Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-13
A Home Charity.

To The Editor Of ne Register:
SIR:-Tbe undersigned desire to call
the attention OF the phianthrOpic and
Christian people of Wheeling to the charity
known as the Home for Friend!ess Women,
at No 80 Thirteenth street. This insiitu-
tion has now nearly completed the second
yesr Of its existence, and by its work has
attested its necessity as well as its prac
tical value TO the community.
In this time there have been eighty
three admissions; three deaths; two
births; thirty have bfen provided with
homee, and there are five inmates in the
home at the present time.
The original intention OF the Home has
been through force Of circumstances some-
what departed from, or rather we should
say the scope Of the work has been en-
laTged, so AS to furnish refuge to you0g
girla and mothers and,childr, n, who, COM
ing from country places to Wheeling in
search of work, have found themselves, in q
little while pennlless and with no shelter
open TO them save The station hous'. Such
persons, if left unoared for, must inevits-
bly, drift into the life of shame from which
it is the purpose OF this Home TO rescue
them; and, as preventive work is far bet
ter aud more satisfactory that reform work,
the Home has opened mp its doors 10 such
cases aad cared for them until places conld
be found where they could support them
selves By their own industry. While in
the Home the inmates contribute to their
own maintenance, as they are able, by
working in the laundry, and in other
WAYS.
But in order that an institution Of this
char cler may do good and efficient work
it is necessary that ii have proper build
ipgs spd appointments, and also that 1t
should be placed upon gcoi lnar clal
basis.
A house ia needed large enough to ac-
commOdate all who may apply for en-
trance, having two or more rooms fitted
up fer hospital purposes, and with appli.
auces for teaching useful omployments by
which the inmates may support them
selves in part while there and in whole
when dismh sed.
Such an institution will require a con-
siderable sum of money. Who will give
IL? Are there not among the men ~ d
women OF means in cur city some who will
open their purses to lay broad and per-
manent foundation for this work OF rescue
and reiormslionp A wise, comprehensive
and permanent heaevolence is what is
needed. The work is not one that can be
treated emotioually, and thence spasmod-
ically and temporarily. 1t must contem-
plate the soundest principles Of reform and
OF enduring belpfulness to the moet un-
happy and neglected clsss Of society.
II, as the Divine Master taught, it is
more blessed 10 give than to receive, and II
There is more jog in Heaven over One sin
ner that repsnteih than over ninety snd
nine lst persons who need no rSDsnt-
ance," then there should be no III nifty
in securing from those who have the means
abundant resources for this pleading
charity.
Rev r. K SSope. D d President; d
A. Cunningham, d. D.. Vice Psesicenti
| Hon. G. W. Atkinson, S cTetary Mr. jos
A. Bell, Treasurer; Rev. W. Cushing d.
D., Myron Hubbard, A. Clarke, W. Q.
Gee, F. H. Williams, S II Kasley, j
Ellwood Hughes, J. y. Vance, Aller
Brock, o. c. Dewey, John McLure, Di
/ rectOra