The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-21
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AFRIHND T0LIT7LE ONES
For Thirty Years the Chill
dren'S Home Has Labored,
With Good Results.
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AN EARNEST APPEAL FOR FUNDS.
A Visit to the Home-The Board
of Trustees-social Items
of Interest.

N At the far end OF Glenwood avenue.
= 3here mosquitoes cease from troubling
There is "real country air" lands the
5|3 sdren's Home, the oldest institution of
kind in the city. Nearly thirty wears
two little motherless children were
d one night in the streets driven
home by a drunken father. The
: little castaways had crept into q
on aud were fast asleep. clasped in
others arms Every man and of
Sc every woman who heard of the
Fy-and it was pretty thoroughly pub
{ied-decided that there must be a
ce which would receive such cases,
the result was that a meeting was
d in the parsonage of 'Old Trinity
E. Church, at which the late James
W $ppsill took n prominent part. The fol-
KEATS wing year the property on tue corner Or
avonia avenue aud Erie street was
H4ought by The Association, now incorpo-
rated under the laws of New Jersey as
begun with eight children. four girls and
four boys. Ten years later the present
site of tue ChildrsEas Home was purchased
and the new building erected. Since then
the number of children in the Home has
reached Its high water mark of seventy
nine at one time, aud maintains an aver
age Of between nifty and sixty.
FUNDS NEEDED
Now fifty children can not live on air
and thrive on it.. And if any hea of a
family will consider how much it costs to
keep his young hopefuls in bread and
butter, to say nothing of shoes ana stock
| ings. he will understand that it takes
~.n - I-..~ t1fa - fnRnrfCnF IN hV7 N it.n
4 OF der and the children clothed and fed.
/ Every year the Home sends out an appeal
TO the public, who generally respond, hut
&ot late years at least. with not enough
lands to meet current expenses. The
tHume has no support from State or nun
&lcipal sources. 1t has no reserve fund on
%wh. Oh to di aw-the proceeds of its annual
appeal and the amount raised by its
LADY Managers are the only available
means of support. Last year the Home
fell into debt, and that is y bad fall for
4 such an instisution-not that it is its fault
at all, but that of the public WIG did not
4 meet the appeal. Now the Board would
Nike "a, 500 to meet the years expenses
nd 81, 900 10 pay the debt, a total of
b. 500. Mr.. George w. ConkIin, Treas
{ufer, stands ready to receive and trans
init any part of this mount which nay
he sent to him, at the First National
4 Bauk.
a VISIT III THE HUME
The best way to convince anyone OF the
usefulness of the home is to take her
! through the building some, day.. The
first thing that you will notice as you
enter the grounds is the amount of room
there is, aud the general impression of
fresh air aud plenty of view. The next
thing you will see will be a perfect vii
lage of Lighthouses. all shapes and sizes,
SO thai you wonder whether the Home is
Indulging in n private Kennel show.
These, the matron will explain. are the
chiIdren's p~lay-houses. They make them
themselves, put their treasures inside,
and play theresbaH the time. when they.
are not in school or feeding chickens or
playing tag. They built the chicken
house, Toe, and whitewashed the ton
around II, aud raise the bird house in the
C -utre, aud hum eggs every day. Matron
Winchester bought the hens, aud the
children think it Was a fine invest
ment. Mrs. Winchester is always
doing some such thing for the chill
dren-thaG is one reason why they
love her 80. She says, They never
Will be children but once. SO do let them
have chiidren's ways and the things
children ike" and the consequences il,
they rave just about everything that u
child on n farm could have, right In the
heat of r city. Perhaps this il one rea-
son why the health record is so good, for
in the twenty-eight years of the Homes
existence, there have been only foul
deaths. This summer there has been
only one occupant OF the infrmary, a wee
little girl who was very i'll with the
pleurisy. but is coming around all right
again. Mrs. Sarah B. Winchester has
been in charge OF the work for nearly
twenty years, hundreds OF children have
been under her care, and she looks as
bright and rosy as ii she hadn't caused
SO many little ones to rise up aud call her
blessed. You should see the rows of
little white cots, which the children
make up themselves, even the little boys,
and the nursery. where there are ever SO
many little chairs and toys, and the
school room, where Miss Maria Carnes,
] who has taught there for twenty-seven
&Kears, still continues to train the children
Aading, 'riting and 'rithmetic.n and
companion studies. If you have
go through the kitchen, where the
les are cooked that will feed this
tude, and by all means 90 out on
aygrouud aud pay four respects to
liidren, also the chickens.
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
ERE shonld be twenty-one gentlemen
Board of Trustees. but several va
5es have been caused by death or
. nation, and the list now includes
deut john A, Walker and Messrs.
+. Perkins, John H. Carnes,
W. Conklin, E.. S. Cowles, E. f.
"a, C. C. Stimets, Francis j jenkins,
Miller, Henry Niese. j. r. Turner,
30rner. Daniel Toffey, G. d.
w. Kingsland and WASH
Domestic Control. COM
owing ladies, all of whom
ri zed as well known in So
henry Niese, Mrs. G w.
Harry Mcbride, Mrs.ZK.
H sident, Mrs Benz. Hing
sic Allison, Mrs. Washing
6. f. Perkins. AIRS. George
ugust Creveling, Mrs. S.
RS. Nathan Condict, Mrs.
5key. Mrs. James Flemming
f. Brown,
)bGAL HAPPENINGS.