The Lincoln Institution. 308 SOUTH ELEVENTH STREET. INCORPORATED 1866. "Its object is to provide a home for the care and training of white boys and youths, and for the orphan sons of white soldiers and sailors of the United States " (Constitution, Art. 1.) It is supported by voluntary contributions, and by the board paid by or for some of the inmates. The State of Pennsylvania pays $125 per annum for each boy sent by the Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans (office at Harrisburg). Corporators are constituted by annual payments of two dollars or more. The Institution is under the control of a Board of Managers of thirty ladies and a Board of Council of not more than thirty gentlemen, elected annually by the Society. Six clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and four physicians, are appointed, to visit the Institution in rotation, for two months each year. A Committee of the Managers attends at the Institution every Tuesday, at 11 o'clock A. M., to admit and dismiss inmates. In the Annual Report, issued January, 1874, the council say : "The statistics of the Institution show that there have been 238 boys received by it since its formation, of whom 120 are at present with it. Of the remaining, five have died, some have been transferred to country schools by order of the State Superintendent, and the balance have been returned to their mothers, they all being over 16, and in a position where they are enabled not only to earn enough for their own support, but also to contribute to that of their mothers. No stronger argument in favor of the system of the Institution can be produced, than the simple recital of this fact. Of those now in the Institution, 80 are working-boys; the remaining 40 have been transferred to the Educational Home for Boys. The total number of boys at work during the year is 84." The Board of Managers say, in their report : "We are gratified to be able to record the fact, that the much needed nursery for our smaller pupils and a Home for all time for orphan and destitute boys, has been most auspiciously completed under the corporate title of "The Educational Home for Boys." Its charter provides that the officers of this Institution shall always be ex-officio members; thus legally binding them together. Through the generosity of a gentleman and lady of this city, a square of ground on 49th Streets between Greenway and Kingsessing Avenues, has been presented to this new Institution. A most complete building, capable of accommodating one hundred and fifty boys, is now erected. It cost forty-eight thousand dollars, and Consulting Surgeon: Dr. George W. Norris. Superintendent: Mr. C. F. Pearson. Assistant Superintendent: Mr. John Pearson. Matron Mrs. M. N. Weatherly. Teachers: Miss Toland and Mrs. Pine. The Educational Home for Boys, FORTY-NINTH AND GREENWAY AVENUE, Was incorporated November, 1871, to act in connection with the Lincoln Institution, and for the care and education of orphan and destitute white boys from two years old and upward. The building was opened December 1, 1873; since then 130 children have been received. When they arrive at twelve or thirteen years of age they are transferred to the Lincoln and put at trades or other work. It will accommodate 200 children; which number will be received as soon as funds are donated for their support. Consulting Surgeon: Dr. F. F. Maury. Consulting Physician: Dr. R. M. Girvin. Attending Physicians: Drs. M. B. Musser, Chas. W. Fox, Wm C. Dixon, S. S. Stryker, Jr. Day-Nursery for Children. No. 410 BLIGHT ST., BETWEEN PINE AND LOMBARD, BELOW BROAD. Established April, 1863. The object of the Day Nursery is to receive and care for, during the day, the young children of poor, industrious working women, whose employment calls them from their homes, and who would otherwise be obliged to leave their children entirely without protection, and subject to the perils of fire and accident. A payment of 6 cents a day is required from the mother of each child. No child is received unless the mother is employed away from her home. Children must be brought to the Nursery as clean as circumstances will allow. Three meals a day are given of good, wholesome food, and washing and bathing are strictly attended to. Children are received at 6 o'clock in the morning, and none are admitted who are over eight years of age. They must be called for and taken away by their mothers by 7 o'clock in the evening. Such instruction as they are capable of receiving, is given them by the Matron, who also exercises a careful supervision in the play-room which is provided for them. Those who are old enough are sent to the Public Schools, and return to the Nursery for meals and during the school recess. The Nursery is visited daily in turn by one or more of the Managers. |