The evening world., 1913-07-22
EUennq Worlds and Babies Welfare Associations
Great City Vide Series Of Better Babies Contests
West Side Starts Out After Baby Prizes
Scores Of Others Barred
by Boundary Lines-
Ten Sets Of TsOins Set
Record in Brooklyn's
Second Races for
Health Honors and
Gold.

The west side made . Aying start In
the baby contest yesterday afternoon.
and, a. II 10 overtaks IL rivals. the
east side ana Brooklyn. WHO have he'd
the Advantage OF . weeks start re-
corded at it, three centres. which are
bounded by Fourtssnsh and Forty-ssc-
end streets. Fifth avenue and Hudson
River. the entries Of Just 1to healthf'h.
hopeful babies.
This means that at present There are
six races going on at once. and over
nine hundred children after the title OF
New York's finest baby. Greenwich
Village 10 already ciamorang for a
chance to enter the competition. and 1t
will not be long before the Better
Babies Contests organised BY The
Evening World and the Babies welfare
Association will have registration CEN
tres In every part Of the city. Every
baby whose homo 10 In any one Of the
boroushs OF the city will have . good
fighting chance for the championship
atis and. incidentally. for the money
prise that goes with It.
EVERY DAOY A CHAMPION WoR-
THY OF A PRIZE.
The chief feature Of the opening OF
the registration centres In the Chelsea
neighborhood. from to Z yesterday.
was the large number OF healthy. nor
nal babies. There were no twins
prodigies. but according to the ofhcers
in charge at each centre the average
was very high. :.
II have never seen such an unusual
lot Of babies before" saAd Mrs. A. N.
Carroll at the station at No. ~ West
Twsnty-sevsnth street. Every one OF
the forty.thres which have been en-
rolled to-day dessrvss . champion
prize of his own"
The largest polling was done at the
centre at No. ~ West Forty-arst
street. Here sixty-sev babies were
entered In the two hours that the
once was open. At this station all
axes from three months to hve years
we're represented. and . large number
of disappointed mothers. whose tots
we're either too young or too old. had
to be turned away.
At No. 70 Second avenue, where eheTe
were forty entrants. almost ~ many
more came from . region below FOUR
teenth street, and 10 could not % ~
lowed to enter. a.
The most popular approach to me
registering places yesterday was ny
baby carriage. although the common.
placeneGs Of this was sumciently varieo
to keep . spectator wondering - 70
how tho next baby would come. NOT
long after the opening hour at the
Ninth avenue station . yellow-haired
tot Of three made her way unassisted
and unescortsd into the registry omoe.
and made II evident by the mute appear
in her round eyes that she wished TO
register.
LITTLE TOT OF THREE BEATS
TWO OTHERS TO REGISTER.
lust A. the off,ciai was on the point
Of asking her whether she would ike
10 make out the blank herself or have
soma one else do 1t for her. the mother.
having All she could attend to In two
other younger sSpirants. came In ana
was relieved to md that what she had
| Interpreted a. . desire to run away
had only been . desire to beat her
young brother and sister In the race
to the registration once.
Speaking of family affairs. there were
ouits a number Of mothers who en-
tered three babies In tho contest. The
most conspacuous OF these was Mrs.
RUIN T.. McDermott Of No. 81 West
sixteenth street. whose babies are I'M
u.ually GOOD looking. The Oldest was
| thrss years, the next one year ana
seven months and the youngest seven
months.
And mothers are not the only escorts.
| A small number Of fathers DID the
honors yesterday on the west side. and
some of them were much more enter
nr,.ins than the mothers. James Buido.
who brought . six-months-old boy to
the No. %S6 West Twenty-seventh street
centre. was 90 certain that his boy was
a champion that he didn't see any use
in wasting time In the useless Formally
| Of an examination. He wanted to take
the money homo with him. The records
at the Forty first street station state
chat in quite Q number Of cases the
| Riddles were brought to the registry
ONCE by their grandmother
The west side Ii loyal and confident.
II IL perfectly sure that there were never
any babies Just like those between Fifth
avenue and the Hudson. In fact II
anything in the world could shake the
confidence Of the east side mothers In
their children II would be the confidence
of the mothers on the west side In
theirs.
But the east aide 10 holding tn own.
Determined to win the title. champion
Baby OF New York CITY," twenty-five
tots had their names entered yesterday
for the race going on at the LAttls
Mothers' Aid. No. 20 Second avenue
This makes total of Sae entries for thi'
centre. where registration will continue
until Aug H.
MANY FROM BEYOND DouNpA
RlEo DISAPPOINTED.