Leake and Watts Orphan House 1918 To reach the Institution take: The Broadway subway to Van Cortlandt Park, there the Yonkers surface car to Val- entine Lane, then walk west to Hawthorne Avenue; or The New York Central Railroad to Yonkers station, then the Riverdale Avenue surface car south to Valentine Lane and walk west to Hawthorne Avenue; or The Putnam Division of the New York Cen- tral to Lowerre station and walk west. Communications relating to the Home may be addressed to A. S. McClain, Superintendent, 463 Hawthorne Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. Visitors are always welcome. ovum? 6dx£I Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Gift of Seymour B. Durst Old York Library RECEPTION COTTAGE CENTRAL BUILDING Report OF THE Leake and Watts Orphan H HOMES Hawthorne Avenue and New York City Line Yonkers, N. Y. and Rose Hill Farm, Tivoli, N. Y. EIGHTY EIGHTH YEAR 1918 Methods of Receiving Children Children between six and twelve years of age are received on application to the Superintendent or by commitment from the New York City Department of Charities, or from a County Superintendent of the Poor or Commissioner of Charities and Correction. A limited number of children under or over the above ages may be received by special arrangement, on application to the Superintendent. Historical Sketch 1831 — Act of Incorporation, in accordance with the will of John George Leake and through the co-operation of his brother-in-law, John Watts. Controlling body — an ex-officio Board of Trustees pro- vided for in the will of John George Leake. 1843 — The first home opened at 110th Street, New York City. 1884 — Alumni Association organized. 1888— First site sold to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. 1891 — Present building opened. 1896 — Gymnasium wing and girls' annex added, largely through generosity of Gen. John Watts dePeyster. 1905— Eose Hill Farm at Tivoli, N. Y., left to the insti- tution by Gen. John Watts dePeyster. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 http://archive.org/details/reportofleakewatOOIeak Another Year in the Leake and Watts Orphan House The Leake and Watts Orphan House during the year 1918 has cared for the largest family in its history. So many are the children who have been bereft of father or mother, or both, by the war and its consequences or by the influenza epidemic, that like other institutions, we have been almost compelled to stretch our capacity to its utmost limit. To do this, in the face of war condi- tions, has been, as every one will readily understand, a heavy strain upon our resources. The advances in price of almost all commodities have been so great from month to month that not even with our careful system have we always been able to keep within our monthly budget. As we look back, however, it is difficult to see where we could have cut down without the sacrifice of the health, the happiness, or the prepara- tion for the future which we try to guarantee the children entrusted to us. Though in many respects the past year has undoubt- edly been the most trying in the history of the home, in the life of the boys and girls it would seem to have been one of the very best. It has been full of varied and un- usual experiences, and yet the normal course of their lives has not suffered. They have worked and studied as earnestly and played as vigorously as ever, have eaten heartily and have spent long hours in sound sleep. Never has our family as a whole been in better health or more contented and happy. 5 LEAKE AND WATTS PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILDREN One does not live long among boys and girls without realizing the almost paramount importance of their health. To insure a happy childhood and a successful future to the children under our care, we realize that we must start them with as perfect bodies as possible. Some of our children, it is true, come directly from homes of intelligent and proper care, homes broken only by death. Others have been taken from amidst deep poverty or from parent or guardian unworthy of the name, and our task is then not merely to keep them well, but to make them healthy and strong. Every report of our work must, therefore, begin with what has been done toward physical development. In the past year 29 children upon coming to us have been tested for and fitted to glasses, in each instance by a specialist, making 47 at present wearing glasses, and, what is more, wearing them as directed, thanks to the watchful care of the supervisors and teachers. Adenoid and tonsil operations have been performed upon 16 chil- dren and 7 entering with old cases of ear trouble have received treatment or operation. That we have our own dental clinic has been a cause for congratulation during the past year. With our large family, it is a question whether the work could have been covered in any other way. The report of our attending dentist shows 79 first sittings, 490 subsequent sittings, 84 examinations, 98 cleanings, 221 extractions, 57 treat- ments, 141 cement and 252 amalgam fillings, 13 root canal fillings, and a re-inspection at the end of the year of the teeth of all the children. In the corrective classes both teacher and pupils have again put forth earnest efforts to strengthen