The Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. RACE STREET FROM 20TH TO 21ST. FOUNDED IN 1833. This Institution is supported chiefly by annual appropriations from the State; it has also an annual income from invested legacies. It is under the control of a Board of Managers. Indigent blind persons are admitted and maintained for eight years at the charge of the State; they receive a good practical education in literature and music, and are also taught trades. Those who leave in good standing, but are indigent, receive an outfit of from $50 to $75, to aid them in getting such books, machinery, or apparatus as they may need. Applications for the admission of pupils may be made to the Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, Hon. A. V. Parsons, or to Wm. Chapin, Principal, who will furnish the necessary papers. Children are not usually admitted under 11 years of age, nor if they have sufficient sight to be taught in the public schools. Persons able to pay are charged $300 per annum, or a less sum, according to their ability. The States of New Jersey and Delaware provide for the instruction of their blind in this Institution. Officers of the Institution. Patron, His Excellency JOHN F. HARTRANFT, Governor of the State. Consulting Physician: Dr. J. Forsyth Meigs. Attending Physicians : Dr. Albert H. Smith, J. Francis Fisher, Morris Patterson, John Weigand, : Napoleon B. Kneass, Dr. Geo. C. Harlan. MANAGERS. John Cadwalader, Jr., Edward Y. Townsend, Principal: WILLIAM CHAPIN, A. M. C. C. BURNS, Prefect. Mrs. R. ROSELLE, Matron. Dentist: JAMES TRUMAN, D.D.S. John J. Lytle, J. H. Hutchinson, M.D., The Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men. No. 3518 LANCASTER AVENUE. This is a recent organization for affording employment to blind mechanics and workingmen. It proposes to supply to these men material to be manufactured in the workshop of the "Home," and sold as in any regular business. Blind men, however well they may have learned their trade, have no foothold in workshops of the seeing. They must either labor alone, in which case success is almost hopeless, or else join with others of their own class. From their small numbers, and generally smaller means, they are unable to form co-operative associations, such as have been successfully adopted by workingmen in England during the past few years. Friends of the blind, encouraged by the success of these associations, have organized "Working Homes'' in London, Liverpool, and other cities of England, which have been the means of affording constant employment to a large number of this class, and thus enabling them to support themselves. The Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men is the first organization of this kind in America, and is now opening its doors to these helpless but willing laborers. It offers employment, not alms. With regular employment, it is believed that the larger number of its inmates and outside workmen will support themselves, while the amount that may possibly be needed to supplement the labor of the few, will be but a tithe of what the public is now called upon to give as charity. Men of business will recognize the distinction between aiding a willing laborer and supporting a pauper. Superintendent and Financial Agent: H. L. Hall. Contributions in aid of the enterprise may be forwarded to H. L. Hall, 3518 Lancaster Avenue, or to the Treasurer. Pennsylvania Industrial Home for Blind Women. 3921 LOCUST STREET. This Institution is supported by donations, and by the board paid by inmates. A nominal sum of $2 per week is charged. During the year ending May, 1874, there were 27 inmates. A letter addressed to the President, to the Corre |