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Show I INFANT LEFT OH Mysterious Woman Drives to , Homo of Lewis A. McrviH , Saturday Night. i H i BASKET ON TUB DOORSTEP ! j ' CONTAINS BIT OP HUMANITY H Family Is Delighted, and Pur- . poses to Adopt the Little Gentleman. kt Neatly dressed and snugly tucked into a market basket, a pretty baby boy, not over three days old, was left on tho front doorstep of the homo of Bishop and Mrs. Lewis A. Merrill, at OGS Lake stroot, about S o'clockSat-urday o'clockSat-urday evoniug, and tho members of tho Merrill family aro so highly pleased with tho infant that they havo decided to Hj The Merrill family, which is com- Hj posed of Bishop and Mrs. Merrill and two dauffhtors, 33 ami 11 years of ao respectively, wero seated in tho living room of their homo when they heard a gentle tap on the window. Mrs. Hj Merrill, thinking it was one of the neighbors desiring to speak with them, wont to the door to lot. her in, and H,' found tho basket on the front doorstep. f tsol knowing what it contained, she , took it into the lighted hall to inves- fcigate. She drew back the shawl which co'vered the top of the basket and there, soundly sleeping, was Ike infant, with its chubby little hands tightly grasping a nursing bottle. ramily Doliglitod. Mrs. Merrill called her husband and two -daughters to come and see what she had found, and they were no less delighted with the contents of the bas-j bas-j . ket than wa.s Mrs. Merrill. 1 There was nothing in the basket to Hj Indicate from whence the iufant came or to whom it rightfull.v belonged. I Bishop Merrill communicated with ( neighbors about the find, and one of M' I them came to his home and told how I she had seen a carriage drive down Belmont avenue and stop at tho cor-Hl cor-Hl nor of Lake street and a woman alight ivith a basket, She heard tho woman 1 "fell tho driver of tho vehicle to go -slowly down tho street and into tho . Merrill yard. Brl Shortly after the baby was found the telephono rang, and Mr. Merrill Hj answered it. A woman's voice in- Bv, quired if a bundle had been found on the front steps of his home, and, re-H! re-H! ceiving a renly in tho affirmative, quickly ended tho conversation. Prom tho appearance of the clothing , the baby came from people in good Bw circumstances. In speaking about the affair ftun-j ftun-j dav night. Bishop Merrill said: ''Ye?, it "is true we havo a new member m B our family, found on the front door- H, steps Saturday night shortly after S o'clock. We "are highly pleased with the little fellow, and my two daugh-B daugh-B , ters are so happy over tho new baby B. that they aro afraid some one will come and mak'e claim to it. B "We shall give it a homo and brmg. it up nist as if it wero our very own. We arc too much surprised by tho sudden arrival of the infant to think of a name for it, but that will be I done in due time." |
