The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-05-01
TAYLOR HOSPITAL
DISTRIBUTING INFANTS
MARY ANN CLARK OF NO. 5 HAS
ONE FROM THERE.
1t Is Six Months Old Girl Probably
White-Tells How She Got

There is located in the city of Co.
lumbIa "Taylor Lane Hospital and
Tralnin" School for Nurses Incor-
poratcd.) NJ. a. Evans, NJ. d., Medi-
cal Dircctor." At least that is what
appears on the letter head as the bust
ness Of this institution. DR.. Evans is
woman and Il member Of the negro
race. Negro patients are received at
In" hospital and negro nurses arc
| trained.
Does this hospital act also as a dis
lrihu'in" point for infants who arc
NOT claimed by their parents? From
information which has come to The
Herald ana News il seems that this
Is pertinent question. as IL. facts
which axe related below will sustain.
About nine miles west OF Ncwberrv
lives Il negro woman by name, Mary
| Ann Clark. She is woman about
SiNty-livc years old, thc mother Of Il
number of children and a widow Of
Mark Clarke. Il respected old negro
VIII" died some ten years ago. Mary
Ann 5 mother also lives with her and
her mother is now about 100 years old,
:" >h, claims. Ter cabin home is in
III" center Of Il large cotton field near
spring with no road leading from
II except the trail across the field BY
which you approach. She and ncr
children own lSS acres Of land in
number ) township, and they are re-
"rr"iah'" negroes. Tier Snn-in-law,
>."', Martin. al.". lives with her.
On "Wednesday. MAGISTRATE ". G.. |
Sll"h. "I .'a!apa. informed The Herald
And News tnat h. had been told that
Nary Clarke had secured from Co
inmtia white infant, and il was ru-
m"rrd inat she had paid 81 for it.
This was rather startling information
and representative Of The Herald
and News decided to visit Mary. Tn
doing so DR.. JAS. Il. Glider was re-
u"cSted to accompany him SO that he
might assist in reaching IA conclusion
as to the race Of the infant in case it
had the appearance Of white child.
Yesterday morning DR.. Glider drove
The Herald and News man out TO the
home Of Mary Clarke. We were join
rd before reaching there by Ma.iS-
trate Sli"h. After leaving the public
road nine miles from Ncwbcrry and
winding through the woods and tha
lirld We arrived at the Clarke home.
lhrrc WAS no o.Ic present at the nous,
3u! ii waS soon learned tina: Mary and
her children were at the spring near
by and in the field at work.
They readily cams an,, cr course
were %",n;wha' surprised at the arri-
Va! Of their visitors but readily an
S"c"c'l u%c'ti"nS. In thc house with
the doors locked lay sleeping girl
baby abom six months old. II has
In" appearance Of white child.
There are no indications that there is
any trace of any other blood in its
VEINS. That is the conclusion reached
by DR.. Glider and the others who saw
it. Though DIR. Glider ~ny. nc would
not state absolutely that it is without
the taint of other blood. but SO far AS
he can judge from the examination
which ne made h. would conclude that
il is white.
Mary says that some tine AGO in
February. she and her son-in-law,
Nccl Martin. Went to Columbia and
, that she secured this child from the
"Taylor Lame Hospital and Training
School for Nurses (TncorporatcdD. VI.
y. Evans. NJ. D.. Medical Director."
\ negro woman by ,.c name of Ida
Andrews has been teaching the Bcav-
~ Dam school IL Mary's neiglbor-
load during the past session. Ida has
sister, Matte Shell. who is pupil
Of the "Taylor Lane Hospital and
Training School for Nurses (Incor-
p"raied)' and it was through Ida and
her sister, so Mary Clarke states, that
She received the information that she
r"Hi" O.; child in Columbia. Mary
says that when she went to Columbia
she 'aS under the impression that she
was to get boy and a boy that was
T"nr or five years old and that she
pald h>r own expenses to Columbia
AMI that her son-in-law paid mis- ex-
prnScS. While in Columbia Mary
spent the night at the DR.. Evans hos
pltal and she says that the boy was