The sun., 1900-05-09
TEN HOURS WITH A BABY.
AN INntRRIED cor ENJOYS HIN.
SELF ON SPECIAL DUTY.
lie Had to Find an Institution willing to
Take II. and II Wasnt Easy-Baby was
Treihinr, bat lie Bought u Iced MIX
and Cream PuRs and Husgsd It Tight.


and Cream Puns and Husssd 1t Tight.
john lny Gn unmarried policeman attached
to the Harlem court had special detail OF ten
hours Yesterday with 'wo-year r-old baby. Just
getting its hardest teeth. and n nursing bottle.
The baby finished cutting one tooth in the
G, So Of the day and Lay said tha, he could
frol five or siX more coming through, lhe
baby lad collie, too, 9nid Lay.
The name Of the baby was Arthur Lewis
M father is dead and nobody knows where tho
mother H. Baby Arthur reached the police
court as a fourdling, and Magistrate Brann
committed him to the Five Points MIS-
sion That was when Lays troubles
began The woman who had brought
tn baby 10 court had lent nursing bottle
hall rull 10 go with tho infant Lay thought
that half bottefull was not a sufficient
ration for trip 10 Five Points. so ne
went into a Harlem lunch room and had
the bottle filed from can right OH tho
ice thereby mixing two cows' milk and
getting temperature 20 degrees too low
for baby that wa. teething Then
he rushed for the train with the babys right
cheek pressed firmly against a corner Of the
shield that was pinned TO his left breast The
louder hI- charge yelled the faster lie ran and
afterward that the.kid was hungry and that the
sooner they got settled down in the train TO
enjoy the milk the better it would be. That
theory was partly correct. for Arthur Lewis
stopped crying when he was taken aboard the
train AZ l25th street and ciutched the bottle
He wns too hungry TO be particular and
drank the cold mix in he first halt Of the trip
Chatham Square he shriekcd Lay thought II
was because there was no ml'k and
Win the HsSy Tiys 81 ons the Nay wy iT9m ,ns
allo wing its LEFT cheeS to rest against a brass
button on his right breast. The effect was such
that the presence OF one morebaby IN Mulberry
Bend Park a. Lay hurried across IL was no
ticaablc
For some reason OF other they could not re-
eeive the baby AZ Five Points Lay had tho
Just of the ice and then set out for
court again. On the way up the order wns
reversed, Everything was Qp!et as far as
rfty-ninth street, whore the milk gave ont and
then the yelling was renewed, but with a good
deal more vim. /, was then that the tooth was
At tho police court the policeman asked 10 be
relieved and offered 20 change Jobs with cop
who was just setting out or Bellevue with q
maniac, but Magistrate Brupn objected and
told him to carry he baby 10 the Gerry society.
Before starting on the second trip Lay bought
dozen cream pufs because they seemed so
them ~ well a. the iced milk and for that reason
the policeman paid no attention to the unso-
licited warnings and advice offered by half
dozen different women passengers between
Harlem and wenty-hird street whore he got
of
Tho Gerry society wouldn't take tho baby.
lis own agent hadn't found tho child lay
went To court nsaln. Baby Arthur had colo
all the way and didn't stop crying when he
reached court.
"Ruy n baby carriage for this policeman"
exclaimed Magistrate Brann, audlct him AXE
things easy for he's got TO finish This Job "
With new instructions Lay then went to Mr..
Blair, Superintendent Of Outdoor Poor under
the Charities Department, and from there the
baby was transferred 10 Bellevue Tnc had 10
70 with the infant, and he finished his detail
last night at O'Clock