The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-30
THE CHAIN LETTER SCHEME.
CHARITABLE LADIES' ENDE1Y0R
 AT SOUND REACH.

Endeavoring to Build Home For Destitute
 City Children-Trying the Chain Letter
 Method-It is Already Working Well.
 Stamford, Jan. 29.-Some of the ladies of Sound Beach are endeavorlng to build a home for destitute city children by the "chain letter" system, which, though not strictly new, will prove of interest to some readers, Two or three weeks ago several letters like the fol lowing were sent to friends of the ladies interested:
 "A number of ladies are trying to es- tablish a summer home for destitute children at Sound Beach, Conn, Will you assist them? If so, please make two copies of this letter. as we have done, changing the date, of course; put the next higher number at the top num- bering both alike), and sign your own name. Then address and send them to two of your friends. Send this letter, enclosing one or more two-cent stamps, to Mrs. Edwin Binney, Sound Beach,
  50 will please return it to Sound Beach without making copy. If you are not willing to aid this charity please re- turn this letter to Sound Beach so that we may know the chain is broken. If you will not help us, the undertaking will probably prove a failure. The pro- gress of this will be reported in the New York Herald.
 IN. B. Although this may seem a small matter to you anyone breaking the chain will involve a, serious loss to the undertaking
 From these few letters they are now receiving fifteen or twenty replies daily, all containing postage stamps or other contributions. If the undertaking is to be successful, of course many thousand letters will be sent to Sound Beach daily, and it will shortly be bet ter known than any other town in the state.
 There is in existence a similar scheme asking for three copies of a letter and ten cancelled stamps to secure hospital treatment for a young lady in Kanes- vile, Ill While this has been thorough ly investigated and proved to be a fraud it will probably initiate seriously against the success of the Sound Beach effort.
 The ladies propose, if the enterprise is successful, to take relays of poor chil- dren from the city and give them an outing during the summer. The home will probably be operated in connection with the free kindergarten committee of the Associate alumnae of the Normal college of New York, and the children will be taken from the densely crowded east side tenement districts. No better location for such an institution could be found than Sound Beach, as it is access sible by steamboat running between Stamford and New York, also by the New Haven railroad. Furthermore the place is attractive, healthy, and pos sessed of many natural advantages, such as beautiful scenery, good salt water bathing, etc,
 If the chain letters meet with fair success many liberal contributions have been promised, and 1t is greatly to be hoped that the letters will receive the attention which so woI thy and opsect warrants
 The ladies actively interested in this matter are Mrs, Edwin Binney, Mrs. Courtland P. Morris, and Miss Anna Marks, although many others have promised assistance if needed.
 This is a most worthy and deserving charity and probably there are few who are not willing to contribute eight cents and half hours time towards making 1t a success.