Show EARLY GRATES the records of the health depart pi part show fire fite children irate died at south wood street since july jilly I 1 premise I 1 chicago july in a plain envelope aa ad dressed editorial rooms daily news was a card on which was written in a disguised hand r DA DAVY BY FAHM FARM so wood st 3 DEATHS IN 5 PAYS DAYS TIME an examination of the records kept bythe by the city health D department apart furnished ample corroboration corro horation of this anonymous testimony the following entries on the death eath d rec register allow that four babies died at south wood street a week and five have died there since since july I 1 if NA xaline in e ago baue ruby bitter 21 days convulsions lillie hitter 21 days inanition earnest farnest ino 3 da inanition hazel E 1 1 I mo 5 da inanity inanition 0 U katie incese at days daysi tl i the place where tile five little innocents all of them tile proceeds of of unlawful love ended their short and unhappy earthly cart lily existence isa is a story and a half brick cottage with a no nondescript li rear attachment situated it little more than a block south sou ali of the county hospital the neighborhood is not very thickly built up and is inhabited by poisons persons nf moderate means the transom light front door of the cottage e referred to bears the inscription i ciol I 1 dr stone in quite jar large letters ten mrs james T lives next door the two houses not being more than eight or ten feet apart said in reply to a reporters questions about her lie neighbor its perfectly awful ever since last winter that place has been a mystery to me it is kept by a woman I 1 dont know her name but its aru hunting 1 or huntington tou or something like that I 1 never w waa as i in in ti there ere and I 1 dont know what they do in there I 1 see the little deaths going out and they dont put pat any crape on the door at all they ought to put white crape on oil fl for or the little things interposed gubbins daughters oh have to keep it on all 11 the time added another nu no continued sirs mrs Gub gubbin binis 11 and the little bodies are taken away in the county hearse once t two wo ladies came capio in in a hack back and took one odthe of t lie babies away in i u a little coffin poor little things they must suffer uffer a great deal they are crying ng roost most of the time I 1 cant tn bleed bleep e p nights for hearing them cry and d I 1 dont wonder sick and die the air is horrible you see they have no kewer connection at that house burjust but just a wooden drain all their slops and stuff run out under the sidewalk into the tile ditch and when you go by you will have to hold your nose or im tm mistaken and they throw tubs and tubs of suds all around the house hou re atsa bhame for every one ought to be very particular now on oil account of the tile cholera coming coining E every very little while I 1 see a strange girl over there one will stay a few days and then another comes n I 1 dont know if they are the mothers ritu of the children childre or not one night flight a jady lady cameto came to outdoor our door very late and ganv rang 3 the bell I 1 opened tile deor door and there was a carriage there wag avas linot another ber lady in the tile carriage with it babe in her arms arins the one who came to the door asked me if this was the place where they took children they had mistaken the tile house you sec see they acut went over to the next house and in ill a few min utes they came carne out of the house bouse without the baby and drove away I 1 dont think they can call take very good care of the little things lings ti or so many of eliem would not die from the street gutter in ill front of the brick cottage a arose eyen as mrs had bad said but that was but a circum stance from rom a sanitary point ofviey of view compared with what was found inside thero there the atmosphere waa was literally laden with gaseous excrement till and circumstantial evidence of denied defiled clothing tile house so far as could be discovered was moderately well fill furnished fuini dished ni shed but was in great disorder in a cradle in a front room were two little babes side by side the feet fret of one next the lead of the other one little fellow who was not over it u week or ten tell days lays old was pulling at a rub der ber mouthed bottle and the other who waa wa several weeks older was fretfully waking from froin a nap all mrs 11 hunting ig the proprietor of the baby farm is an au angular angular D woman of perhaps 45 with an tin unhealthy appear ance in her whole conversation ersa tion there was an all indescribable something ing which suggested an almost total blunting of maternal instinct the children she silo received to care fur for she said were brought to her chiefly by heir young unmarried mothers persona persons who wanted inn ted to avoid I 1 all till publicity gilld to have nothing eaid paid upon if on the subject I 1 she q L i brought them up on oil the bottle and kept them as long as their board was paid slie she had one 1 in I tile house which sho she had had bad eighteen months having brought it here from milwaukee quite ft it number had died recently she eaid said several of them had been very sickly when brought to her liar and stood little or no chance of living she had told their mothers as much when they brought them yesther yes the sewerage of the house was very bad and ad she had remarked to her husband who is a boot cutter for phelps dodge palmer that perhaps that had something to d do 0 with causing the babies to die sli she intended to have it fixed no she did not keep the mothers ot the children in the house at all they would bc be iu in the way and too many women n in ill a house usually disagreed most of them did not want to stay an any ft ay y being anxious to get rid oft of their amri cir children the mot mother her of the tile little fellow pulling at the bottle wa now out camping at aabel bel M mrs rs hunting told the reporter orter th name of a girl from who had brought a child t to 0 lier her to bo cared for as well as all the particulars particular a connected with her unfortunate predicament as sis far as she lie knew them and she did so with a view of haying the facts published the girl had bad failed to pay her a small balance balanco ofin of money oncy due and she said sho she would just like lo 10 take her down blittle a little mrs 11 Hunti hunting fir of course course protested that she took a as S good g tare care of the infanta infants as she silo could dr a 11 shipman attendant physician at nt the foundling shome told the reporter that lie know mrs hunting and had every confidence in glicr r lie was perfectly satisfied Fatis fied she was doing as well anslie as she cou could ld he ile had seen one odthe of the babes taken to her and it was so sickly that it stood but little cliance chance to live children could not be brought up by bottle by the wholesale anyway he ile stopped trying it more than a year ago go at the home ionic seventy or 75 per cent of them would die wet nurses were now employed in ill the tile home dorall children whose mothers were ere not riot with them thera and less than 20 per cent died when the reporter rc asked dr shipman if he hg did not no think mrs hunting to be blamed for trying to care for babes in the midst of such ful surroundings surround inga as have lave been referred fe to lie simply replied that he be sup supposed pored she being a poor bomani woman had bad to go were rent was cheap dr shipman admitted that he lie gave mrs hunting a death certificate for one ofie of ortho the children who died since hice tuly july 1 althou although gli he be never saw the children before or after death he did it to accommodate mrs hunting and oher her roubles coubles rou bles I 1 |