New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-18
NEW RESCUE HOME.
4 Refuge for Girls in Heart of COney Island
Dedicated Yesterday.

Their. was onco upon a time a girl who got
swallowed I'd in the human maelstrom at Coney
Island Some friend OF hers caught glimpse Of
her and carried back word OF her whereabouts TO
her people who came down TO look for her.
shes living at a place where it says something
about God" was all the help they could give the
police. for that was all the friend remembered
The Coney Island police set 10 work TO find the
girl. They went through all the hotels, lodging
houses. restaurants and pleasure palaces with
which the great resort teens. but they could not
IND the girl. because they couldn't find any place
where it said something about God AT last. There
sint no such place." they informed the distracted
family. There's been a mistake somewhere-there
amt no place ia COney Island where they say any
thing about God"
Here one Of the policemen had an inspiration
why. there's the Rescue Home" he exclaimed
They've got sign there that says. God Loves
You Maybe that's the place
And II
Yesterday with singing and the reading Of the
Scriptures. with prayer and addresses they dedi-
Gated the building Of the Coney Island Church
and Rescue Home, so that Coney Island may con-
tinue TO have one place where in the of God.
the Maynard. silly. pleasure loving girls who get
stranded IN Coney Island may be cared for and
oomforted and succored and placed in right rela-
tons again with their friends and society.
Mr.. and Mrs. William D. Hughes are managers
OF the building. with its modern equip
ments and tasteful sdjuncts, as they were OF the
open Gospel tent which they pitched the sands
six years ago. They had come TO Coney Island
for holiday, but they saw the need OF rescue work
among the girls who drift there every summer
and who often take their first downward step
among its gaudy snares. They decided TO stay and
do that work. DR.. Rainsford and Bishop Chen DrD
Greer helped them TO start. And so well have they
done the work, and so much have they endeared
themselves TO the permanent population OF the
place that when the big fire burned down the
Rescue Home last year, with not penny Of insur-
= "a Hfa he
took the matter into their own hands, gave a
Mardi Gras parade and bought a new Rescue Home
The old Thompson Hotel. OF the landmarks
OF Coney Island. had become wreck financially
and physically, and the owner put 1t up at auc-
ton" the way Mr.. Hughes began his story OF
the new home at was just the sort OF building We
wanted. but could not have bought it with the
lane il stands II the public spirited people OF
the place had not stopped bidding, TO let US
have it, When the renoyatious complete. ana
the furniture all in. shall have spent about
Ase0y-@ goo9 Investment, Tor We couId sell II TO-
with the trolIeys changing past night and day.
within stones throw OF the negro quarter and the
Home IS looked upon as the sweetest. wholesomest,
most peaceful spot IN Coney Island. Its broad
yeranca and wide hall. running right through the
house its potted palms ana rose bushes. its spot
less pant and quaint small paned windows make
town. The dining room Of the old hotel makes q
parlor. and behind mat ample apartments for the
missionaries and their two children,
working up" said Mr. Hughes as he pulled this
chat OF q shower bath In the basement
There are about forty bedrooms upstairs. some
tinted a delicate green, with green seagrass mat;
ing on the floors, and stained furniture. and
others pure white. There viii also be reading
room for the girls, rooms for the workers and a
section reserved for the girls who paroled Ia
MIS-; Hughes. pending investigation.
..-but THIS IS not a prison." said Mr.. Hughes.
.E.Hterythi9g Is open. L is home, not an insti-
tuition. Whoever IS 81 distress or need, will OBJ
tain all the help give by Just coming and
1sh4hg Ior II Last year We cared for III cases OF
WWLoA - were girls between sixteen and twenty:
ne secured situations for Co. placed 42 I'm Industrial
rr13nes. handed over to the Commissioner OF
snarltes, returned boys TO their homes and cared
.Of al men and women. You know the police ar
- Slr here on very slight provocation. IL
ley see young girl walking about alone at night.
tleg arrest her. Sometimes they make mistake.
Dgt usually IL is time for the officer TO interfere
nlcl0us women and girls are the only ones who
70 Alrs- Hughes There Is hardly a department
store in New-York some of whose girl employees
naYe not come 10 US at some time. girl comes
.oMh Tor a good time She meets another girl. ana
ley go the rounds Of the carousels, the soda
FOUNTAINS. and Perhaps for fun they try
something stronger, and not being accustomed
an omeeTs attention. When they come TO their
SENSES they are thoroughly ashamed, and feel they
arc stay here. 10 drift perhaps into 4 life OF
vice and dissipation They meant no harm, they
s, T.e not wicked or depraved 10 begin withjust
ELY or weak
We shall probably apply TO the court to change
~ name, Rescue Home not quite covering the
vlaauon. Young Womens Home. or Home for
iseng Women. would be more suitable.
re make friends with our girls. For some we
~ o. positions, and we have never had coInpSlnt
any outrageous conduct in girl so placed Yea;
We are friends
~ 70 teach their girls some useful knowledge, the
brooklyn Young Womens Christian Association
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