The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-18
ST. FRANCIS ORPHAN ASYLUM.
Various Figures of Interest-Donation
 Day Next Thursday

| various Figures Of IntereSt-Donat1on
 Day Next Thursday.
 On November l of the current year
 2,436 girls and 1861 boys, total 4297 chill
 dren, have been cared for since June 5, | 1852, at the St Francis orphan asylum.
 Tn forty-nine years 1884 children have | been returned to parents, other rela- l tives or guardians; 1887 have been placed out in homes. and Ill have died total number discharged 3,9s2-leaving
 for support in the asylum on November
 1, 190 boys and 124 girls; total 314.
 November l. 1901, s1 children were ac- credited to St. Patricks parish, 21 to
 Sacred Heart parish, 16 to St Marys parish, 16 to St. Johns, 10 to St Mich
 ael's Gtalian), g to St. Francis, to St.
 Joseph's, city, to St. Joseph's, West vile; to St. Louis (French), to St. Boniface (German), to St. Lawrence's (West Haven), all these being church children" from the various city par ishes; eight remain of those committed by the New Haven County Temporary Home, when said home had such a sur plus on hand as to be unable to accom- modate them; 37 are registered as hay ing been sent by the city of New Haven through its board of charities and cor rection.
 One hundred and seventy-seven have been admitted to the asylum; 172 have been discharged, that is, 76 to surviving parents; 63 placed in homes; 21 intrust- ed to relatives, and 12 have died, leav- ing in the asylum November l. 1901, 314 children, comprising six nationalities. Also the current receipts from all sources from January l. 1901, to the 18th inst, have reach s24,871.7S, while the running asylum expenses for all purposes during that period have amounted to s23 ,997 51-all judiciously spent in this city The present indebt- edness of the asylum amounts to about s25, 900.
 The Donat ton day association having In charge next Thursdays collection for the orphans held a special meeting last evening in Emmett club hall Boardman building, corner State and Chapel streets, when final arrange ments for donation day, were complet- ed.
 On that day each of the local Catho- lie parishes will have It's own donation committee for the collection of contri- buttons from parishioners, while the central committee will look after the gifts from the buiness portion of the city. The parish committees will make to cash contributions to the pastors of the several Catholic church. es.
 Persons wishing to contribute and not | likely to be called on, or expecting to | be out of town on Thursday next, may | place their offerings with any of the | officers or committeeman. or remit the | same direct to the managers of the asy- um.
 Offlcers--President, James A. Fogar- ty; vice president, Edward J. Maher; treasurer, Rev, J. F. Corcoran; assist ant treasurer, Thomas Leddy, and sec 'etary, William J. Cronan
 Executive committee--The foregoing officers and pastors of the local Catho- ic churches.
 Central committee Space will not | permit of their mention here; this com nittee Is almost identical with that of asst year; many of them for years l lave lent their valuable services to the ause of the orphan. They will devote Thursday to the same worthy object, md they have In advance and In com non with all donors, the asylum's varnnest thanks