St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-03
WILL BUILD A BARGE.
The New Home Which the Bethel Asso-
citation Will Erect.
BREAD UPON THE WATERS.
To Be Anchored at the Foot of Sibley
Street, as Home for Unfor-
Inmates.


day at the Office of Mayor Smith, with a
good attendance of the officers and di
rectorS. The latter board consists of
fifteen of the leading business men of
st. Paul, representing the principal
churches in the city. The usual routine
business of reports was heard and the
following officers were chosen for the
ensuing year: President, r. Blakely;
vice president, A. E. Clark; treasurer,
Robert A.Smith: secretary.J. II. David
son; chaplain, Rev. E. r. Pierce; execu-
tive committee, Webster Smith, c. E.
Marvin. j. w. Cooper and j. Ii. David
son; building committee, Kenneth
Clark, j. j. Hill, r. Blakely and E. H..
Hollowell.
The report of the chaplain showed the
expenditures to have exceeded the col
lectionS to the amount of $3.50. The
treasurer also reported balance in
treasury for building fund of about
$4,000. Chaplain Pierce's report was of
great interest and showed that a great
deal Of work had been done during the
year. The chaplain has visited large
number of poor families amounting to
about 1000. he has regularly visited the
cltp hospital two or three times week,
and has called upon all of the poor sick
families that seem to need special atten-
ton large amount of clothing has been
furnished to dependent and destitute
persons. Nearly LOCO meals have been
furnished. A vast amount of desirable
journals and useful literature has been
distributed among the poorer classes.
Sick and homeless sailors, railroad men
and
WORKING MEN GENERALLY
have been assisted through the chap
lain and his able corps of assistants.
Night schools, kindergartens for the
poor, industrial, cooking and sewing
schools have been carried on under the
management of the chaplain and MEM
bers of this association. Reading rooms
and Sunday schools have been estab-
liShed and maintained throughout the
year. Indeed, there is hardly an object
OF charity. a friendleSS or dependent
person, hospital, prison or public
Institution of any kind that has not been
assisted and benefited by this aSSocia-
ton. General Superintendent Frank
lands report was also full of inter-
est, and concluded with an earnest rec
ommcndation to the board of directors
that the board should at once proceed to
build home for the Bethel association,
to be known as the ST. Paul Bethel
home, where destitute. sick and needy
persons of all classes could find home
or receive care in sickness. or food and
clothing if destitute, and where the poor
class of children could be taken care of,
or receive instruction in practical
branches, necessary to develop them
into useful citizens; or where all who
will, might come and receive valuable
advice or religious instruction. He
stated that he believed that every citi-
zen of ST. Paul would be greatly bene-
fitted by the establishment of such a
home: that the number of crimes and
cases OF drunkenness and misery would
thereby be@greatly lesSened, and the
citizens generally would be relieved
from looking after
THIS CLASS OF PEOPLE
directly. as each department of this
work would be intrusted to able assist
ants, who should work under the man
agement of the superintendent of the
home.
The recommendation was heartily en-
dorsed by every member of the board,
and upon motion of Mayor Smith it was
resolved to build such a home The
plan suggested for the home was a
building to be erected upon barge,
which should be anchored at the foot of
Sibley street. This barge, which is So
feet wide by 135 feet Long, and which
cost for construction $1,000, can be pur-
chased for this purpose for less
than $1,000, from a benevolently dis
posed corporation. The building proper
is to be two stories high and finished
in neat tabernacle style. A chapel
will be provided on the first floor 35X95
feet: besides this will be provided read
ing rooms, dining room, kitchen, sleep
lott fnr n1No,, L.,
dred persons, and the offices of chaplain
and executive committee OF the aSSocia-
ton.
The estimated cost of this structure is
about $4,000, beside the barge. Of this
amount $1,000 is already in the hands of
the treasurer, and the public-spirited,
benevolent citizens of st. Paul are
cordially invited to provide the balance
of the funds necessary for the i'm
mediate construction of this chapel
or home. To properly carry Oh
the work of G the Bethel mis-
sion for the coming year will require a
fund of about $1,000, and the business
people, residents and citizens of st.
Paul, generally, are urged to contribute
literally to this work.
AS stated by member of the board.
the prime object to be accomplished by
this association is to place dependent
people in position to take care of them
selves, look after the homeless, care for
the sick,
RAISE THE FALLEN,
comfort the afflicted. and to assist In
educating the hundreds of dirty, ragged
children from the poorerer districts of
the city, who would never think of
entering the public schools, and who
would, if left upon the streets, grow up
in crime and misery.
Subscriptions can be made to the
chaplain, Rev. E. r. Pierce, or to the
treasurer, Mayor Robert A. Smith, at
his office in the Bank of Minnesota
building. The council of the city Of st.
Paul has already granted permit for
the anchoring and construction of this
footing Bethel in the river at the foot
of Sibley street, and large number of
the prominent citizens of st. Paul have
expressed themselves as highly gratified
with the proposed plan for the con-
struction and maintenance of this
home.