The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-26

being also present. Prayer was Offered
by Rev. Mr.. Eldridge, pastor of the
First M. e. church. The leading feat.
ures of the report of the manager fol
the year ending May Is are as follows:
| Number of children aided during the
| year ....... ........ Isl
| Average number .....................14 LAC
| New Admissions OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. IS
Returned to friends .................. IS
| Placed at service Observation-Disclosures. IL
| Given up for adoption ............... 9
| Deaths ......... Observation-Disclosures.
| Present number under asylum care. :. 13C
| The average number of children in
the asylum this year has been unusual
| ly large.
| Of the children cared for, twenty have
| been longer or shorter time in the
| Nina-Lynette nursery. Eight of them
| have been returned to friends two pro-
| NOTED to the house nursery, the present
| number being ten.
1t is noteworthy that there have been
no deaths among the children, and es-
| pecially among so many babies during
| a summer as unfavorable as that of
| 1898.
l. ne Ives COlldSG HAS NOT DeSH Cetlleli
into use, there having been no cases of
long or serious illness during the year.
The school has been a 5 usual well con-
Quoted. 1t opened in September with
two new teachers-Miss Louise G. VOL
colt and Miss Amy Cooley, who filled
the places made vacant by Miss Ger
trude Isbell and Miss Ada B. Judson.
The work of the sewing class can be
commended. 1t has been carried on
through the efforts of able and willing
volunteers.
The carpenter work which is taught
the older boys on Saturday morning has
been of better quality than ordinary.
This work is on sale Donation day. and
the money obtained from the sale is
used to purchase more material.
Miss Belcher, our care-taker, came to
us last summer for the tenth time. We
are fortunate in securing one so well
adapted to this work, and who will come
to us year after year with continued in
terest.
The beneticent effect of the Sunday af-
ternoon teaching is worthy of special
note. It's influence upon the character
of the children seems to remain with
them and is one of the happy memories
of their home in the asylum.
The children have attended the morn
ing service and Sunday school of the
United church, and have been kindly
welcomed to the Christmas festivities
and other social occasions of the Sunday
school.
We gratefully recognize the enjoy
ment of the children in being invited to
attend the Easter exercises at st.
Pauls church This invitation has been
kindly renewed for many years.
The Thanksgiving and Christmas din
ners were occasions of great happiness
Mrs. Robertson gave the turkeys for the
Christmas dinner. and the tree was as
beautiful and fruitful of joy as in years
nast The exercises were varied by an
excellent impersonation Of Santa Claus.
Donation day, held October 20, was
bright and beautiful and in every re-
spect successful. 1t was the beginning
of the second quarter-century of the
existence of the Donation day commit
tee. We feel that the most cordial
thanks are due to the large number of
business men who year after year have
given so freely of their time and effort
to promote the interest of the asylum.
Many friends have contributed to the
happiness of the children by their gifts
of money for rides and other pleasures,
by invitations to entertainments and
an occasional treat of ice cream and
cake. Among these gifts one especially
noticeable is that of four little girls
who worked for several months in prep
Go. lie, 80
which ($64.5D We're to be given to the
children for pleasures.
We desire to call attention to the
help given us in our work by II. O.
Preston, agent of the Board of Organ
lied Charities. BY his knowledge and
personal effort he often saves us a
great deal of laborious and unpleasant |
and many times protects
us from imposition.
1t is frequently satisfactory to hear |
from the boys and girls who are no |
longer under our care. During the |
present year we have received wedding |
cards from one Of our girls, Some of
our boys have been in the army, one of
them called in person, extending his
eft hand in greeting the right hav-
The home at Miss Gerard's, whera we
nave placed children needing special
care, has been broken up by the death
If her mother. We are thus made to
'ealize the more sensibly the usefulness
md fidelity of Miss Gerards long SER
7ice.
With grateful memory of his benef-
,ence we mention the death of Wilson
who since 1880 has been
n the habit of giving for the donation
,isit as many dollars as there were
children in the asylum.
From our board of trustees we have
ost Thomas r. Trowbridge who was
appointed in 1882 and died October IS,
S9S. His service had been a long and
aithful one, and his loss will be deeply
cit by the board of managers.
There have been no deaths among the |
managers. From our executive com
nittee we have lost by resignation two
aluable memberships, Ives and Mrs.
Mrs. Ives, who was ap-
ointed manager in 1870 and who has
cen our treasurer for the last twenty
ears reluctantly laid down her work !
I November, 1898, for the reason that
he was obliged to leave the city The |
rork was one that she sincerely loved
nd to which she devoted the best re- ,
ources of a most kindly and affection
tie nature. 1t was with a sense of al
lost irretrievable loss that we accepted ,