Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-03

send some children to the asylum. But
nothing Of the kind has occurred. The in
stitution has at all times been willing to ac-
cept children, and 30 notified the board. But
not one ward Of the children's guardians
has been sent to 1t. So the 40 per cent de-
Quoted was total loss from the small ap-
preparation. Under the amendment offered
1t Is now proposed to wipe out the " per
cent, and place the entire amount, aggre-
eating at the expense of several institu-
lions fund of $4,000 in ALL as an appro-
priation for the board Of children's guar
dams, to be doled out as they please; and.
as far as we are concerned, we have no as
surance that We will meet with any better
encouragement than we did during the past
that to be RENTED" to the board of chill
drens guardians would mean the denial Of
any recompense whatever for the public
service we render.
dren's guardians 1t appears that they had
about one hundred orphans. outside Of those
now in Institutions The proposition pre-
scented Is to take away the appropriation
from all the Juvenile charitable institutions
that are now represented by about one thou
sand children and give 1t to board with
only one hundred and the work of that
board confined entirely to the adoption of
such children as may be sent to them by
the Police or Criminal courts.
OF the amount of money expended by the
board Of children's guardians. only s.. 500 Of
the So. 200. the 40 per cent deducted from
| institutions. and nine-tenths of that went
to two establishments. This shows conclu-
sively that the intentions Of the committee
who originally made the deduction of 40 per
cent have from some cause, not been car
ried out. We would therefore protest against
the adoption of the amendment as offered,
and respectfully ask that St. Joseph's Asy-
lum be given the same amount-namely.
$2,OOO-as appropriated in 1891. This is
surely scant compensation for the constant
care of 125 orphan children of the District
of Columbia. Our present appropriation
amounts to less than cents per child. 1t
Is the lowest per capita allowance In the
city. To deprive us Of 1t would be extrav-
| agant policy. lessening the capacity Of the
institution to do public good, chiefly accom-
plished through private charity.
House of the Good Shepperd.
| Rev. Jas. F. Macxin, pastor of st. Pauls
Roman Catholic Church, takes up the cause
of the House of the Good Shepherds and
writes that this institution has done
its work quietly in our midst for eleven
years, and has known no distinction of
| class or creed, but has always opened its
| doors to the unfortunate, whether brought
! by parents. sent by the courts or officers OF
| the law, or voluntarily applying 1t has on
its board clergymen OF different denomina-
| tons, and within it's walls unfortunate girls
and women of every age and condition. 1t
| before court of law or a paternal board OF
guardians to make public their sorrows
| 1t receives them quietly and shelters and
| educates them to habits of industry and
morality until they are fitted to begin life
| over again. For this 1t has asked and re-
ceived only pittance of from five to ten
| cents a day for each inmate, whose sup
| pert under the board OF guardians or in an
| Institution conducted wholly at public ex-
| pei Sc. costs from three to five times that
| amount.
Forty per cent of this slender allowance
| was taken from them last year for the
board of guardians whose only return was
| one child already rejected by three other
| homes Now they stretch out their hands
| for the whole appropriation. under the pre-
| text of reforming a class which will never
| be brought to their doors, and which they
could not by any means control. A large
| portion of the inmates of the House of the
| Good Shepherd are over sixteen years OF
| age and therefore not within their juris-
dlction, and no homes are opened to chill.
| dren of this class until they have given evil
| dence of reformation.
I'VE challenge Investigation by any law.
fully appointed commission. We court com.
parison with any kindred institution, public
or private, as to our methods the results OF
200 years experience of the Order of the
Good Shepherd in the care and reformation
of erring women"