Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-18
HOME FOR THE FRIENDLEss.

Result of Donation Day-The Inmates of the Home Made Happy by Numer. ous Gifts-The Urgent Need of More | Financial Aid. l Yesterday was donation day at the | Home for the Frendless, corner of Clinton .venue and Pine street, Fair Haven, and 8 arge number of people were present at the nome, and many more expressed their good feeling toward the institution by sending donations. There seems to be more than usual interest taken in the home by the public recently, a was attested fully by the large number present yesterday. Never before in tho history of the insti- tution had 50 many people visited the home on a donation day, nor have the donations before been as liberal. The cash donations amounted to about $676, in which isincluded legacy of $176. AS left by the late Miss Caroline Ives, and which was first announced yesterday. Others of those who donated money were as follows: Mrs. John B. Robertson and Mrs. Thomas R. Trowbridge, each $50; Mrs. Nathan A. Baldwin, Justus 8. Hotchkiss, Mrs. Frank lin Farrell and Mrs. Ezekiel H. Trowbridge, each $25; Mrs. Henry Farnam, $20; Mrs. F. w. Benedict, $12; and Miss Emily Betts, Mrs. Henry B. Harrison, Mrs. Henry w. Farnam, Mrs. William l.. Kingsley, Mrs Edwin Marble, Miss Hillhouse, Mrs. Henry N. Day, Mrs. F. B. Dexter and Mrs. Will liam Fitch, each $10. There was also ( large amount of dry goods and household articles contributed. Among the gifts thu dry goods were the most numerous, man. krih tad 1u kha chants of the city. IA fine collation. was served to the, in mates of the home, which they enjoyed much. In fact this is their gala season o the year when the gifts of money, foot and clothes pour in from the hands of gen l erous and charitable people, spreading 8
 much comfort and sunshine of happiness l in their path. The home now has forty
 three inmates, among whom there are tel
 children. Since the addition of the ol,
 ladies' wing four years ago the household
 has gradually kept growing until the ful l limit and even more than the full limit SC
 by the restricted state of the finances wa l reached. So the household has been pull
 posely let grow somewhat smaller than
 was at one time in order to live within thei
 income. A strong appeal is made by th
 board of managers to all charitabl
 disposed people that they consider tho1
 oughly the immense and unmistakabl
 good which such the institution does, an
 thus contribute iberally for it's suppor
 The management was very much please
 and grati6ed at the large number of peop
 who turned out yesterday, and deeme
 themselves especially fortunate that the , were favored with such fine weather fe
 the donation day.
 The home has now nearly finished twel
 ty-six years of it's existence, November 9 1866, being the date of its foundation friendless and the unfortunate. Since i
 foundation it has done work which cou hardly have been accomplished by aI
 other institution. Those who are take pay what they can afford to, some psyi1
 s per week for their board and some les
 while some are free inmates.
 The officers of the institution are now , follows: President, Mrs. William Hi house; vice presidents, Mrs. Charles
 Graves, Mrs. Justus s. Hotchkiss; tres 8 urer, Mrs. Timothy Cowles; secretary, Mi
 Cornelia Balford; trustee, MT. John Hollister. There is also an advisory col mittee consisting of five gentlemen as f'
 lows: Meesrs. John c. Hollister, Justus |, Barnes. The executive committee co
 sists of the officers with fourteen oth . ladies. The board of managers consists y committees of ladies ranging from one r four from thirty-two of the princiI , churches in the city.
 Thus at glance one can see that t
 home has behind it some of the most Ii b eral people in the city-people who 6 8 working and striving to do all in tn V power for the home and to makeit gra success.
 But 1t is work that can grow to 's most any extent, and so the home whi h now accommodates little more than fol q people will in time care for many more.