The record-union., 1896-04-09
PROTESTANT ORPHAN Home.
TEenty-Ninth Annual Meeting OF the
Directors Yesterday.
The Report Of the Secretary. Mrs. K. e.
Irvine, Shows Satisfactory
State of Affairs.


The ladies who are Directors OF the
Protestant Orphan Asylum held their
twenty ninth annual meeting yesterday
and elected officers for the ensuing year,
and also discussed their plans.
The officers elected are as follows:
Mrs. T. A. Snyder, President; Mrs. c. e.
Paine, Vice-Presideat; Miss Tennie
Massey, Treasurer; Mrs. r. G. Irvine,
Secretary.
SECRETARY's REPORT.
Following is the report of Mrs. Irvine,
the Secretary:
The twenty ninth anniversary or the
founding of the Sacramento Orphan
Asylum has approached, and we have
met to-day to hear the report OF the
association, through its Secretary, for
the past twelve months.
The year just ended has been
somewhat satisfactory, though un-
eventful, one. The affairs of the insti-
tuition have gone on quietly and without
friction. We have been fortunate in
having no calamities or untoward
events of any description occur, or even
threaten US.
Little ones as of yore, have come to
Us from homes of squalOr and want,
and have been made cleanly and COM
Portable, and when well-nourished and
well-trained have promised to more
than repay us for efforts expended.
Those who have been with us fer
years, and have finally gone out into the
world to maintain themselves, have
gone with earnest expressions of graft
tude and affection, feeling that the Or
phan Asylum has been to them indeed
home in its fullest sense
Our Board of Managers has been,
as usual, indefatigable in the discharge
CT their duties. No personal matters
have been allowed to stand in the way
of performance of duties due the asy-
lum. and personal interest has ever
made itself felt in the management of
affairs.
while we have not been obliged to
come before the public to ask for any
large amounts, we have met with en-
couragement in the cheerful payment Of
monthly subscriptions, generous dona
items at Christmas and other holidays
and cordial expressions of interest in
our work, and commendation of and
confidence in our management.
Such things assist very materially in
work involving SO much knowledge of
want, misery, mismana cement, injus
tice and suffering of every description
that one is tempted to exclaim, The
little good we can do is of such small i'm
portance that it were just as well to
cease any further effort At such times,
the knowledge that others feel that we
are benefiting humanity, even in an in
fnitesimal degree, is very grateful.
The health of our young charges has
been marvelously good. There have
been no epidemics, and almost no sick
ness of any kind during the past year,
and for the last five years we have not
lost single inmate by death. We feel
that five years without a DEATH in an
institution averaging $50 inmates, is a
remarkable showing, and speaks vol
umes for the judicious mana cement Of
affairs.
''The food given to the children,
though plain, is wholesome, nourishing,
varied and well cooked, and their habits
are of the regularity of clock-work.
This, together with a judicious amount
Of exercise and pleasure, combines to
produce the happiest results.
The public school. situated on our
own grounds, is under the judicious
charge of Mrs. Bassett, ably assisted
by Miss Smith and Miss johnson, and
these ladies have succeeded in arousing
an interest and ambition in their classes
second to none of the schools in the
city. Twenty-eight pupils attend Mrs
Bassett's class, forty-four Miss Smiths
and thirty-one Miss Johnson's, making
a total of 103. Nine attend the gram
mar schools.
Our kindergarten, under the charge
o. Miss Nellie Dunlap and Miss Sue
Dixon, still instructs and interests our
wee ones Twenty-three tots attend
this school, which is supported by the
public school system of the city.
THE sewing class of the technical
school is still under the care of Miss
Gloyd, and the cooking school is for the
present conducted by Mrs. Chapman.
Both these ladies bring enthusiasm and
careful attention to bear on their work.
Our little ones are also evincing an
interest in gardening on a small scale.
THE Sabbath-school. in which all the
children are deeply interested, is under
the direction of G.. D. Irvine, Superin
tendent, assisted by the following
named teachers: Mr.. Hall, Mr.. Haw-
kins Mr.. Spear, the Misses Canon, the
Misses Keefer and Mr.. Hoskinson. Miss
Frances Nourse acts as organist.
Our Advisory Board still remains rs
before The gentlemen comprising it
are Messrs. Joseph Steffens, n. d. Ride
out. T NJ. Lindley. r. c. Irvine, c. H
Cummings, A. A. Van Voorhies and A.
c. Tufts.
AT tie beginning Of the year there
were 1o9 children in the asylum, twen-
ty-eight have been admitted since,
making a total Of 1S7 OF these, thir-
ty-three have been removed by friends
or relatives, fifteen placed in good homes
and two sent to the Home for Feeble
minded These children come to us
from all parts of the State.
1--WE have made no improvements dur
ing the year Some necessary repairs
have been made, including quite re-
Gently the caicimining of ten large
rooms, with bathrooms, halls, etc. Some
trees have been planted in the play
ground and some swings erected These
latter afford great pleasure to the little
ones as we realize by the frequency