To Holly Timm and whoever else,
I found this yesterday on the microfilm.
Holly, you might want to post this on your Orphan Train site:
Kenosha News dated Oct. 4, 1902
Car Load of Babies Brought to the State for Distribution
A carload of babies passed through Kenosha yesterday on their way to
Milwaukee. One of the little ones was consigned to a Milwaukee family,
but the consignee did not appear at the depot in that city, and so no
baby was left off there. They came from a New York Catholic foundling
asylum and are being distributed to families in this State.
There were thirty-five babies on board, varying in ages from a few
months to 2 or 3 years, and were in charge of a matron, a nurse and a
male attendant who took care of the transfers and receipts. They
traveled in a regular first class coach, lying on the seats on
improvised beds of linen and baby blankets and were extremely well
behaved, not a wail or sob escaped often from any of them.
Samuel B. Todd, who was a passenger on the train, went into the
special car to see the wee ones and was greatly tickled at the display.
They all called him "papa." As he was admiring them the male attendant
cautioned him about being too conspicuous in the car, as it made the
babies nervous and irritable to see a man.
"We teach each of them to say `mamma' and `papa,' said the attendant,
"but they do not know much else. They will be distributed among families
throughout Wisconsin, with whom arrangements have been made by mail with
the New York institution. They are well cared for and healthy and will
bring happiness to thirty-five families where they will find homes. The
babies are given only to Catholic families."
--
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