New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-03
FOR ACTORS CHILDREN.
Church Alliance Would Establish
Home for Orphans.

oas OF ths most important questions 20 come UP
FIR discussion GG the convention OF the Actors
Church AIlanos. which VIII be held here "a Nay. ts
that o. establishing childron's homa
ZrS ". Newton Bennington. second vice-presi-
dent o. the NOW-York CITY branch. suggested the
plan 81 Teosnt alliance meeting. as a more prao-
deal and more easily % Be accomplished work Chan
The closing q Sunday performances, which q one
% Tia objects e TIE Actors Church Alliance When
Gssn yesterday q; hoF homa. n Bensonhurst, Long
Island. Ma Bennington explained 70 a TE1buns re-
porter the detals Of bar plan. which, she says, sis
going through e. sure IS Nay and the convention
are coming"
y have bean thinking OF this home for a long.
long uuas," she said FOR it has always seemed %
ne Unfair that. with al the help given 20 the sick
and aged OF tie profession comparatively nothing
has been done Tor the hundreds OF little children
Who are cast ont upon the WoEid when their father
Or mother Is taken away.
-ons such case. which occurred recently. con
vinosa ne that they must be neglected no longer
e vas the case OF boy % thirteen the son of an
eeGeSA Eho cied only short tine ago. AFTER
h1 norhsrs death the little fellow. who had been
"a ths Stzga lost his position because he had out
gToU1 the chli6's part which he had been playing
and after a. unsuccessful attempt 70 battle with
the world he was found one night IN an areaway
haR starved and less than half clothed
@Doa't yen think that that boy needed home
ead KIND frieadsF' questioned Mrs Bennington
! c. Gnd II 70 for just such cases that I want
De Alliance &C establish childreu's home.
y would not be asylum. where the tndividu-
atty % the children is hidden under ugly uniforms
but We would try 70 make II the kind OF a home
Ghae boys and E1rls Ike. Probably Il VIII be on
Staten Island. or some similar place near New
YORK and near some public school, which the chill
eFsa could attend 7 don't believe IN having them
taught e. the hore-that - TOO much Ike an insti-
triton
"But this plan Is not 70 benefit stage orphans
alone The little ones lert BY poor clergynen or
any others who belong 20 the alliance would ind a
welcome there, and i there IS room We would not
limit the little residents 70 children Of alliance
Members.
.Bsst6es making a home for orphans continued
n taking care Of children who have been left
fzfhsrIess or motherless and who by having 70 one
ess 10 ,ook after them prevent their parents from
going on the road and earning steady salary.
II Wo1l5 also be good pEsns think. 10 take
a. bosrders The children Of Wei-to-do actors who,
because they have relatives leave their chill
eren wiki, ugst drag them the road with the
eonDsny
All these plans are entirely practical I think"
Ga.6 Hrs. Bennington with enthusiasm when you
realize that The Sew-york city Chapter Of the
Actors Chu-ch Alliance alone has fifteen hundred
members and thar the Brooklyn branch has eight
hCncred member The money end OF the plan
certainly should nor be a stumbling block for
Just lhirk EcW easy Il would be y every actor
should give US Just sand when the purpose Of
the home r explained 70 them the majority viii
want 70 make ~ more than 81 You see, they win
re, hey would take my babies, and while 7
az abe m going 70 help them take care Of some
Besiees individual subscriptions which viii be
sought when the plan is carried through to
cess a. the Nay convention. q large benefit. prob
eoly o. q dramatic character VIII be given for the
fun1 IN The fall