The evening world., 1888-04-02
GOOD SAMARITANS.
SOME OF TIE CHARITABLE WORK or NEW
YORK CITY HEBREWS

The Good showing and Benevolent Work Of
the Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum, the Technical School,
the Montenorc Home for Chronic Invalids
and tho Home for Aged Hebrews.
There are 1876, 900 Hebrews in New York.
Their name greet the eye from signs on
nearly every mercantile building in the city.
They are o thrifty race, and are accredited
with having cut q sound set Of eye-teeth.
They are something else besides traders.
They are religious, and yet un%obtrusive in
their observance of their religious customs.
They are social, yet exclusively 30. They are
charitable, yet 30 unostentatious in their
charity that it may be truthfully said that
their right land knows not what their left
doeth. Indeed. 80 firmly rooted is the idea
that New York's Hebrew citizens are en-
crossed in the occupations of trade, that
their many charities are lost sight of.
Yet no sect or people or New York have so
amply and 30 wisely provided for their poor
or weak members as have the Jews. And
their charities are not restricted to people Of
their own religious creed. The good that
they have done and are doing is immeasura-
BILE.
The last annual report of Secretary De
Witt j. Seligman, of the Noun Sinai Hos
pital, signed by President Lyman Blum,
Isaac Wallach, Samuel M. Schafer and fifteen
other officers, all Hebrews, contains this par
agraph.
I'm the walks Of life the stranger falling
by the roadside is tenderly cared for by
those drawn to him by feelings of humanity.
There is but one thought in their minds-to
afford relief"
Mount Sinai Hospital was incorporated in
1852, and Is located at Lexington avenue,
year 1,796 patients were admitted. and 1,6S5
were cared for free of charge, with no in
quiry as to their race. creed or condition.
Dying Hebrews left to the hospital legacies
to gifts from the 1. 800 members of the society,
patrons and other sources, brought the re-
ceipts for the year up to $S2.639. Yet the ex:
penses of the hospital for the year exceeded
this by nearly So, 900. There are 100 patients
in this institution at present
In Tenth avenue at One Hundred and
Thirty eighth street the Hebrews have the
finest and most complete orphan asylum In
New York. Tn buildings are capacious and
admirably arranged, and the management is
most rational. The grounds are delightful,
and more than five hundred orphaned little
ones find n home here-a home in fact as
well as IN name, under the Superlntendency
of kind DR.. Barr.
In Stuyvesant street the Hebrews maintain
q =" Technical School," in which $50 boys are
learning mechanical trades under the eff
cient supervision of M. Leipziger: George
H.. Hoffman is the President of the society
under whose auspices the school is working.
The boys come to the school from all paris Of,
the city, and at noon each day they are served
with o hot dinner. The school is accomplish
ing much in educating the lads for a working
All New York had its eyes opened last
winter at the stupendous success of the fair
for the benefit of the Montetiore Home for
Chronic 1nyalids. which was held twelve
days and nights in the new Central Park
Garden, at the Grand Circle entrance to
Central Park, now occupied as q riding
academy.
Among the great names whose services in
behalf of their fellow beings have illumined
the records of benevolent action during this
century, nom shines with brighter ~effulgence
than that of Sir Moses Montetiore, the old
man munifcent;" In 1884; PROMPTED by a
dredth birthday Of Sir Moses, Jacob II.
| Schiff, Jesse Seligman, Isaac Wallach,
Samuel NJ. Schafer and other Hebrews
whose names have become associated with
many charitable undertakings. formed an
! organization which crystaliZed two years
later in the corporation known as the Monte
fore Home for Chronic Invalids, and Oct.
20, 1886, q comfortable house was secured at
| ElRuLy-IOuTUh btItcU huu hNCnuC N hho
opened under happiest auspices, for 1t was
proclaimed that neither race, creed nor con-
dition would be looked into, and that the
only question would be as to the physical
condition of the applicant.
The famous fair opened on Dec. 6, and it
| seemed as if the whole Hebrew population
turned out to give their mites to the project.
For two weeks there was O perfect exodus
from the Jewish homes of the city to the
scene of the fair. Adolph L. Sanger. and
Samuel M. Schafer. the committee appointed
/ for the purpose, reported that the magnih-
cent sum of $15S, OIL. "a had been realized by
the fair.
To the women of Israel" was generously
given all the credit for this success; And
mands upon it, and. q massive and appro-
pirate structure is in course of erection In
the Boulevard at One Hundred and Thirty
ninth street.
The recent charity ball Of the Purim Asso-
citation had for Its beneficiary the Home for
Aged and Intirm Hebrews, Q model institu-
ton in One Hundred and Fifth street, near
conjunction with THE EVENING WoRLD's
three column report of the ball.
The most pleasant thing about the Hebrew
charities is the entire absence of the air OF
the institution" about them. The old
folks at this home are neatly dressed. the
men in broadcloth and the women as they
fancy.
It is so in all the Hebrew homes and asy:
lums. There is no watchful Squeers, Cruel
nor tar water no soup-kettles full of boil
ing meat or vegetables no musty, prison
smell. Uniforms are not forced upon the
forms of the unfortunates who are compelled
to accept of charity, and everything ID OK
actly rational"