weak foot muscles, straighten bent shoulders and broaden narrow chests. The numbers assigned to these classes show the need of the work. Out of a family of 250 children, over 6 ORPHAN HOUSE 200 have been enrolled for a longer or shorter period. Many of the boys and girls have taken such interest in their exercises that the improvement in their appearance and health has been very noticeable. Several cases of foot trouble not amenable to correction by exercises have been greatly benefited by operation, arch supports, or special shoes, as the case required. The past months we have paid greater attention than ever to the children's diet. Much in the way of food we have, as usual, raised ourselves, especially the green vegetables, in which, modern science tells us, so much virtue resides. These have helped to give variety and to balance our menus. The making out of the bill of fare is no easy task, so many things have to be taken into account. We consider the likes and dislikes of the chil- dren as far as possible, and yet we try to teach them to eat the things essential to health, even if they do not at first fancy them. With any particular child our troubles in this respect are usually over when he begins to realize the connection that exists between his food and his phys- ical development. In such good condition were our children last fall that we had hoped to escape the prevalent influenza, but, in spite of rigid precautions, it finally reached us, though in most cases not in a severe form. We regret to report, however, that we lost two boys, who were very ill from the first. The other children recovered rapidly and with no serious after-effects. As some indication of the present good health of our family, we might say that seldom, if ever, have we had as few in the infirmary, even when our numbers were considerably smaller. Moreover, the general appear- ance of the children has never been better. The report of the first re-weighing in the new year is most encourag- ing, showing an average gain during six months of lYz pounds — our highest record. 7 LEAKE AND WATTS TRAINING OF MIND AND HAND First, under the above heading, we must speak of our system of mental testing, as it continues to be the greatest help in determining where a child belongs in both aca- demic and vocational work. By means of the Stanford Eevision of the Binet Test and the Yerkes Point Scale, each child is tested and the resulting information is used as a guide in assigning him to his school grade. If a child coming to us proves to be decidedly sub- normal, he is returned to those responsible for him, with a full report of the results of all examinations and with whatever suggestions we are able to make in his case. It is hard to reject any child, but, in justice to himself and to the other children, we cannot- keep one who either mentally or physically needs special treatment for which we have no facilities. In the case of a child found to be retarded only two or three years, every effort is made to meet his condition and he is re-tested later. Often a doubtful case will be found after six months' sojourn with us to have gained a year or more mentally, which fact fully establishes his normality and shows that the retardation so manifest on admission was due solely to outside handicaps and not to lack of ability. These mental tests are an especial help to us in ad- justing tho.se children who really belong to no particular academic grade, and who must be especially encouraged and guided if they are to obtain the simplest rudiments of an every day education. For this small group we have had this past year what we call our Mixed Primary Class, under the leadership of a teacher who by training and disposition is well fitted to cope with the divers prob- lems presented by .such children. In this Mixed Primary Class are found, of course, chiefly those children who on account of mental handicap 8 OUR GRADUATING CLASS M A X TAL TRAINING THE PRINT SHOP ORPHAN HOUSE cannot travel far along life's educational highways, but there are also boys and girls whose mentality is at least average, as their tests show plainly, but who, because of lack of opportunities, are far below the standard of aca- demic grading for their age. The extra help afforded by group work in the several subjects has enabled many of this latter number to take their places in the regular school grades after a few weeks or months in the Mixed Primary. At the beginning of the present school year an extra class-room and equipment was added to our educational department, to provide for the increased number of pupils. For the first time we shall have in June a grad- uating class of our own. The organization of this class has been a pleasure and an inspiration to us all and we feel that from Kindergarten to Eighth Grade we have reason to be proud of our school. In the day's schooling, under our plan, at least four hours have been devoted to the all-important ' 1 Three RV, while free and supervised play periods and pre- vocational work also have had their place. Our super- vised evening study hour for the higher grades we have found a great help in keeping the academic work up to standard. Since our last report 9 pupils have made such rapid progress that they have been advanced a