New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-10
" AUNTIES" MOVE UPTOWN.
THE COLORED HOME AND HOSPITAL IN
IT'S NEW QUARTERS.

\ TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES OPENED, WITH
MISS L. r. WAENOCK AS SUPERINTENDENT
Tho Coored Home and Hospital. which has been
a landmark for long at FiIst-ave. and Sixty
hfth-st., has moved to its home One-hun-
dred-and forty -first-st. and Southern Boulevard.
These new buildings. with all the modern contriv-
ances and fittings are strong contrast to the old
fashioned left behind. with their strips OF
bright raG-carpet. blue and white bed covers. and
the queer old flower garden In the quadrangle 1t
l. wonder that dear old nanny, with her
many-hued banddnna coiled about her head. said:
NO honey Use rather stay whar be. I knows
thcysc nice up thar. but like this place, and |
rather stay hyar til I goes to heaven"
The new buildings OF brick stand upon high
ground overlooking the Sound. and are wind
swept from all sides. In the main building are the
Home for the Aged and the hospital. a chapel and
the rooms OF the administration There sep
buildings for the consumptivcs and for the
maternity patients. These connect by Il covered
corridor with the main building There is iso-
lated cottage for contagious diseases. morgue and
a power-house. all OF which detached
This work began In tho fa,l Of 1879. when few
women banded themselves together TO relieve tho
suffering Of tho coored people their symps thy
for the destitute condition of that having been
aroused. Miss Jay donated $1,000. and twelve per-
sons became the bencnciarics Seven years later
tho society Incorporated by the State Legis-
lature under the name Of The Coored Home" In
lN2. 10y order of the Supreme Court. the name was
Chang 4 to that Of The Coored Home and Hos
pital'
There are at presen, about one hundred people in
the home AMI - I'm the hospital. The buildings
viii accommodate 25i. Many OF the inmates OF the
Home were once slaves. Among the women arc
happy faces and busy fingers. and all cling to the
old-iime bandan1a. one 'aunty" when asked her
age said;
"Thcy says rse a hunered, but / Isn't, honey. but
t,ftsb n Ifpo Inon In u-nr1d l,pC
time"
Another. blind and with paralyzed feet said:
II don take no count q my blin'ncss. case III
sec up thar. an my lamcness wei, when you gets
ole you got TO have something. I ain worrying
for the ell my case he all the tine ooI;in bout -
Aunty Cesar IS sand to be the Oldest one among
the women and she is mOle Of good nature and
ciI"criness which win every one who meets her.
Bur against lashl9nahle uptown residence for her.
her. She has taken great interest ~ the progress
OF The new huiidinss though, from the hrs'. out
Il knows the Lord hc lay his han on that corner
stone she says. case l aN"d Him: knows 1t
jcs' much's knows YOU sians there"
Aunty Cesar was born North" Her grand
father She says was In the war 81 :he Revolution.
sal ors and with the rest have rca he'd this friend
- port after stormy voyages.
MISS WARNOCK. MATRON.
Miss Elsie Il Warnock a graduate OK the Brook
lyn Hospital Training School. is matron OF III"
home and superintendent Of the Training school
for Nurses This training school. the only one for
,orod women IN tho North. was started IN june
and Miss Warnock IL anxious that there should be
more applicants. Fifteen are needed IN ihr nov
lon ld ur. There ~ vet. but iour. tNO ul w
hay" received their caps. ana wv" are 3'' I'o"'-
TONERS -,. ....
quick sympathetic. neat and qui.t w" int.nd
that our school shall rank WITH the ho 81 moan as
much those from any