Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-13
CHARITY.
ROME NOTABLE CHARITABLE INsrITU-
TIoNs IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Infants shelter-state Woman's Hospital
Its opening-A Brilliant Affair
What the Hospital Is
SAN Francisco, May Q, 1882.

OF fortune IN California we need to have
peculiar interest in such institutions, since
no man can be certain land the fear, they
say, haunts the rich as well as the poor
and comfortably off that mutations of life
and mutations may not bring him to the
door of public charity. Recognizing, there
fore, the value Of all such charity institu-
tons, rich men, dying, have bequeathed
thousands of dollars to hospitals, to aims
houses, to asylums, and those who have
not had money to bestow have put their
hands to the work and kept the ball roll
ing. An effort is made to open depart
ments which shall provide for all manner
OF needs, as, for instance, in chIldren's
charities alone we have the various
ORPHAN AsYLUMs
Proper-the Hebrew, the Protestant, the
Roman Catholic the Home" where
children will be taken for any limited
period, until the mother, left destitute and
alone perhaps, can find way to keep her
little ones with her. 1t was here that the
little boy, spoken OF some time since, found
q refuge until his removal, and to those
who took an interest in him let me say
that the little fellow is received by child
less and well-todo people, to whom he
seemed at once attracted, and who by
some strange circumstance proved to be
friends, in years by, of the father. Until
now, the opportunity has never presented
itself to express my gratitude to those OF
i I'D /
me to send upon my appeal for the child
cry from out their hearts toward him.
Eight strong and beautiful letters were re-
ceived offering him home, and when
knew of 1t shining light filled my heart,
and l said that whatever wickedness and
whatever sin there was, great love, also,
was in the world. Besides these, other
institutions for children is the
LITTLE SISTERS INFANT SHELTER,
Where small children may be left in the
morning and reclaimed at Eight by work
ing mothers. Also-and what a dreary
sound is its name the Founding Asylum,
which receives children into its arms and
makes no inquiries The children are
thus abandoned of all parentage and
must look ahead for hope. Not long since
4 woman sat by the fire in the "baby
ward" at the City and County Hospital
holding sleeping infant on her knee, and
hear tears dropped silently down upon its
head. Her husband had been killed in
Arizona, and she had come to the hospital
till her baby was born. Now she must
give up the baby forever, for she had two
older children to support, and she could
not do it with baby in her arms. She
was going to put it in the basket at the
door of the Founding Asylum, and give it
up to an unknown future-a future to re-.
main forever unknown to her. The ques-
ton is What could be done if there were
no public institution to take the baby and
keep it alive? 1t was
THE SPIRIT OF SYMPATHY
For all charity which inspired the little fair
held in a barn by handful of little girls
to contribute a mite in aid of the Fruit and
Flower Mission. Two of the lady man
ayers of the hospital for women and chill.
dren have recently given exceedingly en-.
joyable parlor entertainments for the bene-
fit of their charge. Some time since Mrs.
Henry NJ. Gray threw open her elegant
parlors to friends at dollar per friend,
provided intellectual entertainment, served
q supper and netted 500 for the cause.
This last week Mrs. C. B. Williams gave q
similar evening at the handsome residence
of VIM. Eide, corner Guerrero and Seven.
teenth streets. Character Rotations, songs
and instrumental music were the principal
features, and speciality was made of the
beautifully tinted ice-cream, ten gallons of
which had been made and sent in by Mrs.
Geo. Harris. another lady manager. The
lady guests were received in Mrs Ede's
large bed-ehamber, decorated in crimson
satin and lace even to the crib of the two
year-old baby. The matinee reception
given last Saturday by the lady managers
of the California
STATE woMAN's HOSPITAL
Was quite society event. It was de-
signed as sort of housewarming in honor
of the new building just put in order for
visitors, as well as to bring the great uses
and needs of the hospital before the public.
The guests were gracefully received by
the managers, Mesdames Redding, Neal,
Learhy, Murphy, Sears, Smith, Jones,
Stadtnuller, Hotaling, Low, Tracy, Hoy
and Nuttall Mrs. B. B. Redding being
very noticeable with her gray hair in CON.
trast to the shawl of light blue worn over
the shoulders. A photograph of Adelaide
Nelson, surrounded by flowers, was placed
over the donation box. The rooms were
handsome with floral decorations and with
gifts by various friends of the institution.
Mrs. A. f. Osgood, of Sacramento, read
an address of welcome, and whose efforts
in behalf of the hospital are untiring. The
hospital has reaped much financial benefit
from her personal solicitation. There is
no need further to urge its cause in Sacra-
mento when it has such an enthusiastic
and pretty little lady as its resident advo-
cate. Many gifts have been received from
including oil paintings OF the
hospital physicians from the easels of Miss
Ostrom and Messrs. Jackson and johnson.
THE INSTITUTION
Has had many years of struggling exis-
fence. but through its substantial recogni-
ton by the public, finds itself at last in
quarters worthy of it. 1t is devoted to
diseases of woman. For years l was glad
to be woman; l had no sympathy with
the sentiment sob, to be man !" but l
wonder, now, if it is indeed a fact for con-
graduation, that l am creature SO deli
cately and mysteriously put together as to
be, perhaps tomorrow, afflicted with re.
finement of pains and aches which nothing
but woman ever suffers. If costume will
work change, then, Lady Habberton, we
give you greeting; if food, then welcome
toast and tea; but if to be woman is a
visitation of God, then where can we look
for help? The friends of this hospital
point to its open doors its trained nurses
its experienced physicians its appliances
and its comforts as encouragement to the
women sick to their very souls. 1t has
many friends; painting materials have
been donated, glass, plumbing materials,
hardware, lumber, shingles, lime, cement,
hair and plaster, doors, brick, plans and
specifications. Emelie Melville played for
its benefit, so did Adelaide Nelson; and
in gratitude there are two wards named
for these ladies. The Murphy Ward "
is so called in acknowledgment of E. P.