The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1867-12-18
The Female Humane Association.

The following report should be read by every
one, and we trust will meet with sympathetic
response in every heart that really pties the
condition of the orphan.
Of The board OF direatrcsses OF
she Female Humane Association oil the
city Of Richmond, for the year ending Decem-
Der lst, 1867, is as follows:
The first Monday in December closed the
financial year Of the Female Humane Asso'
citation, and the association has right to ex
pect report from the board OF the receipts
and disbursements of the year. The tamlll-
arity of the association with the general bust
ness transactions of the year renders strict
retrospect unnecessary. The reports have
been for several years past more OF appeals to
public interest and sympathy than records of
events.
At the commencement Of the present year
| SlS9 6S was the amount in the treasury; the
available sources of income, as shown by the
treasurer's report, were interest on State and
city bonds to the amount of S2O9, and an ap
preparation of s. 900 by the City Council.
The association is greatly indebted to the
| following associations and individuals for their
liberal contributions, to wit: The Richmond
Musical and Dramatical Corps for $500; a
part of the proceeds of a concert given at the
theatre, amounting to 800 rs: MIR. Fittings. OF
Philadelphia, $780, Mr.. John Tobin. OF New
York, 500; Mr.. Conway Robinson, $50; and
the proceeds of childrens fair paid by Mrs.
Yancey. $685. The expenses for the year have
been 50, S4l 60.
To what purpose has this amount been ex
pended? To the maintenance of thirty desti-
tute female children; destitute, because with
out the shelter which this asylum Affords they
would now be the tenants of some miserable
howell, the companions of the degraded and
vicious, destitute alike of food, clothing and
virtuous influences. During the past year a
girl of eight or nine years, but partially clothed
was found by gentleman in dark and loath
some alley of your city. skulking and screening
herself from the cruelties of wretched woman
who had taken her an orphan child from the
alms-house, giving legal security for her pro-
lection and maintenance Thus left, this child
would have become vagrant. She was sent
to this asylum and here found shelter
Again, in mid summer, man emaclated by
typhoid fever scarcely able to walk, brought
to this asylum two children of six and eight
years. the mother dead he, the father, almost
dying. Upon the face and frame of each child
was stamped starvation; want OF everything
had reduced each to the mere frame work oil
what Cnllu SUOulu Dc lucSC tNO iuStuhSc'
stand not alone, but essh little inmate of this
Easylum has history OK her own, bound up il
be in her own heast, which none but God
Issmay rcd; history in some, Of sad bereave
mcss; ssir'-others, poverty and .privation; IN
Others again, desertion by her who gave them
birth. With them is life's battle already be-
gun, and in the universe, who more helples:
to sustain the conflict than female orphaned
child.
Shall any such be turned from this asylum
for the lack of means? Will not liberal pub
lie aid this association that it may devise means
for the support of this asylum? From time
to time concerts and lectures will be given fol
this object to which liberal patronage is
asked. The board of directors respectfully
urge upon the association the necessity of re
newed exertons to preserve the asylum from
taking its place beside the aims house and
other such institutions supported solely by
public appropriations. Let it continue al
originally designed, the Female Humane As
socation," knowing no UNCONVENTIONAL dis
tinctions and having one bond of union-th'
protection Of female innocence from misery
rice and crime.
All of which is respectfully submitted by
A. NJ Bolton, Secretary Of Board.