The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-25
THAT PRIZE BABY IN
HER GLORY TO-DAY
"Her" Is Right, but Even the
Mother Doesn't Yet Know
Judges Decision.
1000 BABIES TO PARADE
Mayor VIII Review Line at
seth st. and 5th Ave. and
BestOw Awards.

To-day Is the climax OF babies week
At noon 1000 Of the prize babies OF the
city will be taken in automobiles from
Washington square. up Fifth avenue IN
the baby parade. 80 that the entire city
may know Just what progress child
hygiene has made in turning sickly. Ill
kept children dnto fat. healthy. rosy
youngsters.
New York never has had a citywide
baby parade before. The innovation in
troduced by the babies committee Is sure
to meet with approval Mayor Mitchell
with other city officials will be in the
reviewing stand. at Fifty-ninth street and
Fifth avenue. and he will award the prize
for the star baby OF the city's Ave Dor
oughs. The second prize baby OF the en-
tire city will also get a prize. and the
prize baby OF each borough will be also
rewarded. First prize for the city is
$50 and second Is s3b. FIRST prize for each
borough is $40.
Inspectors have been visiting the homes
VI all the prize winning babies OF the
citys former baby contests and Judging
home surroundings which count 40 per
cent OF the total. The winner already
has been picked and Is girl. but not
even her own mother knows who she Is.
Some Of Me babies who are strong can
didates for the first and second prizes
are Olga Cohen, 6s Chrystie street. Emil
Deutschls, ga Tenth avenue, James
Freely. 23 Amsterdam avenue. Christine
Ferguson. $50 Pine street, Brooklyn: Ed
ward Cook. lj6 Ninth avenue and
Jeanette shapiro. ~ Eldridge street. And
one Of this number is 100 per cent
baby.
Besides the Mayor la the reviewing
stand will be Commissioner Goidwater
DR. Haven Emerson. Dr. :. Josephine
Baker. chief Of the Department Of Child
Hygiene Mrs. Charles d. Hlrst Mis-
Henry Willard. Miss Florence Guernsey
and Mrs. Clarence Burns Twenty fiNe
Washington Irving girls will sing lul
labies to soo,he the Infants while the
prizes are being awarded. and "A boys
band from Public School II will play
Two Board Of Health nurses will he In
every automobile IN the parade.
Brooklyn Will also have n baby parade,
which will start from Grant Monument
at 2 =. NJ and will be reviewed at Consy
Island and Surf avenues by Borough
President Pounds and other borough Of
iicisls. Luna Park will open II new milk
station. the parks gift to the city. and
all mothers and nurses will be admitted
free
ia III" tHc udN VI the
city will be- open to inspection. About
200 babies under years are cared for
every day In the hfty-thIee Manhattan
nurseries. A new development In day
nursery work 10 the establishment Of
temporary shelters for youngsters whose
mothers are III. Several nurseries are
now willing TO care for babies Light and
day.
A special delegation Of citizens and Of
fcials visited tn. city hospitals yesterday
under the leadership OF Or. Jacob Sobel.
borough chief OF the Manhattan Depart
m-nt OF Child Hygiene. In the party Were
Alderman William II. Pendry. VI NJ. Oh
lam and Carrot Smith. The delegation
visited the Babies Hospital, the babies
ward or the Post Graduate Hospital. St
Christopher's Hospital In Brooklyn and
the babies ward OF Gouverneur and Belle
vus hospitals. They found the babies
wards insufficient IN. St Christophers
and Gouverneur hospitals.
Park Commissioner Cabot Ward an
nounced that all the park lawns In Man
haitian will be thrown ope1 to mothers
with children under wears Of age to-
morrow. This IL the Park Departments
contribution 10 King BABY" lie also
has granted special permit to automl-
bile sightseeing tours for children
through Central Park to-day.