The times., 1898-08-02
CRIES Of THE F0uADL|NGs
An Additional Complaint Against
The Alleged Hospital Nuisance.
DOING (, OF THE CITY FATHERS
Son of ssFightingr Lieut. Kelly Re-
ceires a Policeman's Commission
Additional Inducements of Cam
didates for Places ON the hoard
Local Interest

The noise Of the crying infants of the
Washington Hospital for Foundiings, on
Fifteenth Street, near s Street north
west, which has been the subject of so
much complaint during recent Summers,
has caused the residents, who have to
endure the alleged nuisance, no little
trouble this year. and many of them have
Joined in instituting an organized cam
paigE for it's abatement
Superintendent of Charities Lewis, in
his annual report 10 the District Com
missioners, which was only recently
made. gave the results of his investiga-
tions into the matter, and Immediately
thereafter the Commissioners discussed
the recommendations which were made
by him at great length.
The question is an exceedingly difficult
and knotty one, and it was decided that
the best thing 10 be done would be TO re-
quest the trustees of the Institution 10 ap-
pear al the District Building for confer
ence This has been done, and meeting
will be held al as early and convenient
a date as possible
Nothing much can be done to remedy
the matter this year, but steps viii be
taken whereby the babies may be re-
moved into the country during the hot
weather each Summer. so that their cry
ing viii not disturb the citizens who re-
side nearby.
Another complaint which reached the
Commissioners through the mails yester-
day morning serves TO show the high
state of evaporation to which the RESI-
dents in the immediate vicinity of the
institution have been driven by the cry
ing Of the foundlings- The letter was
from Mr.. Jules Jacques, who lives at
No. I7l4 Fifteenth Street, opposite the
hospital and has been referred TO VIII
liam F. Mattingly, the treasurer of the
institution. 1t is as follows:
-. W Ross. Washington, d. c.:
sir: Up to my coming to this city /
was under the impression that the Chi
nese government was the only one infiict-
ing the torture of loss Of sleep on any
OF its citizens.
4 know better since 1 have moved in
this neighborhood Insomnia has been
the portion of Mrs. Jaquet and myself
since warm weather has set in, and the
increasing howls Of the poor innocents
across the street have been let loose on
the unohendns neighbors.
"one month of such agony makes me
move again, as ] consider il criminal for
a man 10 remain and keep his family near
such an abomination. That / am able 10
move out again is dispensation of Prov
idence for which / am devoutly grateful,
but have serious doubts about the CRATE
ful feelings 10 that same Providence on
the part of the people who own the house
] live in and whose sole support is the
rent derived from the house These two
old ladies. each over sixty years Of age,
have been brought 10 the point where
they 90 not receive enough rent TO pay
their taxes and ] wish to give my testi-
mony that nothing but the nerve-destroy-
ing. sleep-robbng noise from the Found
ling Hospital drives me away from here.
THE neighbors here viii tell you that
on Saturday, July 10th. after listening tC
the crying for three straight hours,
went over and yanked the bell three
times 10 wake up some one to take care
Of the CRYING babies. A light in one OF
the rooms and TWO nurses appeared after
awhile. with the result that in twenty
minutes the babies We're asleep.
of course I told the nurses that
would see to il that no nurse should bC
asleep while the babies howled, and that
may have had something TO do with the
energy Of the nurses at that particular
time
1.-The fact remains that some Of those
little ones had been lying there suffering
for water and food, and with filthy un-
derwear, for three hours.
rs such a work noble charity?
Respectfully yours,
"JITTFG IAOT-FT