Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-22
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The report was adopted and ordered prin-
ted. Mr.. Joseph Perkins, at the request Of
the ssctretary, Miss WaIworth, read the
following report:
TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF TEE BOARD OF
TIE CLEVELAND ORPHAN ASYLUM.
The year that closes with the anniver-
sary has not passed without bringing to
those connected with the Cleveland Or
phan Asylum a share of the uncertainties
and anxieties with which the whole coun-
try has been visited, yet the managers
would acknowledge with humble gratitude
to an ever Watchful and kind Providence
that it has also bean year of mercies to
this institution, and that if it has brought
cares, 1t has brought with them extended
opportunities for usefulness.
much larger number of children have
this year found shelter in the Asylum than
during any previous yea since its estab-
lishment. At the last anniversary there
were forty-four children in the Asylum.
During the past year forty-one havO been
received, twenty-five have lett and sixty
now remain.
No severe cases Of sickness have occurred
this year, and no deaths.
Mss Thayer, after occupying the post of
matron for nearly a year, resigned it, and
Airs. Bartlett now fills her place.
Dr.. Laisley continues still to give HIS
valuable medical services gratuitOusly to
the Institution.
The Asylum school having, in eonse-
quence of the increase in the number of or
phans, become quite large, it has recently
been thought advisable to place it unGer
the control of the Board of Education of
the city Of Cleveland, thus making it
part Of our excellent and highly popular
system of ommOn schools, insuring, as it is
believed, e thorough system of training, and
infusing q new life and vigor into its opera
tions.
On the 10th of December. 1853, died Capt
ain Levi sartwell, long a respected citizen
OF this place. Having no family, his wish
was to adopt as heirs the orphans of the
city of Cleveland, and with this purpose he
bequeathed to this Asylum his entire estate,
making Messrs. Philo Scovill, StillmaD
Witt and Joseph Perkins his trustees to
carry out the design of his will.
Many, sharing the common wish for an
immortality of earthly remembrance, have
Willed that their boarded wealth might bid
the sculptured marble rise, to bear their
names to other generations, and as the
Psalmist has said, "Their inward thought
is that their houses shall continue forever,
their dwelling places to ali generations,
and they call their lands after their own
Names" Who will say that the desire to
live in the memory of the fatherless, to
have hearts ever thrObbing with grateful
veneration, who but for his bounty would
have shivered in want au0 desolstiOn, is
not a nObler ambition.
May the memory of Levi Sartwsll long
be cherished with fervent gratitude by the
orphans to whom his munifcence shall
prove in years TO come, warmth, food and
a sheltering home.
The property thus bequeathed, which was
by the teststorf invested in real estate of the
city of Cleveland, and in Government stock,
will be regarded by the Trustees as a per-
manent fund, to be sacredly guarded from
waste, the interest only being allowed to
be used for the supply of the ordinary
wants of the Institution. AS a suitable
testimC nial from the Asylum to the memory
of its benefactOrs, the Managers have re-
qUested the Trustees to procure the erection
of a. beautiful monument, which is now
near completion, and will mark the spot
in the City Cemetery where the remains of
Capt. Sartwell are laid.
A fine portrait of the deceased has been
completed, and has just been presented to
the Asylum by few generous friends.
In common with other households, the
Asylum has this year felt very stringeutly
the effect of the great rise in prices of nearly
all the neee saries of life, the cost of which
have in many instances been trebled, and
although the managers have used the ut
most economy consistent with a provision
for the absolutely needed comforts of the
orphans, the bills which they have been
obliged TO pay have exceeded any previous
calculations.
As an instance of the difference between
bills paid this year and others, it may be
stated that for the item of -four alone,
continued during one month of the past
summer in the Asylum S77 have been paid,
while in the same month of tina previous
year the cost of the same article was S26
II may not be amiss to state that during
the summer months of previous years,
large quantities of fresh vegetables and
fruits have been donated TO the Asylum,
thus Iessening in g very considerable de-
gree the bill T purchase of provisions,
white this year, in consequence of the
drouth and the high price in market of
such articles, almost none have been sent
in.
The total expenses for the year previous
to this amounted to about So 400, while this
year they will reach about 81, 200.
It must not be forgotten in reviewing
these figures, how much more has bsen
doUe this year than during any preyi-
Gus one, for besides the ordinary claims
of orPhsnhood, theIe have been many lit
tie ones thrown upon our care by the war,
it being Il noticeable fact that much the
larger proportion of applications for ad-
mission this year have been from the
families ol soldiers, and the managers feel
ing that the public would bear them out in
extending hand of mercy TO these chill
dren Of our heroes, should their own avail
able recources fail, havo most willingly
listened to such appeals.
The increase in the number of children
has made necessary also an increase in the
number of employees of the establishment.
whose wages have, Of course, followed the
general rise in prices for labor,
In view of these circumstances, the man
ayers consider that they may with propri-
ETY. congratulate themselves that their ex-
penses have been confined within such rea-
sonable bounds, while they have still been
enabled to provide their little charges with
food and raiment. Trusting that He who