Help This Deserving Charity

New York, 1895

We call particular attention to the work of the estimable women who conduct the Children's Home at Mineola. A synopsis of the annual report of the board of managers is printed on the first page of this paper, but it inadequately conveys to the mind of the reader the scope and importance of the work of the Home. A pamphlet embodying all the details of management will be cheerfully forwarded to any person by Mrs. Charles J. Stewart of Jamaica.

The Home is the best charity established in this county. Nothing appeals so strongly to the heart as the sufferings that helpless children in unfortunate circumstances are subjected to. The home furnishes shelter, food, clothing, a limited education, and training in useful handicraft to children that have no home, no parents, and who would otherwise have to be thrust into a poor house under pauper surroundings, or be boarded out in families under wretched and often immoral surroundings. The Home lifts up the minds of the children to planes of virtue, cleanliness, usefulness and good citizenship. It deserves the best support the public can give it. It would be a splendid thing if every household in the county would conclude to contribute annually $5 to its support.

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The Standard, in its opposition to having public printing done by contract, argues that Republican officeholders should be permitted to send their orders where they please. But the Republican Town Committee holds otherwise. That committee censured the Town Clerk for giving an order to a printing office owned by a Democrat. The Republican officeholders themselves brought about the contract system to protect themselves against such censure in the future, and the Democratic officeholders acquiesced for the economy that competition would effect. The Standard's fight for patronage is with its own party.

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District Attorney Noble sent a letter to the board of Supervisors asking for an increase of $500 in the salary of the Assistant District Attorney, and an increase of $350 in the salary of the clerk (his brother-in-law), on the ground of the "great increase of business." If the office is conducted during 1895 the same as during 1894, we expect that a year hence the board of Supervisors will be asked to authorize the appointment of two or three assistant district attorneys' and two or three clerks.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Jan. 11, 1895, p. 4.