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come to that city to seek employment, some in poor health, and many of them without friends or means. The object of the Home is, to provide comfortable food and rooms for these poor, but good and virtuous girls, until we can find them work, and to which they may return with confidence, after the toyle [sic] of the day in stores, offices, & shops of the city: and to protect them from danger and temptations, worse than death, to which, you know, they are exposed in all large cities.

The widow and the orphan, the homeless, and friendless, are protected in our home irrespective of creed or nationality. In order to procure this home, we contracted debt, the interest of which we are unable to meet on account of distress prevailing through the state, and the number