Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum

Edison summary: A series of pictures taken in one of the largest orphan asylums in New York city. A number of tables are spread in the gardens around the building and the children march to their places for their noon-day meal. The nurses place them in their chairs and distribute the food. After dinner the children are taken from the tables, the gardens are cleared, and the little ones who are not old enough to walk are given an outing in baby carriages. Each carriage contains two babies, and it is amusing to see the little smiling faces as each carriage passes. After the outing, they are taken indoors and given a bath. Here the trouble begins. As they are dipped in the water they begin to howl, and endeavor to rub the water from their eyes. The next scene shows one of the children getting its hair cut. An elderly nurse acts as barber, and after numerous twistings of the child's head she (with the aid of a large pair of clippers) removes all traces of hair. A fire drill comes next and shows the children marching out of the building. In perfect order each pair of youngsters files out of the building and down the stone steps clad in their night clothes and carrying their shoes and stockings.