The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-01-05
How the National Pody
Which Has Done So Much
Good Originated
CARED FOR 10000 BABES
WORK or THE NEW JERSEY so
CIETY, WHICH WAS ORGAN
IzED IN 1894 OFFICERS AND
AUxILIARIES.

Especial to ."The Jersey City News.')
TRENTON, Jan. 5, 1905.-The Ma
tional Chidren's Home society, which
has done so much good throughout the
country in caring for homeless children,
had its inception in the following man
ner:-
In 1888 girl baby was found in q
Y. B. Van Arsdale and was placed by
him in family Of his acquaintance who
had lost their own little one. This was
the beginning of new and important
movement in the care of homeless and
outcast children. Today in twenty nine
States of the Union the Children's Home
Society is doing systematic work, and
more than 26,000 little ones have been
placed in selected Christian families.
About 800 earnest men al women are
deyoting their whole time to this work,
and the annual expense has already
reached over quarter of million dol
lars.
Some of the most prominent men in
the country have been identified with the
work. The late President Mckinley help
ed to organize the State board in Ohio
and he remained its president until his
death. Hon. Lyman J Gage was the
first vice president of the National so
ciety and spoke and gave freely toward
its support.
Among others who have given tosthe
society Their endorsement, their time and;
their money, might be named ex-Gov
ernors Ira ID. Chase. of Indiana ;Knuie
Nelson, of Minnesota. and T. W. Atkin-
son. of West Virginia: Hon. Melville w.
Fuller, chief justice of the United States;
General Russell Alger, Of Michigan;
General a. G. McClurg, Of Ch.cago;
Charles d. Hoyt. chief justice Of Col
orado; Samuel Maxwell, chief justice
Of Indiana: Franklin McYe.gh, Mar
shall Field and S. w. Allerton. of Chi
cago, not to mention nearer home our
nonored governor. E. G. Stokes. Judge
Ianning, Rev DIR. Wight, Senator's
Bradley. Hutch .nson, Avis and a host
of others whose support Of the work in
New Jersey has been constant and gen
ereus.
This society has had from the begin
ming the hearty support of the clergymen
of all denominations. the warnest possi-
Bile endorsement of the NJ. E. confer
ences in the various states where orga-
nized, as Wei as of the Baptist state
conventions and associat ons the Pres
byterian synods and Preshyteries and the
general assembly, and the bishops and
clergymen Of the Episcopal Church.
The general verdict of the pubic was
well voiced in the award of the grand
prize at the Words Fair in St. Louis.
Thirty-four of the Oldest and largest
hi.d-saving inst t.tutions of the country
gave exhibits.
Seventeen of these received gold
medals and sixteen received silver
,ndals. Over all Of these the grand
prize, the highest possible award was
gwen to the National Children's Home
society, embracing the New Jersey Chill
dren's Home Society and twenty-five
other afiliated state organizations do
ing work in twenty nine states.
The work was organized in the state
of New Jersey. in September. 1894. aud
the society was incorporated tile month
following One month later. November,
1894, little two and a half year old
g:r. deserted by her mother, was the
first child placed byb the new organiza-
ton. To-day 1,125 homeless children
have been received and care for, 130
during the past year. This does not in
clude the large number of child en t'let
have been helped in various other ways.
The auxiliary society in the Sta3e u
Delaware was organized and incorporat
Jed in March. 1904.
4 The society's aim is to find a home
in a Christian family for every homeless
and dependent child in the State. The
work is thoroughly Christian in spirit
The ultimate hope being that the chi d. Ell
shall be led 10 accept the Lord Jesrs
Christ as their personal Saviour. and
that they shall. besStrailled into useful
Christian 6itizeas.
It sspirit is bToad. No question as to
age. sex, color or nationality
Its machinery IS simple. Local COM
mittees in every county In the State
forming medium Of CONF : : 'se ion =