Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-16
A District Home for Fricndless Chill
dren.

The counties of stark, ColumbiIna,
NJ ,honing and Portage have been ior.ned
into district, for the purpose # estah-
lishirg HOME for the poor, friendless,
quito ist and orphan chllren. A Joint
Board of Com nissioners have been duly
organic ID by the election of officers, and
a Board of Trustees appointed. The
Home is to be located at Alliance. The
necessary preparations to carry the
project to an early completion is to be
pushed forward as rapidly as possible.
The 5 slem Republican contains the fol-
lowing with reference to the harmonious
meeting Of the Commissioners of the
several counties, and with reference to
other District Homes in the State =
The session Of the Commissioners was char
acterized with great harmony earnestness, and
deep sense of obligation and duty Incumbent
upon them iut1 whose hands the law placed
the responsibility Of action "wheu, in their
judgement, the public good required it" As
| humane true men, representing progressive
| aud Christian people they fully believed that
! il was easier and cheaper 10 save u child from
becoming ruined, than Ia reform him after he
! becomes criminal. Sncieiy would also be the
| gamer ut g'Ol, iuHuenihl cilLen, WhnSe eucT-
sips and Industrial habits would add ia the weal h
| al community, as his exemplary life and con
| duct would Ia the m'ral rectitude oi the Society
! Ky npgleciing tn provide for the many cjil
dren now crowded in nur infrmaries, some in
| jiils and scores taking their first steps in the
bruad road To- d ,struciinn as vagrdnts aud wan
| derers on the streets the future and final con
sequences would evidently he such no one
made the guirdian aud protector of the poor, bN
! the statutes Ut the State would desire to incur
There are but two County Homes in the
State, located in Washington and Montgomery
Warren County has building about ready tuI
| occupancy for the building Of which lady
left $50 900 by will. Tho two former are su
burban, tho latter two miles from Lebanon.
Tho only disadvantage of lhcating near towr
is the cost of land, churches, schools, sOcia
sympathy aud care are 10 be had only in, OF
near towns.
The Montgomery County building is the
first in the State erected Tor the special purpose
and has already furnished model (mistlkes
aud ALL ;or Warren c..un y, AMI will, doubtless
he copied still farther by other counties. II
was erected in 1887. Is Of brick, dimensions
g0x65 feet, three stories high exclusive of base
menI; basement is ten feet. The first aud sec
Ouu stories twelve feet, and the third story /;
fourteen feet two inches in height, The ORG
inal cost of the building, in 1857, was s32 900
Thrre are connected with the Home seven acre
Of land. The capacity of the building, look
ing TO the comfort and safety of the children
aud the convenience Of management, may hl
set d1wn at Que hundred. This house CON
bines the school with the family, and the schuO
roam Is an important paIt Of the bull ling
Where the children attend the common school
the capacity of the Home, AS such is proper
tinnatey increased
On the 18th of July there were eighty -eigh
children in the Home, all comfortable. Th
third story of the building is unoccupied.
The Warren cnunty home is, in outward ap
peatance aud internal construction, the counter
part of the Montgomery Hume 90 differing onll
In size, being S0x5G teet. This ia heated b.
steam, and the mistake Of putting ths heatiri
apparatus and the Laundry under the buildinl
has been unfortunately made, as in-the Mont
gumery Home,
This building was contracted for Cheating
apparatus excepted) at Sl6.3O5 0S. Th'
grounds contain hitV three acres, cost 81, lb2
The buildings, when complete, will probably
cost $50 600
The Washington County Home, located Al
Marietta, was not built expressly nr the pur
pose now used. But il is a convenient build
ing, and has connected with il une hundred anC
FIVE acres Of land.
The above briefly describes thu Homes in TIN
State, managed by counties alone. They arr
all prosperous, aud accomplishing an untnl'
good.
The District composed of Stark, Columbaua
Mahoning and Portage is the fest formed unde
the law Oi last winter. No preventing PrOvi
dence the counties composing II will som real
iZe that they never made better inves mint, u
one from which the return will be so mdnles
and } laStinR,