Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-30

From IL Q Burlington Free Press we learn
that much needed addition is being made
to the Home for Destitute Children in that
city. The new wing, which is now APP
preaching completion, is Of brick, with
,blue-stone belts and trim nings, and is ~
feet front by So feet in width at the widest
part, two stories high, with mansard roof,
constituting a third story over the South
ern portion. 1t will give the additional
room so imperatively demanded by the
great and growing needs of the institution.
The basement will he devoted to the new
kitchen, laundry and wash-room, which
will be fitted with suitable "modern con-
veniences." The first floor gives space for
aspacious school-room, library and recep-
ton rooms for visitors. The second floor
will be devoted to dormitories, with the
necessary closets and bathrooms. The at
tic will contain the store-rooms for cloth
ing. These are connected with the laundry
in the basement by an elevator, which will
be found great saving of steps and
strength.
When it is occupied, the old building,
fifty feet square, will be devoted to the in
FAINT department and hospital, which are
now crowded into a temporary wooden
out-building; and the enlarged facilities
thus provided will enable the managers to
carry out more fully than is at present pos
sible the benefcent purposes of the insti-
tuition. The expense of this enlargement
had been borne by a special building fund
of sl2, 800, provided as all the funds of the
institution have been, by private generosi-
ty. This fund is now about exhausted,
while considerable sum will still be need
ed for the completion and furnishing of
the new wing. Moreover a flesh demand
on the building fund has arisen from the
necessity of putting new roof on the old
building.
The managers look forward to a time
when the growth of the institution will
compel another enlargement; when the
plan will be completed and the symmetry
of tho whole structure secured by the cree
ton of another wing, on the North, SINH
lar to the one just erected. For the pres
ent, however, the managers will be only too
happy to obtain the means to complete the
work in progress. For this $4,000 or &c.
mole will be needed and to make up this
amount the managers are compelled to re-
~ ON the liberality of generous and charit-
able people. No charity, surely, has less
occasion to apologize for its appeal for aid,
than this. 1t is not an experiment but an
established institution. From small be-
ginnings it has grown steadily, though
never able 10 meet the demands upon its
space and resources. II has in ten years
past rescued from beggary and want, two
hundred and sirty-scven orphan children,
aud has placed two hundred of them in
comfortable and Christian homes. It has
now under its roof Sirty-tUO little children,
number altogether too great for the ex-
listing capacity OF the institution; but the
managers, in view of the pressing demands
upon them and anticipating also, doubtless,
the increased facilities soon to be at their
disposal, have continued to receive chill
dren, though there seemed to he absolute
ly no place in which to put them. They
have been compelled to reject hundreds ei
deserving applications to receive children
and there are to-day at least dozen chill
dren in different parts Of the State, waiting
in great restitution and suffering ill room
can be made for them.
These facts, says the Free Press, show in
some measure the need there is Of such an
institution as this. But who needs to be
told that this Home for Destitute Children
meets pressing wantf In what commun-
ity of any size are there not instances IA
miliar to all, of children made beggars and
orphans through no fault of theirs, waits
thrown upon the public by orphsnage, or
by the vice or misfortune of their parents,
who must be cared for by charity, or grow
up to Ignorance, wretchedness, prostitu-
ton, or other forms of crime and misery.
1t is for such as these this Home has been
provided. II offers them shelter, clothing,
schooling. and kindly care. Its plan is 10
teach them that they must support them
selves in future years, and to give them the
habits and the instruction which will enable
them to do so.