The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-04-26
THE MEMORIAL HOME.
A Statement from Brookville Man Con-
cerning the Home.

cerning the Home.
From the article ON the investiga-
tion ~ Of the management of the Home
last week In the STAR we quote "The
committee found IL perfectly satisfac-
tory and all that could be expected.
The Grit correspondent was snubbed
little for some Of the freedom he tried
to take at the Home, and to get even he
condemned the management Of the insti-
tuition"
This latter clause is evidently intend
ed for the local correspondent Of Grit,
and in reply we say most emphatically
that he was never snubbed at the Home
and never tried TO take any undue free
dom there. Fortunately for him, he
was not member Of the Relief Corps
or the Grand Army and therefore not
so likely 10 be snubbed there.) Moth
ing ever appeared in the columns Of
Grit written by its Brookville cores
pondent condcmning, or in any way re-
flecting on the Management Of the Home.
This, too, in the face " the fact that he
was, and IL, in possession Of information
OF specific acts Of cruelty 10 the children
of the Home committed during Matron
Carlins administration, many Of them
known 10 her and some Of them done by
her direction, that could not be tolcrat-
ed in any properly conducted institu-
tion, not even in penal institution.
much less in n charitable Home gotten
up by charitable ladies and, II under
their management and control las it
should be, and we sincerely hope soon
will bel would be sifted as wheat and
the perpetrators dismissed from their
employ instanter. Rumors Of these
cruelties had spread throughout many
parts OF the state and staff correspond
ent was sent by GrH to investigate and
write it up. He spent week in Brook
vile and interviewed many people.
The local correspondent gave him infor-
nation and introduced him in the com
munity. He visited the Home and
talked with the inmates: whether or
not he got snubbed we know not, but he
wrote to his paper condemning the man
agement, and that is the only article
that ever appeared in Grit condemna-
tory Of the Home. The committee
came here to investigate and three out
Of five Of the ladies were entertained at
the Home as the guests of the matron.
The correspondent was not asked to
furnish his proofs Of cruelty, but he
offered them 10 the committee and they
were not accepted. He laid the facts
and names Of witnesses before one mem
Der of the committee and that member
insisted on AN investigation, but was
overruled and he refused to sign the
report whitewashing the management.
The proofs are still accessible and can be
furnished to any properly constituted in
vestigating committee that will investi-
gate and not whitewash. Something
about how the people Of this community
look upon the action Of the committee
may be learned by reading an article on
it in the Jebersonion Democrat of April
Goth and some information Of how Wis
itors are treated may be had by reading
an article in the same paper Of this
week
These helpless orphans, wards of the
Womans Relief Corps, unprotected ex-
cept by the force Of sympathetic public
sentiment, many Of whose natural pro-
tectors sleep the long sleep beneath
government tombstones may not be
subjected to the cruelties that
have been charged against the
management Of the Home without
arousing the Indignation of this com
munity against those who, Dressed
with little brief authority" would lord
it over the helpless. BRooKvILLE.