New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-12
MRS. CARNEGIE TO HELP BABIES.
Her Offer to Speedwell Society-0ther Gen.
erous Gifts

erous Gifts.
At the second annual meeting Of the speedweu
Society for Convalescent and Abandoned Children
yesterday at the house Of Miss Helen Miller Could
Mrs. Donald Sage Mackay. the president an
nounced that Mrs. Andrew Carnegie had promised
to duplicate the largest gift that should be made
to the society. and that D. c. Reid had agreed to
be OF twenty to give 5000 toward the
dowment fund OF 100000. which the society hopes
accumulate. After the meeting Mrs.
Russell Sage handed Mrs. Mackay her check for
900
The speedwell Society is only two years old. It's
work has been done quietly and unostentatiousIy
that a great many New-Yorkers have never
much as heard OF IT. Established by Mrs. Donald
Sage Mackay for the sake Of the baby OF the tene-
ment houses it has, according to DIR. Francis II.
Glazebrook. the attending physician in Morristown.
whore the little sent. cared for 152 in
the last twenty months. Most Of the children
suffering from neglect. often from under
feeding feeding at ALL he said. "One hun
dred and twenty-one have been discharged: ninety
OF these cured There have been twenty
three deaths; three unimproved. and five have
been improved. Nearly all the deaths occurred
within few days of coming to Morristown. show
ing how absolutely hopeless the cases were"
THE hardest thing about this work is returning
the babies TO their homes' declared Mrs. Mamie
Rigby, the superintendent Of the work in Norris
town. There was little James Lockwood. He was
two years and two months old when took him,
and very emaciated and almost helpless from
attack OF pneumonia He gained eight pounds.
When took him back TO his poor home in Wash
ington Place his mother delighted. AS 1 left
the house. I tho baby and his mother at the
window. He calling Riggy. Riggy. Riggy.
taker and holding out his little to me. and
the tears were streaming down his mothers cheeks.
for she saw that he loved better than he did
her
BRUISED AND STARVED.
And oh the babiesl'' went on Mrs. Rigby 81
Toe mint Tfa
head alive with vermin; It had the body itch;
Its feet frostbitten, and three toes one
foot and two the other had been frozen so
that the flesh cracked to the bone Its body
covered with bruises. One great. cruel bruIse puz-
zled a great deal. The mother said it got it by
fall close examination proved that IT had
been made by the four knuckles OF a hand being
put up her own nand and jabbed IT into her cheek.
while the mother heart in every woman there
one Of the bitterest days OF last winter" con-
She wanted me to promise TO keep her baby TIL
she could take IT back. Her husband. whom she
would be sent TO Randall's Island. had gone In
La,a5 -, -, 49, 5-Nai $50 -i,p
her other child, at 81 month. II would keep the
younger one She said she thought she would be able
to pick up bit at service-what she meant poor
thing, was that she would pick up with three
horribly thin. I told her TO take off her Jacket
q on. I wouldn't like to take off my jacket
she replied. insisted and what do you suppose
vest. with scrap Of an old shawl around her
down her face. I'm so happy she said Happy
And her husband going to Randalrs Island 10 die
town. and she, starving. almost naked woman
With one-third OF the deaths In this city those
OF children under five. and that from diseases
this Society doing sad b Hs29
Dwight enaPn who Is at The head Of the POST
the sPsedwe s2Sifs5y hCsg PhoSPpheTs Win
good thing for tho weak and be allowed
die of discounted by tho facts. FOR the first
out; and. in the second place. many Of the weak
a aty es 90 T Y4f psc a south % jRf
St and east Of The Bowery With the %Xwith
ave. and the park. In the former one-haf the
deaths that occur arc Of children under Ave years
time the East side. which, has, the highest child
mortality has The lowest adult death rate Where
sick rate must be such as to handicap many chill
II sometimes think II some Of these good mill
relief It would be better"
WORK APPEALS TO DR. sTIREs
L not too busy to give my time to things that
count" said DIT. Ernest NJ. stires. OF ST. Thomas's
Church. who was introduced a very busy man
This Is OF the things that count I dare not
and you dare not ignore such a call on your time
sympathes and material resources" Then DR..
stlrSs TOOK up the SpenceTlan theory or the sur
Of the greatest fallaces when applied 10 human
life. MAKE them II: 10 survive IS the cry OF
men in tho world were despaired Of in their in
fancy.
Il believe in this society" he affirmed. II Ike
the management. 1t IS the most commousense
management / came across. I Ike the way
they spend your money. They don't spend ninety
cents in getting the other ten applied Suffer the
little ones 10 come unto me'-Jesus did not mean
Let the little die and come unto me-
Give until you feel Il, and then give more
Dr. Stires urged Don't give crumbs to feed hui
manity-give a loaf of bread"
The managers anxious to raise
endowment fund OF 10000" said Mrs Mackay,
so that maintain nurses to visit the
ments and instruct the mothers how to for
their children when they returned to them. and
also for the tubercular patients. What
want is to buy a little strip of pine land near New
York. with building already on It that will
Offices, where put up lot of little tents.
In these the children live summer and winter.
I am assured It is perfectly feasible"
Among those present were Mrs G, =. Alexander,
Mrs. Samuel Thorne, Mrs. ID. G. Reid, Mrs. Peter
DoelEer, jr.. Mrs. Winthrop Gray. DR.. Donald Sage
Mackay, Mrs H w Marsh. Mrs. W. H. Cole and
the Rev DR.. Hagaman. who pronounced the bene-
dction
81 was glad 10 give my parlors to sweet and
beautiful a cause" said Miss Gould.