Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-12

Sentence.
 There were 52 visitors at the Wind ham County Temporary Home for Children Wednesday, when the annual meeting of the board of management and committee of visitors was held For the first time in years no one was present to represent the state board of charities and the state board of health.
 The visitors included the board of county commissioners, former county visitors, members of the visitors com mittee, judges of probate and others who hold more than a passing inter est in the institution.
 County Commissioner E. H. Corttis presided at the business meeting. At this meeting repor.s from Superin- tendent Dewitt c. eark and members of the committee of visitors were given.
 MT. Parks report contained inter- esting statistics relative to the home. At the present time there are S1 chil- dren there. 79 regularly committed. the two others boarders. On October 1, 1915. there were 6S children at the home; 22 were received during the year and 15 returned to their homes total, 105. Sixteen were placed in families not relatives. 4 in families of relatives of the children, 6 dischargedi number in the home Oct. l. 1916. 79; total 105. =---.,7
 Children who are now in homes and formerly at the institution were re- ported upon as scattered as follows: Thompson 4. Webster 1. Putnam F, Hampton 1. Union 2. Ashford 1, Sterl- ing l. Colchester 1. Woodstock $. lv- oryton 2. Brooklyn 6. Norwich 1. Pom fret 2. New London l, Kill1ngly l, Hartford ?. PIainfieId 8. Windham 6, Stonington l. Dudley l. Cheshire l, East Hartford 1.
 The children in the home represent the county towns as follows: East ford 1, Woodstock 3. Thompson 4, Sterling 2. Killingly 5. Chaplin $, Brooklyn 5. Ashford 3. Hampton 2; total 79.
 Chairman Corttis called upon rep resentatives of the committee of wis itors to respond for the towns which they represented. and reports were re- ceived from the following: Mrs. c. $. Hyde, Canterbury; Mrs. w. B. Gallup, Chaplin; Mrs. E. A. Douglas. Sterling; Mrs. George Loring, Plainfield; Mrs. E. r. Brown, Windham; Mrs. E. H. Lil Hbridge, Plainfield; Miss Annie H. Tingley, WilIimantic; Mrs. Nellie c. Cleveland, Hampton; Mrs. c. O. Thompson, Pomfret; Mrs. Oscar Tour tellotte. Thompson; Miss M. Riddick, Woodstock.
 During the course of a striking ad- dress Miss Tingley, Willimantic, urged that every member of the committee of visitors make an effort to attend the annual meetings, or, this being impossible, at least to send U report to the superintendent.
 By invitation of Mir. Corttis, F. O.. Davis, Pomfret. and L. E. Smith, Put nam, former county commissioners, addressed the meeting. Probate judges who spoke were: c. 0. Thomp- son, Pomfret; A. Hale Bennett, Can terbury; B. A. Douglas. Sterling; Os- car F. Atwood, Brooklyn: Charles H. Burnham, Hampton.
 Other speakers were County Treas urer Clifford H. Starkweather, Dan- ielson: Thomas J. Thurber,- arT1sI, Put nam Heights; Represen tativeS B. R. Ritch, Woodstock. Fernando c. Ross, Thompson.
 Various speakers paid splendid tri- buteS to Superintendent and Mrs D. c. Park for the excellent manner in which they have conducted the home. MT. Smith, Putnam, spoke especially of the manner in which Mrs. Park shut herself up with the county home children during the long siege with scarlet fever at the home, cared for the children night and day and saved the county hundreds of dollars of ex- penSe by her extraordinary personal efforts and sacrifices From other speakers came generous praise for MT and Mrs D. c. Park, who keep the county home in the front rank of such institutions in Connecticut Every thing is spic and span about the home, out around the grounds. at the barn and everywhere on the premises. The children receive every attention and many of them would regret indeed the necessity of their leaving the home.
 At the close of the business session the guests were entertained by two solos, splendidly sung, by Miss Blanche Douglas, of Sterling. Miss Florence Douglas companiSt The Misses Douglas are daughters of Judge and Mrs. E. A. Douglas.
 The guests were served a fine din- ner and afterwards give nan opportu- nifty to inspect the home and its sur- roundings.