The record-union., 1899-05-11
PROTESTANT ORPHAN HOME.
ANNUAL MEETING OF BOARD
OF MANAGERS.
Officers Elected and Thirty-Second
Annual Report Of the
Secretary.

The annual meeting of the Board of
Managers of the Protestant Orphan
Asylum was held yesterday afternoon
at the residence of Mrs. DR.. Snider on
NJ street.
The following officers were elected to
serve during the ensuing year: Mrs.
T.. A. Snider, President, Mrs. G. Il.
Paine, President; Mrs. William
Schaw, Treasurer; Mrs. R. c. Irvine,
Secretary
Other members of the Board of Man
ayers are Mrs. D. d. Whitbeck, Mrs.
w. E. Briggs, Mrs. R. P. Burr, Mrs.
H. H. Earle, Mrs. F. T. Thomson, Mrs.
William Wood, Mrs. Charles Bonte and
Mrs. Clinton White.
SECRETARY REPORT.
Following is the thirty second an
nual report of the Secretary:
The Board of Managers of the Sacra-
mento Protestant Orphan Asylum takes
pleasure in presenting the following
brief report Of its years labors:
Our association now numbers thirty
two years of active life, and we feel
justly proud of an institution which
has for so long a period of time been
engaged in what we must all allow to
be one of the most beneficial of chart
table works, and we feel grateful for
the generous assistance which has rem
dered so long continuance possible.
Time and familiarity but increase the
interest in works of this nature, and as
, the years roll on, with each object ac-
compiished, another presents and We
feel impelled to greater and still great
er efforts in the way of preparing our
boys and girls to take their places in
the world honorable and self respecting
men and women. So far as our oppor-
tunities allow our children are thor-
oughly trained. Our girls are taught
to sew, make beds, sweep, dust, wash
dishes and cook. Our boys are also
taught many Of these things, but these
alone are not enough. We need oppor-
tunities to give to our children trades
by which they can render themselves
self supporting and independent when
they leave these walls which have af-
forded them shelter and protection. We
had hoped that the bill introduced at
the last session of Legislature allow
ing aid from the State for orphans and
haf-orphans until the age of sixteen.
would become a law. We should then
have been able to keep our young
charges longer with US and not be
obliged to send them out into the world
at so tender an age as we are now COM
PEELED to.
Our inmates at present number $50.
OF these II are girls and 80 are boys
During the year 81 children have been
admitted and A discharged. OF these
latter 20 have been taken by relatives
or friends; u have been placed in good
homes; 2 sent to the Home for the
Feeble Minded, while one little girl has
been adopted, and is now as dearly
loved and cherished as an own child by
her new parents. While diphtheria
tonsilitis, whooping cough, ETC., have
been prevalent among children in the
city generally, ours have not entirely
escaped, and our infrnary and conva-
descent room have had a number of
inmates, although by a strict system Of
quarantine we checked what threat
ened to become an epidemic Of measles,
combining it to two cases which devel-
oped simultaneously, or nearly so. We
have been fortunate in not losing any
of our little ones, and at present while
there are about seventeen cases Of
whooping cough, none are serious with
the exception of one little girl who has
had hard fight for life from its eff
fects, but who is now out of danger
and ON the road to rapid recovery. The