Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11
FOR THE WEE ONES
The Coming Fair for the Chill
dren'S Home.
The COMMITTEES SELECTED
To Preside Over the Booths-Ths Funds
WIN Be Used 70 Remove the Present
Home Building.

TIE society whose aim is the provid-
ing OF home ana securing for desu-
tute children place where they can
be- housed and educated has been the
recipient OF property valued al $1,000.
The citizens Of Grand Rapids have
guaranteed sum nearly sufficient 10
maintain the proposed home for term
of five years, but the necessary I'M
proyementS 10 make this property
adequate 10 the rapidly increasing
demands require a total expenditure
of about $1,000. Sidney OsgoOd, the
architect, has contributed ms services
in drawing plans and specifications,
the contract Is let 10 reliable builders,
and the work of eXcava.Ing has begun.
There Is at present IA the house winch
Is occupied only temporarily about
thirty children, with prospect OF over
100 more before the year 1892 closes.
To the end that these necessary I'M
provements may be made aud the
home put IN condition for immediate
and permanent occupancy before the
rlgors of winter set IN, IL Is proposed
by the society IN charge to give grand
and attractive entertainment, TO be
known as the Festival of the Seasons"
1t will comprise a number of mani
moth pavlllons representing spring,
summer, autumn and winter, together
with elaborate refreshment payIlIons,
all of which Will be rare artistic pro-
auctions of workmanship and skill.
These and other features of TINS festl-
val will be presided over by the fair
and .wlnsOme women OF the Valley
City, arrayed in charming costumes
apropos TO the several seasons which
they will represent.
In Charge OF the Booths.
Already the appointments have been
made and the women that will preside
over the different booths have been
selected. They are AS follows:
Spring = Misses Emma and Helen
Long, Cora Hinsdill, Elite Calkins, Nc
BRIDE, Matte Pierce, Lillian White
sey, Lilly, Ethel Quimby, Donna
Moore, Gertrude Gay. Fannie McCrath,
| Maggied Strahan, Grace CRANKY, God
win, Stanley, Lew.
Summer-Mesdames ID. c. Scribner
j. Brewster Hubs, William III. Fowler,
| w. S. McCav, r. ID. Forbush, Fred X.
Tinkham, James Campbell, Cassius II.
| Sweet, Maurice NJ. Houseman, S. c.
Morley, Misses Camilla Preusser, Ella
McQuewan, Estelle Champlin, Jane
| Freeman, Lena Remington, Mollie
Mabon.
| Autumn-Mesdames Lewis II. Whitney
| w. A. Tateum, William Alden Smith
j. c. Herkner, stephen A. Sears. w. j.
Stuart, O.. e. PIERCE, III. Z. Thompson,
A. G. Hodenpyl, Sidney F. Stevens. E.
G. Studley, q. X. Mayhem, T. w. Stra-
han, c. n. Colwell, A. J. Davidson, IL.
| Il. Adds.
Wlnter-Mesdames p. 4. l.. PIERCE,
NJ. K. Blssell, NJ. V. Aldrich, r. w.
Morris, Frank Gilbert, Cordelia Par
ker, T. S. White, Henry Grinnell. Jo-
seph Penney, Robert Collins. Charles
Shepard. E. q. Gregory, Edwin Cole,
G.. c. Fitch, S. G.. Ball, S. 4. Wooster,
j. c. Wenham, X. B. Heyman.
Executive Committee.
| The executive committee has been
appointed as follows: Mesdames II.
n. Moore, p. X. l.. PIERCE, NJ. r. Bis
sell, William A. Tateum, j. w. Rosen-
thai, William Alden Smith, NJ. j.
Smiley, Lewis II. Whitney, c. S. Morley.
| The festival will begin on November
Is and last three afternoons and even
lngs. 1t Is hoped that publlc-spIrlted
citizens will contribute generously of
their time, energies and money to
make IT success, for If ever an object
| of charity was worthy of a rousing
benefit it is this home for little folks
who have been taken from destitute
homes, from the streets, or worse, from
abusive parents, and brought to new
and happy life under motherly care
and instruction.
AS it is well known that many of our
generous women from all parts of the
city have heretofore contributed OF
their services and time toward many OF
our long to-be-remembered charitable
entertainments, It Is with hearts full OF
good will and enthusiasm for the vel
fare of humanity that the management
of the Children's homo ask the per
sonal efforts and cooperation in thu:
good work of the entire community.