Identifier: historyofnewyork01loss (find matches)
Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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orphan asylum and home for aged and indigentJews. In A;ail the consolidation was effected. Their united fundsamounted to about $25,000. This union was hailed with pleasure by the Jewish community. Anew charter, with enlarged powers, was obtained, and the city authori-ties were authorized to appropriate land for the building of an asylum.Meanwhile a bouse was rented in West Thirty-ninth Street, and thirtyorphan children were placed in it. That was in 1860. Demandsupon it increased, and the trustees, having procured the donation ofa lot on the corner of Third Avenue and Seventy-seventh Street, andan additional grant of $30,000, proceeded to the erection of a substan-tial building. The corner-stone was laid in September, 1803, andthe building was completed and dedicated in November, 1863.Anions other measures for increasing the funds of the institution,the great Hebrew Charity Fair, held in 1870, in connection with itstwin sister in charity, Mount Sinai Hospital, was very successful. The
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 127 share of the proceeds which fell to the asylum amounted to nearly$30,000.* The society has in operation an excellent system of education fororphans. There is a home school, in which the Hebrew language,religion, and history are taught. There is also an incidental school, inwhich trades are taught to the boys and sewing and domestic service tothe girls. This department is self-supporting. The girls readily rindplaces in the best of families or in commercial houses when they leavethe asylum. There is a steam printing establishment at the industrialschool, which does all kinds of work in the printing line. A largeportion of the orphans attend the public schools. In 1882 there were three hundred and thirty-seven inmates of theasylum. Provision has been made for the erection of a new orphanasylum, land having been purchased between One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Street and One Hundred and Thirty-eighth streets and TenthAvenue, on the Bloomingdale Road. The office

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