Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-11-26


Grant, Job II. jackson, Thomas McCorkle,
Elizabeth W. Mendinhall, William du Pont,
|. Trimble Quigley, Joseph Swift, William
II. Swift, III. r. Scott, s. r. Smith, Esq,
Miss Emily p. Bissell, Clement b. Smyth,
the Hon. L. Il. Wales, Alfred D. Warner,
William N: Candy, Eugene du Pont,
the Rev. W. L. McEwan, Miss Shipley,
Sarah p. Bancroft, William X. Crosby,
George S. Capelle, L. H. Gayley,
Il. IL. Cause, Charles S. Rowland, Anna
Henderson, Washington Jones. II. q.
Jones, the Hon. Charles b. Lore, Thomas
jackson, w. G. Mendinhall, Jessie Men
dinhall, Eleanor Mendinhall, Willard Pyle,
Frank Pyle, L. L. Rice, ST., John I. Quig-
ley, William Q. Spruance, Esq, Charles
Warner, A. G.. McCausland, Charles w.
Pusey, Fred Pyle, Holstein Harvey, Miss
NJ. Latimer, Miss Il. 7. Latimer. Miss
Wales, strawberry festival, T. Andrews,
Mr. Beadenkopf, Edward Bringhurst, Mrs.
Charles Bird, Mrs. William Bush, Mrs.
Anna @. Bellah, Miss Anna Candy. the
Misses Dixon, Miss Hilles, George q. Lob.
dell, Jr., u. $. Person; 5. E. Sharp, Mrs.
N L; spruanene,, Henry B; Thompson, \.
bradford, Lindley G. Kent Washington
Hastings, ]. 7. Mullin g. Son, z. Wesley
Weldin, the Kings Daughters, Mr.. Milne,
Mrs. Sarah Thompson, Miss Alexander,
Mr.. Jones, r. j. Warner, Joseph Pyle and
cash. He also announced as special con-
tributors f. l.. Gilpin, who insured the
building, and Il. l.. Rice. Jr., who de-
signed the building free.
Mr.. Baird of Trinity choir sang "Once
More We Meet" Mrs Henry Grant fur
nishing piano accompaniment. The
music was generously applauded.
The dedicatory address was delivered
by Mr.. McEwan, who said.
This beautiful building and all its con-
venient appointments and comfortable
furniture are the means and not the end
of our labors. Though il you could know
for how long q time these things have been
the contamination of our plans. the far-oH
realization of our ideas, the burden of our
prayers, You would understand the feeling
of pride and joy which fills us tonight.
And yet the pride is swallowed up in hope.
For surely IL so much has been accom-
plished, the greater work will follow.
Deeply impressed with the fact that the
boys of this neighborhood needed such an
institution and would be benefited by it, in
February of 1889 some OF us rented the
little one-roomed building on Scott street,
near the railroad station and opened it for
the use of the boys. 1t WAS a poor place
and a small place, and we knew very little
about what ought to be done. But the
boys came, and all winter long it was
crowded. The furniture consisted of a
smoking lamp, an obstinate stove, some
| crippled tables and lame chairs which
were obtained ut the junk shops. We had
also piano, purchased on the nstalment
| plan. 1t became evident that larger quar-
| tiers would increase our usefulness. 40
cordingly, i'll November of 1890 we rented
the butcher shop at the crossing of the
railroad with Scott street. Into this larger
home the boys moved our poor furniture
and we began anew. With our own
muscles we fitted up the place, ard it
| should be said in justice to the boys That
they never shirked any work, but were
always willing to do everything that would
make the building pleasanter. Then we
Ind gymnasium, filled with much home
made apparatus. Here was organized our
temperance school and our drawing class,
our music class and our penny savings
bank. We had our ups and downs, our
| successes and our failures; but when we
know that in 2i0 nights we had had 4.4S5
boys we realized that there was need of
such an institution in Wilmington. Feel
ing always hampered by our poor quar-
tiers, inadequate, announcement, subject to
storms and floods we determined to at
tempt to put the organization on surer
foundation and give it increased facilities
for usefulness. Accordingly we have au-
pealed TO the generous people of Whining,
ton to help us On last Thanksgiving Day
the first spade full of earth was removed
for the foundation. And tonight we have
come to dedicate this building so admir-.
ably suited to all our work. II has been q
long, hard, sometimes discouraging yeai
of work. But at length it is accomplished
Do you wonder that we feel like pausinp
for time as if this were the end Of oul
labors2 Surely we should pause long
enough to raise our Ebenezer memorial
and acknowledge hitherto, hath the Lore
But in reality all of this is but the be
ginning of Our work-the means to the
end We are striving for. What is that
endP On the tablet placed in the outei
wall, where all who pass may read, W,
have inscribed our motto Zone is youi
master, even Christ, and all ye ar,
brethren" Our work shall be by every
possible means to learn and live up TO thi.
great motto ourselves, and to use thi,
place to teach the citizens Of this section Of
the city to know and believe and practic,
it in letter and in spirit To this end W,
have our various classes and works-ou
temperance work, our savings bank, on
music and drawing classes, our dress-mak
ing and sewing sehools-our kindergarten
the first free kindergarten school in thi.
city, which will be opened the first Mon
day in December. II is not to be u sec
tartan work; i belongs to no denomina
ton; il shall be conducted so as not to dis
criminate between boys and men ant
girls because of their politics or religious
connections. We want it to uplift I'm,
ennoble and make better and more Christ
like men and women--to make good citi
zens, good people in every department o
life. IL is very common in these days [,
talk of the Fatherhood If God We wan
to teach the reality of this greatest trutl
that men can learn and help men an,
women to know that they are the children
of the true and living God and help then
TO honor and love and obey Him.
II Is common to talk Of the brOtherhooi
of men. We love to think that never mel
thought nobly or lived heroicaly but the
were our brethren. | love to think that
am in the line of these men: that we ar
kindred TO those who have wrought to max
: the world better-to those who have eN
! emplified the coming manhood But it
just rs important and much harder to lear
that the unfortunate and the ignorant an
the outcast are also our brethren We ar
in Gods universe, not foreigners tu IN
! nor strangers to any. They who have ar
! debtors to those who have not. They wh
!, are learned have debt to those who ar
1 unlearned; they who are rich have q del
z to the poor; those who are in the ligl
i owe that light to those who are in tn
E darkness
4 The work Is great and far-reaching, an
+ nothing that will help men and women
5 foreign 70 it. If we can brighten an
Z home, ease any burden, bring any con
: fort teach any man how to better himse
r or any woman how to cook for her HUI
0 band or sew for her children, it belongs /
c our work. If We can teach any to loy
tod aud serve Him, IL is our mission b
Y you not see then that the work is but b
I gun, that this building is but the means
. the accomplishment II these things "
: Shall carryan the work we have begun. W
shall undertake new work as fast as we ca
G find workers and means for prosecuting /