The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
FACTS AND FIGURES CONCERNING
|ND|ANKS HOMELESS CHILDREN
lula E. Works Home, of This City, Is
Largest Institution of Its Kind
in the State

children and placed three; the Allen
County Home which has 60 children
and placed Is; the Clark County
Home, which has 80 children and
placed one, and the Daviess County
Home, which has % children and
did not place any. There were four
teen orphans homes in the State
which last year placed less than five
children each These institutions,
with their population on December
81, 1908, are as follows:
Children Placed in 1908 in Boone
County, Lebanon, 4, Population Dec
81 2; Children Placed at Clarke
County, Jeffersonville, 1, Population
80: Daviess County, Washington
80; Children placed at Davies County
Washington None Population %;
Children placed at Decatur County,
Greensburg, None. Population q;
Children placed at Floyd County,
New Albany, 3, Population II; Chill
dren placed at Franklin County,
Brookville 3, Population 6; Children
placed at jefferson County, Madison,
3, Population %; Children placed at
Lagrange County, Lagrange, 3, Pop
ulation 10; Children placed at Ger
man Protestant Home, indianapolis.
3, Population ~; Children placed at
Home for Friendless Colored Chill
dren, Indianapolis 3, Population 81;
Children placed at Julia E Works
Training School, Plymouth, 2, Popu-
laton 23s; Children placed at Spenc-
er County, Rockport 2, Population
10; Children placed at Vanderburgh
County, Colored Home, Evansville.
3 Population 16; Children placed at
Warrick County, Boonville 3, Pop
ulation 6.
In some instances, notably the De-
catur County Home, all the place
able children had been transferred
TO familie and those on hand were
of less desirable class.
1t is striking fact that the Floyd
County Home. with IL children, and
the Spencer County Home, with 10.
placed the same number of children
as the Julia F. Work Training School
which has 23s inmates. 1t must be
remembered that the latter institu-
ton makes speciality OF caring for
detectives, but at the same time It
has nearly hundred placeable chill
dren IN its care The Franklin Coun-
ty Home with 6 children, the La
grange County Home with 10, the
Vanderburgh County Colored Home
with 16. and the Warrick County
Home with 6. placed as many chill
dren during the year as the Jefferson
County Home with % children, the
German Protestant Home in Indian
apols with AZ and the indianapolis
Home or Friendless Colored Chill
dren with 81 TIE ST. Joseph, Allen
and Grand County Homes, with SO
60 and rs children respectively, plac-
ed the same number of children, 1,
each. as the Madison County Home
which had 30 children at the close Of
the year
There are fifteen orphans homes
IN the State which on December 81
1905, had more than forty inmates
The number ranged from Al in the
Delaware County Home at Muncie
to 23s in the Julia E. Work Train
ing School at Plymouth Five Of
these institutions (the Children:
Home Society, the Vigo and Marion
County Boards of Children's Guar
dams, the Indianapolis Orphans Asy-
lum and the German Baptist o.
phans' Home) placed 300 children
during the year 1908 and had 3s7 re
naming, the other ten placed II:
and had s35 remaining. OF these fif
teen largest homes in the State
therefore, the FIVE first mentioned dix
three times the placing that the othe
ten did