The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-08
ANOTHER CHANCE
 FOR NOBLE WORK What Salvation Army Rescue
 Home Is Doing QUARTERS ARE GRANTED Figures On Persons Assisted During Past Year Present Graphic Picture of Importance Of
 the Institution
QUARTERS ARE GRANTED

The following interesting information on the work of the Salvation Army Res cue Home is supplied by Mrs. Richard C. Fell:
 Our women of the state are doing noble work toward the education of girls, but these girls are of the better class and have a certain amount of help besides.
 If visit to the Salvation Army Rescue Houe (similar to the one given to the State federation, where the boys school at East Lake was seem. was provided for the club women of Birmingham I am sure 1t would be helpful to the home.
 In this institution substantial help is given to girls who have no happy homes nor Christian mothers to help them from l the pitfalls into which the young and ignorant so often stumble. | It is an interesting story told by the several officers at the home, how the de- luded girls come seeking shelter in time of dire need of friends. Then there are others sent there when people have re- pudiated them, and who are desperate in their distress. They are about to pass through a tragical time of anguish Ev- cry comfort is provided that the meager accommodations of the home can supply. Then afterwards most of the girls ac- cept this habitation until situations can be secured in families of good standing They are taught In every department of housekeeping and in a reasonable time are enabled to show fine specimens of work. They have music and reading | f0 "a fadf ous hours of regular work.
 The object of this article is to get be- fore the women of Birmingham, and the public generally, conditions which are a drawback to the officers and which may be materially improved at a compara- tive small expense.
 The situation of the home is neither at tractive nor beautiful. It stands in net work of railroads and street car lines; no shade trees, no street Improvements, no room for a garden commensurate with it's demands; no spot to plant a bright flower, nor for the cultivation of a pretty lawn. This environment you see as you approach the house in Avenue E and Thirty-third street.
 There are Il rooms, most of the bed
 
 cupying them regularly and the halls are also filled with beds. Half of the Il rooms are required for Kitchen, dining room, work room, reception room and office. and rooms for the officers, so it is at cnce seen how cramped are the &C., commodations.
 During the year ending October, 1910. 92 young women passed through the home.
 Fifty-eight received substantial help.
 Fifty babies were born.
 Seven babies died.
 Seven babies were adopted.
 Thirty-two women have accepted de- sirable situations.
 Twenty have returned home.
 Two have been transferred.
 Four have run away
 In the year previous seven were well married and now have comfortable homes of their own.
 At present there are three officers who have the care of 16 little babies, their mothers and other inmates who come and go, and the general management Of all the business pertaining to this com mendable institution.
 The management is such that any woman in extreme distress might con fdently expect careful and decent treat ment while there.
 For instance, an Italian couple arrived. friendless in the city, were directed to the home, where the expectant mother received every necessary attention from the management during her stay, while her husband was enabled to hunt for work.
 Here you see baby g months old, Alice, a pet with the officers. She is tho legitimate child of respectable people who lived in one of the suburban towns. Alice was days old when her mother died Her father having no friends with in reach placed her here, where she is tenderly cared for.
 If all this good can be accomplished by the local army, with a small monthly all lowance from the city, a few generous contributions from private citizens, and with the aforesaid discouraging condi- tions, as well as the increasing demand on their small revenue, cannot each of us who readily see the necessity of such an enterprise extend our charity toward this work?
 These people need another and better home. Mrs Borill, a well known lecturer in the work, will be here in January to speak in behalf of new quarters for such a home, and 1t is earnestly hoped that material help will be given by the citi- zens of Birmingham who are willing to assist these indefatigable workers in the highways and byways in our city. MRS. RICHARD c. FELL, Director of the Culture club. December z, 1910