Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-18
Facts, FadS and FancieS
Up TO the Minute.
The Baby Born
On the Train

Among the news dispatches last
week were two little stories which
proved again that within each one of
us is II store of human sympathy that
needs only an opportunity to swell up
and overflow in whole souled acts OF
helpfulness to others in distress.
On Missouri Pacific train going to
St Louis q baby was born. The news
of it went through the train from end
to end, almost instantly. Five min
utes before and the men and women
on that train were strangers to each
other, merely so many carloads Of pas
seuBers, each In his or her scat, riding
as travellers do, each absorbed in his
own thoughts or book or newspaper.
But when the word went through
that baby had just been born all of
that coldness was changed into SYM
pathy and compassion and common
desire to be helpful. A physician In
the middle of his meal in the dining
car threw down his napkin and rushed
out to help. Women and travelling
men went into their grips and in
wonderfully short time they got to-
gether enough emergency clothing for
the baby The mother was made com
Portable in o Pullman berth, and when
the train reached st. Louis the whole
group Of passengers, all acquainted
now and drawn close together by one
touch of human nature, gathered at
the steps of the Pullman and made
sure that mother and babe were doing
well before they went their ways
The other story came from New
York sea captain living in Callao,
Peru, had been ordered to New York
city to take charge Of ship there.
His wife had died nine days before.
He started on the long voyage with
three children, the eldest three years
old the next a girl Of ! 6 months, and
the baby, nine days old, with an In
dian nurse to care for them.
The nurse took sick at Panama and
had to be left behind. There was no
time to get another The captain and
his three children boarded the ship
for New York
The news Of those three motherless
babes went through the big ship and
the one hundred passengers and the
crew were filled with sympathy. A
society woman Of New York, who had
the best cabin on board, took the three
children in with her and each woman
on the vessel became a nurse.
Arrived in New York the captain of
the shin said those three babies had to
go TO his home to live The stewardcss,
poor woman. said she had babies of
her own and the three children must
go to her house. Mrs. George X
Goethals. daughter-in-law of the
builder Of the Panama canal who was
q passenger declared that she must
have them to care for. Finally all
New York became interested in the
story and offers to take the children
came In by the thousands. The con
troVersy was settled by placing the
babies in the home OF the Young
Womens Christian association until
the father has time to find a home
OF his own.
And the whole nation will be glad
70 know that the nine days old baby
Is doing finely.
That this entire country may be
brought to take interest in the well
fare of Just one tiny baby was proved
some ten or fifteen years ago when
an infant was reported to have fallen
down the narrow shaft of farm well
near Wichita. 1t was reported that
its cries could be heard at the bot
tom Of the pipe but there was no
way to reach It, and the people of this
nation watched the newspapers, In
deep anxiety and suspense, for news
OF that baby Finally IT was rescued,
and the mothers Of this land took
deep breath Of relief. =
A crisis will always bring out that
sense of brotherhood that too often
lies hidden and unused.-Kansas CITY
Times.