The herald., 1896-07-16
An Earnest Appeal by the Chill
dren's Home Society
COME OVER AND HELP US!
A Practical, Successful and Economic cal
Institutions Cry
Il 10 Endeavorlng to Build q Home for
the Temporary Care Of Children.
List Of Donors

Life in great city has it's many phases
"Come over and help u.s." yet to the
sympathetic heart no appealtso comes
home as the condition, pitiable in the
extreme, of little homeless. destitute
children, helplessly tossed up from the
muddy social undercurrent, the prey to
many forms Of viciousness apd gSeed
In almost every instance this form of
suffering Is purely vicarious. In many
cases it is caused by worthlessness of
character immortality and dissipation in
the parents, leading to heartless deser-
ton; in others. to the inability, through
sickness or misfortune, to care for them;
and in still other cases, death of one or
both parents breaks up the home and
leaves the little waif to find friends
wherever it can.
Breathing as they do the deadly
miasma of physical and moral disease
and death, those who grow up are
oftener than not dwarfed in morals. yet
precocious in knowledge of the evils
which surround them, thus going to
swell the stream setting steadily toward
our prisons and moral pest houses.
They know nothing of home and love.
Niciousness, bred oftentimes of poverty
renders their habitation filthy and con-
taminating. Left to themselves, through
the absence voluntary or enforced by
labor, of their protectors, they early
crawl out upon playground restricted
to foul-si .elling alley or by-street,
finding companionship among the out
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their first utterances are laden with
oaths and obscenity and their first les
sons are lessons in crime. The boy
grows up into a vagrant, tramp or
sneakthief, and the girl, even of tender
years. becomes an outcast and street.
walker-a source of deadly danger to
every child who crosses her path
From their ranks our prisons, poor
houses, asylums and reformatory insti-
tutions are largely populated, while the
moral contagion of their presence be-
comes grave menace to the most
guarded households. Could their little
ones be gathered out of their evil sur
roundings and placed among favorable
environments, many of them would
grow into superior men and women,
most of them into respectable and hon.
est ones. The problem of rescuing them
from the almost certainty of life of
crime and shame and placing them in
sheltered homes and under favorable
Influences. has engaged the most earnest
philanthrophists of the age, and the
outcome has been the founding of insti-
tutions and societies working actively
along these lines, Among the most prac-
teal, successful and economical of these
is the Children's Home society, whose
headquarters in this state is in Los
Angeles at 228 West Twenty fifth street.
There are now twenty-five states or
ot,i1 1ed dar hait cta To Ioxt md
since 1888 in the different states 1000
children have been placed in family
homes. thus blessing so many homes as
we'll as the children. Two hundred
have been placed in this state in little
over two years.
The Childrens Home society of Cali
fornia has FOR it's board of directors we'll
known and highly respectable citizens,
Z such as DR.. j. d. Easter of Redlands, DIR.
Z II. w. Brodbeck. Rev. Alfred 81 Clark,
A. M. Armour, George L. Cole of Los
Angeles. Judge Waldo M. York and Ben
jatnin w Hahnof Pasadena.
The society is endeavoring to build a
home for the temporary care of children
as they come in. The lot is on the COR
sner OF Twentyrffth street and Griffith
avenue. The building committee ap-
pointed by the board consists of Mr.. Gail
Borden. chairman; Rev. NJ Gregory and
John Waldo Ellis No lack of means
N.
be sent to Treasurer c. r. Shaffer, assist
ant cashier First National bank of Los
Angeles, or to John Waldo Ellis, state
superintendent of the Children's Home
society. No 22S West Twenty fifth street.
sufficient means to erect the home and to
care for every child that comes, to them,
so that not one would be turned away.
The cry of the homeless child Is heard.
What is your reply? Some bereaved
father, mother or both can make me-
mortal donation-what you would have
done for your child do for others.
The list of donors so far to the build
ing fund is: Grider & Dow. grounds,
$500; Mr.. Gail Borden. cash. $3.50; Mrs.
M. L. Rankin, cash. $25; Mrs. Clara r.
Shatto, cash, $50; Mrs. O.. T. Johnson,
cash; $50; Mr.. l.. X. Lorbeer, lot in Santa
Monica; Mrs. C. M. Severance, lot in
city, both to be sold and used in building;
T. F. Joyce, 1875 brick City Brick com
pany, 3150 brick; r.. G. Simmons, 1875
brick Ed Simons, 1915 brick; C. Pave,
1125 brick; Berry & Co.. $50 brick; Cal.
Forester. 4o0 brick; James M. Mallally,
1000 brick; Henry Jenson, 1000 brick;
1nglewood Brick company. 1900 brick;
total. 1920; J. r. Townsend, in hauling,
$12; Los Angeles City Water company,
SIG; Los Angeles Lumber company, five
barrels of lime; Pacific coast Lime COM
pany three barrels of lir,sI Ganahl Lum-
Der company 1000 feet otFlumber; Will
lamette Lumber company, 1000 feet lum-
Der; Frazer & Lamb Lumber company,
1000 feet lumber; Patten & Davie Lum-
Der COmn9OV E000 Ia tb