The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-12

storeroom was rented for SIS a month.
The matron was paid S. a week. The
expenses were estimated to be about
$50 a month and for this great charity
work the Chicago citizens were CON
tributing on an average, OF $4OO
MONTH The evidence that came out IN
the Chicago court was exceedingly
damaging. The legion's lawyer was not
present at the hearing before Master
in-Chancery Barber, sending word he
had withdrawn from the case because
he was sure the legion was fake con-
Germ.
Rev. Martha G. Aitken, Of West Up
ton, Mass, testified that she once served
as manager Of the Philadelphia branch
and tho the league s organ, the Sun
shine Journal, earned $50 to $50 week
on the table for the children and ma
irons. Mrs. E. M. Tibbetts and J. W.
Floridy, who are at the head of the
league, objected to this outlay and
ordered her to buy cheaper butter and
provisions. Mrs. Farrand, speaking of
the New York establishment at 43S
West Fortieth street, alleges "the food
was rancid, full of maggots. Still they
cooked it and gave it to the children at
from every city in which there are these
so-called homes. - 80. IL Hi
The latest exposure Of the methods
of these people has been made at St.
Louis, where the police have ordered
them out of the city. Agents have been
zealously soliciting for an entertain
/ ment for the benefit Of the nursery
Ign street. When one hundred or more
ticket purchasers, at ST. per ticket, ap
peared at the Y. M. G. A. hall there
was no one there, for the entertainment
promoters had fled from the city with
several hundred dollars. When some Of
the irate ticket-holders visited the
nursery, toward which they had con.
their ewes. The St. Louis authorities
give a description of the nursery there.
There were four rooms rented at SIT so
a month. The front room was the re-
ception room and had a few pieces Of
parlor furniture in it. The second room
was the bedroom of the matron and the
dormitory for the children. Its furni-
matron, a cot for her son and a little
iron bed for the day nursery children.
The third room contained four kinder
garten tables and few chairs. The
fourth. room had a cook stove. a few
dishes and kitchen table. With this
equipment the. matron said she took
care Of fourteen to thirty-two children,
DiI lHVeSIlSdClOH IOuuu sometimes elSuC
children, sometimes only four or five.
- When there were eight children in the
house, six were of school age. The
compulsory attendance officer of the
public schools found upon investiga-
ton that the children who were re
ported as being in the nursery were all
in school the greater part of the day,
going there in the evening for a few
hours. The young woman solicitors re-
iceive half, of all the subscriptions they
-, can get. Sometimes the parties are
urged to take more than one subscrip-
Z ton for the Sunshine Journal ION the
I.plea that the magazine will be mailed
ito poor children. If the subscriber will
give the name of some deserving ones
ito whom he may wish the paper sent it
makes the scheme look even better. but
1.-THE authorities have not been able to
l5hear of anyone receiving the paper
Several issues have been
found where there was no date on them.
II The Minnesota division Of the Inter
national Sunshine society earnestly
hopes that this warning will be remem-
sibered and no money given to anyone
soliciting in the name Of the Sunshine
8gsociety