The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-08
CONSIGNMENT OF BABIES
New York Founding Hospital Puts Them in Homee-Agent of the
 Society Tells About Its Work.

Babies real live babies. some of them squalling, some of them smiling, and some of them doing both-alter- nately-ten of them, arrived at Hart ford from New. York Tuesday after noon.
 The youngsters came under the aus piees Of the New York Founding Hos pital, which finds homes for found- lings and orphans in families through panied by Robert A., Lynch, general agent for the hospital, and a couple of nurses. A group of excited men homes the children were cons1gneo' greeted the itinerant Kindergarten with an enthusiastic curiosity.
 "Ain't she sweet! Just look at them eyes! and those curls!'' were exclama- tions that greeted the aston1shed lit tie ones A deeper joy was express ling,'' accompanied by madonna-like smile and glistening eyes, as some Wo- man to whom the joy of motherhod had been denied clasped the child who l is to become as dear to her as her own would be. When the happy foster parents had departed with their 1 charges. MT. Lynch heaved a sigh of relief and sat down to tell a .'Cou- rant reporter something about his young travelling companions
 q left New York with fourteen lit ones this morning he said -Four Of them left at Berlin. They are going to homes in New Britain or V.- are going to South Manehester, Un- | ionvilIe and Wethersfield- The New York Founding Hospital has 5000 children in it's care Two thousand 1 in responsible families until they are | twenty months old We couldn't t keep them all in one institution. When ] they are twenty months old they come l back to the hospital and are trained and taken care of by the sisters in i the home and school connected with | the hospital.
 .a'Then. when they are from 2 to 3 years old, we place them in families l all over the country. My work is to travel about the country and find people who want children. work in I co-operation with the churches, and the families that want children are
 convinced that they will give the child a good home, they file an appli-
 cation with the hospital authorities,
 stating the type of child they want: specifying sex, age, color of eyes and 1 hair. At the same time, I send in a report on the environment that the IchiId who is placed irl that family will have The sisters decide upon the child that will be sent. We have lagents travelling about all the time, calling at the homes of families that | have adopted children, so as to in ,l sure their proper treatment
 r. q have been in this work for twen- | ty-three years, and have placed almost
 5000 children. Many of them are | grown men and women now, with fhomes of their own. With hardly any | exceptions they have turned out well
 and some of them are very conforf- ably off financially. Some of my chill dren have been lucky indeed. Last year I placed a. boy and a girl in l the family of a. man who Is worth s6O GOO coo As the children are giv- en on an agreement that they will be legally adopted, those youngsters will be wealthy some day. Most Of the
 families, indeed, in which we do place
 children are fairly well to do. shun the big cities, and seek out homes in
 the children will have the freedom of
 country life and at the same time have access to good schools and
 churches.
 ..The great majority of the children
 are the orphans of respectable parents
 some of whom were people well of
 hnaneially A; few or,o,oa of them han haas are tthat the foundlings turn out just as
 well as the others. Last year took
 west I viewed more than 1,600 chi1-
 dren I had placed. In no case was
 there any complaint from the family
 regarding the child, and in only one being treate1 properly. The people ,, we place children with want children ,l and appreciate them all the more be lcause they have none of their own
 Hartford-'rhe first sleighing acci.
 dent of the season occurred today when Miss Fannie Katz was throwI | out of a sleigh which was struck b. | an automobile
 New Haven-The 22nd annual meet ing of the Connecticut Association O | Classical and High School Teacher 1 will be held here Feb. 18th.