Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-12
APPEAL FOR ORPHANS
IN HARP00T, TURKEY

Members Of local churches who are in
terested In missionary work in Turkey
have received an appeal for funds from
George p. Knapp, American missionary at
Harpoot In which a sad condition OF az
fairs Is portrayed The special plea Is In
behalf Of orphanage work
Mr. Knapp says: The sad events OF
eleven years ago cast upon the American
missionaries at Harpoot the care OF some
fourteen hundred pitiable orphans. or the
four hundred who still remain, fourth
are engaged in the Industries that have
been started, and the rest attend school.
Forty of the later are in Euphrates Col
lege Our first orphan boy graduated from
the college last June, and is now at the
head of the high school In large village
Another young man Is preparing to be
preacher. Twenty-Five boys and girls are
helping themselves some by teaching In
the villages this winter.
From the very start the training of the
hands was a part of the orphans educa-
ton. Household duties were for all. Then
some boys learned tailoring, shoemaking,
carpentering and sundry other trades.
All girls did their own work. and some
learned to weave Bingham and to make
thread lace. Through GIFT OF $500 from
the late G. G. Williams, esq. president or
the Chemical National Bank, New York.
we were able to 1tart making oriental
rugs. This work haA developed until now
we have twenty LOOMS. and our rugs are
getting favorable recdXnition In America.
Out of gratitude to their many benefac-
tors in America, to whom they could not
express their thanks individually, the girls
made a large, double-faced silk flag rug
for the American government This now
hangs in the diplomatic ante-room of the
Department of State, at Washington. 1t
is described on page AGA of the Youths
Companion for September p, 1906.
From the store room where the clothing
and other orphan supplies were kept there
has now developed a fairly good store,
with several small branches or agencies
in these both our own products and goods
from Europe and America sold. Just
now We have ten bales of cotton sheeting
the way from New York In the work
connected with these stores our orphans
get employment and valuable experience.
1--WE have received 81 900 toward a farm.
This Is about third of what need
when buildings, stock and implements are
added. An Armenian graduate of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College ,can
manage this work, with the thirty boys
who have been in training for two years
ON hired land. One OF our boys has Sc
cured diploma from the Sericultural
school at Brousa. and takes charge of our
silk raising interests. In this agricultural
center there Is fine opening for an agri-
cultural school, affiliated with Euphrates
College, where scientific methods may be
taught In connection with the use OF Amer
lean implements.
Situated Harpoot is. within a great
oN-bow Of the Euphrates. about equidis-
tant from the Mediterranean the Black sea
and Lake Van, makes 1t a fitting place.
where our present plant can develop into
an industrial institution similar to Hamp-
ton and Tuskegee. in America. II is far
better to train these boys and girls to be a
blessing to this country than to let them
drift, as some have done, with the strong
tide of emigration to America VIII you
not help us to make this great benefit pos
sible?
Those who would like to inquire about
MS are referred to DIR. VIM. H. Ward. edi-
tor of the New York Independent; to DR..
Josiah Strong, president of the League for
Social Service, United Charities building
New York city: to any of the officers OF
the American board, IA Beacon street, Bos-