The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-01-16

w lights from a million Christ
mas trees and athrob with the joy
Of Yuletide giving. on December %.
the big city received a belated
Christmas gift II had not expected.
The Salvation Army had cen
holding a service beneath a giant
evergreen tree set up by the city on
the south side OF Madison Square.
The last Hallelujah was dying away
in the frosty air. The singers were
descending the steps OF the square
pavilion erected for their use. The
lights from the great tree beamed
ike a thousand soft eyes through the
dusk. when Patro.man Matthew
Adams cav the gift.
Patrolman Adams. bulky and slow
moving In his new blue uniform.
moved close to the bench. To be
exact, as all should be, II lay on the
third bench In the second tier OF
benches facing Fifth avenue and
close TO Twenty-hfth street.
For a minute | stood looking at
a." said the big policeman. Then
7 poked Il with my stick. II felt soft,
n ! thought maybe somebody had
left a roll OF old clothes on the bench
as a hoax. But | always examine
bundles, and SO | examined this one
Its a ham, like enough says l
20 myself. For II was shaped like
n OF them. big and broad at n
n and little and narrow at the
other. | united the hemp string.
It's n careless person that left it.
says I 20 myself. for the strings
as loose as a flowing shoe lace
Then ! jerked on the roll OF manila
paper around IL. and there IL was
wrapped In a thin little. Eray
blanket hardly twice as big as this"
He shook out his handkerchief
TT never made a sound" he said.
1T stuffed It's fists in its eyes. aad I
saw that its wrists we're nice and
round, big as my two fingers"
Yes. Il was a baby.
The policeman's father opened his
blue coat and thrust the city's Christ
mas gift inside II.
The rule OF the Police Department
is that lost children shall be taken
at once TO the station house. A bach
e.or policeman would have done this.
but not so the FIVE times fathsf. His
speeding taxi aung mud IN the face
% the Bellevue Hospital sentry.
That functionary wiped II of with
the back Of mis- hands and looked
after Il.
Guess it's q baby case" he said.
At the same moment the policeman
was pulling his End u OF the blue
coat. and placing IL In the arms OF
Dr.. +. \. Carr.
The nurse In the blue striped
uniforuE took from a cupboard =
b-1eelet. Bellevue bracelets are not
ne thiu!rg gold ones that await
PiftE enu babies. but a broad
otto band. on which she wrote
hurTiedly f. ind-lrJle ink, Female
fvundling. No. B. And the head
80 fisa "a she blank OF a blue
ave. "BrgaEht IN Dy Or. p K. Car.
NOGDd ~ Madison Square on ne.
canSer 20. iSiL~
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tbs 0lasf -obsa % = priest. lie was
PNyi1G = nit 20 the occupants O.
.Es infant and AMI paused beside
Tee crib Of he aswest resident IN the
mage and listened 20 her story.
ASd he SAID "Sinstssn hundred aud
s;tssr geaus sKo = Child vas born
IN - manager % a stable. 20 vas A.
lfN1 - NnlH Ittle one mat saa
@sra 20 ne same day with nineteen
,es.unss between" lie crossed AS
measi with fsvsrent nnger That
chiid sas cAiied Jesus. Tho one
-hould bs named after the child's
mother. Mav.
WHAT stI bs.qras o. ne Madison
f'quars naif1 Waite she lies On her
-radls close 10 the svan on the Eiaba
laEs. Detective Jerciniaa Barber IL
making q dUun:ncs search for the
5nother who forsook her. Ills only
slue r. = note scrawied on a scrap
Of paper.
But = scrap 81 Taper has been
mighty Important ia . lot 81 ny
cases faid the detective. folding
ne % aud aging d ~ . comBart.
-rnt ~ ais waoet usd thrusUnE the
valet deep into ar inside yo,kei.
fhn aats vas written 90 a t-ar
guiaT DE - papss. torn proba5iy
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