Visitors.-A cordial welcome awaits visitors from a distance any day, Sundays excepted.

Thursday is the convenient day for visitors, as the Committees can aid the Superintendent.

Saturday afternoon the inmates of the Home receive their friends.

Industrial Home for Girls.

762 SOUTH TENTH STREET. CHARTERED IN 1859.

The object of this Institution is to afford a home for such poor girls, orphans or half orphans, over the age of ten years, as may be brought by parents, or received under the approval of the Judge of a Court of Record for the city and county of Philadelphia, or any President Judge of the Courts of this Commonwealth; to detain,

maintain, educate, and control such girls until proper persons can be found who may be willing to receive them as apprentices to some useful art, trade, calling, or employment, when, with the assent of any Alderman, or Judge of a Court of Record of the city or county, they may be indentured until the age of eighteen years.

The Home is supported entirely by voluntary contributions. It is in the hands of a Board of Trustees, with whom are associated twenty ladies as Managers.

During the sixteen years of the existence of this Institution, nearly four hundred girls have been received into its care, about two hundred girls have been placed in families, ninety-five have done well at service, have served out their time, learned trades, married, or supported themselves respectably.

Physicians: Drs. S. C. Brinckle and J. A. McArthur.

Consulting Physician: Dr. Ellerslie Wallace.

Matron Mrs. Reeves.

Assistant Matron: Mrs. Burton.

Teacher: Miss Westbrook.

The Fuel Savings Society of the City and
Liberties of Philadelphia.

"WHEREAS, The article of Fuel constitutes an important item in the public, as well as private expenditure for the support of the poor, and it being expedient to devise some plan to diminish the increasing demand on public beneficence, and also to afford encouragement to habits of industry and economy; therefore, a number of citizens of Pennsylvania, desirous of promoting these objects, have associated themselves under the title of THE FUEL SAVINGS SOCIETY OF THE CITY AND LIBERTIES OF PHILADELPHIA." —(Preamble to Constitution.)

The officers are a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, Treasurer, and twelve Managers, who constitute a Board, chosen annually.

The Managers have power to elect members of the Society, make by-laws, accept resignations, supply vacancies in their own body, and generally to transact the business of the Society in its recess.

The Managers appoint a Fuel Committee, whose duty it is to purchase fuel on the best terms, and to report their proceedings at each stated meeting.

They appoint suitable agents to receive deposits, who are to pay over the amount when called for by the Managers.

The deposits from any one person are limited by the Board, and are subject to such other regulations as may be adopted.

Coal is furnished to the Depositors at one dollar per ton less than the Society pays therefor at wholesale rates, the deficiency being made up from the Society's funds.

Depositors are entitled to draw Fuel in the winter to the amount of their deposits, subject to such regulations as the Managers may adopt.

According to Article VI. of the Constitution,

"The Society shall have power to assess an annual contribution upon its members for the support of the Institution, provided the clear yearly income of this Society from all sources shall not exceed $2000. Ten dollars in one payment shall constitute lifemembership.

"No officer or other member of the Society shall, directly or indirectly, receive any compensation for services rendered the Institution; nor shall they be responsible for any losses that may occur."

Article VI. of the By-laws reads thus: the Receivers

SEC. I. Shall be appointed by the Board, and they alone shall receive money from depositors.

SEC. II. They shall furnish each depositor with a pass-book, and enter therein the date and amount of each deposit; and the date and amount of all orders for fuel.

SEC. III. They shall keep a regular account of deposits, and furnish a statement to the Board monthly, or at such times as they may direct; and pay over to the Treasurer when called upon, all moneys received.

SEC. IV. No deposits shall be received after the 31st day of tenth month (October), on account of the current year, unless authorized by a resolution of the Board; but deposits may be received at any time on the next year's account.

SEC. V. In giving orders for fuel, if there should be a balance due any depositor, short of the price of a quarter of a ton of coal, the receiver is authorized to give an order on the Treasurer for said balance; and any depositor, or his or her legal representatives, may demand and receive from the Treasurer the full amount of his or her deposits upon an order to be given by the Receiver with whom such deposits have been made, provided that such order has been obtained prior to the first day of 12th month (December), of the current year.

SEC. VI. They shall record in a book the name, residence, and occupation of each depositor; the number of male and female adults in the family; and the number of children.

And Article VII. :

SEC. I. No deposits shall be received, raised by charitable contributions.

SEC. II. Fuel may be delivered to depositors, on and after 12th month (December) 1st.