Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-03-14

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Home since II was first started.
Before Incorporation, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. "a
Since, Observation-Disclosures. ...............lo 4
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ..20e |
Children indentured, 43; 65 children have been
returned to their parents, of whom "a were the
children of soldiers taken charge of while their |
fathers were In the army. N=l9
The expenses Of the home, which average |
from $1,000 to 5000 year, are borne entirely by
private subscriptions, no State, County, or City
aid being extended to 1t. Hence it appeals |
strongly to the sympathy of all charitable persons
fornid and encouragement.
The following arc the officers of the Home at
present
MANAGERS.
Mrs j. Taylor Cause, President.
Mrs. VIM Altman, Vice President
Miss Anna NJ. Ferris, Secretary.
Mrs. Jno. w. Tatum, Mrs. Mahlon Belts, Mrs.
j. T. Robinson, Miss Eliza Lea, Miss Edith New
lin, Miss Lucy Smyth, Mrs. s. Harlan, Jr., Mrs.
E. Hollingsworth Mrs. Samuel Candy, Mrs.
Israel Pusey, Mrs. e. s. II. Butler, Mrs. Thos. @.
Alrich, Mrs. Agnes Norris, Mrs. Philip Qugey,
Mrs. Thos. Darlington, Mrs. Susan Woolston,
Mrs. lamar McCaulley, Mrs VIM. Candy, Mrs.
Gilbert Robinson, Miss Martha Jones, Miss Martha
L. Duncan, Miss Catharinc Sparks, Miss L. B.
fIilles, Miss Lydia Clark.
TRUSTEES.
J Taylor Cause, President.
VIM. s. Hllles, Secretary.
William II. Billany, Treasurer.
Charles Warner, George w. Bush, VIM. Tat
| nall, Merritt Candy, Mahlon Belts, Charles W.
Rowland, s. Harlan. Jr., Rev. VIM. Altman, s.
Harrington, Rev. Leighton Coleman.
1t is under the efficient management of Miss
Caroline Young, the Matron, and is open to wish
tors on Thursday afternoon OF each week.
THE PRESENT HOME
is home indeed, it is the building originally used
as n boarding school by Rev. 7. NJ. Cann and Is
situated on high ground in the western part of the
| city, at the corner of Ninth and Albums Streets
1t is u fine large building with spacious grounds.
in which the children play in good weather, and
vcrandahs to each story give them good space for
exercise when they cannot go out doors.
The building is built like two buildings having
two front doors, and two stair cases and two en-
tries all the way up.
Entering the right hand door and turning from
the hall to the right we came to two plainly fur
nished but comfortable little parlors separated by
folding DOORS These are the committee rooms
and the reception rooms for visitors. Back of
these is the Matron's sitting room, like tue others
neat and plain but comfortable, and back of this
again the nursery filled with little lsping, todling
things who look as fat and happy as they can be.
On the other side of the house is one large play
room of the size of both the committee rooms,
and back OF this again, corresponding with the
sitting room and nursery, is good sized school
room.
On the second floor are the girls sleeping
rooms, containing eleven beds, the clothes room,
the matrons room and the bath rooms. The
largest of the latter is quite institution by the
way. 1t has one long basin lined with zinc, just
of a convenient height for the children to wash
their faces ut, at which dozen can wash ut once
Running along the floor is a similar basin oil
trough, considerably longer, having spigots for
both hot and cold water in which the children
wash their feet in addition there are two large
: iron bath tubs for additions of a more genera
character. The clothes room is also very conve
. nienty arranged, having all around 1t divisions
marked and numbered FIR the reception of thu
girls clothing, which is marked and numbered t.
correspond.
In the third story are the boys bedrooms, con
: tanning seventeen beds clothes room similar Il
the one below IL, the sick room, the care-taker'
i room aud the bed rooms of the chambermai,
e and cook.
In the basement are the dining room, kitchen
n store rooms, &C., and the immense furnaces whic
9 heat the building.
e There are at present So children at the home
! and they appear to be as bright and happy as an
we have ever seen. OF these So inmates 16 ar
girls and AZ boys. This preponderance of boys
noticeable in all similar institutions, and is OWN
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