The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-11
TWO BAB1Es CONE AsrRAE.
A willing Conductor to Blame In Ono Case,
n Polite Young Man in the other.

Polite Young Man in the Other.
Baby blunders are innumerable. They are
OF all varieties when it comes to detail; but one
result is the transfer OF the baby to some one
who doesn't want 1t and to whom 1t doesn't
belong. Sometimes this happens by design.
sometimes by accident. Two new cases OF the
latter kind occurred recently.
One happened in Cedar Rapids. Ia. A
woman. who was to change cars there. found
that she had several hours to wait; 80. putting
her 2H-year-old baby into its perambulator.
she went uptown to investigate the shops. The
windows proved so attractive that she finally
pulled the p~erambulator up close to the wall.
enjoined the baby to sit still. and went into one
of the shops. When she came out the peram-
bulator was where she had placed 1t, butt
was emptyl
The woman rushed wildly around. In and out
OF shops. looking for her baby. but there wasn't
a sign of it and she came to the awful conclu-
sion that 1t had been Kidnapped. TIL police
were notified and started out on q grand search.
while the mother collapsed and wept hyster-
ically over the empty perambulator.
As one Of the policemen departed from the
fearful scene he paused absent mindedly to
allow a trolley car to pass him. He stared at it
without thinking. but his attention was caught
by q very cheerful-looking baby on its knees
at a window, waving its chubby hand gayly and
impartially at the street in general. 1t was
having a beautiful time. The policeman. his
mind being intent on the subject OF babies. fol,
to observe that the baby was the only passen-
ger. 1t rode in solitary grandeur.
Being able to put two ideas together. the poii
soon overlook, the car, upon which he climbed
in hot haste, demanding of the conductor how
FAINT. The conductor said he was blamed II he
knew. He DECLARED that when he was starting
stopped at a crossing-he Indicated the cross
car to stop. The woman got on. and the con
onto the platform a baby that vas at the
woman's heels and presumably belonged to
her, nobody else being in sight.
TIL conductor put the baby upon the seat.
awhile the woman signalled to get of, and the
out the baby. when to his surprise and dismay
the, woman declined to have anything to do
before in all her life. and she didn't know what
the conductor meant By trying to palm 3r a
trip had to be finished. 50 the sympathizing
motorman started the car. much to the delight
hugely, When the conductor had finished his
story the policeman hastened to offer the stray
infant to the inspection of the weeping mother.
She joyfully claimed it and departed, ANNOUNCE
ing that in future she would take with her
ropes, chains and padlocks. anything to curb
the rowing disposition OF her young hopeful.
The second case was also one where an ac-
commodating man received his reward in the
shape Of a baby on his hands. 1t was at a Chi
cago station on n rainy day that a young man
was waiting for his train. Meanwhile another
train pulled in. the porter elm bed down with a
baby on one arm and two big bags in the other.
A passenger followed him and raised an UNI
brella over the woman who came next. Then
they scurried, toward the station for shelter.
The porter, Still holding the baby and the bags,
looked helplessly about him as the cars started
slowly forward. The couple who had just left
the train still had their backs turned.
Then it was that the accommodating young
man dashed toward the unhappy porter and
seized lhe baby. rushed back with it and
proudly offered it to the newly arrived couple
They received the offer with undisguised
amazement and respectfully declined it.
Meanwhile, the porter, had climbed onto the
train, which was moving slowly away. The
young man with n baby on his hands was
speechless with dismay. But the crowd that
surrounded him spoke with a thousand
lice station, some foundling asylum: and
them all: Suddenly the train came TO a stop at
some distance down the track, the porter
climbed down. then came two women, who
grabbed each a bag and came hustling back
toward the station. Yes. it was their baby.
They claimed it with a suspicious glare at the
accommodating young man. They had been
slow in getting to the platform and the train
had started off with them. All of which is not
as encouraging to accommodating young men
as might be wished.