The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-01
FUNDS NEEDED FOR
A SUMMER HOME
Mems Guild OF st. Luke's Church TO
Conduct q Notable Entertainment.
WORTHY OBJECT 1T HAS IN VIEW
The Guild Has Been Offered n Build
ing at Cresco Well Adapted for
Summer Home for Convalcscent
Women and Children and an Effort
Is TO BE Made to Raise the Funds
Necessary to Secure II.

There Is no charity in the city of
Scranton which more strongly appeals
to the people of all classe than the
Summer Home for convalescent women
and children conducted under the aus
pices OF the Mems Guild of St Luke's
church. During several seasons from
eighty to one hundred convalescent Wo
men and children have been taken from
the unsanitary tenements of the city
and entertained for periods of from ten
| to thirty days at pleasant country
| home where, with pure, nNigorating
air and nourshing food, they have been
restored to health and strength.
1T is a charity that does not extend
it's aid to professional paupers, but pro-
vides for the builing up in strength of
| such women and children as are recon-
| mended by physicians and clergymen
as being deserving working people un-
| able, through lack of means, to secure
| the advantages the Home offers, and
| which are so frequently necessary for
| speedy restoration to health.
During the past two seasons the
| Mems Guild have been Handicapped by
| lack of accommodation for the large
number of patients really needing the
benefits given by the Home owing to
the lack of q suitable building in a
| proper location.
BUILDING AT CRESCO.
Through the kindness of Charles
Schlager. a farm house at Lake Ariel
which he owns was donated for the
seasons of 1895 and 1896, but it was
only temporary assistance and the
| building was not really adapted to the
work. The Guild has been offered a
well adapted, and finely constructed
building at Cresco for a very low fig
| ure if used for this charitable work,
and an effort is being made to secure
| funds sufficient to pay at least a pOr-
| ton of the purchase money required.
Mr.. Hallstead, of the Delaware, Lack
| aWanna and Western railroad company
| has secured a rate of fare for patients
to and from the Home at an exceed
ingly reasonable figure so that the Guild
can, If it secures the building and
| grounds offered it, at least double the
amount of good in succeeding warm
seasons that it has in the past.
With the object of raising funds a
contract has been made with Walter
c. Clark, of Detroit, to give a grand,
spectacular Dantomime of Ben-Hur at
the rockingham on the evenings Of
January 81, %, and %, with a matinee
on the 23rd. About one hundred and
twenty five people will take part in
the production. The costumes and a
car load of scenery, stage mechanism
and electrical appliances are furnished
by Mr.. Clark.
y FINE PRODUCTION.
The production has been arranged
under the personal supervision of Gen
eral Lew Wallace and Mr.. Clark has
special permission from Harper Broth
ers, the publishers, to make the prOduc-
ton, the only stipulation being that no
professional theatrical people are to
take part. All references to the Saw
iour that would in the least offend
the most deVOut christian have been
eliminated without detracting from the
beauty and interest of the production.
The pantomime and tableauX have been
produced in a number of prominent
cities throughout the Union for charit-
able and religious benefits. Among
recent successful productions was that
at Cleveland, Ohio where, among other
prominent society people who took part
We're Mrs. Mark Mamma and her daugh-
ter. AS soon as all the arrangements
are completed we will publish a list of
the ladies and gentlemen taking part