Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-03

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: parents, are of ordinary stature. +
+ The mother Ia 81 years old. and 6
Z this is her first baby.
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The heaviest baby. probably, ever
born in the United States. and GER
tainly in Newark. is the son Of Samuel
and Adele Gutin. of 119 South Orange
avenue.
Weighing twenty pounds on every
one of half dozen different scales Inn
mediately after it was born. the baby
boy is doing we'll Indeed. a stronger
or more perfect specimen Of babyhood
could hardly be imagined.
The baby was so big when born that
1t was hard to weigh 1t. The Doctors
scales only registered fourteen pounds.
But a butchers scales. stamped with
| the seal of the inspector OF weights
and me sares, was brought In. This
jumped to the twenty mark, as did
every other scale.
4 from tas&top of its thick dark has-.
to the soles of its chubby feet. 1t Is
a twenty-pound mass of pink and
record breaking humanity. and it Is to-
day only three days Cd. 1t WAS flTst
baby and the mother Is only 81 years
old.
If one of Mark Twain's characters
had accompanied the Evening STAR re-
porter today he would merely have
said
"oh. that babyl Now If you've got
real new baby bring it on! But that
ones ten months Old
Therein he would have been fooled,
for baby Leo made his entrance into
this world only last Monday night.
The remarkable weight of the baby
astonished the physicians of the City
Hospital when they were told of it by
the Evening STAR.
"What!' one of them exclaimed. did
you say twenty? Why. never heard OF
such a case"
At the City Hospital a baby has
never been born weighing more than
ten pounds, which is exactly half the
weight of Master Leo Gutin
"Out of 10000 births at the Sloane
Maternity Hospital, In New York." said
one of the doctors. II believe only two
have ever weighed over ten pounds"
1t was also stated that the record is
supposed to be held by baby in Nova
Scotia. where a twenty -eight-pound
baby is said to have been born. But
no such record is known to exist in
Newark or New York.
Mrs. Gutin was evidently delighted
with her bouncing big boy when the
NH
porter visited her today
Yes, 1 and my husband are very,
yer. proud" she said. THE baby Is
strong and perfect in every way. and
only hope that he will grow up into q
fine man.
"AIl our relatives and friends have
crowded in here to congratulate US.
They were all so urprised-mother,
too And she has had ten children.
nine Of them living in Newark here.
when DR.. Kestner weighed the baby
on his scales he didn't know what 70
think. His scales only went to four
teen pounds-that was the joke of 1t.
well, the doctor couldn't make out
what was wrong. Then they sent down
to my fathers butcher shop at 107
South Orange avenue and had great
big butchers scale.
"And on it the baby weighed twenty
pounds!
"'Well, maybe that scale is quite
right, father said, quite puzzled. Yet,
it's got the city seal on. all right
He couldn't believe 1t, you know.
After that we must have had fully
half dozen more scales of all kinds.
and they all showed the same thing
twenty pounds"
When DR.. Mark Kestner, of A Mercer
street, filed the certificate of birth yes
day after: oon, the clerk thought he
wac afflicted with some species of mis-
taketis.
"Hows this?" he demanded. you've
got twenty pounds here"
That's right" the doctor laughed.
Afte- he had persuaded the clerk that
such was the case, the doctor con-
tinued
"As the resident physician OF the
California Women's Hospital in gan
Francisco for years. attended thou
clans, but never have heard of a new
attended the birth OF a child weighing
more than sixteen pounds /, have
looked up the records and have con-
suited with other QhyaiciRns, .bHt I