Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-26
CAREOF THE0RPHA
THE MALE ASYLUM DOING A GOOD
WORK UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
The President Urges the People 20 Greater
LiberaIity--fine singine--Addrsss
by Rev. DR.. Tudor.


First Presbyterian church Sunday after
noon at a:SO o'clock.
The house was filed with the friends of
this institution. which appeals so strongly
70 the liberal and charitable impulses Of
our people. and the exercises we're quite
interesting.
The singing by quartette composed OF
Messrs. Cunningham, Mathews, Galpin,
and Lehman, was very fine. Captain
Cunningham also sang a solo. and Mrs.
GilPs boys and the orphan girls enter
tanned the audience with sweet songs.
DOING GOOD WORK.
Dr.sW. w. Parker, President Of the So
! ciety, read the annual report of the Board
OF Managers, which commences by
| saying:
BY the report Of the Superintendent I
find at our last annual meeting there were
In this asylum 50 boys: received during the
year, 9-.whole number cared for. 81. Re
turned TO friends. 4; sent to homes. 3;
served ont their time, 2-eaying in the
| asylum to-day So.
In 1861, the first year of the war. we bad
30 boys in the asylum; at the close Of the
war only IS. Many went into the army and
some were killed. In 1869 we had 10 boys
mourning O debt of 81 600: but this was
soon paid off. A few years afterwards the
board passed solemn resolution that
| under the then existing circumstances we
should not exceed so. 1--WE afterwards added
3. making the limit 3d. for the reason our
income did not justify it.
THE PEOPLE TO BLAME.
Several times in the last six or eight years
have expressed my decided dissatisfac-
ton with our progression non-progress
| rather. At the last meeting (held this
| monthly brought this subject again be-
| fore the Board of Directors and inquired
who was responsible for this state of
things. 1t was answered truthfully that
we had made appeal after appeal On these
annual occasions for help. We had APP
pointed yearly a collector to seek subscrip-
tons of s. month, and some members of
| the board had themselves gone on the street
and asked for aid. All these agencies and
efforts put together had not resulted IN
the raising of more than five or six hun
dred dollars annually. These are the facts
and they seem almost to surpass belief.
As see no Just cause to complain of
the board, / must throw the blame and
responsibility of this stdndsttH policy on the
citizens. / cannot see where else TO place
| it,"
The Doctor, continuing, says II Is not
pleasant to find fault, but that without this
the world would be far beyond its present
position. Too much complacency with
ones self and surroundings, he adds, is not
wise.
RICHMOND AND CHARLESTON.
Further on the report says: Let Us
ourselves" which the Bible says is not
wise, but see what other cities are
doing. Take Charleston. much smaller
CITY,, for example. The report Of the
Charleston Protestant Asylum for 1890
l have examined. The population of
Charleston, S. c., by the last census was
46, 200. of Richmond $4,000. Highest num-
Der in the Charleston Asylum during the
year-BOys, 13l girls, 1l6-total 247. Ave
rage attendan ce-Boys, 1872; gnls, 108-to-
tai. 23O Admitted-Boys, %; girls, 21-to-
tai. 43 Here is certainly astartling contrast
Qeaving out the girls)-53 in our asylum
TO 1871 bows IN the Charleston Home.
To support these S22555 was expended,
half of this amount was from interest on
| investments and the other half $50. 93l)
was from the City Council. Our expenses
last year were $1,000 and only $3.50 or il
was from our city treasury.
The President comments at some length
on this contrast, commends the people OF
4 our southern sister city for their hberallty
urges our own people to broader beveyo-
lence, and declares that God is the or
phan's father and will repay for the hard
earned thousands expended in the care
of his children.
MANY TURNED AWAY.
"Ono of the most trying things IN
my situation as president" DR.. Parker
concludes, us the necessity of re.
fusing applicants for admission: We
| BOYS knocking at the doors of the
asylum. Some get tired and are sent to the
country to grow up in ignorance and with
out trade. Others go to the dogs here
while waiting TO get into our safe and com
Portable home. am glad to say the asvlun
is growing in favor with the Door. Many
say to me, : If die put my children into
the asylum l have known these to be the
very lee words uttered by the dying
mother. 18th an addition of IS, 900, or per.
haps Of s.. }. annually we could comforta-
bly, main,a 100 boys. We have room fol
100. The expense per capita is reduced
with increased numbers. In the Charles
ton homo it is $Sl annually. Our tobacco
factory is yielding no revenue now, and
committee is considering the proprlety OF
introducing some other industry. 1t IS
hard TO compete with manufacturers Who
have men in the field pushing their goods.
We can't afford drummer. We are glad
to say we have made about $4,000 by the
factory, all of which was expended IN our
new four-story building.
THE health of the boys was never better,
il hardly ever so good. DR.. Moseley con-
tinues to give his services 0rdtuaousIy &c
the boys.
For the efficiency of the management
of the asylum we gladly invite an inspec-
ton of the premises and criticisms OF ITS
cleanliness and the good behavior of the
bows at homo and abroad. BY the gene
rosity of Major Myers they have been offer
ed a free trip to Washington city, where
any boy with high aspirations MAY hdU
me opportuniiy of selecting his seat In Con
gress. We expect to make this trip early
next month"
Address by DIR. Tudor.
Rev. DR.. Tudor. OF Broad-Street church
delivered the annual grafton. lie com
menced by saying he would endeavor t'
address both the boys and the grown PEG
ple: that this world and not the next wa
The place where we should be able TO dc
rood to the sorrowing ones thatln HEAVIER
there was no need of sympathy for suffer
ing. Calling pretty little boy from Mrs
Gill's side, he placed him upon theplattorn
and reminded his hearers how the Lore
Jesus took little child and set him II
the midst" and said " If any, man oteno
one of these little ones that peiieye IN IN, ih'
he shall perish miserably"; that the littl'
child is the pattern of the true Christian
nc. He called attention to the neatnes
and sweetness of this pretty boy, ana sai'
but for the efforts of this asylum this la'
might have been now in some hlthy allie
of the city in rags and stepped IN vice ant
sin.
THE RICH SHOULD GIVE.
In addressing the older people NOR
especially he referred to the great Law
of Love" of the New Kingdom, unknown
10 the Greeks and Romans-a "voluntar.
Communism" not Of force but OF love
He stated that he owed his collegiate edu
cation TO tho liberality of a Christian gen
tiemaa in Baltimore, who did not stop a
the old Jewish law OF "tithes;m but CAV
"half of all he possessed" The Docto
urced with great force, earnestness, an;
nathos the great and sacred duty OF rel
men 10 regard themselves as Gods stew
ards. and that there were some indlca
,;ons in certain quarters that rich mel
were getting to understand this question
and were opening their purses. ms 40
, dress we understand, will be published
We have no space for fuller notice.
The old Board of Managers, was re
elected. and after collation. the large an
nat;ent audiences was dismissed with tn
benedictIon. The orphan girls from tn,
Humane Association and st. Pauls Churcl
Home looked very sweet and fresh IN thel
snrino suits. DR.. Tudor very feeiingI