The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-17
JAP-SCOTCH TWINS
WIN BABY PRIZES
Half-and-Half Infants Surprise
Of the Grand Central
Palace show.
MORE FAME FOR EAST SIDE
Henry street Supplies Best
Youngsters i'm Contest Just
Brought to Close.
MORE FAME FOR EAST SIDE

Two babies having a japanese father
and Scotch mother "a winners Of first
prize and a silver medal for the happiest
and healthiest pair Of twins in Greater
New York provided only one of the sur
prises at tho close Of the Baby Show at
the Grand Central Palace yesterday. Mr..
Kotsuba. a butler. and his WIFE, house
maid. at 2230 Bathgate avenue. The Bronx,
won this distinction and We're requested to
bring little Anna and Mary down to the
show rooms again this morning. where
they will pose before the movies to-
gether with company Of baby prize
winners strung with gold and silver medals.
The most cnvied ba hics yesterday were
Brooklyn bay and Bronx girl.
who during three weeks scoring of 1000
near perfect babies were selected az the
finest specimens of babyhood in Greater
New York and were rewarded with 800
and a gold medal each They are Donald
Dean. sol Park place. and June Virginia
Hockey. 1856 Topping avenue. Tho cash
prizes contributed by the Baby Show En-
hibiton Company and the medals and GER
tifcates given by the Womdn'S Home Com
pdntor were awarded as follows s25 In
gold and a better baby" certificate In
the three age divisions to Laurence Solars,
73e Gates avenue. who tied with Norman
Hollender, 427 Fifteenth street. and Mar
jorie Murlin. i36 Tenth street all Of
Brooklyn Adolf Lunde. 1859 Cedar ave-
nue.. Bronx, Hazel \. Goddin, SOC West
1890 street Manhattan; Harry l.. John
stOn, % Vesta avenue. Brooklyn. and
Eleanor Schmidt, 256 East 12lst street.
Manhattan
bronze medal and s25 In gold were
given to the highest scoring boy and girl
IN each of the five boroughs. the winners
In Manhattan being Frederick Teitelbaum
Of ~ Eighth avenue and Selma Harrison.
507 West Forty-second street. Scores OF
nd a tar faI
mothers whose babies made scores lower.
Thirty diplomas Of excellence were given
TO the highest scoring boy and girl in the
three age divisions in each borough.
The special silver medal awarded to the
most perfect set Of triplets was carried
away by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sincoff. 10
Bedford avenue, Brooklyn. The blue rib
hon suffrage baby" proved to he Emily
NJ Eglan. 96l St Nicholas avenue. who
won 81 in gold and special certificate
from the Women's Political Union. The
two Womdn's Home Companion special
certificates were won by Bertram Jacobs,
212 West Seventeenth street, and Joseph
Berlin. 94i Second avenue.
Another surprise. explained DR.. Lydia
Allen de Nilbiss. who had charge OF the
scoring and Judging, was that the highest
scores among the babies brought in from
all over Greater New York were made by
little ones born and brought M In Henry
street on the East Side. The best of these
was Pauline Borden from the Henry
street Settlement. who won a $40 cash
prize ana special certificate for her score
of 9S
1.-THE significance of our first better
baby contest" commenced DR.. dc Nilbiss.
rs that we have had chance to teach
hundreds OF mothers the Importance Of
having their babies regularly examined
and compared with baby standards which
have been carefully worked out"