Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-22
HUCUENOT
FIGURES IN
A SAD CASE.
Woman Who Worked There
Pleaded in Vain for Aid for
Her Child in Newark.

Her Child in Newark.
NEWARK, June 22.-Unable to
find an institution where she could
leave her sick baby, Mrs. Louisa
Howell carried the little girl, very i'll,
from w%hooping cough, around in her
arms for several days, searching for
work. While she was applying at the
rooms of the Bureau of Associated
Charities in Academy street Wednes-
day the child was seized with convul-
sions. 1t a taken to the City Hos
pital and died last night while Mrs.
Howell was on her way back from
Huguenot, Staten Island, where she
had been hoping to regain a former
position as a domestic. The woman,
who is without money, say she APP
piled at several city institutions for
relief for her baby, but did not get it.
Mrs. Howell used to live at Is
Stone street. She was deserted there
by her husband, she says, and was
forced to support herself and her two
children-Hazel, eleven months old,
who is dead now, and William, two
and a half years old. In order to
get work Mrs. Howell placed the
children in the Eighth Avenue Baby
Shelter and Day Nursery. After be-
ing there several weeks the boy was
taken by his aunt, Mrs. Susan How
ell, of 27S West Kinney street, who
has him now.
About a month ago, having secur-
ed a place as servant with Mrs. James
O'Reilly, at the Staten Island hamlet,
Mrs. Howell took her baby with her.
Recently Hazel developed w%hooping
cough, and the mother lost her place,
as the O'Reilly family did not want
her, fearing their children would
catch the disease from the baby.
So, with very little money in her
pocket, Mrs. Howell came back to
her sister-in-law's house Monday. She
found her brothers family in poor
shape to render her aid, they not
having much cash. The house was
rather upset as they intended NOV
ing the next day to SO Hunterdon
street.
No Room in Hospital.
Hazel continued to grow worse,
and the mother, knowing money
would be needed for medicine, start
ed out to find work, and also to look
for a place where she might leave the
little one for treatment. She went
to the board of health, she says, and
there met a Mr.. Davenport, she
states, who telephoned to the City
Hospital and other institutions, seek
ing admission for the baby. Mrs.
Howell says she was told there was
no place for the little one
The City Hospital people said yes
terday that the Board of Health ask
ed over the telephone If there was
room at the institution for a baby
with whooping cough. There was
none in the contagious ward, and the
board was so advised. When the
baby finally reached the hospital 1t
was seer that it was suffering from
marasmus as well as whooping cough
and had probably been sick a long
time. That was the only time the
hospital people came directly in
touch with the case.
From the Board of Health office
Mrs. Howell says she went to the
overseer of the poor. There a rec
/ ord was made of her case and she
was told that her statements would
| be inquired into. All this while Ha-
eel was growing weaker from the
coughing and the mother was in de-
spair. From place to place she
tramped, asking for work, but she
got none. On Wednesday, or per-
haps it might have been Tuesday, for
Mrs. Howell is so dazed that she can
not remember dates, she says she
went TO a DR.. Baldwin, somewhere
on Bank street. He gave her medi-
cine for the baby and said the case
was serious. He, too, tried, Mrs.
Howell says, to get the little n adj
mitted to some hospital, but was not
successful.
The mother resumed her tramping
of the streets. Each night she went
back to her sister-in-law's house, but
there was hardly enough there for all.
and she dared not stay during the
day, for she might miss a chance to
get work. The sister-in-law could
not care for Hazel, the mother says,
because there were so many other lit
tie ones in need of attention.
At Last Help Comes.
Mrs. Howell went to the charities
bureau Wednesday afternoon. There
was nothing available for her at the
time, and no place had been found
for the baby, and the tired and dis
couraged mother was told to come
back again. In the mean while the
child had become so i'll that on the
suggestion of a little boy who lived
near Mrs. Susan Howell, and who
knew there we're doctors for the poor,
the mother sent for DR.. Charles H.