The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-17
FRESH AIR PARTY No. |.
Twenty-Five Children About
to Start for Rev. MI.
Moffett'S Home.
WILL THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AIDa
A Proposal That the Pupils Should
Maintain Home for Sickly
Children.

The Rev. Mr.. Moffett will start for Holy
Innocents' Home either today or tomor-
row with about twenty-five children, who
will be the first party to enjoy the pleas
ures and the health-giving surroundings
of the institution
1t is expected, that with the funds AL
ready collected, Mr. Moffett can keep the
home filed all the summer. If not, there
is no need for him to worry, as several
benevolent persons in Hoboken are watch
Ing his patient endeavors, and will stand
IN the breach when the time comes for
heir assistance.
Enough is as good as feast, y said Mr..
Moffett "All we ask is sufficient to pro-
vide the children with wholesome plain
food and plenty of fresh air. If they have
plenty of eggs, milk, meat and bread and
butter, l warrant you that some of them
will be much better fed than they are at
home
"As a matter of necessity, we can only
take girls and very little boys. The corps
OF Sisters in charge of the Home will be
small, and boys would be apt to run wild.
The Sisters who have volunteered for the
work deserve far more credit than l.
Their work will be hard, as they intend to
do the cooking and the housework in
order to avoid the expense of hired help,
and in order that the beds which would
be occupied by the help may be given up
to children"
The Rev. Mr. Williams, who was until
a few months ago Mr. Moffett's assistant,
will accompany him with his charges He
is now one of the assistants at st. Johns
Chapel in Varick street, New York. one
of the churches connected with Trinity
corporation. Although his connection
with the Holy Innocents' Church is sew
cred, he still remembers his former
charges, and so interested was he in Mr..
Moffet's scheme that he helped consider
ably in carrying it out
On the question of finances it is prob
able that some move will be made by the
children of the public schools The pub
licity which has been given to Mr.. Mof-
fett's efforts in THE JERSEY CITY NEWS,
has imbued the children with the idea
that it would be a good thing to have
home for sick children supported by the
pocket money of children who are in bet
| ter circumstances
Principal Lycett has been consulted
about the matter, and he is in favor of it.
| He thinks that if the children were once
| to start a home of the kind they would
never allow it to be closed, and that year
| by year the institution would increase in
size.
| "If the children take hold. " he said, cit
won't be a very long time before the
parents send in their mite toward it.
There are more than four thousand public
school children in Hoboken, and if every
one put twenty-five cents into the fund
| there would be 81 900 for the home right
away, and when it was seen that small
| subscriptions were solicited the dimes
and nickels of grown up persons would
soon swell the fund.
| IF the scheme be not carried out, the
| children will nevertheless be ready TO as
sist the home started by Mr.. Moffett, and
| if $50 or 500 be asked for from the public,
| the appeal will be made i'll all the
| churches, and in one Sunday five times
the amount required will be ready for
| him.
"Not only in the churches, but in the
Sunday schools also, where the little ones
are just being taught charity, there
would be good response
| Mr.. Lycett spoke strongly about the
matter. "Now is the time to act, he con-
tinued. "Johnstown is being flooded
with money and we should attend to the
needs of sufferers at home. Something
should be done to relieve the distress Of
poor little children whose pulses throb
with fever and unnatural heat. When
one of them can be saved for 81 it is a sin
| not to help itn