Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-12-21
WILL HAVE NEW BUILDING.
Kun Hattin Homes Has Pledges for
Nearly $4,000.

Nearly $4,000.
J II is gratifying TO the Brattleborl
I friend of the Ne~ England Kurn Hat
! tin homes In Westminster, as well a
TO those In other localities, says tn,
local correspondent Of the Springfield
Republican, 10 know that $1,000 hal
been raised toward the expense oil
erecting school building in connect,
ion with the institution, which wal
cost $4,000. Charles Il. Bishop, super
intcndent, who was in Brattleboro this
week, said that the work on the new
building would be begun the coming
spring. "For years we have been agi-
tating better equipment" said Mr.
/ Bishop, $50 that we could carry out
plans along industrial lines. and now
our dreams are becoming real. " The
new building viii be two stories high,
with basement. Ii will contain a work
shop, n room for basketry and cane
seating, a play-room and gymnasium,
| The present school-room is directly
under the roof of the main building,
the door being on level with the
caves. This makes the room hot in
summer and cold in winter, and ii is
poorly lighted and ventilated always.
Besides this there is no place for the
boys TO play in stormy weather. The
new building will obviate all these
deficiencies, and will give more space
in the main building for storeroom
and bedrooms, which are very much
needed
Ii is intended to have the new strue-
ture memorial building, and to have
the names of those in whose memory
contributions are made engraved on
tablet to be placed in suitable
location. One Vermont woman has
made a generous contribution of $500
toward this building, and the same
woman has given $4,000 for n new kit
chen and other rooms for which there
is a demand. The annual budget of
the homes is about $1,000. Only 5000
is received from relatives of the boys,
and the balance, with the exception Of
the endowment fund, has to be raised
by subscription. For this reason two
women are in the field all the time,
Mrs. f. T.. Sessions soliciting in Yer
mont and Miss Emily II. Stickney in
New Hampshire and Massachusetts,.
The endowment fund amounts to but
$4,000, and of this all but about $1,000
has been received in the past 10
months. Al the present time all the
bills of the institution have been paid |
and there is no encumbrance on the
property
There are now 50 boys in the care If |
the homes, seven of whom are from |
and West Brattleboro. The |
boys range from seven years to II /
years in age In fourteen cases the
father is dead, in eight cases the mother
is dead and in five cases neither parent
is living. In II cases the father has
deserted the home, and in six cases
the parents have otherwise separated.
Add to these misfortunes and irregu-
arities generations of shiftlessness and
ack of thrift, says Mr.. Bishop, "and
you will begin to understand how mucn
iome of our boys are handicapped from
he start Mr.. Bishop considers it
If the greatest Importance that boys
With antecedents be taught not only to
work. but to like work. and for that
eason every Kurn Hattin boy has some
laily duty to perform. One boy has
harge of making about 100 loaves of
,read each week. Help from the boys F;
5 necessary for the economic running
4 the homes, but it is no easy matter
or the adults in charge to see that the
FORK is done properly. These boys are
aught self-respect, also, and that this
as its effect is evident from a letter .
rhich one of the boys wrote recently T;
0 his mother. The mother was a drink
ne woman and she wanted to visit !
err boy. The lad wrote: " If you come,
hope you will come straight You :
now what / mean. -
Many of the boys formerly at the y
ONES are doing well. Some are Civ :
lg excellent satisfaction in response
lie positions, while others are in schools
nd academies. Mr.. Bishop says that
ANY boys have to be refused admit II
lnce on account of the lack of funds q
nd Accommodations. A cottage is being =
tied up near the main building from ,,
lnds provided for that purpose only is
hich will accommodate II boys. The C
urn Hattn homes were established di
Y Rev. DR.. c. A. Dickinson, formerly ki
Boston and were named from the pr
semblance of the hill on which the l.
ain building stands to "Horns of II
ATTN, or Mount of Beatitudes, H
alestine. They are undenominational. H
mong the trustees are J. G. Estey and H
H. Thompson of Brattleboro. H