Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-17
ST. FRANCIS, ORPHAN ASYLUM.
About $4,5OO in Cash Contributed and $2,OOO Worth of Merchandise A Very Successful Collection
 Despite the Weather.

About $4,5OO in Cash Contributed
 and $2,OOO Worth of Merchandise
 A Very Successful Collection
 Despite the Weather.
 In spite of the indictment weather yes terdsy the central donation committee for the St. Francis Orphan asylum got out and canvassed the city in behalf of the helpless children at the asylum. They did their work very thoroughly, their col lection equalling last years. St. Patrick's parish committee postponed the CANVASS ing of that parish until to day. Several branches of the different parish commit tees are to be heard from yet. With these returns it is expected to make 8 splendid showing.
 The central committee gathered about &, 1900 in cash and about $2,000 worth of merchandise. From 3 o'clock in the after noon until evening the wagons were fol- lowing one another to the asylum. At the asylum program of exercises had been prepared by the sisters, in which the children took part. It was as follows:
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 TWO Little Birds Are Chorus Concert Recitation. ... CCoiumbus first voyage9 Ode to Columpus. ......................C .Chorus l ''N1iracle of Arrows. Poem ''HaH ColumDla ................. .Closlng ChoruS Dinner had been prepared and after the
 exercises the committee were seated as fast 1 as they arrived at very choice repast. | The merchandise was stacked in the gym nasium, while the cash was turned over to President Alexander Emery and Seer etary l Hugh I. Finnegan in the reception room. Among the principal doners and donations were c. T. Driscoll $25, James Reynolds $25, Professor S. E. Baldwin $1OO, l.. Os-
 terweis $15, postofice employees, $36, F. P.
 Paeghar s25. Bristol, Stoddard & l Bristol $50, H. B. Harrison $15, A. H. 1 Robertson $15, G. T. White $1O, fifty suits | of clothes from c. E. Longley & Co.,. lib | eral orders for merchandise from E. M. l Brown & Co. and Wm. Neely & Co.,, as | we'll as several others too numerous to | mention. It is expected that with the do | nation from St. Patrick's parish, which is very generous, and the others not yet | heard from, the cash donations will be n l the neighborhood of $4, 500.
 The sisters expressed very hearty thanks to the committee, who in turn wish to ex-
 press theirs to the public for the generous l donations.
 l The asylum at present is in a very good l condition. The number of children there
 is 274. Of these 174 are boys and 100 girls. They range in age from two years
 to thirteen, there being few of the latter
 age. There is not one sick child in the
 institution, fact which speaks for itself. l The affairs at the hospital are in a very
 encouraging condition. With the dona tions and the income all the running ex-
 penses are met and a little of the floating
 debt can be paid each year.
 l Altogether the returns were very satis.
 factory and the committee worked with
 unhagging zeal despite the weather. l Five of the members of St. Mary's par
 ish, namely Edward Keaveney, Thomas
 Myers, William Whslen, Patrick McDer-
 mott and Ambrose Dsly, collected about | $450 in the neighborhood os Elm, Temple
 and Church streets, Hillhouse avenue and
 Prospect street. Among the principal , donors were:
 l Dominican fathers $1O, Edward Heaton
 s10O, Mrs. Hugh Bruton $5, cash s1o, Mrs.
 Henry Farnam $5, Professor Fsrnam $5,
 Mrs. G. B. Farnam $5, Henry N. Blake, $5; Mrs. B. H. Trowbridge, ST.
 $5; MT. E. H. Trowbridge, jr., $2. Mrs. E.
 E. H. Trowbridge, jr., $2; Edmund Trow-
 bridge, s1; Harry Trowbridge $l; Dorothy
 Trowbridge, s1.