Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-03
TIE ORPHANS.
THE NEW BUILDING COMPLETED
AND PAID FOR.
An Excellent Record for the Lady
Manasers-Reception to the
Public Yesterday-Etc.

lnent ladies and gentlemen visited the
building and were shown through the diff
ferent apartments by the Directors.
Inc structure is built on the north half
OF the block bounded by Eighteenth and
Nineteenth, K and L streets, adjoining the
old building. 1t fronts on K street, and is
about ninety feet from the sidewalk. The
main entrance is on K street, and fine
garden is to be made on either side of the
walk leading TO the building. The edifice
was built under the personal supervision
OF the lady Directors: The main part is
forty feet square, with two wings, one on
the east side and one on the west side
each eighty feet in length. This makes
the total length of the building 200 feet
and IN all parts it is three stories high. II
presents handsome appearance, and is an
ornament to Sacramento City, and a strrct
ure OF which the Managers may Justly feel
proud.
WHAT THE LADIES HAVE ACCOMPLISHED
While the reception was going on yester-
day afternoon reporter called and through
the kindness of Mrs. Edward Twitchell,
one OF the many pleasant lady Directors of
the institution, was shown through every
part OF the new addition, and everything
.. L
We ladies are wholly satisfied with our
undertaking, and have things arranged lust
as we wished for. We feel as if we have
expended our money cautiously. and can
show good returns for it; and another
thlng-we have not gone in debit
Mrs. n. D. Rideout, President of the
Board OF Management, stated to the re-
porter that as there had been great many
falsehoods concerning the use of the funds,
she desired to give the public, through the
RECORD UNION, a detailed account as to
how the money had been expended. Her
statement was as follows, and is an excel.
lent showing:
There was in the building fund before
the work commenced $19,444 Is. Out of
this fund S10.223 GO had been collected
during the past three years from time to
time by the lady Managers. During the
measle epidemic, little over year ago,
S7,664 was subscribed from all over the
State, and particularly in Sacramento.
The new building just completed cost SIS
800, the corridor and the changing of fences
amounted to $500, and $252 30 was ex-
pended for filling III the yard with EARTH
The balance on hand in the building fund
at the present time is $2,135.
So" said Mrs. Rideout, "you see ex-
actly how we stand"
INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING.
The reporter was then shown around the
building, and the unanimous opinion of
every visitor present was that the place was
one of the most comfortable, best arranged
and most thoroughly ventilated of any
they had ever seen.
The lower floor in the main part of the
building THAT is, the part forty feet square)
is one large assembly-room. A small ele-
waited stage is situated at one end and here
the children hold their exercises and enter
tainments. The basement of the west
wing is used as storehouse, and supply
of coal is also kept here. In the east wing
on the first floor is the laundry and drying
room with all appliances and conveniences.
On the second or middle floor, in the
main or middle part are the offices and
parlors of the management comprising
several good-siZed rooms. They are partly
furnished already, but additional furniture
and carpets will be supplied in a short
time. In the east wing on the middle
floor are two dormitories, each containing
nine double beds, and the two rooms are
separate from each other by short hall
on either side of which are shelves for
clothing, etc, overhung by long dividing
curtains. These rooms are used as Sleep
ing apartments for some of the girls, The
west wing on the same floor is precisely the
same as the other wing but is used as the
boys bedrooms.
On the upper floor in the main building
are the matron's rooms and those occupied
by the older girls of the institution. A
bathroom for their use adjoins one of the
rooms. The east wing on the upper floor is
to be used as the sick ward and any of the
children ailing will be attended to BY COM
petent nurses in this part of the building.
The west wing Oh this floor is used as addi-
tional bedrooms for the boys; in tact, both
the middle and upper floors in the west
wing are set aside as dormitories for the
lads.
At the extreme ends of both the east and
the west wings on the middle and upper
floors are closets, wash-stands and bath
rooms, all OF the latest patterns.
An arcade or corridor leads from the
middle floor of the new to the same story
in the old building. Wide stairways lead
from one floor to another in the new
building.
The old structure contains on the second
and third floors different rooms for the lit
tie tots and babies, and there are some
where in the neighborhood of forty little
cribs in which the little ones nestle to
sleep, under the eyer-watchful eyes of the
matron and her assistants. Other rooms
in the upper floors of the old building
are used as Fairgrounds for the children,
storerooms for everyday clothes and Sleep
ing apartments for the nurses and attend
ants. On the lower floor are other rooms
in which the little ones can frolic, and in
the east end is the kitchen and dining
room, all as clean as a pin. a small
house, separate from the rest of the build
ing, was formerly used as kitchen, but il
has been removed.
The kindergarten and schools remains as
heretofore.
In general. the whole affair has been SO
nicely and lastly arranged that every pos
sible convenience is afforded. Dumb
walters, speaking tubes and other little
necessities are at hand.
Mrs. Twitchell stated that the next effort
of the management would be to secure sin
gle beds in place of the double ones, but
there was no great hurry about the matter
The building just meets the demands and
could not have been planned better to ac-
commodate the children, some 145 in num-
Der, the sexes about evenly divided, the
boys being slightly in the majority.
Yesterdays ENTERTAINMENT
In the afternoon yesterday, commencing
at O'Clock, an entertainment was given in
the assembly-room and a number of the
little ones participated and showed them
selves TO be very bright, though slightly
backward. The following programme was
rendered during the afternoon and in the
evening, and those who were present
were delighted:
Song by the school, Father, help Thy
Children" recitation, Welcome" Hattie
Elliott; song, "Pansies." by Mollie Glenn
vocal duet, Jimmy HOLSTER and Jesse
White; recitation, Myself" Porter Solo,
mon; song, "Forge.- Marinda
Glenn: recitation, God Made ALL" George
White; vocal duet, Little Cowslip." Nellie
Tye and Mary Mohns; vocal duet, Blue
bird, Mollie and Marinds Glenn; song by
the school, Just Like This" recitation,
Deeds of Kindness Dora Elliott; recita-
ton, Little Maiden's Song TO her Dol, y
Mary Patterson; vocal solo, Suppose"
Agnes Mohns; song by the school. Ham
mer Song" song by class, Little Walters"
song, Bird of the Wildwood, by Mary
Mohns, chorus by school; Marching
Song by the school.
Sheldon Baldwin acted as accompanist
during the entertainment, and Z. A.
Spencer OBLIGATED as musical director, and
the whole affair passed off in most pleas