The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-03

the erection of the proposed new mis-
sion house on the large building lot OF
| Orange street, between Court and Elm
streets. already fully paid for and leas
ed until wanted for the use of the asso
citation. Between "a 900 and $4,000 add
| tional can be expected from subscrip
tons already made or promised, anc
| the committee will endeavor to secure
as soon as possible the remainder OF
the $4,000 that has been decided upon
as the amount to have in hand before
| beginning to build. The committee has
| recently received the payment of the
bequest of 81 900 from the Marietta
Bailey will, through DR.. A. E. Win
chell, executor.
Brief reports We're then received from
some of those engaged in the mission
| airy service, as follows: Rev, w. D.
Mossman as general superintendent
and missionary PASTOR Miss S. j.
! Hume, lady missionary; Judge l.. w.
| Cleaveland, superintendent of the Sun
| day school; Mrs. H. G.. Newton, chair
man of the executive committee of the
woman's department; Mrs. William
Shepard, chairman of hospital visiting
Mis-. Il GllWlCh, ltcASl VI INC
Kings Daughters; Miss S. May Doug
lass, treasurer of the children's savings
bank; Mr. Viele, Yale 1901, chairman Of
the Mems club, and Mr.. Lippincott of
the senior class, Yale Divinity school,
chairman of seminary students engaged
in city mission work.
Space will allow only a few of the
many interesting statements made. The
Sunday school numbers over two hun
dred, including about fifty of the very
little children and fifteen in the pas
tors Bible class. All who have Joined
this school were at that time not MEM
bers of any other Sunday school. Judge
Cleaveland has been superintendent of
the Sunday school for the past ten
years and assistant superintendent for
five years previously. There are 21O
members of the mothers meeting and
1876 children enrolled in the Sewing
school Miss Hume has received and
expended during the year over $1,000 in
various ways in the mission work for
women and children, and distributed
coal, flour and tea to the value of over
81, 700 in return for small weekly pay
ments, mostly from members of the
mothers meeting. In this way some
families havefor the first time been able
to have ton of coal at ordinary retail
rates. who before could buy only by the
bushel at the rate of nearly $40 a ton.
Rev. Mr.. Mossman has had, in addition
to his other duties as superintendent
and pastor, the responsibility of obtain
ing and expanding the money needed,
about 81 900 yearly, for seven different
mission funds-the Fresh Air Fund, hall
expense account, Students fund, Mis-
sion bank account, Relief fund, Loan
fund and the weekly pledge account.
Up to the present time he has also Sc
cured about $25 900 toward the building
fund
The Mission Rescue band numbers
between twenty and thirty members,
and have not only held their regular |
weekly and monthly meetings at the |
mission hall, with hot coffee lunch on |
winter evenings, but have conducted |
open air meetings on Sundays through !
The summer.
The Kings Daughters hold weekly
meetings at the mission hall through
9ut the entire year and also every week
either at the almshouse or jail, with
of special food to the sick
people there, as does also Mrs. Shepard
n her weekly visits to the hospital.
Mrs. Shepard is over eighty years of
lge and says she is now too old to give
ID her work among the sick.
There are twenty-four members of
he Mems club under the care Of the