The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-03
THE $500 PRIZE winner.
Bethany Home Of Rhode Island, It's
Organization and Aims.
INCORPORATED JUST A YEAR AGO,
The Intentions OF the Home-Mrs. W.
Nellie Brown, Ono of the Vice fres'-
dents Thanks the News aud the Many
Friends of the Home for Their Efforts

The Bethany Home of Rhode Island
the winner OF the $500 offered py tne
News, was Incorporated in April, lsss'
and was modelled directly after the
Bethany Home in B )ston, which Is sup
ported by the Universalist churches.
The object OF the home Is stated In the
constitution, when the home Is set torth
as .'for the benefit of respectable indl-
gent women. who through general dis@
hil,tv or inability TO work are unable to
nroyide for themselves" IL is neither
hospital nor an infrmary.
Mrs M Nellie Brown, who had Deen
instrumental i'm establishing the home IN
Boston, was the first To conceive the luea
in Providence and was at first told that
there was no need OF the nome In t.a hnoue
Island, IL was not like MASSACHUSETTS
Others, however. took mold, aud now the
home is in a position TO negotiate Tor an
estate which it hopes soon
To secure
and to build thereon suitable building.
Gen. Olney Arnold was the first president,
and Gov. Brown is now president, Ruth
Haskell. Charles T. CARPENTER, Mrs. NJ.
Nellie Brown and Rev. Edward holyoke
vice presidents, Alfred Stone treasurer
and Mrs. Celia Il. PAUL secretary.
The methods OF raising money Tor The
support OF the Home are three In mum
ber, namely, Life memberships slOo each,
annual subscriptions of s. each, and by
circles of Bethany sisters in the din r.
ept Prote- tant churches. The circles
consist of ten persons in each, each per-
son collecting cents month from niue
others, which with ) cents month Tor
herself or himself Will amount TO 600
Year for each circle. The interest alone
of the fund secured by the first two
methods is used, while the "circle
money is taken for the Home.
There are at present seven life mem
bers, forty annual subscribers and fifty
circles OF Bethany sisters. The bsssfsars
held in Infantry hall last December for
the home netted 81. 764.2s. 1t will be seen
that there Is
Plenty of Room
for effort, and the plan is to establish a
circle of the Bethany Sisters in every
Protestant church In the state.
Mrs. Brown, when seen by News re-
porter this morning. said that on the
second day of the appearance OF the cou-
pom in the News she thought that she
would enter Bethany Home, although
she had little expectation that IT would
come out at the top OF the list. Sb'
pons as a starter, and everybody thai
She saw whom she knew TO b'
likely TO be interested in charitable work,
was asked to collect coupons. She said
she had alwayssbeen interested in the
News since the beginning 'of its career
and had liked its bright pages. She had
been instrumental in getting many OF
her friends TO subscribe for the paper
and nearly all of these had said they
had done so rs they had not known what
a clean paper 1t was till il was called tC
their notice by her.
Mrs. Brown wished to thank all the
friends OF the home who had worked 81
faithfully for its success in the prize con
test and also to thank the News for tn,
fair treatment they had always received.
One eff -ct of the contest, she SAID, aud
one for which the News is responsible, Il
that the objects of the Bethany Home ar,
more widely and better known than tn ey
would have been by almost any Other
means.