The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-11
RUSH FOR FOUNDING BABIES.
CATHOLIC GUILD STAMPED WITH
HURRIED APPLICATIONS.
All Because OF q Newspaper Photograph
Plus an IntimatiOn That Yesterday
vas a Bargain Day-Would-be Foster
Mothers Told They Must wait n bit.


Plus an Intimation That Yesterday
vas a Bargain Day-Would-be Foster
Mothers Told They Must wait n hi
There was a rush Of would-be parents to
the Office Of the Guild OF the Infant Saviour
in the Charity Organization Society Build
ing, at Fourth avenue and Forty second
street, yesterday. It was a low down
newspaper trick-but II all tricks Of the
sort were "a innocent this would be hap
pier world.
The people who read newspapers like to
read about babies. The cold and oalCu-
lating city editor knows that He sets
apart FIVE minutes Of each hour to a con-
sideration Of the ways and means Of making
what in certain journalistic schools Is known
as baby news
The Guild Of the Infant Saviour is a
society to which the city turns over the
welfare Of all Catholic babies under years
old who haven't any fathers and mothers,
or who have fathers and mothers who do
not want them. When a Catholic baby
comes TO Bellevue or any Of the allied hos
pitab and It's mother doesn't want to take
care Of Il the guild gets il. When a baby
under two il left on the doorsteps Of any
Catholic institution the guild gets it. These
babies are turned over to good Catholic
mothers by the guild, which pays for their
care and feeding until some good Catholic
wants to adopt a baby.
The guild makes a very careful investi-
cation Of the applicants. II It appears
that the applicant lie a good Catholic, and
that che keeps a good home and lie able TO
take care Of tho baby, the adoption is al
lowed.
TIE baby editor OF an evening paper
heard Of this yesterday, and had a brilliant
idea. He sent a cheerful emissary TO the
good women who have charge Of the guilds
business and said that his newspaper wanted
70 print picture OF forty or fifty Of the
babies. Could they be Brought together
70 be photographed The resulting ad-
vertising would surely be good for the guild
The good women were delighted.
Thirty or more babies were collected
from the homes where they were being
boarded. Thirty foster mothers came with
them. And they. were at the guild rooms
most Of yesterday morning Meantime
the newspaper, Joined by an eagerly imi-
tauve rival, went on with the rest Of its
program.
II set forth to the world that yesterday
vas bargain day for babies at the guild
rooms Everybody who wanted a baby
could come and get IL ofhand. There would
he thirty babies there 70 choose from. Then
he star baby reporters were sent up TO
watch the fun.
Two tireder women than The manager
- the guild and her assistant could not
nave been found IN New York at O'Clock
ast night. There had been a procession Of
PEOPLE who wanted babies there all day
lGng They came with carriages and
nurses ready TO take the baby away night
on quick. Some Of them cried when they
we're met at the door with the plainly put
lnough sympathetic Statements that the
guild cared too much for its babies 70 chuck
hem at the world in any such cavalier
fashion.
o., One little girl came along With a note
like this:
Please give 20 bearer one baby. girl with
blue eyes and yellow hair. not more than six
months old Respectfully.
The girl was about Is Year, old
Who're did you get thisl' asked the
superintendent.
Please, msam, ma gave It to me-
sid the girl
What did she mean by it1'
Please ma am, she told me / was 10
bnng a new baby home with me-
=, nder more questioning she explained
NAT her father was an eXpressman that
there were four other children there beside
herself, three Of them boys. ma wanted
70 make the number even, she said.
a. She was told that the guild was Gouy, but
couldn't send another baby into home