The Five Points' House of Industry is located at No. 155 Worth street, New York city. The particular objects and purposes of this association are: I. To assist the destitute to support themselves, by providing for them employment, protection, and instruction, according to their necessities. II. To provide partial or entire support, with suitable instruction, to children and others incapable of self-support, and not satisfactorily provided for by their parents, guardians, or by existing institutions. III. To imbue the objects of its care with the pure principles of Christianity, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures, without bias from the distinctive peculiarities of any individual sect. The institution was incorporated March 3, 1854. It is supported by the voluntary contributions of the charitably disposed, and is not in any way sectarian. The Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society, East Seventy-seventh street, near Third avenue. OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES. Joseph Fatman, President. G. M. Leventritt, Jonas Heller, Michael Schwab, Isaac Rosenfeld, Jacob Goldsmith, Seligman Solomon, Benjamin Nathan, David Forchheimer, Solomon Heyman, Ignatz Stein, Moritz Cohn, The objects and design of this Society are to relieve the sick, succor the poor and needy, support and comfort the widow, clothe, educate, and maintain the orphan; and it was designed to accomplish these objects by the establishment of a well-regulated system of relief to the poor and needy, by founding and maintaining an asylum for Jewish orphans, and by establishing and supporting a home for the aged and indigent. Any Israelite may become a member of this Society on being proposed to, and accepted by the Board of Trustees; and may become a life member, and be exempt from the payment of annual dues, on applying to, and being accepted by the Board of Trustees, on the payment of the sum of one hundred dollars. The House of Mercy, an Episcopal benevolent institution, is situated on the North river, at the foot of Eighty-sixth street. It occupies a very spacious old-fashioned double house, standing in the center of about half an acre of ground. It was founded in the year 1854, by and through the untiring efforts of Mrs. William Richmond, widow of a clergyman of that name. After having secured the home, Mrs. Richmond took upon herself the arduous duties of matron, in which position she remained for about nine years. Finding her health and strength unequal to the double responsibil ity of collecting funds and managing domestic affairs, it was thought best by the trustees, with Mrs. Richmond's approval, to place the institution in the care and under the immediate direction of the Sisters of St. Mary. |