Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-31
MRS. H|LLMAN IS
HONORED BY
B MAJ B R|TH
Order Plans Campaign to Swell
Her $4,000 Gift to Home.
Initiation Tonight.

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lanta TO be present at the ceremony.
The work of Mrs. Hillman. 1t was
decided, will be the basis of extensive
operations along the same line
1t Is proposed to solicit subscrip-
lions from prominent Jews through
out the United States. until enough
money has been raised to give the
home an endowment that will provide
a perpetual maintenance fund and
prevent shortages such as have oc-
CURED during the last year.
HIIman Gift Foundation.
Mrs. Hilmans gift is considered a
good foundation of the fund and, in
spired by her example, members of
the order are confident that the work
will be completed within the next
year, when the convention meets
again.
While the work Of raising the
money will be done for the most part
by members of the b mai Birth, Jews
all over the South will aid. and the
campaign will be under the general
direction of Joseph Hirsch, of Atlanta,
who was elected chairman of the
board of directors of the institution,
to take the place of Simon Wolf of
Washington
Mr.. Wolf was made honorary pres
ident of the home Mr. Hirsch will be
aided by the other officers who were
elected Monday-Solomon We'll. Of
Goldsboro, n c., first vice president;
V II. Kregshaber, of Atlanta. second
vice president, and Max Cohen, of
Washington. secretary and treasurer.
Worked Hard for Home.
Mrs. Hillman's donation of $4,000
to the orphanage came as a surprise
to most of the members of the order
who gathered at the home for the Gel
ebration Monday night.
1t was known that she had been
interested in the home for some time,
and that she had been working hard
for its success, but it was not known
that her interest would result in
substantial donation, gift that prom
ses to lift the burden under which Su-
perintendent Som and his associates
have labored, and enable them TO de-
vote their time to the children under
their care, without financial worry.
Mrs. Hillman announced her gift at
the close OF her address which was
one Of the features Of the celebration.
She reviewed the history and the work
of the home. and was optimistic con-
corning its future.
The home must be placed upon a
safe foundation she said, so that
the stigma of failure on our part shall
not be added to the tragedy of death
and poverty and helplessness.
Gifts Testify to Esteeme.
The maintenance of the home has
not always been equal to the need.
Often has the usefulness of the home
been curtailed by a dearth of funds,
and often has the existence of the
home been endangered. This last year
there was a deficit of $4,000 which
the income of the home could not
provide for"
Mrs Hillman was presented with
handsome silver tea set, suitably en-
graved, the gift of the board of di-
rectors, as a token of their apprecia-
ton of her work
Mrs. Hillman was not alone the re-
cipient of a gift by the directors.
Generous individual subscriptions,
prompted by their esteem of various
officers, resulted in the presentation
Of a silver candelabra to Simon Wolf,
the retiring president. Rabbi E. n.
Calisch, of Richmond, made the adj
dress
Then George Solomon. of Savannah,
in behalf Of his fellow directors, pre-
scented Joseph HirsCh with silver
platte, and Max Cohen, of Washing
ton. secretary and treasurer of the
order, was surprised pleas sanity with
a silver set, accompanied by q pres
entation speech by Milton Hirsch. Of
Chicago.
r. A. Som Is Commended.
Mr.. Wolf made the presentation
speech conveying Mrs. Hillman's gift.
and all the recipients acknowledged
the tribute paid them in feeling re-
sponses
Mr.. Cohen, in his report referred to
the admira ole condition of the affairs
OF the home as a fine testimony to the
efficiency and devotion of r. A. Som,
the superintendent
He is conducting the education OF
these children along the line of the
ideal" said Mr. Cohen, and referred
to Mr.. Sonn's enterprise as chairman
of the bureau of collections and infor-
nation in gathering the impressive
total of $4,000 for that bureau in
District No. ..
The celebration Of the twenty fifth
anniversary Of the home was elab-
crate, the exercises being witnessed
by a crowd that filed the hall of the
home The children took part In the
exercises, one Of the features being a
pantomme staged by Mrs. r. A. Som,
Miss Sylvia Spritz and Mrs ]. Green
field.