The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-08
THE sAILOR,s ORPHANAGE
Comment on Charges That Prompted an In
quIry About the Institution.


communication was received at THE Sun
ofnco recently regarding the conduct Of the Sail
OTIS Orphanage at Liverpool This is the institu-
ton for whose benefit entertainments are given
on board ocean liners running between Liverpool
and New York some evening during nearly
every voyage Tho entertainments are arranged
as q usual thing. by committee the idea being
suggested by the captain or purser Of the ship
The cabin passengers are invited 10 attend and
during the entertainment a collection is taken up
for the orphanage fund. Passengers give what
they like. The money collected is turned over
~ the agent Of the ship at either New York or
Liverpool according to the port to be made
In the communication received. the writer as
serted that, because Of tho method in which the
institution Is conducted. no person believing In
universal brotherhood and religious tolerance
should contribute 70 the fund raised at these enter
tainmnnts lie charged that the management Of
the institution represents "the negation Of every
principle dear to the American heart" that mo
Roman Catholic orphan can find shelter within
It's walls without first renouncng the faith of his
fathers" that Roman Catholic clergymcn are az
vigorously excluded from the institution as the
smallpox" that II :" Is conducted chiefly in the
interest OF its officers and their families" and that
"thOse tavore by adm ss!on are machinized and
pauper zed by a uniform VIII Oh Is the reverse OF
neatnes ="
Vn n Fl. Brown the agent the Cunard
line kno q good deal about the orphanago
He said TO a SUN reporter:
II believe every one OF those charges except
that relating to uniforms Is absolutely unfounded
The institution IL British founded and conducted
by Rr sh subjects and. in all probability. the
only religious exercises they have are conducted
by cergymen Of tho Church Of England The
I,DScODal CpTPVTnau
an orphan is taken there. I'm sure question
ig asked about his own religious faith, II he's
institution was established as a refuge for the
slant TINT when a child s taken there. the man
ayers ask if he's Methodist, Baptist or Catho
lie" Not much They take him in and care
After that, | have no doubt that he's com
PEELED 10 receive what religious instruction he
Of England Institution. as said before so far
as its religion goes Every institution Of the
kind supplies some religious teaching and in
under Catholic auspices the religious exercises
wouldn't be conducted according to the P,rotes
tant formula and no sensible person would eS
prct they would. There 8. however. you may
lake i for Granted, no intollcTance and i Cntho
he won't have trouble in getting in
AS for it's beir'r conducted in the interests Of
is conducted Tor what it a intended and nothing
else The children b | d have to wear mi
forms, IncyNr The inmates Of a similar institq
ton who didn't and they probably neat as it Is
possible to keep them. The children are taken as
they found and cared for well as they can he
II thov have to attend religious services conducted
by an Episcopal clergyman, | don't know that
the influence radiated is concentrating or other
than uplifting.
$50 far as the contributions are concerned,
neither TIE SUNS corr spondent nor anybody
else need give unles. he feels like IT, No fault
tribute, or who likes some institution better than
this one might add that one third Of the amount
collected from each OF these entertainments on
the Cunard boats is equally divided between two
American institutions down on Staten Island"
AZ the Office of the White Star Line, one OF whose
officers Mr. Ismay, has been one Of the largest
contributors 20 the orphanare, il was said that
while the institution was Episcoralian so far as
its religious instruction concerned IL was
really sectarian in its attitude as to the rcccp.
ton OF inmates No questions as to the religious
the child was admitted.