The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-06
A Worthy Institution That
is Greatly in Need of
Assistance.
BUT A SMALL AMOUNT MORE
PER MONTH WOULD ENABLE
THE TWENTY-FIVE LITTLE IN
MATES TO BE PROPERLY
CARED FoR-cAPTAIN kruger
WRITES OF VISIT THERE.
Editor Pensacola Journal:

Editor Pensacola Journal:
Whatsoever you do for one of
these little ones, that much shall
stand to your credit in heaven"
The above beautiful quotation came
strongly to my mind while reading in
The Journal of recent date that GER
tain denomination had raised s., 900
in the short space of twenty minutes,
and have paid off their debt This de-
nomination is to be congratulated for
their liberalfty in this worthy cause
But one equally as worthy stands IN
our midst neglected. Feeling conf
dant that our people will respond TO
an appeal when once they know con-
ditions, | take il upon myself to state
facts as they exist today Ny appeal
is not to the above denomination only
but to all denominations of whatso-
ever kind. or creed
In visiting our little poverty-strick-
en- orphans asylum, for it is an asy-
lum and not q home, in its present
condition, | found the following con-
ditionS: Home rather untidy: to-
night % children will be housed and
only four pillows for % children to
sleep ON. Inquiring about the meals
l learn that breakfast and supper are
usually good. For dinner today the
following is the bill of fare: Greens,
potatoes and corn bread, with a small
piece of fat pork The matFon eX
planned that fat pork is not good for
little children and that change once
in u-6i for dinner &c both dn0ira h q
and necessary; she also says some
fruit once a week would be most ac-
ceptable-50 cents worth of bananas
would be sufficient.
The northeast room. first floor, size,
15x15, is bare of the commonest com
forts of life. Here | found five little
children barefooted and on a bare
plank floor These children have the
itch, SO must be confined to this one
room for three or four weeks until
they are well. All of these little tots
must sleep on one very thin mattress
on the floor. for they have no bed.
stead. no pillows, and If there is more
than one comfort it did not appear TO
me; in fact, l did not see any, for
the mattress was covered with
coarse and not too clean sheet. /
have failed TO say there was a fire
in the room Some Of the wall paper
is nodded from being wet during the
September hurricane, but perhaps the
microbes that inhabit the mold may
be beneficial to the itch. These little
children have no other room, for nat
urally they are not, nor should they
be. allowed to mix with the other chit
dren
There was one good point. When l
inquired about medical attention,
these poor little babes being raw, the
matron informed me that DIR. Wright
came Immediately when called by
phone, and at no time has more than
one hour elapsed before he would be
there and be as courteous and kind as
If he received a big fee for such SER
vices
Suffer little children to come unto
Me, for of such is the kingdom of
heaven" In my humble opinion they
would be better cared for in heaven
than in our Pensacola orphans asv-
lum.
| do not cenSure the good ladies
who strive so hard TO keep up this
nondescript of an orphans home, but
shame to all denominations and every
man who can and does not assist
them with a small monthly condition.
Fifty dollars a month more will en-
able those good ladies to have some
comforts for these fatherless and
motherless children.
JACOB kruger.