El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-08
BuCkner
Orphans Home
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| ming and numbers. generally, from
three to four hundred inmates. Will
gladly furnish more definite and spe-
cific information to all who may ask
for it.
Please allow me to state. in this con-
nection that the institution is depend
ent upon the voluntary contributions
of the people. r. c. Buckner.
The following interesting account of
the manifold activities of this finely
managed institution is taken from the
managers last annual report:
During the year ending with this
report l have supplied our orchard of
1000 trees with a good cottage in it's
midst, worth 5000, now occupied Dy an
orchardist. an excellent man. who mar
rled one of our orphan daughters. Dur
ing the last fruit season the children
enjoyed daily twenty-six bushels of as
fine fruit as ever grew. and for fruit
sold we received $253.75. During the
year an additional dam was built
across Prairie creek. at cost of SIS.
and we now have beautiful fish lakes
covering several acres, and stocked by
the United States government with
game fish. The lakes also supply a
great abundance of stock water at all
, seasons without interfering with the
finny tribe. During the year / have
placed main shafting 100 feet in length
| in the boys shops, for such machinery
as We may be able to procure and use
| later on; and have already utilized a
portion of it in running a steam corn
mill and feed crusher that have been
purchased and paid for during the year.
Broom making machinery has been
added, ready for use when we shall
have material. Additional machinery
has been bought for farm work, and
now We have a seed drill. reaper and
binder. mowers, hay rakes and baler;
and everything needed on the farm I'M
less it be thresher. Much fencing has
been repaired and other improvements
made. l mention in this report only
valuable Improvements made during
the year-new buildings. land bought
and paid for. and farm machinery
Have paid for $4,000 worth of wood
and $2,533.7S worth of coal.
The educational advantages afforded
at the Home were never better and no
school can show better. sweeter, more
handsome or intelligent children God
bless them! Some acquire a good ed
ucation; several have become teach
ers. The state of morals and religion is
fine-far above an average. Here is
a wonderful field for mission and Sun
day school work: and Gods signal
blessings rest upon it. We have fine
school teachers, teachers of stenogra-
ply. typewriting. etc. Rev. P. M. Muir
phys labors. both in the pulpit and
in Sunday school, have been very fruit
full of good. For eighteen years / did
all the preaching myself, but the last
two years / have been greatly relieved.
This is not the ordinary orphanage,
with a few children to be fed and
clothed a while and then passed on. 1t
is a real home of affection and protec-
ton, where the individuality of each
child is recognized. it's rights regarded
and all it's interests looked after. 1t
possesses. also. all the characteristics
of an excellent school. and besides is
a great Industrial school. The garden.
the orchard. the stock. the mills. the
shops. the steam and electric plants
afford the means of a practical train
ing for the boys superior to what any
one family can provide at home. In
doors work of all kinds for the girls
cooking, housekeeping. dining-room
and pantry work, the proper manage
ment of milk and butter. patching. cut
ting, fitting and making garments,
hand-sewing, knitting, embroidery.
crocheting. stenography, typewriting,
etc-afford facilities for making useful
women of our girls, equal to what
many and superior to what most fami-
lies have.