The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-23
THE MASONIC HOME.

| Annual Report of the Superintendent.
 The fifth annual report of Superin-
 tendent Buckingham, of the Masonic
 Home, Wallingford at the annual meet
 ing of the Masonic Charity Foundation
 of Connecticut, says:
 We are pleased to inform you that | the interest taken the past year by the officers and members of the craft | throughout the state has been very | gratifying to us. as we'll as pleasing and
 beneficial to the members of the home.
 If the brothers will continue their vs-
 its and keep in touch with the manage
 ment and report their visits to their
 lodges, We. are sure that the home and
 the members therein will never be lost
 sight of nor forgotten, and 1t will create greater interest throughout the state. The ladies of the order of the Eastern Star are taking deep interest in the home, and are doing much for the
 comfort and happiness of the members,
 as you will see by reading the list of
 gifts among the donations.
 During the past year we have made
 some Improvements on the farm by
 way of fencing. There have been built
 over three hundred rods of fence. We
 can now say that the Masonic home farm is complete as far as fencing is re-
 quired. We have enlarged our accom- modations at the barn by an addition
 thlrty-six by twenty feet for shed room and a loft for fodder for the stock
 This addition has been built by the members of the home. Brother Albert Fisk had the whole worlS under his
 charge. He laid out the frame, and with the assistance of a few of the oth- CT brothers, framed the building and put it up. All the help hired was a stone mason two days to lay the foun- dation.
 ''The products of the farm the past year are as follows: Five hundred bushels of potatoes, 295 bushel ears of corn, twenty-five bushels of rye, 1S0 bushels of turnips. Also all of the veg etables which were needed for use in the home. The grass crop the past ye was failure on the upland, and had it not been for the president of this asso- ClullOII, WILL HIS plopllcllC lOIeSlSHl seeing the need of the purchase of the land by the side of the lake we should have been obliged to either sell the stock or buy feed for them both for summer and winter. The new purchase has furnished pasture for the summer and has filled the barn with hay. We can truly say that the new purchase has more than paid this present year the interest or three times the amount of money invested in the purchase.
 "The stock on the farm consists of three horses, six COWS, two two-year- pld hefers, one calf, eight hogs, four pigs and 134 chickens.
 Help employed was as follows: One l man employed on the farm by the | month, one young man to take care of | the furnaces in the winter and assist | around the house and on the farm in the summer. Tn the house we employ [ one cook, one to assist the cook and do the other work in the Kitchen, two to care for the chambers, one for general | home work and assist the matron one who has charge of the orphanage build ing and the care of orphans ane laun- dress, also one nurse who is employed in the infirmary, caring for the sick daN and night; total, eight.
 Tn our last annual report we report ed in the home adult males, thirty-one; adult females twelve; orphans, three; total, forty-six. During the past year fifteen were admitted. We have lost by death the past year eight, withdrawn one Total membership at the present time: Adult males, twenty -nine adult females. nineteen; orphans, three; to- tai, fifty-one. Average age of adult male members, seventy; average age of female members, seventy-two. The health of the members in the home at the present time is good. We have but one that needs much special attention.
 I've present herewith a statement of cash received and disbursed from De- cember 16, 1899; cash received from treasurer of Masonic Charity Founda- tion, $6,550 cash on hand, last report, s55752; total $7,107.52; cash distribu- ted, $6,50737; cash in hands of superin- tendent, $60O15; total. $7, 107.52 The expenses were divided: House and home supplies, $46O2.S7; farm and inn expenses, $1, 1645O superin- tendents salary, $650. The aggregate expense per month was $542.2S There was received for rent, farm produce, ate. which was paid over to Secretary Barlow, $614. Cash donations received bp nact yaor amounted tn cor ho, l