The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-31
ORPHANS BANK ACCOUNTS
ABOUT 90 HAVE SAYINGS BANK
hooks IN THEIR MIME.

Prize and Industry Money Placed I'm
Local Banks and Given Them When
They Reach Their Eighteenth Year
Donations stu Come In Mt the Insu-
tution. ......
Ever since last Thursday when the
money donated by local citizens for
the New Haven orphan asylum was
collected there has come to that instl-
tuition various sums in cash. Seldom
in it's history has the orphan asylum
been able to collect such large sum
of money as it has this year, and rarely
have donations come in more freely
after the annual donation day mad
passed. The cash amount this year is
the largest that has been received In
three years and the donation supplies
such as furniture, Housekeeping ar
ticles, vegetables, etc, have come in
III great numbers.
The prizes that are given to the chill
dren for the best behavior during the
year and those for neatness are always
a source of great interest to them, and
there is no little competition for their
possession. 1t will be interesting to
know that the money won by the
scholars each year is well taken care
of by the authorities at the asylum
Chnr M mir G
the institution and it is one of her
many duties to place the prize money
in one of the local savings banks. The
money is placed in the bank in the
childrens names and when they be-
come eighteen years of age they come
into full possession of it.
Mrs. Champion first informs the little
orphans that they have won IS, 50 or
whatever amount the prizes are for and
tells them it will be placed in a savings
bank and that by the time they become
of suitable age it will have grown to
possibly double the original amount.
This, of course, tickles the little ones,
and the idea of having some real
money given them encourages them to
be neat and regular in their habits,and
it also gives them something to look
forward to at their graduation
Quite frequently some of the older
inmates of the asylum are indentured
to families in the city or vicinity to re-
main with them until they are eighteen
years of age. The girls do light house
work generally and the boys, who are
in nearly all cases taken by farmers
on the outskirts of New Haven, are
employed in doing chores about the
farm and in making themselves gener-
ally useful,
These boys and girls are kept until
they are eighteen years old when they
are allowed to start out and become
their own masters and mstresses.
Years ago on their attaining their
eighteenth birthday they were paid $50
by those for whom they worked, but
recently this plan has been changed so
that now the indentured boys and girls
year This money, like the prize mon
ey is given to Mrs Champion, who
places it in the bank for them. There
are now nearly ninety books held by
this lady for the orphans. BY the new
method the interest on the money be-
fore the sum total is paid, amounts to
quite a little sum IN itself. Ih1S new
method is also a relief to those who
are obliged to pay as $50 is quite lit
tie sum to give up all at one time,
whereas IS or $40 at the end of each
year Is not felt as much
In nearly every case those who are
indentured until their eighteenth year
prove very apt and in a great many
instances they are glad of the opportu-
nifty of remaining at what has been
their real home