The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-23
 STRIKING APPEAL IS \ MADE BY DR. OXNAM' Tells Commission What the Pisgah Home Is Doing RECIPES SOME CASES Large Number of Spectators Deeply Touched by Words of Man Now Eager to Extend Work
 of the Home
RECIPES SOME CASES

| The commissioners and three score spectators at the commission meeting listened with breathless interest to an peal yesterday morning for the Pisgah home made by Dr. C. O. OSnam. who is with his assistant. Mir. squires. in charge of that work Rccitals of prlva- tions. hardshlps, mercy bestowed and d countless array of good deeds per- formed. revealed to the commission vista of work the Pisgah home is doing that to most of those present was revelation
 The officials of the home wish to secure from the city an appropriation of $50 per month as against con siderably less sum given in the past. 1 With 12 months of hard work and ah inspiring record to point to the Pisgah
 officials accompanied by band of local charitable citizens approached the commissioners.
 Preceding the statement of pr. Ox- nam the commissioners heard R. NJ. Jenkins, Mrs Cyrus Pittman Orr, and Isadore Shapiro. whereupon the man on the firing line stood before the com mlssioners.
 pr. ONnam told the commissioners that no person whether In rags and penniless or belonging to good fam il. but afraid of the awful truth was ever turned away from the Pisgah home. He averred that no person. how ever near vixen or however much ad- dieted to the misery bringing drug. was ever given the back of the back" by Pisgah home officials lie said that under no circumstances was anyone re- qured to subscribe to red tape vr countless regulations before receiving suecor.
 "i would enumerate to you gentlemen Ia countless number of cases that we have taken.7 said Dr. Oxnam but with many of them you gentlemen are more or less familiar. Mir Exum will doubt
 less recall while Judge Lane and MT. Weatherly were away that we received, a drug hend from him. 1 told th1t man to brace up. retained him at [ home for three months. and he is ne an upright honest citizen livnee Montgomery csring for a wife he i.s often abused could tell you of k young woman who tramped to Br- mingham from Alabama City with a heart breaking for her first misstep. 1 could tell you of the subsequent mar riage of that young woman to a man who now loves her and of their happy life with their parents in Pennsylvania. could tell you of young man who came here broke and as Judge Lane knows, we saved from prison. IKs js /, now one of the most valued sale jmY<e a local commercial house. ma enumerate countless cases of 'lfssed persons coming to us for aid fAnd se celving every power that wte ta6 tn straighten them out. l want i'd say herA and now that Mir. Squires and uiyse feel deeply the encouragement that7h1 been given us here The people and ltl3 officials have been good to us and pi3 for them we could scarcely have easH ried this work on. We are now tryint N to get fund for permanent homa and we wish the city to donate thisA amount monthly to us"
 The commissioners could not under the law take action yesterday on the financial petition but will perhaps take favorable action next Tuesday.