The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-12-21


pulpit. The Y. P. S. c. e. holds a
meeting in the church at half past six.
AT the same hour the Juniors have a
meeting in one of the cottages.
THE TEACHERS.
Mr.. W. w. Mayo is principal of the
school. He is also the manager of the
Homes. Mr.. Mayo was born in North
Haven, Me-, in 1856. He prepared for
college at the Coburn Classical Institute,
Waterville, and graduated from Colby
University in 1879. He was principal of
Hebron Academy from 1881 to 1885. and
then went to Colorado, where he spent
considerable time in teaching. He began
his work at Goodwill Farm in 1894. The
best welfare of the boys is his constant
study.
The assistant principal is Geo. P.
Cowan. He was born in Bangor, Me-,
Nov. 90. 1872 He was educated in the
public schools of that city, and after tax
ing special course CT two years in the
Bangor High school, he entered the State
College at Oreno, from which he gradu-
ated in June, 1894. Alter graduating he
taught mathematics and surveying at
tbs State College one term, and in De-
oember, 1894, entered upon the service at
Goodwill Farm, He has charge of mill
tary drill. He is an earnest Christian,
and his love for philanthropio work eX-
plains this service at the Farm. Mr..
Cowan worked his way through the last
two years Of his college course.
Miss Emma Griswold. the second as
sistant, was born in East CRANKY, Conn.,
and educated in the schools of New
Britain and the State Normal School.
PROPOSED COTTAGES FOR GIRLS.
Butslet us turn our faces north again.
Up along the banks of the Kennebec, pas
sing two farms, we come to the SPOT that
the good people of our city have taken
such an interest in for the past year.
Here are two farms of about 200 acres on
which series of cottages, similar to
those for the boys, are to be built. The
first money given to buy this land was
given by sWatson Kilcup and Howard
Leavitt on the 10th day Of November,
1894, only one year ago. This may ap-
pear at first thought to be a
trif1ing affair, but imagine a boy Of
ten summers standing at sink and
washing the dishes for a family OF if
teen persons. three times day tor thir-
teen days, handling each dish with the
greatest care, for he knows that two full
weeks of such work without breaking a
dish win bring a reward of five CENTS
The last day, crash goes dish, and the
much looked for five cents goes with it,.
Choking back his feelings he tries it
again. Two weeks more of hard work.
and success is his. Putting his nickel in
ehis pocket, he starts off to find the Su-
pervisor, and ask him to use it to help
destitute little girls as he had been
helped. Such was the happy beginning
of a fund that amounts today to $1,000, OF
which the boys at the boys homes have
contributed n cents, and little sister
of one of these boys has collected Sc of
this fund. Among the gifts from Port
land we note S10S. 05 from the First Bap-
tist church, followed by a generous
amount from the Volunteer Good Will
Club of the Congress ST. Methodist
church. and Mr.. S. A. Skillings of our
city adds his name to the list with $50.
On July 1st Mrs. J. II. Plummer. of
South Berwick, gave $1,000. Last month
a man gave $1,000 to purchase 100 acres
of this land; another has pledged $4,000
to build cottage for Is girls, and $1,000
with which to furnish and equip it, as
soon as the remainder of the land is
paid for. Already there is about $500 for
that purchase, and if the good people of
our grand old State took the interest in
this enterprise in behalf of destitute girls
that the boys do who have been protected
by this institution, the building of that
cottage need not be postponed for single
week for the want of that purchase.
Grabowki is the suggestive name of the
man who made the most money on the
Russian turf this year. He has the hes
racing stable III the country. and cleared
$50. 600