The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-14
PLANS OF HOME MANAGERS.
win Make the Building uabitHble as
Soon Us Possible.


The board of managers of the Home
of the Friendless met yesterday morn
| ing in the Young Women's Christian
Association rooms where fourteen chill
dren and four old ladies of the twenty
eight children and eight older inmates
| of the home are Quartered pending re-
pairs to the home which was rendered
uninhabitable by fire Saturday after
| noon. After brief discussion the
board adjourned to the home on Adams
avenue to determine the exact damage
caused by the fire preparatory to re-
furnishing as soon as is completed the
work of carpenters and plasterers.
Carpenters We're put at work early
yesterday morning. 1t Is expected
that the plasterers will finish the last
of the week, and as soon thereafter as
the walls are dry and the interior is In
a sanitary condition the inmates now
at the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation rooms and with neighbOrs will
| be returned to the home.
The fire occurred on the twenty
fourth anniversary of the homes active
work. The annual meeting will be held
Saturday in the Young Women's Chris
tian Association rooms.
Tonight at 7.30 o'clock, q meeting of
prominent and representative business
men will be held in the Board of Trade
rooms to take steps for raising the
| $4,000 needed to complete the new
Home, for which the foundations had
| already been laid in the vicinity of the
Oral school. The meeting Is called ear
ly to enable those who wish to attend
| the reception to the superior court
judges. i'm the ElkS' club rooms The
| names of nearly two-score gentlemen
| have been suggested who could. it is
| thought. give $1,000 apiece to the new
building fund, without missing it. A
| determined effort will be made to raise
the whole fund in this way. thus. if
| successful, leaving to the community at
| large the pleasant duty of providing
by liberal attendance at the Kirmess
and at the Symphony orchestra bene-
fit concert. as well as by subscription
| to The Tribune list. for immediate needs
| and current expenses.
feature of the recent fire which has
afforded much qualification to the man
ayers of the Home has been the prompt
proffers of assistance from other ben
| eVOlent local institutions. Especial
qualification Is felt at the prompt offer
of st. Patrick's orphan Asylum. the
Home of the Good Shepherd and the
| Founding Asylum, to take in the
Homes inmates until the Home itself
had been prepared for their resumed
occupancy. That these generous offers
were not accented was due to no lack
of appreciation on the part of the man
ayers, but was due to the fact that pro-
vision for the inmates had already been
made.
| The management acknowledges with
thanks the prompt generosity Of the
Scranton Bedding company In prOffer-
ing pillows; of Landlord White of the
| Wyoming in proffering cots. and of
Connolly & Wallace in proffering blank
cts and bed clothing as soon as they
had learned that Saturdays fire had
rendered the Homes inmates shelter
| less.
a subscription of s., elsewhere ac-
knowledged, was received at The Trib-
une business office yesterday for the
benefit of the Home. Others will be
welcome.