Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-26

vas his, .and the fitness thereof Help |
anne in way least expected. The work |
# the society had been done so quietly, |
,nly the workers and benefciaries knew of |
{. The public mind, tense with the strain |
If four years of civil war, had hardly rec
,gnized the worth OF what was going on at
he Asylum Home on Elm street. As Miss
Foster used to tell 1t, she received q note
one evening signed by q committee of gem
tlemen, who volunteered to arrange q
60 the orphan asylum. The offer was at
once accepted and as a result over 1000
was paid over to our treasurer. This gave
encouragement and an impetus to the
work.
stYear by year the latch string hung
In reach Of children's fingers"
and the love that was almost q mothers
waited to welcome the orphan and desti-
tute. How interested she was in each
child! How patient with inherited traitsl
How anxious by kind care, healthful sur
roundings and Christian teaching, to make
up to the little ones the love they missed
in their orphsnags or to counterfeit the
evil tendency of previous environment!
How ready she was to enlarge the work of
the society, to receive the children of the
soldier who on the battlefield was fighting
for the old flag, or to make home for his
fatherless little ones! Our records show
the names of 108 'ssoldiers' children re-
ceived. How proud she was Of our grown
up boys who enlisted in the ranksi And
how gladly she welcomed the children who
had gone out from tho asylum to return
to friends or to service places in the coun-
try, when they came to visit at this home
and called on her as they always did. That
this work grew 80 well and in such
wise proportions was chiefly lit is
not too much to say due to
the financial foundation was strengthened
by legacies and seemed secure. Then weak
ened by i'll health and her life long lsbors,
she felt 1t best to resign the position she
had held for twenty-nine years, and 80 after
fo1ty-one years as secretary, manager and
president, she ceased her active connection
with the asylum. Though from that time
abe was unwilling to assume any responsi-
bi!ity, yet her plans, her methods, her
rules the result of years of experience, we
have stfiven to make ours, and only
as changes in the community have
made it necessary, have we departed
from them. We often say, Miss Foster
thought thus and so, such was her rule
and so We shall continue to do. Her name
will always be an honored one in the in
stitution and on it's records. AS we have
thus to-day recalled her connection with
the earlier years of 1.-THE New Haven
orphan asylum" we would in the name Of
its officers and manager express our af
fiction and high regard for her rs friend
and ss president of the institution an6
our appreciation of her work.
We would also express our sympathy
for the sister, brother and friends to whom
oh
SARAH e. CHAMPION, Secretary.
OFFICERS, MANAGERS, ETC ELECTED YES
TERDAY.
Executive committee President-Mrs
George W. Curtis.
Chief mansgers-Nrs. William Fitch
Mrs. N. D. Sperry.
Treasurer-Mrs. Frederick Ives.
Secretary-Mrs. Henry Champion.
Assistant secretary-Mrs. Lemuel S
Punderson.
Recording secretary-Miss Eliza K
| Twining.
Provider-Nrs. N. D. Sperry.
Visitor-Mrs. Charles T. Candee.
Additional members of executive CON
mittee-Mrs. Frank W. Benedict, Mrs.
Edward L. Clark, Mrs. J. P. @. Foster
Miss Ella B. Gilbert, Miss Sarah B. Harr
| son.
Honorary managers-Mrs. Henry {
Hotchkisa, Mrs. Nathan A. Baldwin, Mr.
Julius D. Bristol.
Managers-Mrs. Edward 1. Barrett, Mr.
Hobart B. Bigelow, Mrs. Lee d. Bradley
Miss Mary B. Bristol, Mrs. Alfred Dagget
Mrs. Cornelius G. Davies, Mrs. Wilbur F
Day, Mrs. Augustus J. Dubois
Mrs. George NJ. Duncan, Mrs. &c
win 81. English, Mrs. James G
English, Mrs. Richard ". Everit, Mr.
George 81. Ford, Mrs. Nathaniel Garfield
Miss Mary b. Hadley, Miss Elizabeth {
Hall. Mrs. Lynde Harrison, Mrs. Horae
P. Hoadley, Mrs. Albert 8. Holt, Mr.
Birdsey @. Lake, Mrs. G. Purdy Lindsey
Mrs. John W. Mansfield, Mrs. George
Marvin, Mrs. Edward G. Merwin, Mr.
Eugene s. Miller, Mrs. Willis I
Miller, Miss Josephine S. Newto,
Mrs; Arthur D. Osborne, Mrs. Henry T
Pardee, Mrs. Edwin L. Parmelee. Mr.
Charles Fl. Plat, Mrs. Eugene L Richard
Mis- Caroline E Richardson, Mrs. Geore
B. Rogers, Miss Mary E. Scranton, Mi
Priscilla E. Shears, Mrs. Rutherford Trov
bridge, Mrs. Thomas r. Trowbridg
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Ward, Mrs. Henry
Warner, Mrs. Pierce N. WEIGH, Miss Et
win s. Wheeler, Miss Charlotte Winche
ter, Mrs. Charles P. Wurts.
Trustees-Arthur D. Claiborne, N. I
Sperry, George W. Curtis, Henry W. Fa
nam, Thomas R. Trowbridge, Wilbur I
Day, Samuel E. Merwin, George a. Fort
Luzon B. Morris.