The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-16
FOR RESCUE WORK
FLORENCE CRITTENToN HOME TO
BE ESTABLISHED IN SAVANNAH.
MORE THAN $1,000 IN HAND.
AND SIXTH OF TOTAL COST To BE
FURNISHED By NATIONAL FUND.


: sssr. Crittenton Repeated His Ex-
perfences IN Many Fields.
Another meeting in the Interest OF
home in Savannah for fallen women
WAS held in the Tabernacle last night,
and its results, together with those OF
the meeting Sunday night assure the
establishment Of the institution. Three
thousand dollars have already been
raised towards the home and the ma
tional headquarters of the Florence
Crittenton Rescue Work has promised
to give one-sixth of the amount need
ed TO purchase the property and erect
the needed buildings.
The latest subscription to the fund
was $780, which was given by Alec Tenn
pie, Mystic Shriners. In discussing the
question last night Mr.. Crittenton said:
Il come again tonight to talk on my
rescue home by request of many
who did not hear me on this subject
Sunday night.
Il come to plead for that unfortu-
nate girl who makes a mistake and
then has no door opened to her but
that of the brothel. l can't under
stand how this great work has been
SO neglected for six thousand years,
for these girls are a class which is
summed on the streets, in the stores,
and to whom nearly every door is
barred.
Several years ago in one of the
large cities a notice appeared in one
of the daily papers that a girl was at
the morgue awaiting identification.
In response to this item two hundred
and sixty-three mothers came to look
into her cold, dead face. All of these
mothers had a daughter somewhere in
the wide, wide world.
lone day, while in California,
picked up the Golden Eagle, a daily
paper, and saw where
city council in Pennsylvania de-
cided that every known fallen
girl must leave the city. Fifteen hun
dred asked the question from the
Mayor, Where shall we go?' L can't
tell YOU replied the official, but you
must get out of here as quickly as
possible
where were they to go? This is the
question we are trying to solve. We
now nave sixty homes in the United
States. We have a charter from the
government signed by President Nc
Kinley and John Reed, and the gov
eminent gives us $4,000 a year for our
home in Washington, d. c.
In our work we have crossed the
ocean and have homes in Marseilles,
France; Toxic, Japan, and Shanghai,
China. Link by link we are spread
ing out, and now it seems that we are
about to add Savannah to the chain.
you have already shown by your
liberality that you have hearts in your
bosoms for this great work. You
need this place of refuge.
Suppose poor, fallen girl
should come to Brother Cooks study
seeking aid and consolation. He might
say let us pray After the prayer the
next questions served will be Where
shall l go now? Back to her old
haunts of sin-unless you have a res
cue home.
Poor girls, when they first start out
they only see the gilded side of their
life. With diamonds in their ears, and
on their fingers-fine clothes and fine
carriages, they do not stop to consider
that some day they will come down
to poverty, and fill an unknown grave.
Il thank God that a few years ago
he put me into business, and business
increased until l have gotten together
d iiNNlC Va AAllS MOllO SOOhHs OO AOl
a long time l have been my own eX-
'ecutor. l am now simply acting as
secretary and treasurer for the Lord.
"A few years ago one night on the
streets of New York, I met a poor
frail, fallen girl. 1 spoke kindly to
her: My words reached her
heart. Soon she told me her story.
! found that she was the daughter of a
Congregational minister Another girl
told me how her downfall was caused
by love for the dance. First she con-
fined her dancing to her home-later on
she went out from home to dance
Late hours, fast company, etc, ex-
planned her degraded condition.
I'm the first hour of her shame every
body turned their back on her. Driven
to desperation she gave up and aban-
doned herself to the inevitable. Fol
seven years she was a poor wandere1
on the streets of New York city.
You will remember how the ac.
cused woman brought to the Saviour
escaped without judgment because the
Lord simply revealed to her accusers
their own sinful condition. One by one
they stole away until not one was left
To her the plying Christ said, 'Wo
man. so and sin no more Thanh
God for a voice like this one
At the request of Mr.. Crittenton, Rev
Walker Lewis, who for some time wa!
pastor of the First Methodist Church
in Atlanta, spoke. He said:
In Atlanta Mr.. Crittenton has
beautiful home, just outside of the cit,
limits. Ten acres of trees, flowers anc
fruits. Last year 1 attended there tn
dedication of a cottage for little waits
The girls in the home employ thei
time in industrial work. Perhaps l cal
give you some figures from a repor
of the institution that will give yo,
some idea of the effectiveness of thi
noble work.
"Out of fifty-six girls in the home 70
a year eleven went back home, Thirteen
found good situations in different part
of the United States, three married be
3 cause the men who caused their down
fall had enough honor left to try an,
repair the damage done, and eleven re
manned in the home under Christian in
struction Eight per cent. left tn
home and went back perhaps into thei
old life.
The prodigal son comes back-th
prodigal girl must be gone after. Yo
may talk about your mission school
and cathedrals, but to my mind Their
is no grander work in all the worl
than this
In conclusion Rev. Ed F. Cook stat
ed that through the kindness of Nj
Crittenton Savannah is to have
home. Already this great movement
owns over a million and a half dollar
of property, and the deeds are so al
ranged that the death of one man, q
a body of men. does not stop the wor
for an instant.
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in readiness to start this work the ma
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