The New York herald., 1872-09-06
ST. yosEpH's HOME.

Caring for tho Aged-The New Dwelling
and Its Cost-An Appeal from the
Sisters OF Charity.
The st. Joseph's Home for the Aged, No. 200
West Fifteenth street-s0me time since completed
is now, In Its interior arrangements, rapidly
progressing. The building itself is OF brick, with
Ohio stone trimmings, and is OF large proportions,
having frontage OF 1O5 feet on West Fifteenth
street, depth OF As feet with wings extending
100 feet, and an elevation Of five stories above the
basement 1t contains seventy-fve sleeping rooms,
an infrmary, Doctors room, nurses rooms and
two large open wards for invalids. The first floor
is devoted to suit Of parlors for the reception Of
visitors and the friends OF the institution, with
some rooms for the inmates. The kitchen and the
refectories are In the basement. On the second
floor is the chapel, which is very handsomely gotten
up, the windows being of stained glass. The altar
Is TO be Of white marble-the gift OF q charit9ble
lady in the city-and over this win be painting Of
the death OF ST. Joseph, upon which Signof Bro
midi is now daily at work. The corrid0raf are all
large; and the rooms which are Of various sizes, to
suitAhe tastes of the inmates are provided with all
the improvements required for an institution Of
this kind. It is expected that 200 aged women can
here find home without inconvenlent crowding:
There are at present In the building about sixty old
hundred years, and already the sisters Of
are daily Desissea Sat WtS sns appcatons 5f
admission. The institution Ia now In Its fifth year,
having been first started in o couple of cottages
then standing on the ground now occupied by the
new building. While the work on the new struc-
ture was going on the Sisters continued the Home
IN house rented FOR that purpose on Fourteenth
street.
As may be easily understood, much yet remains
to be done to place the institution in proper con-
dition for its full development. The cost of the
building was Sill 900, and its present Indebtedness
Is $sS,o00, the only money on which the work was
fba Inf Tbnyn
Devine. The good Sisters on whose generous
labor this much-needed institution rests for sue
cess appeal to the public for encouragement and
ask for the means whereby the Home may be con-
tinued SO far they have got from the city two ap-
preparations OF $4,000 each, and this is almost all
the money that has been contributed. With SO
large debt hanging over them they feel that the
public cannot too speedily come to their assistance.
The charity itself In which they are engaged is so
appealing, the Huppliant voice coming as 1t does
from feeble and helpless old age, that they with
grea ter confidence lay their claims before the pub
ic Many Of the Catholic churches In the city have
assured them Of their sympathy and given them
promises Of generous support, prominent among
these being st. Josephs church, which has pc.
cular interest In the institution. The Very Rev.
Father Burke the eloquent preacher, has also
premised to deliver O lecture In aid OF the Home,
the object of this being to put the institution prop
erly before the Irish Catholics, for whose benefit
next month, too, o fair on grand scale will be
gotten up, to aid which, persons of all creeds and
chsseS will be invited. Ladies are requested to
begin to prepare for this display, as the Sisters,
relying in great measure on It's success even for
partial liquidation Of the Indebtedness desire that
parish, but the concern of the Catholic community
at large.