The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-31
Mrs. Orr's Illness Brings Crisis in Affairs of Well
 Known Institution
WORK IN PAST HAS
 BEEN FAR-REACHING
Hundreds of Men and Women Given New Start at the Home During the Past
 Year

P1Sgah Home, one or blrnlhBHeH 9 best known and most far-reaching char ities, is in distress, and in danger of f. nancial collapse unless immediate aid is forthcoming.
 For many months Mrs. C. T.. Orr has been rhe guiding spirit of the institu- tion, and she has always managed some way to have the money supplied with which to keep the institution going. But new she is seriously i'll and is unable to give the home any aid whatever. pr. Carl Henckel, who has done so much toward looking after the welfare of the inmates who are carried to the home, admits that he does not know how to raise money nor how to collect it. c. F. Orr who is treasurer of the home, for a number of weeks has been carrying o1. the expenses from his own pocket, but feels that he cannot bear this finan- cial burden any longer
 Those who have been so active in the homes work, however, feel it is only necessary to call the attention of the people of Birmingham to the situation, and that they will prevent the home from being closed.
 WORK IS UNIQUE
 Pisgah Home is a unique charity which fills place which is not met by any other institution. It has a capacity of nearly 100, and it takes people within it's portals who can find no place else to go. It takes the man who is down and out. It takes the newcomer who ;c temporarily out of money and needs something to eat until he can get job and a new start. It takes convalescent charity patients from the hospitals who are not yet strong enough to do any work and who needs some attention un- til they can get back on their feet and land a new job. It takes women who are in trouble and helps them through their trying times and gives them pleas ant surroundings until they can face their new circumstances with proper courage to go out into the world. It has cared for hundreds of drug and opiate victims who have been treated there, and it is stated that fully 80 per cent of the drug victims who have been in the home in past years are now com pletely cured and are living new lives.
 Pisgah Home in Birmingham has proved it's usefulness in thousand ways. OHe Ol lHo STedleSt dCtOrS on the American stage today was picked up ir the gutter in Birmingham not so many years ago and carried to Pisgah Home where he stayed three months. His present eminent position on the stage shows what the home did for him. A man who was formerly head of the sales forces in one of the largest corporations in America went to pieces and finally landed in Birmingham and in Pisgah II<,,. Tola ,1 t. sibe position.
 MANY COME BACK
 Many of the patients who nave gone to the home have stumbled and fallen again after leaving the institution and have come back to try it again. They are always welcomed and given another trial Each time they have little more courage and finally reach the point where they don't have to come again.
 man who had had his leg amputa ted was turned out of a hospital yesterday but was too weak to do anything. Pisgah Home seemed the only place for him to go until he got enough strength to find some kind of work that man can do without a leg. And at Pisgah Home he is.
 A beautiful young girl with a weak ness for drink has been at the home per- haps eight or ten times. Each time she has gone forth she has ultimately been brought back. Now, at last, she says she is all right
 People who leave are so full of grati- tude that they always send back their mite to help the home In it's work when they get on their feet. The home S heaviest work is during the winter months, but there are nearly 25 inmates in the home today.
 EXTENT OE HOMEvS WOpK