New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
Fat, Dimpled SO Per Cent
Perfect Infants in the
Fifth Av. Parade.
MAYOR AT PLAZA TO
GIVE THE BIG PRIZE
Brooklyn Procession Will Move
on Coney Island and Take
Luna Park.

Nil Tho nerfect baby To-day is the
.ro,Jest dav OF all the proud days OF
his wonderful week, for to-day ~ the
snnsrbabies' day. All unders lLe1'
,,,,dorfed ailing OF homely babies wan
-" Lcnt ont Of sight and in the grand
no,ade IN Fifth av. this morning Wlll
be only the superhne, the leVtest,
Ie.rtbiest. dimpledest babies the city
can produce. s = ,,m
There will be one thousand OF them
OH sittine up in their automobiles
smiling AZ Mayor Mitchell as nc reviews
tbsm az the Plaza at the end OF their
march Of triumph.
The prize? That isn't worrying
,bam Suppose jeanette Shapiro does
oct II. or suppose those doctors nave
Sn.iIv decided that a mere man,
LANES Freely by name, has halt
csntimetre more dimple in his right
checi;. or that his backbone is wee
bit stronger than anybody else's! -,
An The other superbabies will smile
a. The Navor Just the same, and say;
Don't YOU feel badly about us. We're
coino TO keep right on being fat and
health and dimpled, whether you
give us prize or not. we've got
something better than prizes; we have
health and mothers who know how to
take care of US"
Six Compete for Prize.
There are six superbabies IN all, the
prize winners in the local baby con-
tests which have been held during the
last year in various sections OF tne
city. Each has record Oh over q"
per cent. The winner will not De an
nounced until the moment when Mayor
Mitchell hands over the prize.
The names ,Of the six are olga
Cohen. SO Chrystie St; Emile
Deutschle. 644 Tenth av.; James
Freely. % Amsterdam ay.; Chrlstlke
Ferguson. $50 Pine St, Brooklyn; Ed
ward Cook. 1876 Ninth sv., and jeanette
Shapiro. As Eldridge st.
/ The parade will form at Washing
ton Square at II o'clock. Twelve
automobile buses and many private
cars have been loaned for the coca
sion. In each car there will be two
Board of Health nurses. The line Of
march is up Fifth av. to the Plaza.
On the reviewing stand will be not
only the Mayor but mauy prominent
friends of the baby, including Health
Commissioner Sgismund s. Goldwater,
Deputy Health Commissioner Haven
Emerson, Dr.. S. Josephine Baker Miss
Florence Guernsey, Mrs. Charles ID.
Hirst, Paul f. Taylor, Of the New York
Milk Committee; Mrs. Henry Willard
and Mrs. Clarence Burns, president of
the Little Mothers Aid Association.
4 chorus OF white-clad girls from
the Washington Irving High School
will sing lullabies. Public School Fl
. will provide a boys band.
Brooklyn Babes to Surf Az.
In the afternoon Brooklyn's five hun
. dred superbabies will have their pa
rade, which will start from the Grant
Monument at o'clock, and be re.
viewed at Coney Island at Surf avs. by
the Mayor and the Borough President
OF Brooklyn. A band new milk sta
ton, the gift Of Luna Park, will be
turned over TO the city, and the keys
OF the park will be given to the
mothers and babies for the afternoon.
Yesterday the Mayors committee
visited several of the city HOSPITALS.
under the leadership Of DR.. Jacob
Sobel OF the Bureau of Child Hygiene.
In the party were Aldermen William
II. Pendry, VI. NJ. Gillian and Garrett
smith, OF the Babies Welfare As
ISOLATION. The committee discovered
that many Of the baby wards are over
crowded. Gouverneur Hospital turns
away many applicants every day.
Mr.. Pendry is planning TO recon .
mend to the Mayor that the CITY AID
the day nurseries by appropriating 10
cents day for each child in such in.
stttutions. At the Babies Hospital the
visitors were entertained by DR.. Ker-
ley. but no formal exercises were held
owing to the inability Of Commissions
Davis TO be present