half year, while three have skipped an entire year. This past term 25% have been on the honor roll, snowing that they have attained an average in class-room work of 90% or more. In manual training the upper grade boys have spent not less than four hours a week, and, besides shop work, much practical carpentry has been done by them in and around the building. The printing outfit so generously given by the Leake and Watts Alumni Association has been of great value to the children vocationally, as well as to the institution financially. Our office stationery has been printed by the 9 LEAKE AND WATTS boys, and, in addition, they have recently undertaken the publication of a four page monthly paper, which chron- icles the doings of both children and staff. That this work in the print shop is not without its commercial value is shown by the fact that several boys obliged to leave us before the completion of their Eighth Grade work have been able to obtain creditable positions in outside print- ing offices. Gardening has again been part of the training of the older boys. Our horticulture classes have proved both interesting and instructive. They have helped to provide many of the vegetables for our use, also plants and flowers to brighten the dining-room and class-rooms. Our pre-vocational work for the girls has included, as before, lessons in cooking and serving, laundry work, 6ewing, mending, embroidering and crocheting. The girls have also, in their four-room practice apartment, been taught the proper care of a home. In all this work, as well as in their daily tasks about the house, we have tried this year, even more than ever before, to harmonize theory and practical application. We must not fail to mention our High School pupils. As in former years, they have attended the Yonkers High School. Some of them are taking advantage of the excel- lent commercial course there given to fit themselves for business positions; others are ambitiously pursuing the college preparatory course. Great was our surprise and delight last June when two of our boys were each award- ed a $1200.00 scholarship, which will enable them after leaving us to go to college, for the full four years' course, a privilege which does not often come to institution children. PATRIOTIC SERVICE Before the end of the war the stars on our Alumni Service Flag numbered between eighty and ninety. With nearly all the boys represented by these stars we have 16 ORPHAN HOUSE been in almost constant touch. As long as regulations permitted, packages containing knit goods, candies, and comforts of all kinds were sent to both those abroad and those in camp in this country. But more than anything that we did for them, we count what they did for us. Their frequent and lengthy letters were a never failing source of inspiration to both staff and children; their cheerfulness and courage under the most adverse condi- tions made us feel that our burdens were indeed light compared with theirs. Many of these boys have been slightly wounded, a few sleep in foreign soil, but the majority are coming back to us in the best of health and spirits. Those already home have lost no time in visiting the institution, even when they have landed in other ports than that of New York. Our pride in the boys who so nobly represented us would be to them mere empty boasting, if they did not know that we have been helping here at home. Over $6,000.00 worth of Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps were purchased by our family during the year. The children's real share in this amount is shown by the fact that our school was among the private schools of Westchester County to be on the Honor Eoll for the pur- chase of War Savings Stamps, our pupils having reached a per capita of $10.05. In all of the Liberty Loan campaigns our Boy Scouts were most active, in the fourth issue selling over $12,- 000.00 worth of bonds. Our Girl Scout Troop, as a unit of the Yonkers branch of the Girls' Patriotic Service League, last spring had a place in one of the great Red Cross parades, and in the early fall took part in an his- torical pageant given to arouse enthusiasm for the Red Cross drive. Patriotic service also might be called the gardening and canning done by the children in their vocational 11 LEAKE AND WATTS classes. Last season they surpassed their record of the year before, putting away no less than 9000 quarts of vegetables and fruits, canned or dried. RECREATION If under the children's recreation we include both their play and their social activities, the year would seem to have been remarkably full of pleasure and interest. Organized sports have again claimed a large share of the free time of the older boys. They have played baseball during the summer months among themselves and with neighboring school and Scout teams. In the winter our fine gymnasium has given them as usual an easy excellence in basket ball. At present our first team is engaged in a series of contests with the different Scout units of Yonkers and bids fair, as always, to do us credit. Our older girls have also been enthusiastic over bas- ketball. A picked girls' team recently played the second team of the boys, coming out with a tie. Like the boys, they have taken long walks and have been initiated into