The Jersey City news., 1906-04-04
M'CARTHY BABY
FINDS A HOME
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ster-
mad of l56 New York
Avenue, a Young Couple,
Have Assumed the Care
of the Infant Orphan
DOZENS APPLIED FOR IT

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WHILE ALL THIS BENEVOLENCE
HAS BEEN DISPLAYED TO THE
TINY INDIVIDUAL, NOBODY,
SECRETARY RANSOM SAYS,
HAS SOLVED THE INSTITUTION
PROBLEM
The Mccarthy baby, both of whose
parents died last week-the father in the
Bayonne Hospital and the mother in the
Jersey City. Hospital- and fos whose
care, even temporarily, there was SO
much trouble in providing in any insti-
tuition in the city, after It was practic-
ally elected from the City Hospital be-
cause sit was well,' has found foster
parents. In fact it, or rather those who
were looking after it's interests, had a
choice of over a dozen good homes.
When the plight of the infant became
known through the newspapers appiica-
tions for it's adoption came pouring in
upon President Robert L. Fiemnling and
Secretary E. 4. Ransom, Jr., of the So
ciety for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Children, and Matron Reed, of the S. P.
C. C. Home in Grand street. The Home
was overcrowded with babies and chill
dren at the time Mrs. Gillette, of Mont
gomery street, with whom Mrs. Jerry
Mccarthy and two children of tender
age, boarded before she went to the City
Hospital and gave birth to the McCar-
rhy baby, was notified. Mrs. Gillette is
taking temporary care of the other two
children, but in response to Warden
.Stohlman's notice, said she could nor care
for the baby.
After investigating the standing of the
various applicants for the baby, Secre-
tary Ransom, at the instance of Presi-
dent Flemming and other officers Of the
5. P. G. G., yesterday gave the child
over to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sternad,
Of No 156 New York avenue. They are
a comparatively young couple. who were
married three years ago. Their home
has not yet been blessed with baby of
their own. Mrs. Sternad, whose first
name is Lillian, said yesterday:
''When | read the story of Baby Nc
Carthy just sat down and cried. have
hours to myself every day when my
work is done and crave the company of
a baby
The couple are members Of St. Nicho-
las R. G. Church. Mr.. Sternad' is ma
chinist.
While the arrangements were being
made for the removal of the infant from
Christ Hospital, the mana agement of
which had offered to take care of it for
at least three days. a telephone message
was received from Police Headquarters
to the effect that George Neistiedt and
his wife, of No. 100 Palisade avenue,
West Hoboken. who had visited the babe
in the Daisy Ward Of Christ Hospital,
insisted on adopting the child. Others
who insisted on adopting it were men of
means with children and who declared
that their wives could not sleep after
reading Of the plight Of the child. Others
were mothers who had formerly applied
to the S. p. G. G. for temporary aid,
but who having since driven the wolf
from their doors, out of appreciation of
what had been done for them, offered to
take the child.
Secretary Ransom said this morning:
while there have been many applica-
ton sfor the adoption of the Mccarthy
babe, no person has yet volunteered to
aid in solving the problem as to what
shall be done to establish q place where
infants under two years of age who are
taken from drunken or cruel parents or
whose mothers are temporarily disabled
for even temporary care. There is no
provision for babies under two years OF
age, and yet Mrs. Reed, the rnatron of the
s. p. G. G. home in Grand street, has
now four such cases under her care. One
Of these was recently found with its
drunken parents in a stall in stable
and the parents are now serving terms
in the Snake Hill Penitentiary as CON
sequence Only this mroning negro
baby was taken in. although there were
already over twenty-five mouths to- feed
We have been over eighteen months lee
turing and sending out literature in an
effort to arouse interest IN this branch of
work Of the Society The only reply re-
ceived was from Henry Hewston, of
Bayonne, whose interest was aroused by
the following editorial in the Juvenile
Record:
To the Pubiic:-If you will not pro-
vide a place for homeless and neglected
babies under one y ear of age, in the
name Of humanity provide a gas tank
ande public executonef to put them
out of their misery. You do as much for
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