Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-02
HAS A NEW HOME
The Emerson Refuge Has Been
Removed 10
SITE ON JEFFERSON AVENUE
The Society Has Taken Formal Posses
sion Of the New Quarters-MT.
Loomls' Financial Scheme.

For some years the Emerson home
noblest work winch human beings
could engage in-the saving of fallen
women. The society which supported
tie home has passed through many
dark places and at times 1t has seemed
As # the work must be gwen mp, when
some kind person would come forward
with donation that would lift tue
struggling institution to us feet again.
When the society was fret organized 1t
was thought best TO establish the home
IN the very hot bed of vice, Waterloo
street, aud there build up q pleasant
home for such g.rls AS wished TO re-
form. The plan has proved unsatis-
factory. Ii mas been found that II per-
manent good is TO be accomplished
these fallen ones must be removed far
away from the scenes of their former
misdeeds and to some more quiet
neighborhood. The house used for the
home was rented from George Young,
through whose reformation the society
was established. Some members of
the society have opposed q change
from the house, deeming that 1t was
due to Miss Young that her house
should be rented for the purpose.
The Society Reorganized.
A short time ago the society was re-
organized with new officers and new
board of directors. The women who
have heretofore directed the destiny of
the home decided that few men
might prove beneficial to the society,
provided they were in the minority
where they could properly be kept IN
subsection. Consequently when the
new organization was made, Messrs. e..
NJ. Looms. o. Udell and c. w. Ravan
found places on the board of directors.
The name was somewhat changed and
the society is now known as the Emer-
som Industrial Home association.
In casting about for new quarters the
directors found two houses at the
corner of La Belle avenue and Jetfer-
son avenue, about two minutes walk
from either the DIVISION street car line
or the Lafayette car line. The houses
and about one acre of ground are here
secured for a nominal rent. One of
the houses the association will rent for
about 81 or IS per month. The other
house is ample for the purposes of the
home. The fine large yard about the
house will be devoted to flowers and
shrubbery, making the place very at
tractive to those that will reside there.
The neighborhood Is all that could be
desired and the surroundings are of the
best that such an institution could pos
sibly possess. The furniture has been
removed from the old home to the new
and the matron 10 in charge ready for
business in the new place. The first
meeting of the directors, to be held in
the new place, Will take place next
Tuesday, at 2 O'Clock.
Mr.. Lsomis' Plan.
Mr.. LOOMS of the board of directors
has hit upon a financial policy for the
maintenance of the home, which has
been submitted to the business men of
the city and has been heartily end orsed.
The plan is this: The society has es-
tablished what Is to be known as the
permanent guarantee fund. The soci-
ETY. issues stock amounting to $1,000,
divided into shares of $40 each. Those
| that take the stock pay 10 per cent
down and afterward to pay 10 per cent
assessment whenever it is necessary to
raise funds: In this way the gifts to
the home will not be burdensome to
anyone. The society of course will in
the future as in the past run the home
on the most economical plan possible,
80 that those who take stock need have
no fear of the moneys being wasted.
The womensof the board are now cell
| ing the stock and are meeting with
| great success. When person buys q
share of stock nicely printed certiti-
cate is given making him life men,
I her of the association