The project was not one that could be completed in a day, a week or even a year. The scope and magnitude of the plans attracted widespread attention. The story of the "sparrows" that flitted from the Grimes baby farm and miraculously crossed the terrible swamps under the leadership of a little girl with a baby on her back was published all over the world. The home of which they would be the first occupants became known as The Sparrows' Nest. Mollie and the children became famous over night. Their exploits and experiences were recounted in press, pulpit and club rooms. Tourists came to the section for no other purpose than to visit the Grimes place, greet Maria, now living there in peace and solitude, look at the impassable bog over which the children did pass, then motor down to view the progress being made in the erection of their new habitation and to ask permission to contribute toward its maintenance. Large sums of money poured in unsolicited. Some came from anonymous donors. Some gave funds in memory of other little ones whose memories they wished to perpetuate. Every train brought great sacks of mail, every letter expressing the writer's interest in the gigantic undertaking. Contributions of all kinds were offered and some even sent without previous notification. Furniture, clothing, food supplies, linens and household appurtenances seemed to rain down upon the Wayne estate months before the new building was even under roof. Yet there had been no requests made, no agitation on the part of any of the adults now aiding Wayne in pulling his experiment through to a successful finish. It was all the result of one little girl's heroism supplemented by the children's own enthusiasm over a home that should be their very own, and to the graphic accounts they could each give as to what sometimes happens to little children farmed out, as they had been, to one so totally incapable of looking after their well being as was Peter Grimes. Mollie insisted upon a wonderful nursery with all kinds of toys. Stephen helped plan the library and reading room. Johnnie, now that his foot was being cured by means of braces, announced his intention of becoming a doctor and wanted one wing of the building adapted to surgical purposes so that one day he might help other children as he had been helped. Each child gravitated naturally into the particular sphere for which each was best adapted. The building of The Sparrows' Nest, developed, automatically, into a school for vocational training, so Wayne declared, when he espied one boy devoting all his energy to aiding the carpenters, another to the brick-layers and a third concentrating his attention upon the plumbing arrangements.