The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-09
Meeting of Prominent Citi-
zens Was Held Yester-
day Afternoon
FINANCE COMMITTEE
OF BUSINESS MEN
Selected to Secure Funds
For Home During
the Year.
WILL RECEIVE DONATIONS FROM
THOSE WHO DESIRE TO ASSIST
THE WORTHY cAUsE-PRos-
PEcTs BRIGHT FOR sETTERING
THE CONDITIONS. AS poNA-
TIoNs ARE BEING RECEIVED.

A meeting, which had for its pur
pose the lettering of conditions at the
Pearl Eagan Orphans Home, was held
yesterday afternoon at $50 o'clock
in the Library hall. A number OF
prominent citizens were present and
much good will result, as steps were
taken to secure donations sufficiently
large to care for the orphans and pro-
vide the necessities that are required
to make the lives of the little ones
brighter.
The meeting was called to order by
DR.. Percival H. Nhaley and Rev. J. s.
Sibley was chosen chairman. In the
discussion which followed organiza-
ton, it was shown that there are
eighteen children now in the home
ard that the income amounts to only
$50 per month. Out of this amount
the salaries of the matron and cook
must be paid, and also the bills for
washing clothing. s,This leaves each
month about S37 so with which 90
ciothe and feed the eighteen orphans
and the matron, an average of about
$500 per month each.
To put the home on solid basis il
was decided to request three repre-
sentative business men of the city to
act for the year as a finance commit
tee for the home, thus relieving the
ladies who have worked so hard for
the success of the institution from
the worry of raising the money re-
quired to care for the orphans. The
committee named for this purpose is
composed of VIM. H. Knowles, chair
man; Jacob Kruger and A Greenhut.
With this committee to handle the
funds and receive donations 1t is be-
lieved that in future there will be no
trouble in securing money in sufficient
amounts for this worthy cause.
In a discussion relative TO raising
funds it was decided to endeavor to
get fifteen citizens of Pensacola to
subscribe 800 per year each. Sever
al of those present at the meeting sta
ted their willingness to subscribe
such amount if others could be found
to make up the required number, and
it is believed that the fifteen will be
found without difficulty. With fifteen
hundred dollars yer year, in addition
to other donations, the future main
tenance of the home is assured.
Only $50 per Month.
One of the prominent citizens who
was present at the meeting yesterday
afternoon, in speaking TO a Journal
representative last night regarding
the $50 per month which is now main
tanning the home, said:
Can you realize how far $50 per
month will go in caring for eighteen
children, especially after you have
deducted $3.50 ; for salaries and
washing? There are so many things
that children must have, and espe-
cially so when they are going TO school,
which eight or ten of them are now
doing
AT the home,' he continued, but
one servant is employed thSeook,
and ali other work is done by fine ma
iron. Think OF getting up in the
morning and getting eight Or ten chill
dren ready for school and then OF get
ting the other eight or ten bathed ana
ready for the day. and also OF keep
ing them out of trouble until hey are
put TO bed again for the nigh Then
think of getting large house in or
der after eighteen children have been
romping over it for a few hours, cloth
ing TO be made. patches and buttons
put on. and the thousand and one
things that have 20 be done in addition
and you can but wonder how any one
lady can stand the strain.
THE matron has done all this for
several months, and It viii certainly
have to be said to her credit that II
could not possibly have been done
better. The children all love her and
look upon her as a mother.
The lack of money is the great
trouble Could there be monthly
income of $4,000 all the worry and