The record-union., 1895-04-11

Officers to serve one year-Mrs. n. D.
Rideout, President; Mrs. t. A. Snider,
Vice-President; Mrs. D. A. Lindley,
Treasurer; Mrs. r. c. Irvine, Secretary.
ANNUAL REPORT.
The annual report was read, as follows:
Twenty y-eightb annual report of the
Sacramento Protestant Orphan Asylum
Association: Twelve months have
passed rapidly by since your Secretary
had the pleasure of presenting to the as
sociation its twenty-seventh annual re-
port. Much hard work has been faith
fully performed in this time by the Board
of Managers, who are obliged frequently
to postpone private engagements of busi-
ness or pleasure to devote time to asy-
lun duties, and the interest in the
work grows instead of diminishing as
time passes. We have been much en-
couraged in our work by the generous
interest manifested by the members of
our association and the public in general,
as instanced by the prompt and cheerful
payment of subscriptions, liberal dona-
tions of money, as we'll as the other good
things of life, kindness shown IN proVid-
ing pleasure for our little charges, etc.
Our kindergarten, which forms so great
a part of the lives OF our wee ones, the
formation of which and its maintenance
until very recently we owe to the kind
garten Association, has been merged into
the public school system, and will here
after be under the charge of the Sacra-
mento Board Of Education, thus assuring
US of its continued usefulness, and now
the beginning of that for which we have
| ardently longed and OF which we have
thoroughly realized the great necessity,
technical school, has been made pos
sible to us through the generosity CT our
President, Mrs. n. ID. Rideout, in the for
nation of a sewing-school for girls, the
entire expense OF which, including the
employing of special teacher, she has
voluntarily promised to meet for term
of six months. To our great delight,
for we have as yet asked for and
anticipated no outside aid, there icame
donation of Sl42 90 from the United
kindergarten Association to assist
US in carrying on and enlarging the USE
| fulness OF the same. We have great
hopes that this small beginning may
! prove the starting point for something on
| a much greater scale, and that in the near
| future we may be able 10 send our boys
| and girls out into the world, when we
| are no longer able to provide for them in
/ the Home" armed with a trade by
which they may be self-supporting and
| independent, able to mold a future for
| themselves filed with honor and USE
fulness and rejecting a credit on the insti-
| tuition which sheltered their youthful
| days. 1t is unsatisfactory to care for our
! young charges during their tender years,
! 10 cultivate them mentally, morally ana
! physically with assiduous care, and then
| to send them out unprovided with any
weapons with which TO battle their way
| to success. 1t is discouraging to feel that
| the greater NUN Der of our girls must be-
| come second-rate domestics, getting such
| training as they may, in families who are
willing to provide home In return for
! services rendered, and who in many in
stances require the work of a woman
from a half-grown girl and yet feel that
they are doing an act OF charity in pro-
! vidlng, too often, meager accommodations
| and scanty clothing; and that our boys
! must become farm hands or day laborers
! for lack OF opportunity to ut themselves
! for something better. Let US cherish the
! hope that in our next annual report we
| may be able to announce giant strides in
! the work now beginning in our kinder
1 garten scbool-room, where our little girls
are sitting with thread, needle and thim-
BILE, taking their stitches with greatest
| interest and care and announcing occa-
sioually to an enthusiastic and appre-
| ciative teacher that their sewing looks
| lust like a machine"
Nothing OF Improvement has been at
/ tempted during the last year, and we are
/ still, as at the time of the last annual
meeting, in need of good fence around
| the greater part OF our grounds and the
repairing and repainting of that which is
| yet in tolerably good order. In the near
/ future we expect to have two blocks of
streets to macadamiZe and about two
! blocks or more of sidewalk TO lay, which
will be heavy drain on our slender re-
sources. However, sufficient unto the
| day is the evil thereof" and remem ber-
! ing how the clouds have shown their
silver lining" in the past, we are en-
] l.xlf
| sity presents to meet these outlays the
| means will be provided.
No change has been made in our Ad-
/ visory Board, which is still composed of
! the following named gentlemen: Messrs.
| Joseph Steffens, n. ID. Rideout, T.. NJ.
| Lindley, K. &. Irvine G. II. Cummings,
| A. a. Van Voorhies and A. G. TUFTS.
During the year thirty-six homeless
| children have found shelter at our hands.
! This, with the number already in the
institution, los, makes a total of 1914 cared
| for during some part OF the year. OF
| this number twenty have been removed
| by relatives, seven placed in good homes,
two sent TO Whittier State School and
| one to the Home for Feeble Minded
! Death has claimed none, and we have to
| record the almost unprecedented fact that
of the whole number OF children sheltered
| in our institution for the past four years
not one death has occurred. The health
/ of the children Is remarkably good, there
| having been almost no illness during the
| past year. A slight epidemic of whooping-
! cough, consisting OF some twenty cases,
| ali except one being OF SO mild type as
scarcely to justify lis name, has pre-
! vailed recently. With the one exception
| hitherto referred to all have entirely re-
covered, and this one is convalescing as
rapidly AS could be expected.
| The school situated on the asylum
grounds is maintained by the city. The
/ staff of teachers has recently been aug
mented by the addition of Miss Annie
| Johnson. Mrs. Bassett and Miss Louise
/ Smith still remain with US. The number
| OF pupils in Mrs. Bassetts class is: Girls
1 ll,,- TO nArnl Il. 4.