The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-28
BABY SHOW AT THE ROCK
ONE HUND IND FORTY-SIX CON-
 FITTED FOR PRIZES,

| of Youngsters-Gaily Bedecked Baby Carriages-Prizes for Handsomest, Fat7
 test, Smallest, Youngest and Prettiest ! Dressed Babies-Li of Awards.
 "There was an old woman who lived in a | shoe,
 She had so many children she didn't know what to do"
 murmured Manager Fisher of the Savin
 Rock baby show yesterday as he ten
 derly loaded the last carload of prize youngsters aboard a Winchester ave-
 nue car at a late hour and waved a | fond adieu to his departing prodigies. l They were borne away with the speed of the lightning back to their doting parents.
 T wonder what the old lady would have done if she had been running 8 l baby show with 146 babies entered?" | further soliloquized MT. Fisher as he was casting a last, long look at the | spot but so recently occupied by the | handsomest, smallest and fattest babies the great city of New Haven could fur l nish He heaved a mighty sigh and went away to dream of more worlds to conquer.
 | It had been a great day for Manager Fisher, and although the tender and youthful character of his 146 wards | made his task difficult and rather try ing on the nerves the splendid success
 of the show amply recompensed the same
 The show was the second that MT.
 Fisher has conducted, and it was
 success in every particular In the
 first place, Mir. Fisher had the same Judgment to select perfect August day just the kind of weather when young
 people under three years of age can
 take outdoor constitutionals in their
 carriages, and just such day as peo-
 pie over the three-year limit could get
 down to the Rock to see them.
 The crowd at the Rock. yesterday
 was one Of the largest of the season.
 ana probably numbered nearly 10000
 All of these got glimpse of the show,
 and to tWo-thirds it was the special
 object of their visitation. Of the 15S
 babies entered 146 put in an appear
 ance, chaperoned by their mammas,
 while an occasional pater familias was
 added to the train of the family prod igy
 A spot of ground, roped off and dec
 orated with flags, was devoted exclu-
 sively to the babies and their nearest
 relatives, while outside the lines were assembled large crowds of people, la-
 dies largely predominating, anxious to catch a glimpse of the babies of baby- dom.
 The crowd itself was an interesting one. Many mother who didn't enter her baby in the show brought it along to see the rest and let them see that they were not the only pebbles on the beach. Then there were the relatives and partisans of the little contestants, their grandmothers, sisters and aunts, each of whom wondered how any child put her favorite stood any show for being judged the prettiest baby Men were quite scarce, and those there were looked a little out of place.
 The babies conducted themselves with the greatest decorum-for a while: after that they let decorum slide and started free concert all by themselves. No wonder Manager Fisher and his trusty lieutenants looked a trife anx- 1ous. They acted, and doubtless felt. like men in powder magazine. where discretion is the greater part of valor Of course there are babies and babies and most of them were right there in the show. It would be hardly wise to attempt an individual description of the members of the show and we will not do it. It is but fair to say that there were many really pretty, nicely behav- ed babies, "sleek-headed babies and those who sleep O nights and inciden- tally let the family and near neighbors sleep. Then-it pains us to say it. there were a few, very few, very home ly babies, which nature seems to pro- vide just as a contrast to set off the | angelic virtues of the rest. As said be- fore. this variety were few In number. | md their characteristics are not known oy their mammas, who entered them ,or the prize for the handsomest.
 There were babies who will trace | their lineage in coming years back to l )ld Erin, or the German Fatherland or Sweden, and other countries of Europe |
 At the opening of the show most of | hem were in good humor. but as the afternoon hours wore on one after the other of them would become troubled with insomnia and then in sooth There vas music in the air" rivalling in quantity that made by the officiating )and.
 Another feature of the show were the )aby carriages handsomely trimmed in of two prizes offered. Some If the carriages were perfect marvels # skill and taste.
 The baby parade, of course, was a ;reat feature of the day. It was the ast of the afternoons programme and Ill the participants had been gotten nto a paradable humor by the time it vas started. The parade marched ound through the grove to the free how stand, where the winners of rizes were announced.
 Several of the baby contestants were cheered along the route and all xcept those asleep seemed to be talk . ng a philosophical view of the crowd l; nd the day. An old fellow once said [ The hand that rocks the cradle rules , he world" The old fellow didn't go nto details as to how it was done, but Ianager Fisher is now fully equipped 0 give additional information on the | ubiect.
 The success of the show this year l oubtless ensures the holding of such a how every year at the Rock.