Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-19
ACCOMPLISHING GOOD.
The Beneflcent Inst1tutlon Estab-
lished Through the Philanthropy OF
Late KfnsfAd nIillionaIrA.

Che Benef1cent Institution Estab-
lished Through the Philanthropy of
a Late Winsted Millionaire.
The Winsted Citizen gives the following
account of what the Gilbert home, estab-
Lished by the generosity and philanthropy |
of the late W. L. Gilbert of Winsted, the |
millionaire clock maker, is accomplishing,
it being now in successful operation:
The Gilbert home has now sixty-fve
children within its hospitable doors and
under the charge Of Mr.. and Mrs. Case.
We paid visit there last evening, just at
the supper hour, and were shown few OF
the improvements which have been made
recently, and were given an idea by Mr..
Case of what these improvements are to be
when the work is finished. They are of
minor character, yet they are all important,
inasmuch as they are for the sanitary bet
terment of the institution and for the cor
responding convenience, comfort and
healthfulness of the orphans which in
habit the Gilbert home.
Ono marked sanitary Improvement is
that of substituting the new system of
ventilation in the water closets and bath
rooms, and the placing in these rooms of
modern appliances for the old fashioned
apparatus which has been in the home
since 1t was built.
This ventilation process, if it may be 30
| called, consists in running great pipes
from the ground floor straight through to
the roofs of the building, and by this
means the sewer gas and poisonous vapors
are to be carried away. The plumbers are
| still at work on these improvements, but
the great pipes are up and they show what
| the work will be when all is completed.
The wash room and bath room improve
ments will also be greatly in advance of
the present arrangements when they are
completed, and are an evidence of the
superiEtendent's care and of the trustees
desire to do all possible for the health
of the little ones consigned to the institu-
| ton.
New wardrobes have been placed in a
number of the rooms, and marble sta
tionary washstand with bowl and pipe at
tachments have been placed in Superin-
tendent Cases room.
We were at the home just on the supper
hour, when the children, sixty five of them,
were all in one large room and waiting fol
the welcome tones of the supper bell. As
Mrs. Case walked into the hall and sounded
tho bell its ding-dong notes were greeted
with lusty cheers, which at least gave evi
dence that lonesomeness was q known guam
tity in the yearning sikty-ive little stom
achs which we're waiting for the even
ing meal. They all soon, in single file
marched through the hall and into thu
dining-room, most of them being little tot
between 2a and years of age, and as they
filed up to their chairs and each stood b.
his or her plate, with, in most instances
the top of the head barely reaching tn
top of the table, they looked comica
enough. Then at sign they Justify SAM
the doxology, sang like birds, with al
their hearts and souls, and stomachs too
in thanks, we suppose, for their supper.
At any rate they got their supper a
} soon as the song ended, and then we cam
!, away.
Is there moral-well, If you think SC
you are at liberty to draw it, gentle reader
The children enjoyed their song and thei
supper, and we-well, we were glad tina
Winsted has an institution which is
"Home" for so many little destitute waits
J who otherwise might and would be cast
Always upon the rocky roads of poverty, O
! starving foundlings abused and neglecte
in many instances, in novels where ligh
! and air and warmth and care are unknown