St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-09
A TOWN OF WAITS.
The Great Charity Left by Self
Made Scotchman.

| New York Morning Journal.
| There is a city whose gates are open
! to the friendless. 1t is the National Or
phan Home of Scotland.
But one qualification IS needed for
citizenship. "Destitution is the title
for admissions" nothing more is asked
|. from orphan boys and girls or from
children of poor widows. They may
come from any part of the country.
They need no recommendation.
Any orphan between the ages of one
and fourteen is admitted, and, where
as, twenty-five years ago the waif and
stray had only the shelter of the work
house to look for, today they are well
coined to home.
The Children's City, with it's forty
six distinct homes, it's broad avenues,
gardens and Fairgrounds, white steep
| les and, above all. its splendid record
of ovr 10000 children who have been
clothed fed and educated and put in
the way of making an honorable living
there, owes it's existence to one man
alone.
Mr.. Quarter was the son Of a widow,
and many years ago wandered in the
streets of Glasgow, cold and hungry.
At sixteen he supported his own fam
lily by shoemaking. Before many
years he was owner of three of the
largest boot-making shops in Glas-
gcw Then he said: 5'tWhen I have
saved $4,000 I will start the orphan
homes" But not till 1876 were enough
funds Forthcoming to buy land. Then
small farm of forty acres was
bought at the Bridge of Weir, and
very soon afterward the foundation
stone of the first home laid.
1t is not an hour by train from Glas-
gov, and most of the travellers on the
Glasgow & Southwestern railway line
must have caught sight of the Ma
tional Orphan Home.
Entering the PRINCIPAL eaIes you pass
the house in which Mr.. and Mrs. Quar-
rier live, and then a wide avenue
leads to the central building, in which
are the schools, and where the teach
ers also live.
Further On is the church, a hand
some Gothic building, with a clock
tower 120 feet in height. The cottages
on either side are neatly and substan-
TALLY built, also in the Gothic style,
and each of them has playground and
small garden.
At the end of the principal avenue.
and overlooking the large open field
for football and cricket, stands the
'ship on land the James Arthur.
which in itself forms one of the
homes, and is under the charge of a re-
tired sea captain and his wife. This
ship, a fullrigged brig of 120 feet in
length, is firmly bolted down on bed
of concrete instead of floating, as
formerly, over blue or stormy waters,
and here about thirty embryo sailors,
who have chosen to be trained for
seafaring life, have found home.
The boys sleep in the foc'sle, and the
large main cabin aft is made into
their sitting and dining room, there
being also two chart rooms. In this
ship the boys receive a thorough nau-
teal education; and, besides learning
navigation, are taught to mend their
own clothes, to make rope mats, and
mats darned with wool, to paint, and
so forth.
The cottage homes are wonderful
Each home is complete in itself.
Lessons come first in the morning,
followed by work in the shops; then
comes dinner at u, an hour of play, and
school again, till 4; after that the boys,
sailors and all, meet in the play
ground and have grand games of
cricket hockey or football. The girls,
too, have croquet, and their swings, as
we'll, as little gardens. Tea comes later
on, and at s o'clock the chimes ring
out 'All is well'' over a city stepped in
Slumber.
When they are old enough to leave,
many of them stick to the trades they
have been taught there. Some of the
girls enter domestic service, but thou
SEEDS of them-both boys and girls
emigrate.