The morning call., 1894-12-03
Noble Ladies Who Never
Grow Tired.
RESCUE OF YOUNG GIRLS.
Movement to Extend the Work
of Saving Them.
MEETING CALLED FOR TONIGHT
There VIII Be Protestant Home for
the Rescue and Betterment oil
Fallen Women.

TIE Girls Rescue Home, now located at
% Hill street, is to De enlarged, and the
work of saving the unfortunate will be
given a wider scope. The women's
branch of the Christian Union Mission
has the work in hand, and it is now their
purpose TO fight the social evil more
earnestly than ever before.
Mrs. II. n. Cole. president of the Girls
Rescue Home Association, and Mrs. Frank
j. French. Yice-presdent, are energeiir
workers in the ole cause; so. also, are
all the other ladies who have identified
themselves with this work. About 2CO
ladies and gentlemen, including most ~
the Protestant clergymen in this city, will
meet in the parlOrs of Mrs. French's resi-
dence, 1917 jackson street, this evening at
O'Clock. The object of the meeting is 20
discuss ways and means for enlarging
and extending the work, and to secure
recognition, public and official, for the in
stitution of a Protestant Rescue Home, to
be placed on the same footing as the Mag
dalen Asylum, with the exception that
the Protestant institution will ask for no
financial aid from the city and county.
The work of the Rescue Home has been
going on for two years, and during that
time over 100 young girls, ranging in ages
| the pathways of vice and lives of shame
and led into the paths Of virtue and re-
| Spectability.
i Mrs. French, in an interview on the
| subject yesterday, said:
| ut is our purpose TO extend the work of
saving fallen girls so as 10 meet and COM
| bat the constant encroachments Of vice in
| this city, and for thai reason we have
| called meeting of prominent men and
women and Protestant clergymen. We
| shall not solicit financial aid in the meet
| ing tomorrow night. We are not in debt
| one dollar, and so far as money matters
| are concerned we have no fears but that
| we can secure all that is needed TO carry
on the work. We have not invited mill
| onaires to come simply because they are
miliionaires, but because they are men
whom we know to be charita bly, inclined
| and interested in the welfare OF the home
| less, the friendless and the misguided
young women whose lives are before
! them, either for virtue and happiness or
! vice and misery.
as the leading Protestant home for fallen
! girls. We want the same official standing
as the Magdalen Asylum has at the pres
ent time. We want TO receive girls
| Protestant girls-from the police courts,
with the same authority to detain as is
held by the Magdalen. The latter instltu-
| ton gets SIS month from the city and
| county for each girl sent there. Besides,
| the girls are forced to work at tailoring
| and other industries when bring a profit
to the Institute We shall ask for no
| money from the public treasury. We will
have regular system Of moral and indus
| trial training. The illiterats will be
| taught to read and write the ignorant will
| be enlightened; the girls placed in our
care will be taught industrial ways for
making living. and good homes will be
| provided for them when they are ready to
! leave. 1t will be an Institution conducted
| in such way that the poor fallen girls
| shall not look upon it with feelings of hor-
rOr ana dread.
I'VE want to bring these matters d.
rectly 10 the attention OF the best people in
! this city," Mrs. French went on, land
when this is done l feel sure they will give
! US their assistance in every way that they
can. There are many girls who are fallen
yet sinless. They range in ages from Is
years up to 20 or 81. 1t IS the younger
ones that particularly need our aid. L
know of young girl, not over IS years,
| who was forced by her wicked mother to
marry man out In the country. She was
| nothing but child who loved to sit on
the floor aud play with her doll Think OF
| the horror of il! Well, of course she was
treated most brutally by the man who
took her for his wife. Nothing else could
| be expected from a man who would ac-
| cept such an innocent offering on the altar
| of his lust. The poor young thing was
! her at the home. She was in deplorable
condition when she came there. but now
she is a good, noble. industrious and rel-
| giOus girl and earns an honest living.
| There are many yorng girls of that age
| who have been forced to sin but who are
| themselves sinless. They knew not what
| they did and were unable to resist the
| power of wickedness.
at is particularly for such cases as
these that we are solicitous. The rotten
ness OF immortality in this city is some
| thing terrible to contemplate Few peo-
| pie outside of the Police Department ard
| the reportorlal stats of the newspapers
| know or realize the enormlty of the vices
| that are carried oD. The private citizen in
| his comfortable home knows very little
| about il, and therefore he cares not. But
| if the true state of affairs were placed be-
| fore him he would blush at his inhuman-
! itv born of Ignorance, and would reprOach
| himself for his past Indifference"
| 1t is the desire of the good ladies who
! conduct this movement to secure larger
| and more commodiOus quarters as soon as
| possible and, while they are not now So
| Letting financial aid, they would gladly
| accept any gift that would help the project
! along in a substantial manner. Mrs,
| French suggests that If any millonair or
| wealthy landowner feels inclined TO do
| nate a house and lot, or a large lot alone,
| to a worthy cause, he should come for
| ward and make bis wishes known to that
| effect. The ladies want home to which
! is attached a recreation ground. 50 that
the inmates may enjoy a small share of
fresh air and the bright sunlight of
heaven.