The Detroit times., 1911-04-08
Sixty-Six Infants From Founding
Institutions Are Shipped To Places
Where Folks Know What
Home Spells.
Times Special Correspondent Rides
on Train and Describes Incidents,
Both Humorous and Pathetic
Nv w. q. SHEPHERD.

ers and mothers await them.
They were all SO young that III
after years they will forget the trip
But | won't. rode several hundred
miles with them.
There were 90 OF them, half OF them
boys and half girls. averaging three
81 years in age. The youngest was Johh
A fourteen months, and the eldesi
Helen, seven years
BY the time they had reached their
private car In New York, after a
street car ride from the New Iork
. founding hospital, over half OF them
were crying.
The nurses and sisters or Charity
n put them three in seat in the car.
Some walled, others howled.
Then came work of magic. The
nurses passed down the aisle dis
tributing crackers They left tria!
OF busy happy silence behind them.
Apparently cracker is TO healthy
CRYING child what a muffler is TO an
4 automobile-an even more.
Goodbye. Dear Old Broadway"
When il was nearly time for the
train 10 start, Mrs. McMullen, a nurse,
plump, motherly and bespectacled,
walked up and down the aisle distrib-
uting dolls, horns and mouth organs.
/ Noise began Immediately. Then, tax
ing a baby in each arm. she walked
up and down the aisle, singing:
"Goodby, dear old Manhattan isle.
Goodby, dear old Broadway
You bet il was goodby. dear Old
Broadway" Broadway with It's sin
and shame and foundlings. And good
radiance TO Broadway, too. We were
off for the big west, where folks know
what HOME spells
We began to settle down into the
duh routine OF the trip-only 10 dis
cover that there wasn't going TO be
any dull routine. For instance, John,
the youngest OF them ALL suddenly
began TO cry.
He wants his ride, said the sister
TO a nurse You see, it didn't matter
10 John that he was riding on the
second fastest train in the United
States; his custom was to ride every
afternoon at o'clock in his go-cart.
II was 3 o'clock now. Where was
the go-cart? That was what John
wanted 10 know.
John Gets His Ride.
But If John thought he had caught
folk mapping he was mistaken. Out
from a mass of baskets and hampers
the nurse drew folded gocart. and
in a few moments John, in perfect
peace was being wheeled up and
down the aisle Of the car. Just 10
fool him completely, Mrs. McMullen
tied his lace hood over his head, as
II he were riding outdoors.
passenger With a camera, trying
10 snap the children. felt tug at
his machine and discovered that Alex.
ander No. 33 had found the cameras
rubber bulb dangling near him and
had seized II and put ii into his mouth.
When Alexander bit the passenger
got a good photograph OF the ceiling
OF the car.
Occasionally baby would roll OF
his seat. One OF them rolled of onto
John in his gocart and woke him
from a sound sleep. He had TO be
wheeled again.
Charles OHara. special agent for
the New York founding hospital, went
through the car with big tin pail
filed with chopped meat. He was on
his way TO the dining car To heat the
meat and mix 1t with hot chicken soup
for supper. A. general howl arose for
food.
To restore peace the nurse distri-
buted lollypops., The lollypops lasted
until O'Hara returned with two big
pals filled with soup. After supper
came bedtime.
O'Hara placed boards across the
seats. The nurses made beds on
these. There were no upper berths
for whoever heard OF anybody who
was tall enough to say, Now | hay
me-" beside an upper berth?
| saw the babies kneel In the car
aisle and pray.
They slept four in a section, VITA
their feet toward the aisle
Mrs. McMullen. in the middle of rhe
car, hummed a wholesale lullaby.
Hush. my dears; lie still, and slum.
Der.
Holy angels guard they beds"
O'Hara and went out for a smoke,
and he told me more about the babies
Most Go To Farms.
Every year" he said, New York
has big crop OF foundlings. We get
applications for babies from all over
the country. Every application is per
sonally investigated by special
agent The babies IN this carload are
going 10 kOOu MONIES In the west and
south. Most OF them will go TO the
farms OF childless couples In Texas,
Oklahoma, Wyoming and other west.
ern states. Only very few OF them
10 to cities.
1--WE don't give the babies away.
The couples who take them must
make monthly reports TO the hospital
until the children are of age, and now
and then an agent will call on them
TO see how they are getting along
Every year we find homes for o..
least 500 OF New York city's crop OF
foundlings. Every baby in this car
was picked up on doorstep or In the
streets.
There's something funny about
foundiings. too. I've been In this bust.
ness for many years and I've yet TO
see a founding that wasn't an extra
fine, bright baby, brighter than :, !.
ordinary"
To clean finger marks from a paint.
ed wall damp a clean cloth and din
It in whiting. Apply and the stains
viii disappear.
VIII someone tell MS a pretties poem