Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-23
CH|LDREN'S HOME SOCIETY
IN NEED OF FACILITIES
Fifty Children, Now in Receiving
Station, Want Coed
Homes.
SEEK PATRON MEMBERS"
Each OF These, ut Cost OF $50, As
sumcs Burden of Placing Child in
Proper Home, Where 1t Will Be
Well Cared For.

Facing the Children's Home Society
Of Virginia is the desperate need OF
facilities for placing tho big increase
committed to the care Of the society
with no funds with which to work.
There arc Atty children now in the
receiving home on Church Hill await
Ing assignment. They are coming In
at the rate of more than thirty a
month. War conditions have brought
about unusual demands upon the
Childrens Home Society In It's rescue
work among children In destitute cir
cumstances. and increased tho need Of
placing them In good homes as speedily
as possible.
Richmond members OF the board Of
the Childrens Home Gociety OF vir-
ginla have Just held meeting to dis
cuss the problems now confronting the
society. The members Of this board
are John Garland Pollard, Bishop
Collins Denny. r. NJ. Kent, S. S. P.
Patteson, E. Raab. DR.. NJ. D. Hoge. Jr..
r. A. Lancaster, Jr.. Rev. James
Buchanan. E. Randolph williams and
C. p. Walford.
INVITE PATRON MEMBERS
TO TAKE CARE, OF CHILD
It has been carefully estimated that
the amount of $50 is needed to meet
the expenses incident to the placing
of child in homo. It was decided
that immediate steps must be- taken
to provide for the placing of these
children promptly as they are COM
n,itted to the society. and. accordingly.
plan was adopted by which the
friends Of the society are asked to
become patron members which
means that they will be requested to
bear the cost of placing specified
child in good family home. This
week committee Of women will call
upon the people of Richmond to pro.
vide for finding homes for 100 OF these
unfortunate little ones. A preliminary
meeting Of the women having the mat
ter in charge has already been held
at the Young Women's Christian AS
ISOLATION. Another meeting Of all tho
women willing to help in the work
will be held tomorrow afternoon at
4 o'clock at the Young Women; Chris
tion Association.
The Children's Home Society was
organized sixteen years ago. Since
shat time 1t has taken care Of more
Than 2.100 children, md now has under
it's care 1850. It's receiving home is
at 2605 East Franklin Street. It has
recently had to rent an adjoining
building because of the increase in the
number of children committed to It's
care. 1t is estimated that 400 children
will be committed to the society within
the next twelve monhs. The society
not only places children in we'll
selected homes, but employs visitors
to visit the homes of the children from
time to time and to report to the So
ciety on the fitness of the home and
tho progress of the child.
Children are not furnished as SER
wants. but must be treated and edu-
Gated as the children Of the household.
The society makes strong appeal to
those interested in protecting and
caring for unfortunate children; first,
because the methods employed by tho
society, are natural. It places the
child In q home-a natural environ.
ment and also because 1t is economical.
Tho society can care for ten children
for what 1t costs to sustain one child
In an orphan asylum.
An intensive campaign will be in
stltuted next week to raise funds for
the placing OF thss homeless children
now in tho receiving homo on Church
Hill. Y "
tsifl IA t,Ss.4f9 s. ~ j !. ,.ttt ,35J9 $3.50 tE x