The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-06
DONATION DAY
 GREAT SUCCESS Home For Friendless Gets Large Sum Despite In
 element Weather. RAISES ABOUT 5000 Solicitors Canvass the City in Pouring Rain With
 Good Results.

The annual donation for the Home for the Friendless took place yester- | day and the usual general canvass was made over a large part of the city. Both lthe committee in charge and the col lectors had hard time of it, the com-
 mittee because so many of the solicitors
 who had been relied upon were at the last moment unable to serve, which made the canvass in some parts hur- l ried and incomplete. The collectors had
 a. hard time of it because they were
 obliged to tramp about in the slop and rain. However, those who actually went to work made no complaint. and i the solicitors showed in the face of 1 their moist and unpleasant task will- tingness and good nature that deserves | the highest praise and was 2 proof of l real generosity After the days work
 was over several who gave gathered at
 F. B, Walkers tailor store the dona- i ton headquarters. formed good nat Iured party and gained considerable en- 1 ltertainment by narrating and hearing | the various vicissitudes of the days canvass. 1 That the donation visit has suffered
 because of the indictment weather can lnbt be denied, though the actual results l! in the end may not fall so far short of lasf years as was at first feared. The weather affected the canvass more be-
 cause it kept the solicitors from their tasks than because the public were un- responsive, In fact, many collectors on their return reported better results than last year and found many more at home than If the weather had been pleasant. The treasurer at the close of the day reported about $t, 75O on hand with all 1 of Westville and two Fair Haven wards l to be heard from There are also some 1 Individual collectors in the center of the
 city who have not been able yet to re- bort The Fair Haven results will show some strange contradictions In the | Twelfth ward 1t is known that the | weather so hampered the solicitors that tho results will be much less than q year ago; while in the Fourteenth ward
 on the other side of the river there were lmore collectors and a more thorough fcanvass made and the results there are much in excess of anything before raised
 | Last year the Home for the Friend less secured about Sg ,ol5 from it's public
 donation visit, and this year results will probably be about the same But
 one of the committee remarked at the close of the day that nothing but the
 hardest work in the face of several
 obstacles has made the day equal to | last years results.
 As usual it Is expected that the first
 ward will be the banner ward return 1 ing nearly $500 to the home, The ladies | in charge of the homes management l expressed themselves as we'll satisfied
 with the days results and feel very grateful to the committee and all the
 solicitors and to the New Haven pub- 1 lic
 1 Those who had no opportunity of
 giving yesterday and who wish to may
 send their contributions to the treas
 urer of the committee, Jonathan N.
 Rowe, room 15, City hall.
 Arthur c. Graves, the president. and
 Henry J. Kellogg. the secretary of the
 committee. have been in active charge
 of all arrangements and for three
 weeks have worked hard for the suc-
 cess of the home's donation day, and
 one of them said that the preliminary
 arrangements this year were more complete than ever before and had 1t
 not been for the rain and other ob-
 staces which finally came up the com~
 rnittee's hopes of passing last years excellent results would have been l realized