The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-17
SITE FOR RESCUE HOME.
nay BE SELECTED BY BOARD OF
CONTROL TONIGHT.


work Called for This Afternoon.
vb,.D. VIII Have a Conference With
Mrs. Il. w. Barrett, National Presi-
d,.nt OF the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
with Board of Control Held by
,;r,. Barrett Last Night-She Also
uade Address in Favor of Home.
T,1d OF Necessity of Work and
c,ve Comparative Results of the
u.scue Homes and other Institu-
lions.
Ms. Kate w. Barrett of Washington,
,aronal superintendent of the Florence
rriuenton Rescue Work, spent yester-
IA, in Savannah and will remain here
today in the interest of the branch of
tbe organization that it is expected to
establish in this city.
lecture on the necessity for the
bores. and the work that they accom-
nrsb was delivered by Mrs. Barrett in
wesley Monumental Church last night
and If was heard by many who are in
rerested in the project. After the lee
+,ra Mrs. Barrett met the members of
the board of control and explained to
Them number of things about which
they asked information.
This afternoon the members of the
ladies' committees will meet in the la
dies parlor of Wesley Monumental
church at O'Clock, when Mrs. Bar
r,tt will explain the best means of
organizing the work and of conducting
II successfully. Mrs. H. C. Cunning
ham has been added to this committee.
At night, in the Lawton Memorial a
meeting of the Board o> Control will
he held The matter of chief interest
Ia come before this meeting is the re-
mort of the committee appointed some
time ago to secure information in re-
gard to available sites for a home.
From the number and the character
Of the persons interested as we'll as
The generous help promised by Mr.
Crttenton, on behalf of the national
head0uarters there seems to be little
doubt that the organization of the home
will be completed, and that it will be
successfully conducted.
strong plea for the work generally
and for the institution in Savannah
was made by Mrs. Barrett. Rescue
work has already had a benediction be-
slowed on it in Savannah, she said, for
almost twenty years ago Mrs. Charles
Green of this city opened a home de-
voted to the rescue of fallen women
and girls and for many years did a no.
bic work. The home was finally closed
through the necessity of Mrs. Green's
leaving the city, and because she could
find no one else who would carry on
the work.
THE waste products of everything
else have become useful and come to
be utilized" said Mrs. Barrett, "why
not use the waste products of human
ity? To-day we have about us" she
continued, this waste product in these
fallen girls, who in that state are a
menace to all that is truest and best in
life and yet each of them has within
herself the power and the posi-
hility of leading an honest and self
sustaining life if she be but given the
chance.
How few stop to consider this or to
reach out to these poor creatures a
hslping hand? To save these women
takes infinite tact and infinite patience;
it takes the highest to reach the low
est. Some people do not believe that
these women can be saved. Well, look
At the way such work has been triedi-
No more unscientilic, impracticable or
unchristian methods have ever been
employed for any purpose.
The average girl is simply turned
over to the policeman. Now do you
think the kind of training the police
man has is the kind of training you
should like in the person who is to
reach your daughter, 1 think under
the circumstances that the policemen
do Well, hut if you do not think him the
proper person for your daughter what
reason have you to think he can deal
more successfully with the daughters
Of others. The methods used in reach
ing these girls are the Jail, the lookup,
and the reform school. Is there any
thing in any of these to touch a wo-
mans hearth
Mrs Rarrett drew a comparison be-
tween the results accomplished, or
rather the negative results accomplish
ed by the National Reform School of
Washington, and the most satisfactory
results accomplished by the Florence
Crittenton Home in the capitol city.
But few that come from the former in
stituton are improved. she said, where
as in the Florence Crittenton home
during the thirteen years that they
have been in existence eighty per cent.
Of the girls who have been inmates
have been kept track of and by far the
greatest number of them are earning
honest ivings
"All that is required of you people of
savannah" said Mrs. Barrett sis to
give a chance to girl to earn an hon
est living and not be forced to sin for
bread and meat. Is that great thing
to ask Cor the girls of Georgia."
Mrs. Barrett told of the difficulties
That We're encountered when it was
tried TO organize a home in Atlanta,
and compared them with the cordial
support that is now given the institu-
uon since its value has become known.
In many places she said, property own
efs had at first objected to the location
OF one of the institutions near their
nome only to acknowledge afterward
mat they had been prejudiced in their
views on the matter, and that the
nome had reallY been an addition to