The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-09

humanity ana TO generate
practical methods of lettering human
conditions is well established. and if il
We're not. the will of Or. w. II. DAILY, of
Pttshurg, would go far to establish it,
Dr. DAILY, whose unexpected suicide
some weeks ago will he recalled. left an
estate valued at Sl50,ooo, and all of it
save some minor requests is devoted to
the basic endowment founding. estab-
lishment, and maintenance of home
or homes for industrious girls and wo-
men, without respect to age or sect"
After providing that the home is to
he known as the Alfalfa DAILY home.
in honor of DR. Days deceased wife.
it is directed that proper charter is to
be obtained forthwith by the executors
and trustees. The contributors of so
or more to the fund for the home are
to he the constituent voters who shall
elect the board of managers annually
from among the contributors to man
age the home. The will continues
The aim and effect of the Alfalfa
DAILY home or homes shall he to fur
nish home, shelter, protection, instruc-
tion and Improvement to industrious
girls and women, while either in or out
of employment, at the lowest possible
cost commensurate with maintaining
the proper sense of self-respeCt and
ambition on the part of the henefici-
aries, who shall desire or require the
shelter of plain, comfortable and
cheerful home, surrounded by good in
fluences, attended by proper and whole
some amusement presided over by
kind and friendly guardian officers,
known to he interested in the happi-
ness, prosperity self-respect and well
fare of the benefciaries. To those hon
estly out of employment especially in
shops, sewing and servant girls or
others run down physically by over
work, misfortune or anxiety, there
shall be the most generous consider
alton given in every way to their res
toration to health and industry and
secured for them. To girls
who have strayed from the path of
rectitude there shall be a helping hand
extended toward restorat ton to the
paths of propriety and industry. This
class of girls can he cared for in one
of the branches of the home separ-
ately.
There shall he evening courses of lee
lures and training during nine months
of each year, given by women who are
experienced housekeepers on the duties
of housekeepers toward servant girls
and other relevant matters. There shall
be lectures in the same manner given
by women. if possible. who are, or
were. formerly servants themselves.
upon the duties of the servants toward
one another and other
relevant subjects. There shall be lee
lures and other papers read by mer-
other employees of female labor clerks.
shop girls and others, on the duty of
employers to their employees with refer
ence to their preservation of health,
and department. There shall
be lectures and papers read and train
ing given by competent shop girls or
other employees or those who formerly
were such. on the needs, the duties and
department by such employees toward
their employers. a cooking school and
training in all house and chamber
work shall be a department in each of
the homes.
1t is directed that a system of an
nual cash bonuses or rewards shall be
established for long, faithful and con-
tinuous service of servant, sewing and
shop girls, if possible. similar to that
Of the German Housewives association.
of New York. The trustees of the home
or homes are to be the judges of the
courts OF Beaver and Allegheny coun-
ties and the mayor or chief municipal
officer of Pittsburg, Allegheny, Beaver
and Baden.
Certainly no better monument could
have been left to Dr. Days name.
The agitation for illuminated street
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