order for
hIe-slze photograph by Bushnell.
Handsomest boy between and 4 wears.
Herbert N Terrell Jr., 90S Van Ness avenue
sSrds1sVer Cordsas knife FORK and spoon by Tubbs
Norman Jr., 1919 Broderick street. gold ring
by Sam Sonnenfeid.
~ Han9somest 1 boy between and years, Ar
tankard, by the Gundlach- -Bundschu Wine
company; second prize, Guy Lester Kennes-
son, sapsanto, 10 pounds best French-mixed
cAnuy, o. Charles G. Sparrowe.
dolph Kraus. ~' "N0 ~
uiri Daoy-No. 11S-may have its prize
Dy Gaining at the secretarv's office.
During the evening the big Pavilion was
crowded almost to jam, and the best
part OF 1t, from the managers standpoint.
IL was pay crowd. One OF the special
FEATURES was the attendance of the men,
oers OF the Commercial Travellers Associ-
stlon. mat body assem- bled at the Hotel
ot. Nlenolas and marched to the fair, at
tended by hundreds of their friends.
after the parade around the main floor
tns travellers went to the gallery, where
tney were addressed by William S. Barnes