The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-02

corner of Church and Crown streets. and the society was formed under the name of the New Haven Female so- ciety for the Relief of Orphans. Half Orphans and Destitute Children. 4 constitution was ready and officers chosen. Mrs. Abram Heaton was the first president.
 Dr. Knight bought house on Grove street, near Church. which he rented to the ladies for sS0 a year It was not large, this first home of the orphans, and was soon furnished. The first week in May the Daniels children and three from the alms- house were established in the house and Miss Amelia Goodyear was the matrOn.
 In 1888, during Mrs. James L, Kingsley's presidency the asylum family had so increased that it was necessary to buy CT rebuild. So a house was bought in Oak street, near Asylum, and the little family was moved, The first donation day. which
 
 asylum, was in 1S4l.
 At managers meeting in March, 1854, a letter was read from MT. James B. Brewster offering to build a house for the use of the asylum if the town provide the ground, and within a month the deed of gift of the pres ent asylum site was executed It was | occupied in 1855, and from mNthat time until 1881, there were many things which made heavy expense accounts. among them being illness. In 1864 a fair was given by the ladies of the city and the asylum received s6,SS4.52 as a result.
 In 1873 the first solicitation tour" was made for Donation day" 1 Friends of the asylum will wish to know what these children amount to in after life, We think we may say i with truth that they turn out as we'll as the same number of children taken from our rural towns. and who are not the children of poverty and vice, as SD many of these are. ApuhS lidNtitlS III ulI1leu paths
 Us there no hand to lead them? Lambs wand'ring far from shelt'ring fold
 No Shepherd nigh to feed them? Treasures cast up by storm and l Does no one seek, none find them? i Flowers broken rudely from the stem i Will no one careto bind them? An, then were gentle womens souls Filled with q tender yearning To guide, to help, to seek. to save,
 Sorrow to gladness turning. Soon rose the home, upreared sustain 1 By hearts where pity fingers. And year by year the latch string hung
 In reach of children's fingers. Year after year, year after year,
 Ranks thinning, filling, ever, l Weak hands upheld by faith and love,
 Barrel and cruse' fall never. Year after year the come, they go,
 Each year with changes laden And many a sturdy boy departs,
 And many comedy maiden. Not ours to know if Fortune smile,
 Or trials sore oppress them; We bade them when they left godspeed
 And still we pray, God bless them Some reaped reward of honest toll
 In quiet country places,
 Some sought the city, some strange
 lands,
 Where courage danger faces. When wars dark cloud hung low, CTS
 rose
 For peace the glad "Hosanna" ! np mn 1 of cttff
 Upheld the starry banner,
 And when the bells at midnight rung,
 Proclaimed the joyful story, Our children's hands unfurled the flag
 They sang "To God be glory, As through the century's half-closed
 We peer with eager glances.. Note where the darkest shadows lie,
 And where the sunshine dances Behold the long procession pass,
 Hear of those years the story.
 His banner over Us" we raise To whom belongs the glory. And as Faith sreets the Future while
 The Past a moment fingers,
 She sees tn, latch string hanging stll
 In reach of childrens fingers.
 By Miss Sarah E. Harrison, sister oi Governor Harrison
 twenty-five years was then read by Rev. MT Wykoff assistant pastor of United church.
 "To speak of the last twenty-f years of asylum life is to speak espe- cially of the life and work of our pres l tr chosen in May 1883, and gave unspar- ingly of her life and spirit to the work of the asylum until the time of her last illness. which was followed shortly by her death on December 2S, 1906.
 One of her first undertakings was the erection of the schoolhouse which stands south of the home Ground was broken for it in 1884. March 27
 In 1881 the average number of chil. dren under our care was 160, twice the number that we had when the board of education took charge of tht asylum schools in 1882
 The new building was opened ana dedicated on Sunday, August 31, 1884 and on the following day the tern opened. This schoolhouse is used fol Sunday afternoon service and for tho Christmas festivals. The Christina, dinner given for thirty-six years by Abram Heaton has been followed fol thirty-six years by his daughter, Mrs John R. Robertson, whose recent death has destroyed the last close tic of the asylum with the generation ot it's founders. The Donation day exer. cises are also held here.
 In 1899 kindergarten was started for children between the ages of three and five years, and there are twenty