Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — MARRIAGE ENDS BABY FLATS [ARTICLE]

MARRIAGE ENDS BABY FLATS

Owner Marries Waitress, Who Is Not Fond of Children and Prefers Families Without Them. Brockton, Mass. —Brockton’s famous “Baby Flats,” built exclusively for families with babies, will hereafter bo rented io babyless tenants, says John Hilt Bartlett, the owner, whose venture had resulted in ex-Presldent Roosevelt sending him a personal letter of commendation. Two years ago Mr. Bartlett announced that he saw no reason why families should be barred from tenements because they had children. A years ago he married a waitress. Now ho says he renounces his former opinion of babies. Mr. Bartlett does not express himself as opposed to babies, but Mrs. Bartlett frankly admits she prefers famlMoo without them. r*