some of the charms of woodcraft and outdoor cooking. For the stormy holiday or the spare moment there has always been a piano available or a book or game at hand. The younger children have had, as in other years, their daily periods of supervised play, and time besides to be together or alone, as they might choose, with their own games and their own toys. We encourage all the children to spend as much of their play time as possible out of doors, and this past year they have responded even more willingly than usual. Never have individual gardens, .swings, see-saws, marbles, kites, been more attractive. Coasting, too, was most popular, when we had such snow as fell in the early months of 1918. Anxious as was that winter for the grown-ups, for a healthy, active child it was in many ways ideal. Last summer a number of our older boys went to our 12 GJRL SCOUTS BASKET BALL ORPHAN HOUSE farm at Tivoli-on-Hudson, where they did good work and had plenty of boating and swimming besides. The chance to go to the farm is always greatly coveted, so attractive is the place. For the children here we had a new source of pleasure — a motor boat, which was loaned them for the summer. In this, different groups went across the river for all day picnics, and one party with the Superintendent made the trip to Tivoli. We had hoped to take some of the older boys and possibly the older girls camping, but the necessary curtailment in many places of such privileges because of the proximity of the great military camps made this impossible. Perhaps another summer we may be able to realize for the children this cherished dream. Scattered throughout the year we have had a number of different entertainments, prepared by the children themselves or furnished by outside friends, and have listened to stirring talks on patriotism and kindred pres- ent-day topics. The literary society has done the most serious work in its history, at one of the meetings this winter attempting the first formal debate. Our weekly piano classes, conducted by a teacher from the New York Music School Settlement, have again been a source of delight to those privileged to attend. During the year the older boys and girls have met in several social gatherings, while on Washington's Birth- day, Hallowe'en, and other special occasions, different groups of our large family have held their own parties. Our moving picture machine on many a Saturday evening has provided both amusement and instruction. Christmas was, of course, a wonderful time for the children, and for all of us in fact, so recently had the cloud of war been lifted from the world. Not a child was forgotten in Santa Claus' visit, those who had no rel- atives to remind him of them being put on his list by a new friend of the home. 13 LEAKE AND WATTS An unusual treat was the Christmas dinner which about fifty of our older boys and girls enjoyed on board of one of the great army transports while it was in har- bor. Their hosts, the officers and sailors, spared no pains to make the day instructive and delightful to their young guests, even providing a tree ladened with remarkably well chosen gifts. During the Christmas recess two groups of boys and girls had the keen pleasure of going to the Hippodrome, through the kindness of generous friends of the institution. Other interesting experiences of the children during the year have been mentioned in the report of their patriotic service. Aside from the pleasure derived by our boys and girls from their patriotic work, we feel that it has been a great advantage to them to have associated with so many people in so many different ways. It has been an education in national affairs, business methods and social usages, which will be of inestimable value to them in the years to come. CHARACTER FORMING In the very nature of things this part of our work is more difficult to report than, for example, the physical development of the children, which can be judged in terms of inches and pounds, of color and appetite. Our conduct chart furnishes some help, it is true, and yet it is necessarily an uncertain gauge. The happy spirit of the children, their friendly attitude toward each other and toward those who care for and teach them, the cheerful way in which they perform their duties in the class-room and about the house and in which they accept the little responsibilities placed upon them, these are perhaps the real indications of the fine character of our boys and girls taken together as a family. In judging the character development of the individual child, we try to remember that all lasting growth is slow. It is only when we ,stop to think back that we realize, often 14 ORPHAN HOUSE with surprise, what great improvement has been made; how the marring trait in one child has gradually disap- peared, and, in another, the good qualities have become more firmly established. The religious training in the home is intensely prac- tical. In our daily assembly before the school hour, the few verses of the Bible read, the hymn sung, and the short prayer offered, are all within the children's under- standing, and the word of warning or encouragement added touches always their daily life. On Sundays, our olders boys and girls have the addi- tional inspiration of worshipping with others