DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEWSPAPERS - The Washington Post, Monday, February 3, 1896, pg. 3 ----¤¤¤---- This file is part of the DCGenWeb Archives Project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm ********************************************* http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************* Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives Project by: Jamie M. Perez (jamiemac@flash.net) --------------------------------------------------- MRS. CLEVELAND A PATRONESS. She Will Attend an Entertainment for the Colored Girls’ Home. Mrs. Cleveland has consented to be present at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, colored, on the evening of the 15th as a patroness of an entertainment to be given in aid of the Home for Friendless Colored Girls. This will be the first time that the President’s wife has visited a colored church in this city since Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes attended a concert by Mme. Selika, given in aid of the St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal Church. The entertainment, which will be graced by Mrs. Cleveland’s presence, will be given under the auspices of the Woman’s Christian Union, which has the Home for Friendless Colored Girls under its management, and Mrs. Cleveland has for some time manifested a friendly interest in the institution, and has given to it cordial support, besides having it brought to the attention of her mother, Mrs. Perrine, Mrs. William Morrison, Mrs. Gen. Schofield, Mrs. Secretary Lamont, and others of her intimate friends. The home has proved to be an institution for much good among the colored people here, and its officers include some of the best known colored citizens of the District. The institution was founded almost a decade ago by the Woman’s Christian Union, and has given shelter and aid to many colored girls who might otherwise have found their way to the work house or jail. The work of the institution is conducted by a board of directors, of which there are eleven members. The present officers are: Mrs. Caroline Taylor, 1152 Sixteenth street, President; Miss L. M. Watson, 1150 Twenty-first street, Secretary, and Mrs. William Syphax, Seventeenth and P streets, Treasurer. The home was first opened in a six-room dwelling on O street, between Sixth and Seventh streets, where it remained for about eighteen months, when it was moved to its present quarters, in Erie street, on Meridian Hill. It has taken in and cared for, since its organization, more than a hundred inmates, some of whom have been provided with homes. Several have died, and others have been returned to their relatives. There are at present sixteen inmates of the home. It was during last winter that the home was by accident brought to the notice of Mrs. Cleveland, and it immediately enlisted her sympathies. By the death of Miss Maria T. Stoddard, who was a long friend of the home, the officials now come into possession of a building site, upon which they are desirous of erecting a spacious building. In order to secure in part the funds necessary for the commencement of the new home a series of entertainments is to be given in the colored churches of this city, the first to be at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, on M street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. Those who have volunteered their services are Mrs. Leiela Brooks, of St. Mary’s Mission; Miss Lulu Homer, of Plymouth Congregational Church; Messrs. Elkins and Harris, of St. Luke’s and St. Mary’s, barytones [sic]; the mixed quartet of St. Luke’s, the male quartet of the Berean Baptist Church, the Orphans and Amphion glee clubs, the Howard University Mandolin and Glee Club, the Metropolitan and other choirs. The Washington Post, Monday, February 3, 1896, pg. 3 ADLAI STEVENSON Will Formally Open the Hebrew Temple Fair on February 10. Vice President Stevenson has consented to formally open the Hebrew Temple Fair on February 10. A large and distinguished company of prominent men of all creeds who have been invited to attend the opening have signified their intention of being present. The occasion will be a significant one in the history of the Washington congregation, whose object is to raise a fund to build a magnificent temple suitable to the Capital City. Messrs. William M. Bass and Alexander Wolf have been added to the press committee, who will issue the Fair Journal daily during the ten days of the fair. The Washington Post, Monday, February 3, 1896, pg. 3 TO PLAY FOR CHARITY. Entertainment for the Benefit of Anacostia’s Poor Tuesday Evening. An entertainment for the relief of the poor is to be given in Anacostia, at the Masonic Hall, Tuesday evening. Over 800 tickets have been sold, and much interest is being taken in the event. The young people of Anacostia have taken great pains in preparing for the entertainment, and have arranged an elaborate programme, with the assistance of the Geraldine Dramatic Club and the National Troubadours. The St. Elizabeth’s Band will also take part. The entertainment will be in two parts, one of which will be an old-fashioned minstrel performance. Sentimental plantation and dialect songs will be given, and an entertaining amateur minstrel show is promised. Ernest Sikken will be the interlocutor, and his end men will be James E. Karnes, R. E. Cannon, bones, and F. S. Hayes and Charles V. Bechtel, tambourines. Among those who will take part are Thomas L. Jones, R. E. Cannon, J. W. Gross, James E. Karnes, Ernest Sikken, Charles V. Bechtel, Lucius Randolph, William P. Hyde, F. S. Hayes, and Miss Maude McDowell. The Geraldine Dramatic Club will then present a programme, in which the participants will be Miss Mollie Daly, Prof. E. H. Saltsman, Miss Mary T. Lloyd, Miss Katherine E. Halloran, J. S. Graves, M. F. Halloran, Miss C. M. Hurworth, Miss E. V. Anderson, and Mr. P. J. Ryan. A scene from “Julius Caesar” will be given by Mr. D. F. Murphy and Mr. H. F. Dolan.