New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-15

circular letters but the responses graft
flying. On October l It was announced that the
| subscriptions amounted to a,1A moro than the
SS,Oo0 This was fortunate. for during the gum
ner interest to the amount OF 1850 had accrued
on the debt 1t is confidently expected that the
remaining 500 viii be subscribed before foundation
| day, SO at that time entirely clean ledger 40
count may be shown. Freed from the strangling
| burden OF the debt, the managers of the founda-
| ton viii now be able to go ahead and make car
| tain improvements which are much needed
| cIudes many fields of charitable endeayor, was
started as home for aged women, in Love Lane
more than an alley lined with stables. The house
ago oVed oI of the e0E lane and into
| still stands there as part OF the building now
of Health. This gives some idea of the antiquity
of the building. which had dsgTaced the Board
of Health for some years. 1t will be i've years
more thar half century on February :. 1905
The diocese OF Long Island was not established
until seventeen years later.
necIed Win the diocese of New-York of which
Dr.. Horatio Potter was the provincial Bishop. had
Four women Brooklyn Heights-Mrs. Sarah h
Richards. Mrs Henry e /, PierrePont' Mrs Sarah
care of three old women in the Loys Lane house
rector of Grace Church was greatly disturbed b.
cause some orphan children Of the church had to
be placed in a secular institution The work Tor
the aged women and the orphans appealed to the
clergymen and benevolent members OF the diocese
and the Church Charity Foundation was duly or
gnizGd and a5 cor r transferred from Love
Lane 10 rented house in Carlton-ave.. just south
Of FultOn-st At the end of the following year the
and four orphans. In this year the hospital work
vas begun in an odd way A member OF the dlSoess
admission to secular hospital and was taken into
ieath It may be Interesting to note that in the
lirst published list of contributions to the work for
he Orphan House appeared the following entry;
afterward became Mayor of Brooklyn and later
Mayor OF greater New-YOrk.
IN TIE MIDST OF FIELDS
In 1856 part of the present site Albsny-ave. and
Herkimer-st. was purchased 1t cost $3.50, of
which only $3.50 paid down at the time. The |
last addition the site made in 1885, when the
little plot which the nurses cottages stand. and
which cut back into the middle Of the site, was |
purchased and presented to the Foundation by one |
of the managers. Two years after the purchase of |
the property the cornerstone of the Homs for the |
Aged and the Orphans laid Prior to Christmas. |
1853. when the building was ready for occupancy, |
the aged and orphans had been moved from the |
Carlton-aVe house to one in Bedford-ave, near |
Futon-st., where brief stay Of eight months was
made. An indication OF the inaccessibility of the
new property in Albany-aye. in those days. may be
gained from the following. which was written by
one OF the women managers
1t located in the midst of fields. and the ap-
proach from Fulton-ave; was through an old corr
jump from hiiIock TO hillook TO escape going over
the shoetop in mud and water
1t was not until ISL that another building Was
put up. 1t was the Home for the Aged built in rs
Spouse to d demand have the aged persons away
from the annoyauoes attendant upon the presence
of a number OF children. With addition of
wing in $780, it is the same building that is now
uSad for the aged. 1t contains present about
fifty old persons, which is the limit its capacity
The Orphan House, it has been known since the
OLD folks left it, enlarged 1876 and again in
lSs4 1t now has accommodations Tor about one
there
1890 when DIR. Jerome Walker started a dIspensary
a dispe1sary we're opened at No IaOs Faiion-st
The first operative patient was Lydia Lsgrant. WAC
into the Home for the Aged. on the grounds OF the
building, which had been especially built for the
use of the hospital in Atlanllc-ave.. was used
until The present brick and stone home OF St
Johns Hospital at Atlantic and Albany aves,, was
established, and then training school for nurses
dents ''''' '-'0 p"-
An interesting part of the history of the institu-
period OF three months three hundred OF the sol
aserre to the 81 JONAS q far at
or that number only one died. For some weeks the
soldiers; Dr.: arnold v. datlln is the head Of
the medical stan, which includes many Well known
The Orphans Press. which has been spoken Of
mates OF the Orphans House until recently. In
Iand 70 monthy pubcaon Of 1 tbs ns6 hs!Bng
ity Foundation. some job work was done During
10 ' d6uron cSarts f0e Gs S
this work For various reasons. however fhat
work has now been given up.
The Home for the Blind was started in a small
way in Maspeth, and turned over 10 the
Church Charity Foundation in 1Ssa -Four years
later the work transferred the house Ia
1t has eighteen inmatea which
u the Limit of its capacity In nt years the Foun-
phans and BIZ hospital patients. As was stated
by prominent member OF tho church In 1874:
1.-The Foundation has no Stewardship TO squander
on cases presented through III advised Impulses
but Ike the church OF which Il Is the onspring A.
presenta with order, systern and AIDING staxItx n
sanctuary so szah a. aSS vUeshuap