Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
Children's Home in Need of $25, 900;
Appeal Is Issued to the Charitable
HERALD LEADS BY
DONATING 5000
Hospital and Furnishings Are in
Demand for the Care of
Little Waits

unfortunate enough to have no home
of their own will 1t be possible to find
anywhere when the new establishment
of the Los Angeles Orphans Home So
ciety in Colegrove Is completed.
Work has already been begun on the
100000 children's home. to take the
place of the present institution at Yale
and Alpine streets The prominent
women of Los Angeles who have charge
of the present home, and on whom has
rested the responsibility of raising the
funds for the new home, are just be-
ginning to see the frultion of their two
years of labor
But their work is not yet completed,
for they have still to raise 900 with
which to build the hospital which shall
form part of the new home, to furnish
the home itself, and to beautify a por-
ton of the five-acre tract upon which
the buildings are to be located
Within a few weeks the corner stone
for the new institution will be laid,
and before six months have passed the
women hope to have the building com
pleted and to turn the home over to
the children for whom their labors have
been spent.
The new home is located about mile
from Colegrove station, within the Los
Angeles city limits. on a tract given to
the orphans home society by Charles
NJ Stimson. The tract covers one block.
bounded by El Centro, Waring, Vine
and Gregory streets. The home Is be-
ing built on a parcel of land having
80 feet frontage on Waring and 27O
eet on El Centre street, with the Ia
c de on the latter street.
HOME LOCATION ATTRACTIVE
IN Centre and Vine streets are two
ma n thoroughfares running east and
west from Hollywood, and the Los An
geles railway cars running west on
Seventh street to Radium Hot Springs
have their terminus at Melrose avenue
and FL Centre street, one block soutn
of the home. The new institution Will
thus be removed a sufficient distance
from the noise of the city to make 1t
an attractive home for the children.
Architects Parkinson and Bergstrom,
who designed the plans for the new
home have provided model place to
serve as the residence of little waits
under IA while the women OF the in
stitution are looking for permanent
homes for them.
The plans. at present call for four
buildings on the cottage plan, all artist
ically grouped into one by covered pas
sageways. In adopting the cottage plan
it was the idea of the architects and
the women OF the home, who have con-
suited frequently with them, to make
the institution appear as homelike as
possible. The result is an artistic group
of buildings, each two stories high, de-
signed in colonial style and appearing
more like a community of homes than
an orphanage. The buildings will be
of red brick with white trimmings
The three main buildings face east on
El Centre street, while the fourth VIII
have its facade looking south on War
ing street. The central building OF the
three is the administration house. This
is located in the center of tine plot and
is set back fifty feet from the line of
Ell Centro street, leaving ample room
for a spacious lawn and garden. The
plans for this building are comprehen-
sive in their scope and include recep-
ton hail. public and private offices,
living room, dining room, Kitchen, PAN
tries, boiler room, laundry Jan1tor
quarters assembly room, superintend-
ent's apartments, and dormitory All
of the children Of the home, except the
nursery infants, will take their meals
in the commodious dining room of this
building, which is 37X6O feet in size ana
will seat $50 persons.
AIRY ROOMS FOR WAITS
Little waits entering the home for
the first time will look in upon a simply
but we'll furnished reception hall, and
will be uShered thence into the living
room adjoining. while the superintend-
ent busies herself in very business
like appearing office recording certain
important details, such as name, age,
etc. touching upon the new guest.
II the arrival be girl between lO
and IA she will be escorted upstairs,
where she will see a great assembly
room, 37x46 feet, which she will later
learn is for the entertainments and lee
lures which are given for the children.
Passing by the door of this room, her
ewes will be gladdened by the sight of
costly furnished, light, airy, scrupu-
lously clean rooms, having distinct
ly homelike appearance, one OIL Whlch
she will be given for her own There
are ten of these single rooms for the
older girls in the central building, and
in addition there are the apartments OF
the superintendent.
Hf the arrival happen to be smaller
girl between the age Of 5 and 10, she
will be taken through the reception
hall-after having had time to glance
around the living room and offices-to
the girls cottage adjoining the admin
istration building, going through the
covered passageway which connects
the two buildings. She will find on the
first floor of this building a commodi-
Gus play room, such as she never knew
existed in the scheme or Things child
ish.
on the first floor of this cottage are
lockers where the valuables and cloth
ing of the girls are kept; then there is
a cozy living room, large hall with
Vestibules facing also on Ell Centre
street, toilets and play porches.
Upstairs there will be another sur
prise for the visitor. Here are two
dormtories, one with twenty and an
other with ten little beds, made just
to suit the style of little girls. Little
wash stands in the wash room, made
neither too high or too low, will appeal
to the fastidious guests, but may be
anmnpopular feature of the home with
some of the children. A matron's
room, which connects with both dormi-
tories; lockers, toilets and linen rooms
complete the equipment of the cottage.
The second cottage on the other side
OF the administration building is
identical in design with that described,
and is for the boys of the home.
The fourth building of the group is
the nursery. which faces south on
Waring street and is connected with
the girls cottage by the artistic COW
cred passageway The entrance to this
building was made to one side so that
a row of windows could be made on
the south to give the nursery occupants
the benefit Of the entire afternoon sun.
On the first floor Of the nursery is
the reception hall, play room 21 by SO,
dormitory 80 by 33 for twenty beds,
raoro drazeinnr room toilets