New-York tribune., 1907-07-02
ROCKEFELLER CHARITY
Mothers Bring Babies to Opening
Of Junior Sea Breeze.

The Rockefeller school Of instruction for mothers
opened yesterday. along with Junior Sea Breeze,
at the old Schermerhorn estate at cath street and
the East River. Hannah, fat fair and eleven
months old. was offered by her mother as a sub
ject Tor the first lesson which was a talk and
demonstration by the head nurse, Miss Bolton, On
the right way 70 wash, powder ard dress baby.
Hannah must have had some ancestor who under
went serious operation. for she no sooner saw
the white covered table on which she was to be
washed. looking very Ike an operating table, than
she set Up wall OF reInonstrarce. But d cracker
induced he- 10 look The proposition more favor
ably, and a second cracker made her lend her fat
legs 10 Mss Bottoms def manpulations quite a.
iaoiy Then when the was not looking sb4
clutcheG Tie Uo@der box and apparently feeling
that what was good for the outside was good for
the Inside. too, tipped liberal quantity mo bar
little Ted mouth. There was no telling V,bat eIee
are would EaEe cone in these novel surroundings
had ncl Mss Bolton at that moment finished her
or ana restored her. Immaculate baby mined
mothers arms - me-
. large audience Of mothers crowded around ann
%T'cned 10 the nurses talk, bur the most inter
esied spectators were the half-grawn girls Tho,
,led up nc place so that the felt constrained
70 70 say. NOW. girls don't crowd the mothers out.
TINS is To- them. Do sSiddoo glrls,' stiII the
girls fingered and watched proceedings win an
intensity ;Eat augured well for coming genera
non o. mothers. ON the outskirts of the eroy,
hung segera2 grave faced little fathers. and tho!
were the s.ost absorbed Of all
1HeFe nd. De talk and demonstration every
Gay a. Sea Breeze, $3.50 O'clock IN the -.or
noon. Also Sex babies viii be received &c t,n,,
were last summer. Yesterday the sixty white
cots n the cool and airy bungalows stood ready
DIX 70 seriously sick babies appeared There
were cases that we're sad enough though ono die
tracted :a.heT, mere boy himself cana carr,ir,
a sahy Oh eacn arm. One was three months old
Slo one : 4ittle orer year. and the mother had
deserted :;.e:-. gone no knew where.
How iots since they We're fed?' asked Mrs
Ingram, OF he Association for Improving the Con-
Wa fknro IN, D1la
y don't know when" said the father distract
eoly z woS efraid 10 feed en-
Tney were cot IL, and could not be kent ,bere
s ga. :aey were ied e1c cleaned and comforted. and
sne .atEsr ssnt with them 10 The ctiidgens bu-
rsu With EctS TO Mr. Bauer
Dozens o: mothers with tae:r babies clustered
e me esHoheaps around the bungalows Mrs
asraIa mace then a speech Of welcome u didn't
.et them 10 take Of their babies she said
aeterwaso because it's oovious that thevra dom
g now. These are the mothers that keep their
children out here all day long"
sure. keep my children out" said German
So1nsn who mad one Guild IN 4 cart and two more
playing 81 tie sand Il wouldn't keep 'ern in the
10; rooTns I'd have 'em sick. or mebbe dyia' On
ne
H-a.ie d. ten nurses who are TO be stationed
ns 'e"i"- Sea Breeze we're getting things In order
re f'ti'F'ti'Tee nurses who are 20 go IN and out
shrose. no tensmeTts hunting Up sick babies and
nast:g fer fEeEn were starting out. The neighbor-
.cc5 seemed 10 be pervaded with trim y,o,n1
wssnei, carrying bags. who rang doorbelIs ener-
zet.caEs and announced that they begged pardon.
BIT they were nurses, and were there any babies
there. rease? Each Of these nurses will have her
own district. Ten, between them Will cover the
fifty blocks bounded by 39th street and s9th street
Fifth avenue and the East River. One Will 90
about :n the vicinity Of each OF the recrea-
ton piers IN the city There will be three IN
Brooklyn and three for emergency cases. These
last will spend q good deal Of time showing the
mothers OF very new babies how 10 take care OF
them.
Junior Sea Breeze will be the centre Of a good
deal OF heaithful activity this summer. On the
slope 5ust below. the Board of Education IS put
ting up swings sad turning bars and a kinder
garten tent There is 70 bs school garden there
too, and there Is already bali ground.
HsQpily the summer 60 far II not go hard OF