The Portland daily press., 1895-10-30
HOME FOR AGED WOMEN.
Annual Reports and Election of Officers
Yesterday.

Yesterday.
Tho annual meeting of the subscribers
of the Home for Aged Women was held
| yesterday.
This forty-frst annual report OF the
management was presented by Miss ID >.
McCobb, the secretary:
| In presenting to the subscribers and
| friends the usual annual report, the
managers are glad to call attention to the
| improved condition of the house. which
is now particularly fresh and clean from
garrett to cellar, with paint, plaster and
woodwork in perfect order. The necessary
expense incurred has, of course, in
trenched upon the general fund, but this
seemed lesser evil than to neglect SO
| important matter, for instance, as
defective drainage. And after the process
of renovation had once begun, ourtall-
ment was useless, for, as every house.
keeper knows only too well, repairs, ike
misfortunes, "never come singly
With regard to resources the managers
can state that the losses through the iaos
financial depression are comparatively
slight. and far more than compensated
by legacies received But the latter, even
| including the generous bequest OF the
late Ira P Harrington, most unexpected
boon, will not yet make it possible for
the interest from the carefully invested
| fund to be sufficient for current expenses.
The cost of running, over and above the
income is 81, 129. Al.
| They also say with an audacity for
which the past indulgence of friends
gives them courage, that if the income OF
few, very few, thousands could be
placed in their hands, it would be
possible for them to bring relief, outside
the limits of the Home, to certain worthy
lonely poverty stricken women, made in
eligible to their institution by illness or
foreign birth, to whom their fellow
citizens are indebted for faithful service
and whom some one must support
The household is still in charge of the
same wise, kind matron as in years past.
Many applicants are waiting for adj
mission. It is needless to say that every
room is occupied. Three of the inmates
have gone to better region Of repose, y
and their places have been filed by others
as eager to enter as they were them
selves. 1t is not easy to forget the
anxiety for admission of one, the first who
died during the year. She was gentle,
quiet woman, and had saved the $3.50 re-
CURED as an entrance fee, from her
scanty wages of 81 per week. Her coming
to the home was delayed, and her silent
sadness as she heard. week after week,
that there was no place for her, was as
pathetic as her contentment at last, in
the clean, comfortable room that was
given to her. Her age, as well as that of
another of the three, was eighty seven.
The third was comparatively young but
much broken by trouble, and her life was
still disturbed even when she was
watched over and carefully sheltered.
The pleasures which come to the Home
are keenly enjoyed, though largely con-
fined to its own walls. Several times
during the year society of young people
have given acceptable entertainments to
their elderly friends, in which music and
elecution played conspicuous part. One
bright day, however, stands out during
the last summer. when, at the cottage of
one of the managers at Little Diamond
island an afternoon tea was given to the
family with transportation to and from
the island. The sail, the pretty out of
door fete, and the cordial hospitality of
the hostess will always be remembered by
her guests. This festiavl, though promi-
nent in the years records, is still but one
of Thousand gifts and kindnesses from
good friends For every service by which
the inmates have been invigorated in
body and mind, the board here tenders
its hearty thanks
The treasurer, Miss Cornelia M. Dow,
reports as follows:
RECEIPTS.
Balance October 30, 1884, IS. 924 81
Annual subscriptions. 419 80
Interest of general fund, 2, $685. rs
Interest of Joseph Noble memorial
fund, 1922 so
Requests and donatioss, 1894 81