Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-03-13
The CLARITY Ball.
THE URGENT NEED OF HFTP FOR TIE
POOR.

POOR.
The charity ball to be given under TIT
auspices Of the City Mission, for the Poor
will take place on the first Wednesday
after Easter i'll the handsome new hall of thu
Crowle building, which has been kindly
i loaned by the lessees, the Staunton german
clnb, for the occasion. The music will bt
the best that can be gotten, and the supper
will be all that the season affords. The
good cause for which it is given does moi
need word Of commentator, but there
| are one Or two words that will be said il
emphasis Of it, whether OF not.
Our people, outside of those seeking tt
| relieve it, hardly have an idea OF the suffer
! ing there is here that urgently demands
alienation. The sufferers themselves make
no demand. Alas, they are too friendless
too feeble, too patient in their anguish tt
demand anything. The writer of this
Tuesday morning, in conversation Will
two of the active members of the City Mis-
sion, got a glimpse of what is going Oh
around us. And yet, they named only two
cases-two out of the many. The sufferers
were not tramps OF oilers, they were sim,
| ply honest, working people, environed by
misfortune.
Oneof the ladies had, the day before, visit
ed family in great distress. The husband
and father, an honest, upright, persevering
man, was very much afflicted. The wife
and mother with her six children-one OF
them only two days old-wasstricken down
with measles. Their room was utterly
bereft of any comfort and the sick mother
lay on a straw matrass covered only by a
thin comfort, and that all through the fear
full weather that had been prevailing. Since
writing the above. death has removed the
mother, leaving devoted husband and six
little children.
The other lady visitor had that day seen
a mother crazy from sickness and her in
FAINT and four small children, without the
barest necessities OF life. The husband and
the bread-winner had had to stop his work
to stay at home and watch over his wife.
His wages stopped when he was forced to
stop work and that cut off the food supply
Of the wife and the little ones. The City
Mission is doing all it can, but the slender
means it has been furnished, it has to leave
cases of suffering unhelped.
These are two tragic prologues to the
programme Of a ball, but we trust they will
serve to give emphasis to the Importance
of liberal patronage. It will be turning
an occasion of great enjoyment to the best
accOunt-that account which is kept else
where, in a city not made with hands,
The ladies who have projected the Chart
ity Ball have attended to every detail that
in nothing it may fail Of giving unalloyed
pleasure to the participants. The Com
mittees are as follows:
Committee of Arrangements-Mess w.
P. Tams, A. g. Gordon, W. W. McGuftin, Ed
ward Echols, W. 3. McChesney, Judson
Gushing, 7. j. Crowder, VIM. Patrick, A. G.
Braxton, G. K. Hoge, Walker McChesney,
Hampton Wayt, Kenneth Mccoy, Jas Ker,
Jr., and W. j. Perry.
Executive ommittee.-Mesdames j. r.
Taylor, w. P. Tams, Philip T. Allen, A. F.
Kinney, E. B. Lipscomb, j. T. Lightner, B.
+. Terry and w. IL. Olivier, and Misses Fan
ME Blackley, Margaret McChesney and Mag
gle Bayly.
Committee of eception.-Mesdames P H.
Trout, Geo. NJ. Harrison and NJ. E. Price.
Refreshment Committee. j. B.
Woodward, Jno. Blackley, S. H. Henkle, J.
A. Wise, Brown Allen, T. G. Morton, A. b.
Lara, B. Minor r. T. Leftwitch, II. W.
Henry and Miss Mattin (O1toD
Committee on Decoration. -Mesdames c. E.
Myrick, Cecil Ball, W. W. Gibbs, and Misses
Lizzie Gay and Carrie Terry.
Patronesses.- W. P. Tams, W.
e. Kinney, McH. Holiday, A. c. Gordon,
W. w. King, A. M. Howison, Frank Alexan-
der, N. Wayt, j. S. Boatwright, G. K.
Hoge E. M. Taylor, Geo. q. Jordan. II. D.
Peck, Mason Miller and H. II. Henkle.