Show I In New York 1 NEW YORK Feb 10 liable Dabies Cable I may be bought leased or rented In it IL L New York The usual use fo for rented babies is begging They ar are half halt st starved for tor the purpose th the thc In attention attention attention at at- at- at young ones arms attracting by their howls The older olde ones led by the hand attract sympathy sym sym- i pathy because of ot th their ir emaciated I condition I And female Fagins use children 1 for decoys They train them carefully carefully care careS I fully and then take them to department depart I ment stores Quite by accident the woman drops something on th the floor The child picks It up If It apprehended apprehended apprehended ap ap- the the innocent Innocent child wards ward C Coff off oft suspicion of ot Intent to steal Babies are also rented for blackmail blackmail blackmail black black- mail purposes They are are left lert on ot ondo L do doorsteps and pointed out to th the i Intended victim Babes in swaddling clothes also I make excellent decoys for women womer 1 bootleggers These women stroll in it inthe inthe I Ithe the parks pushing the baby buggy The buggy also contains bottles 01 of ot r liquor When the customer approaches approaches approaches ap ap- ap- ap the woman lifts the bab baby I out blanket et and all The blanket blanke hides the transfer of ot the bottle 01 of ot I bootleg to the customer Also babes are bought by mentally mentally mentally men men- tally unbalanced scientists for experImental experimental experimental ex ex- ex- ex purposes One such person person person per per- son practiced vivisection on a bab baby Gypsies buy blond headed babies babie for luck for a white baby js is considered considered con con- a talisman of great luck to tIm the tribe The prices of ot babies range from 5 to 50 O seldom x more ore Outside one great maternity hospital where patients pa pa- are discharged at dusk lusk there I Is an established baby market where those who want babies stand and walt wait for mothers to come out with their human wares The Tho statements given ghen above are not based on personal o observation of the writer They are furnished by Dr Mary l Hamilton head of ot the I womans woman's bureau of or the New York poll police co department She sa says s 's s that she herself herselt bought a baby at the baby market for fot 25 Times do de change There hasn't been an old fashioned minstrel sho show with tambourines and bones and interlocutor in New York in several years ears Announcement that one is coming next year is furnishing a lot ot of talk and reminiscence along the Great White Way JAMES W W. DEAN |