The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-08


set down as actual laborers.
Respecting the salubrity Of the dwellings
the successive reports speak very encourag-
ingy Coming to the report for 1866, when
the number Of tenants, and the duration of
their occupancy, had reached stage at which
conclusions Of some value could be drawn, we
read;-Ihe sanitary condition of the build
ings continues highly satisfactory. During
the recent unhealthy season, when cholera
and other prevalent diseases infested the
vicinity of the buildings, both at Spitalfelds
and lslington, one case of cholera in the
former only. occurred, and its con-
traction and fatal determination were
and neglect on the part of the patient. In
cluding this case, the whole number of adult
deaths has been but seven in population of
nearly nine hundred. OF these, three died of
consumption, and two from old age and gene
raj infrmity. The mortality among children
has unfortunately been greater, amounting to
twenty-three; but nearly all these deaths oc-
CURED among families newly admitted, and
most of which had previously resided in
crowded and unhealthy localities. Subse-
quent annual statements are equally gratify-
ing. There is San entire exemption from
endemic diseases, and from those complaints
incident to low and crowded localities"
No less pleasing is the account given of the
contentment, moral conduct and orderly
habits of the tenants. Speaking in Decem-
Der, 1S65-nearly two years after the first of
the buildings had been opened-the secretary
says:-"Habitual drunkenness is unknown,
and intoxication unfrequent, and where the
latter does occur to the annoyance of others
it is judicionsly dealt with, by giving notice
to the offender that, in the event of its re-
currence, he must prepare to leave. There
has been one person removed for quarrelling
and disturbing the peace; and one expelled
for non-payment of rent. These exceptions,
out of q community consisting of $50 persons,
speaky strongly for the self-respect and
moral principles by which they infu-
enced." Again, in the report published two
years later, we read that, ''indepen-
IDENTIFY of the direct economic advan-
tages derivable from the application of
MIR. Peabody's bounty, satisfactory evidence
of its social effects becomes every day more
apparent-in the peaceful department of the
tenants, the improved order within their
apartments, and the disappearance of excess
of all kinds. The healthy aspect of the
Children the neatness and tidiness of their
dress, and their inoffensive happiness of play
in the ample and secluded grounds, secure
from evil street-intercourse, abundantly
Justify the belief that beneficial influence
is being exerted over the future of the work
ing-classes by the signal improvement thus
introduced into their dwellings and domestic
habits" ''The great privileges they now
enjoy" says the Secretary, in his latest state
ment, shave already produced a salutary
effect, not only amongst the young but per-
ceptibly in the increased tidiness and cleanli-
ness of the DID,"
We have now traced the progress of Mr..
Peabody's munifcent gift of ESQ, 200, from
its announcement in 1862 down to the pre-
sent time; and, in doing so, we have avoided
any reference to his subsequent donations for
the same benevolent purposes. Our reason
for this reticence is, that we wish it to be
clearly understood that all the results up to
this time achieved by the trustees, and which
it has been the aim of the foregoing pages to
communicate, have been effected solely by
means of the first donation of e15O, 900.
AS is well known, Mr.. Peabody has given
the world fresh cause for admiration and sur
prise by two additional benefactions of
9100, 600 each; the one announced in Janu-
ary, 1866 the other in December, 1868; and
both together forming what is called the
Second Trust" In the letter in which the
donor made known to his trustees his inten-
tions regarding the first instalment of this
Second Trust, he SAYS
''With regard to this my second gift, it is my
desire that in the appointment of future trustees
the same rules may be continued as adopted for
the frst and that the United States Minister at
the Court of st. James for the time being shall
always be one of them.
'As your course with regard to the former
gift of ESQ, 900 is already defined in your trust
deed, l can only express my own views and
wishes regarding the appropriation of the prin-
cipal and income of this second donation, and
leave to yourselves and your successors to man
age it accordingly.
''You are fully authorized to use any portion
of the fund in building lodging houses for labor
ing poor, as expressed in my former letter; but,
as before many years it is to be apprehended
that desirable sites for such buildings may be
difficult to obtain at moderate prices within the
limits of the metropolis in that event, it is my
desire that my trustees for the time being may
seek out and secure at such rates as the state of
the fund may warrant, such freehold sites,
within ten miles of the present Royal Exchange,
as ray appear eligible both on account of salu-
brity of position and proximity to the great
centres of labor and railroad accommodation,
due regard being had to the probable burden of
taxation. 1t may also be desirable to obtain
from railroad companies the most economical
arrangements procurable for the conveyance of
working people at stated hours to and from Lon
don at such moderate fares as will come within
their means.
Comfortable ana convenient houses are to be
erected upon those sites for the exclusive ac-
commodation of the honest and industrious poor
of London, under such regulations and on such
terms and conditions as my trustees may direct,
subject only to the guiding principles laid down
in respect to my former donation.
GAS dwellings In such sites may In some in
stances be remote from schools and other facili-
ties for instruction, the trustees shall be at
liberty in such cases, should they consider il
building and suitable for school-houses, for the
children of the families holding tenements. But
such schools must be organized as carefully
to exclude sectarian Influences and so conducted
as to avoid denominational jealousy. With this
view ii is my desire that the course of education
glta1l ha Npl ilpl Of nnfaia and