Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-18
Charitable Work.

The new lodging house, 52 Court street, corner of Artisan, in connection with the Board of Associated Charities, is completed, being a great improvement over the old which was located at 22 Artisan street, third floor, and was fitted up over three years ago
 to accommodate twenty four lodgers, hunks being built around two sides of the room that served as beds. The room was on the top floor of the building owned by Charles E. Brown and was thought at the time to be 8 good place in which to lodge homeless men after they had been to the wood yard and done work enough to pay for the same It certainly has done good service but the new room is much easier of access, is airy, light and we'll ventilated, size 134 by B feet It has four windows fitted up with Holland shades, contains six single cot beds, there being plenty Of room for six more when needed. The cot frames are all neatly paint
 ed, the mattresses newly cleaned and reflled, each bed having two sheets and dou-
 ble blankets The walls of the sleep
 ing room have been thoroughly cleansed
 with lime and are of g snowy
 whiteness, but have bare appearance for
 want of few pictures, which would make it
 seem much pleasanter and homelike The
 room is heated by large American gas burn
 CT, with hot water tank attached for bathing
 purposes, in close proximity to the neat little
 bath room i'll connection with the sleeping
 apartment, which has medium sized marine
 clock, presented by the New Haven Clock
 Go. There is a nice closet at each end of the
 main room for the benefit of permanent lodg-
 ers in which their clothes are kept secure.
 Before entering the main room there is hall
 way twenty eight feet long and three feet
 wide, at the terminus of which is nice single
 bed room with front window looking on
 Court street. which is reserved for anyone
 wishing a private room and willing to pay for
 the same. At the rear of this hallway is
 water-closet arrangement complete, entirely
 shut off from the sleeping room. What is
 greatly needed in the lodging room is table
 on which shall be placed reading matter, in-
 cluding Testament and Psalms combined
 for each man, a present from ex President
 Woolsey some three years ago or more.
 Any citizen wishing to donate table
 anyone wishing. to contribute pictures
 please address @ postal to 47 Court street, and
 the above articles will be called for as desired
 by the giver. This lodging house is in charge
 of Mir. Lester Dorman, formerly of Hamden,
 Ct, one of the Union soldiers in the Eff
 teenth Connecticut regiment, who served his
 country well during the late war, and after
 wards entered the regular army and did good
 service there for eight years. The room
 closes at $50 O'CLOCK p. m, aG Wnlcn time
 the man in charge calls at the office, AZ Court
 street. for the men who have applied for
 lodgings and lk' s them to the lodging house,
 when they immediately take 8 warm bath,
 all their clothing being hung outside the
 sleeping room in the hallway on hooks placed there for each man, and after the bath is finished each man is fur nished with clean night shirt and takes to his bed for good nights rest. At six o'clock in the morning the men are called, allowed half an hour to dress and then at G:30 are conducted to the wood yard and set to work by Mir Dorman, the yard master, and at eight o'clock the breakfast bell is rung, the men being allowed half an hour for the above meal after which they all are invited to service of prayer of thirty minutes dur ation. If the men wish to remain during the | day work is supplied them in the yard. ! Perhaps it wopld be well to mention here l that the board greatly in need of cloth l ing of all kinds. Many one we have been l obliged to turn away who was in 8 suffering l condition for proper clothing because there l was none on hand for them. Will the good i citizens who have so nobly responded in the | past to our calls please remember whenever | we receive postal saying they have clothing l for us we are soon on hand to receive their | gifts to the poor, which will be distributed as | each case may need? %*