Evening star., 1908-01-17

anu Tree meals. 119.2ai cnllGren were
| fed: 33.12o were lodged. and 5S2, S4 at
| tended the religious and temperance meet
| lngs that were held at DR.. Barnardo' s
| mission centers. He gave away 5I.519
suits of clothing. and thousands of other
garments and boots and shoes and the
| last year of his life he rescued DOG young
| women from houses of prostitution and
| placed them in permanent homes out of
| temptation.
Won Universal Confidence.
| During the first years of his work
strange to say. Dr. Barnardo was SUBJ
| jected to serious interference on the part
of parish officials and the clergy of both
the Roman Catholic Church and the
Church of England because his work
was conducted entirely upon non-sec-
tartan lines. He was brought into court
repeatedly; he was accused of kidnap-
ing children; he was sued by parents
to whom he refused to pay blackmail.
and he was compelled to epcounter vari-
Gus other obstacles. all of which We're
overcome: and on the fo.tieth anniver-
sary he enjoyed an extraordinary triumph
at "A reception given in his honor at Al
bert Hall the largest auditorium in the
world. where the King of England pre-
sided and the Archbishop Of Canterbury
made the principal address. On that oc-
caslon tributes were paid to him such as
few men have ever received.
The confidence of the community in DR..
BarnardCS integrity and in the useful
ness of his work is indicated by the
voluntary contributions of money that
Were made to him annually, for as
have already said, he depended entirely
upon them to maintain his homes and
carry on his work. During the first two
years. 1866 1861. he received and expended
only c214, which is equivalent to little
over thousand dollars In 1878 he re-
ceived c2a39i 1Ss led or about Sl5ooob.
In lSSS the subscriptions reached nearly
S-b0.ooJ in ISIS three-quarters OF mil
lion. ard the last year OF his life almost
million dollars was received by him
from ~. .J91 different givers. OF these g.
G54 contributors sent less than 81: 25,o3
sent between s., and $40: 81 sent thou
sand dollars each: 8 sent $1,000 each and
n sent s. 800 or more. The average gift
was S1037.
Native of Dublin.
DIR. Barnardo was born in Dublin in
1919, of mixed Irish and Spanish stock.
His father was a physician: his mother
was a Quaker. He was educated in Dub
lin, went to London to study medicine.
and. l have told you. was diverted
from his chosen profession by Jim Jarvis.
In the meantime. however, he practiced
medicine to support himself and his boys.
and in October. 1867 he distinguished
himself during an outbreak of cholera
in East London. He died September 10,
1908. and was buried upon the grounds
Of the Girls Villa Home he had built at
| Barkinside. near London. He Left Ia
family of three sons and a daughter. The
latter is the wife of Henry S. Welcome.
q prominent American merchant in Lon
don. One of his sons is a planter on
the Island of Trinidad: another is stu
dent at Oxford
| DIR. Barnardo's theories of social reform
| were based upon the conviction that it
| is necessary to get under a burden In
order to uplift it, and that it Is always
difficult, If not impossible, to reform the
ha bits of an adult. He began at the bot
tom with the outcast child. His motto
was: ITO redeem society We must save
the children" He often said that reform
work among adults is usually failure.
but among children it is always followed
by inspiring results: that If all the neg
lected children of each generation could
| be gathered for education into such
homes as he had founded pauperism
| would almost vanish and crime would be
reduced to minimum. He refused aid
to thousands of adults because he knew
that they were unworthy and would not
encourage pauperism, but he never re-
fused to, aid child
Training of the Children.
The children under his care were trained
for domestic servants He had no less
litdn Thirty -SeNt tll SCIcOlS iiC pOitCNCd
that it was always better to send child
out of England into Canada and Austria
lia where it could have better opportuni-
ties and meet with less temptation than in
England.
He believed that the mind should be
trained so as to develop the intelligence:
that the hands should be trained for "a
trade. and that the heart should be sub
iected to religious influences in order to
M lya eftizanc of the a.
terial he picked up in the streets. The
rules of life that he wrote for his own son
were as follows:
Never do a mean thing.
1T is mean to lie.
1T is mean to allow another boy to be
blamed for your faults.
1T is mean to take advantage of a fell
low VINO does not know about things as
we'll as you do
1T. is awfully mean to take anything
that is not yours even If it is only a
stamp or a pencil button.
Keep honest and always quite straight
in little things.
Always speak the truth
Keep your mind and your thoughts
pure and clean.
Never listen to a boy saying dirty or
rude things.
Never look at another fellow doing
rude things.
Don't forget to pray every day If we
ask God to keep straight and mean it.
He will do So"
DIR. Barnardo's influence was not linn
tied to his own work and to the institu-
tions which he founded. but he was the
leader of movement which resulted in
thorough reform and reorganization of the
almshouses and reformatory institutions
of England.
The Work to Go On.
No change will be made in the charities
he founded. His work will be carried on
under the direction CT William Baker his
chief assistant, and other men and women
he trained for managers of the ninety-four
homes shelters and schools under his
care. He was wise and far-sighted enough
to Incorporate The Barnardo Homes"
with q board of directors composed of
leading business men and philanthropists
of London. The articles of incorporation
were drawn by his own hand. and he left
will setting forth the plans and policy
which he wished to have his successors
follow. Indeed. his death has, stirred up
more interest in his work than was ever
shown before. and one of the results will
be a memorial fund upon which his sue
cessors can depend in the future when
ever the voluntary contributions may be
insufficient to pay the running expenses
Fined $40 Each for Theft.
Ernest Graham and Charles Green were
fined so each today in the Police Court
charged with stealing ten sweaters from
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