Evening journal., 1906-08-18
MISS COX
THE PRIZE WINNER
Springs Park Judges Say
East Side Miss Mas the
PrettieSt OF the Babies

Brandywine Springs was the mecca yes.
tcrday afternoon for fond mothers with
dwaddlng youngsters. the occasion be.
ing tao annual baby show under the
management OF the park. Hundreds OF
-eherubs were to be seen on the poard
walk ANA scattered throughout the PINK
and The sight presented was enough to
make the heart of the chief eXuoneGt OF
the anu-race suicide theory throb with
joy, TO say nothing of the Young and cS.
pectant hopefuls who had entered their
youngest with the hope Of carrying OF
scue or the prizes.
Babies were everywhere More or less
Of them were crying, mostly more, and
their bldintive little voices could be
heard on every side. one hundred and
forty-one children were entered in the
show and II turned out TO be the most
successful one ever held at the park
The entries were certainly beautiful lot
Of babies. There were fat babies and lean
babies, big babies and little babies. pretty
babies and-weI. they were all pretty and
the judges selected TO award the prizes
had a very difficult time in picking out
the most worthy for the several valuable
awards by the management. However
they did their best and that their judg
ment was not SO far wrong was evinced
by the fact that one baby given a prize
for being the cutest was sister TO the
one that received the same prize last
year although at the time of the selec
tion the judges did not know the baby
was related TO the winner of last ycar $
first prize
by 4 o'clock. the time selected for the
big parade. the park, and especially the
boardwalk. was crowded with mothers
every one Of whom had one or more
squawking bundles OF humanity in her
arms. AT the appointed hour the process.
sion headed by the band, marched up the
boardwalk to flnf lake and return TO
the children's pay9lion near the entrance
of the park. From there they went to the
steps leading 90 the Cedars where the en-.
tire group WAS Bh6tosrapned.. Then the
judges besan their work.
There We're two nrizes first and second
each for The fattest the prettiest and ths
cutest baby aud for twins In each class
the judges made the awards as impartial.
~ as possible. In the fattest class. for
instance. if child was large. and only
three months old, it had the preference
over the child equally large but four OF
five months old and so on. The first prize
I'm each class was handsome set OF
solid gold baby pins and the second pr.ze
was a neat little baby's hammock.
When the selections had been made the
numbers were submitted 10 N. Duehaue
Cloward of the park, management. and
he selected from the list OF entries IN
corresponding names and awarded the
prizes last night
The judges were NJ. j. Leahy, II. c
Wingate and W. j. McVey. The prize
winners in the several classes We're as
follows;
First prize, prettlest baby Florence Cox
No. 723 West Second street.
Second prize Miller Ritchie, No. l3S
West Fourth street,
First prize. cutest baby. Margare
Carey, No 1924 Scott street
Second prize, Reba Clark Boothwyn
Pa. 1s
Fatest baby, first prize. Edward Nc
Donough New Castle. sid.r
Second prize Robert w. Altermers, No
PA Gray street.
Twins first prize. Alfred and Alber
Donnelly No. 1915 West Sixteenth street
Second prize, Mary and Dorothy Met
calf, NO sO7 Conrad street.
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