Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-08-21
LOCAL NEWS

munlty, TO meet actual need. 1t has now
been in existence nearly two years, but it is less
known than it ought to be, because it is unosten-
tatious in its mode of doing good, and because it
rarely makes appeal to the public for help. 1t
subsists without snowy buildings, and the salar-
les of its hard. working officials are low as to
| put most men to the blush. Its prime end and
purport is to furnish cork to poor women. In
practice it is chiefly devoted to the employment
of women and children, who can devote part
of their time to sewing, in order to earn money
to help in the support of their families. To ena-
BILE the society to do this, it has Office on Pearl
street, where the articles so manufactured are
sold at low profit upon the actual cost, after
paying to the workwomen fair remuneration for
their labor.
Most of the work of cutting out and preparing
garments, of attending to the peculiar necessi-
ties and capabilities Of the applicants for work,
and the general superintendent Of somewhat
extended establishment, is done by the voluntary
services of the ladies who constitute the society,
and devote much time to its interests. No money
is squandered in useless forms. For the last
year, with an expenditure of about Sl40O, the
amount paid for salaries and the expenses of the
room are stated in the account as less than SI73.
1t is hardly to be conceived, without little
examination in detail how much good this small
sum, distributed with so small commission for
expenses, has done and is doing. There are
many women who can devote a few hours in each
day to plain sewing. and, in that way-wthout
interfering at all in their household duties on
the one hand, or with those to whom sewing is a
trade on the other-earn a considerable portion
of their weekly rent. They cannot, however,
do this, if they had the inclination, if they
are obliged to run from house to house, to make
friends, create so. called patrons, by seek
ing for work. The room of this society furnishes
place where those who wish to have plain sew
ing done, and those who wish to do it, may meet
on equal terms, those who mutually wish the
help of each other
We notice the society, in this way, at the pres
ent time, because we understand thai it is desira-
Bile that its friends-particuarly among the la
dies-should rally about it, to prepare for fair
which it is proposed to hold early in October,
with the hope of obtaining funds to sustain the
next Winters " campaign" The day and place
of the fair are not yet fixed upon, but will be
hereafter announced; but in the meantime any
help which shall be given to this truly domestic
charity, will be welcomed by its directors and i'm
mediate friends, and any gifts, however small,
prepared for sale at the fair, will, we know, be
gratefully received. We trust that every one
who can assist so good work, either directly or
indirectly, will lend helping hand,
ID la
Rollins, from Haverhill, N. H., who had been
residing in this city fol- few weeks with his son.
at No. Austin street, had Sl940 in money stolen
from him yesterday, by younger son, under
painful circumstances He had just sold his
place in the country, and most of this money was
the proceeds thereof, and was all the property he
had. 1t in carpet-bag in his sleeping
apartment where he left it yesterday morning,
while he went, in company with his older son, to
Auburn, to look at place he was intending to
purchase, to reside upon.
Meanwhile, his youngest son, Dudley Rollins,
young man of some 81 years of age, it is sup
posed, seized the opportunity to secure the car.
pet.bag by throwing it out of the window, as he
was seen to go away with it from the yard of the
house, at about IL o'clock, and has not since
been Leard from.
The money not missed until the return of
the elder Mr.. Rollins and his oldest son from
Auburn, at night, when their feelings may better
be imagined than described. $500 of the money
was the product of the hard earnings of the older
son, and the remainder belonged to his father.
1t is one OF the most unfortunate cases which
have ever come under our observation. The pc.
lice were Immediately put upon the track in all
directions, and every exertion made to find the
whereabouts of the scamp, and we trust their
efforts may this have proved successful.