New-York tribune., 1899-06-07
EDGEWATER CRECHE.
TRUSTEES ARE GRATEFUL FOR SUPPORT
RECEIVED.

A PLACE FOR. CHILDREN TO SPEND THE DAY AND
RECOVER FROM THE DEBnLTATINo
HEAT OF THE sLUMs.
The fourteenth annual report OF the Edgewater
creche at Edgewater n. j. expresses the thanks
Of the trustees for the generous support given to
them last summer They state that without this help
they could not have met the demands made upon
them by the numbers Of poor women who brought
their little children 10 the creche for its prevent
I've and restorative benefits.
The report says that the number OF guests enter
,s,ned during the last summer was $751; against
1757 In the previous summer an increase OF l.loo
~ more than Is per cent OF these 2zoe were in
,snts not over Ave years Of age. 15n children
over five and 1.s79 were adults accompanying the
little ones These visitors ali came from the tene
,oent.house districts of Manhattan and sent
nv the various missions. churches, benevolent
cist,es hospitals. dispensaries day nurseries kin
dsrsartens etc, all OF which agencies we're gra-
,u,tously supplied 10 the extent OF their requests
with tickets emitting each visitor to free ferriage
across the river. a ride from the ferry to the
oreche one-third of mile away. and all the hos
,i,ei,ies OF the creche including all necessary at
tention from the experienced trained nurse In
charge
Josiah Mason Fiske has proved admirably adapted
for its purposes and for the home of the matron
and her assistant Its living room is highly appre-
cated by the tenement-house visitors, who linger
,here and carry away many suggestions for making
their own homes more attractive at trhing cost
The bathroom is IN constant use for the children
and the dormitory Is filed with neat cribs. The
kitchen supplied during the summer several thou
sand with tea coffee and other warm drinks
The benefits OF a single days outing TO the chill
dren debilitated by the heat OF summer were
great.
The following agencies send mothers and chill
dren to the creche: Charity Organization Society,"
Womans Branch Of the New-York City Mission
Society New-York Protestant Episcopal City Mis-
sion Society. New-York Hospital for Ruptured and
Crippled New-York Inhrmary for Women and
Children New York Association for Improving the
Condition OF the Poor. New-York Orthopedic Dis
pensary New-York Female Auxiliary Bible Society
(Bible Readers Abigail Free School and Kinder
garten. Society for Relief Of Poor Widows with
Small Children, Tenement House Chapter OF King
Daughters. Christian Aid 10 Employment Society
Harlem Union Medical Mission Madison square
Church Home Manhattan East Side Mission, Chll-
dren's Aid Society, Presbyterian Hospital. fost-
Clinic Mariners Chapel Grace House Day Nursery
bethlehem Day Nursery Bethany Day NusSSIy
Nurses Settlement, College Settlement Harlem DIS
pensary. Catherine Mission. East Side ChapeI 81
Thomas Day Nursery Sunnyside pay acIn ena
Yrnnly of the city churches and missions.
Thousands of poor mothers whose houSeholo
duties forbid their absence from home for more
than part Of the day az time. ana whose in IA
fants are languishing and dying In the injected
air Of New-York's tenement-house districts every
summer, have no other equally available resources
FOR recuperation than the Edgewater Greene