New-York tribune., 1912-04-29
HOME FOR MANY ORPHANS
Hebrew Asylum Board Reports
Most Successful Year.
MONEY PAID OUT S111,333
Trustees Adopt Resolutions in
Memory of Mr.. and Mrs,
IsiuOr Straus.

The annual meeting Of the board ~
trustees Of the Hebrew orphan Asylum
was held Yesterday. and the reports tndf-
Gated that the institution at Amsterdam
avenue and I3sth street had most sue
cessful wear.
According To the report ~ President
Louis stern. 1868 children are being taken
care Of In the institution and ESQ ar"
boarding with private families. Three
hundred and siXty-eight children are also
being provided for In their own homes
The average cost per annum Of maintain
ing the children Is $40. OF which the city
Of New York provides Sll1. Thomas ".
Hynes supervisor Of charitable instltu-
tions in the Finance Department. who was
present and spoke. compimented the Off
GERS OF the institution on the economy
with which the children were provided for.
Tho city Of New York would have 10
pay great deal more than $40 year
for each child If II were 10 do the work
Of training and educating them. said Mr..
Hynes He also said that II tho city had
erected the private institutions that pro-
vide for dependents the cost would he
sf25, 900. O00. whereas private CHARITY built
them all for ssO.oOOO00
President Sterns report also showed
that the asylum spent slll.3SSs5 for the
maintenance of its wards during the year
Just past above the funds allowed hr tho
city. which sum was made up out Of The
asylum $ own resources
Mr. Stern also. paid tribut" 20 the
memory Of Mr. Strsus and his wife FOR
their devotion to the institution and I"
each other and he announced that = large
sum OF money had been left 10 the inst
tuition by Mrs Henry Neustadtcr. who
died recently.
Abraham /. Newman. Edward Kerbs
ana samuel Floershemer wer" elected
trustees in place of Marks Arnheim aud
Ernst Thalmann, who died. and William
Levy. resigned. and the entire board o.
trustees and officers was reelected
resolution Of thanks 10 the board for it'
faithful services was offered by Daniel :.
Jacobs
Before the meeting the board Of trus-
tees and all those present witnessed the
military drill OF the inmates.
The annual meeting Of the board was the
occasion for the paying OF tribute 10 the
memory OF Mr. and Mrs Isidor Straus.
lDOtU MI. SlIduS anu p'IisAli'ii '"@H'''
helm, who went down with the Titanic,
gave much to the asylum
In resolution offered by Edward Lauter-
bach the llfe OF Mr. straus and his interest
in charitable Institutions were told Of. but
Il was when Mr.. Lautcrbach related how
Mr. and Mrs. Stratus perished together by
the sinking OF the Titanic that tears came
into the eyes Of Jacob II. 5chih, Louis
Stern, Judge Newburger and the others
present. and many IN the audience bowed
their heads in sorrow. Mr. Lauterbach
said
Conscious as We are OF the devotion OF
thIs n n)ble man for the noble woman MS
wife. his faithful ally, IL could scarce nave
been imagined that the Intensity or thcu
affection was 80 great that their unity had
bet n 40 firmly established. that when death
in It's most alarming aspect came To claim
the husband, Ida StTaus, the VIE tne
mother OF their children. cast aside the
opportunity Of longer existence. OF re-
union with her family. aud. resting upon
the shoulder that had so long sustained
her preferred union in an immediate ap-
palling death TO a widowed existence.
The scriptural parallel pledged q united
life only; her last utterance. we nave
lived together for many years; where you
60 CO." enacted union I'm impending
death Inspiriting as were these lives OF
usefulness. Accomplishment and self-sacrl-
nce, with their splendid example OF domes-
tic happiness and felicity. greater ~ the
stimulation 10 us all toward the lofty Ideal
which their heroic death affords