The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-05-28
Our Philadelphia Letter.
PHILADELPHIA, MAY "a, 1875.
OUR PUBLIC CHARITIES.

bic institutions as as Philadelphia, fron
its local soup-houses, where thousand
of hungry and deserving poor are fe,
daily throughout the long and bite
months of winter, on up to the grandes
of all our harities-that endowed b,
Stephen Girard,
The institution that / propose NOR
particularly to write of in this letter il
the Eye and Ear Institute, of the Phila
delphia Dispensary, located at Thir
teenth and Chestnut streets. 1t is ont
of the most youthful of our charitabl,
organizations, but second to none in thu
measures of its usefulness. It has beer
in existence but five years, yet during
that time it has, through DIR. George
Strawbridge, surgeon in charge, and hii
medical staff of four capable assistant
surgeons, treated 4,169 persons for dis
eases of the eye, and 1902 for diseases
of the ear, successfully performing oven
800 operations upon those delicate and
sensitive members of the body. Among
the latter may be particularized 50 cata-
ract, S3 iridectomy, and 65 stabismus
operations. Those of your readers who
are NJ. ID. s will best realize the magni-
tude of this particularization.
The services of the medical staff of
this instution is given freely without
money and with out price, and for the
benfit of the laboring classes a daily
session, for treatment of cases is held,
beginning at 6 P. M. and ending about
7 o'clock; other cases treated from IL
A. NJ. to P. NJ.
In every instance where the poverty
of the patient has required it, ward ac-
commodations, free of charge, have
been furnished and extended Just as
freely to the stranger from abroad as to
the resident of our own city; in fact the
demand for ward treatment is much
greater by persons from the interior of
the State, and from other States than by
our own people.
1 mention this charitable Institution.
of which / am proud, so that if there be
any of your readers who, suffering from
any dangerous ailment of the eyes or
ears, and too INDECENT to obtain surgical
skill at home, they may here find relief
without other cost than the price of the
passage to and from the Institution.
The Board of Managers are among
the most honored of our citizens, among
them are VIM. F. Griffiths, George B.
Wood, NJ. D., John Z. Cope, Alex. Z.
Harvey, d. CLARK Wharton, John NJ.
Whitall and Thos. Wistar.
confess am at loss to know how
the Institution accomplishes so much,
as it is without endowment from city,
State or Individuals. Imagine, however,
that the bulk of the voluntary contribu-
tions which maintains it comes from its
own board of management. OF such, 1
presume, is the kingdom of heaven.
sTEPPETH DOWN AND OUT.
-Four of the managers of the house of
Correction recently resigned suddenly.
The last official act they did was to re-
quest fellow-member of their Board to
resign, as his room was better than his
company. The advice was unheeded,
and Barlow, who was invited to step out,
made formal charges of irregularities, y
and the city council, which elected the
house of correction gentleman, began
an investigation, and Notwithstanding
this is the whitewashing season of the
year, enough Stacked lime could not be
applied to make these gentlemen white
souled men. Their resignation stops
the investigation; the committeeman are
saved an unpleasant duty, and these
gentlemen of character and integrity"
maintain their standing in society.
NOT A CANDIDATE.
M. s. Gross Fry was a candidate for
State Treasurer, and believe, had ''the
boys" with him, but little irre0lllarity
of an oyer-issue of about 5000, 900 worth
of Passenger railroad stock stands in
the way of his promotion to the treasury
department. Well, what is one mans
loss Is another's gain, and Mr.. Fry, who
is now in a dreadful stew, having with
drawn from the field, will materially ad.
vance the interests of Mr.. Barr, the
Pittsburg editor, for the treasurership.
These irregularities" about balance
themselves in political point of view.
Mr.. Fry is straight-out Bourbon Dem
ocrat-whatever that is; and the man
ayers of the correction are unadulter-
ated Burgundy Republicans
AGED 105 YEARS.
Mrs. Ellen Hagerty died during the
week, at the advanced ago of los years.
She was married in 1870, and became
the mother of ten children, the Oldest,
aged 81, and the baby, go years are
both living.
ARRIvAL-DEPARTURE
just as was mailing this letter, the
steamship Abbotsford, of the American
Line, came into port, bringing 237
passengers, AS she came in, the Indi-
ana OF the same line, left for Europe
with just 263 passengers and full cargo
OF American merchandise. 1t looks
strange to read of more travellers going
to Europe than coming to this country,
and yet of thenumber of outward bound
are many skilled mechanics going TO
Europe where wages are comparatively
higher, and labor in greater demand
than here.
TIE f4-PRRSr GERDEAfAN.
The trial-pf Father Gerdeman ended
IN the disagreement Of the Jury, ten
standing 10 favor Of ,aequittal and two
for conyiction-of the latter ono was a
Roman Catholic, and the other d son of
Ham. This Virtually ends the case 50
lar as the. prosecution against Gerde-