in the morning service of the neighboring churches of several denominations, in one of which a group of our boys con- stitutes the choir. For the benefit of the smaller children we have in the afternoon a short Sunday school session. This work of character moulding, however quietly and slowly it goes on, is, in the last analysis, our most im- portant task. Especially in this day, what greater work can any of us do for his country and for the world at large than to help the children to grow up into men and women who, in some measure at least, have the vision of the helpful Christian life? AFTER-CARE Our boys in service have received perhaps more of our attention during the past year than have the other boys or girls who have passed out of our immediate care. But it has been the other alumni, in their splendid association, who have stood back of the home financially in what we have tried to do for our soldier and sailor boys. This work has, therefore, been more far-reaching than would appear at first sight. As in previous years, we have attempted to aid the boys and girls needing positions and those capable of filling better places than they at present hold. In this 15 LEAKE AND WATTS again the Alumni Association has been of the greatest assistance. The Association has also, in several instan- ces, paid a small benefit to help tide a member over a dis- tressful period, caused by illness or other unlooked-for trouble. We always welcome to the old home at Thanksgiving and Christmas our former boys and girls who have no stronger ties. Every Fourth of July these and a hundred or more others, some of them now accompanied by their families, take possession of the place. Already the boys returning are talking of the glorious reunion there will be this coming Fourth, when all are back from over-seas. The old boys and girls not only show a kindly regard for each other, but, by way of appreciation of what has been done for them by the home, manifest an active in- terest in those who have taken their places. Last June, at our school closing, one of the alumni, now a successful business man, offered $100.00 in prizes for the year to come for excellence and for improvement in deportment, vocational work and scholarship.. Relevant here, perhaps, is a recent interesting hap- pening in connection with our records. We received a letter not long since from a man who left the home forty- two years ago, asking if we could give him any informa- tion which might put him in touch with his possible living kin. As our back files had been carefully gone over a few years ago, we were able to give him a brief account of the circumstances of his admission to the home, with the names of his then living relatives. We hope that only good may come to him and to others in the possible resul- tant knitting up of old ties. We might add that quite recently our record system has been greatly enlarged, so that much more varied information in regard to the children now with us is being gathered and will be available to them in the years to come. 1G ORPHAN HOUSE Though in no sense under our care after they have been legally adopted, yet we should make some mention of those for whom during the year we have found new homes. Nothing in our field of labor gives us greater pleasure than the placing-out work, but its scope is lim- ited by the small number of children eligible for adoption. Requests coming almost daily from childless homes have to be regretfully refused, because, even in our large family, very few are without ties which hold legally. It has been our good fortune, however, this past year, to see six children go out from us to bring joy to the hearts of some of those who have longed for a little one whom they might call their own. MATERIAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HOME AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE Many hoped-for changes in and additions to our plant have naturally been postponed on account of war condi- tions. A few improvements, however, seemed imperative this last year. For the sake of the health and greater comfort of our increasing number of boys, especially in the winter months, a sitting-room for them, both warm and airy, was much needed. This we arrived at by par- titioning off a sunny corner of their unusually large play- room. The new room is the pride of the boys and has been one of the great factors, we believe, in their remark- able cheerfulness and health. To help solve the problem of proper food for the chil- dren at the minimum of expense, we early in the year installed a brick bake oven. Some new equipment proved absolutely necessary in the sewing-room, to meet the demands of our larger family. This has enabled us to manufacture more of the children's clothing than heretofore, thus giving us more durable garments, besides making possible even further variety. 17 LEAKE AND WATTS Here and there throughout the year little repairs and improvements have been made about the home by the boys, under their manual training teacher, but these have involved no great expense. We hope that some day we may have our long talked-of cottages for the girls. We realize that although the con- gregate institution has for boys many advantages over the cottage system, the ideal for girls is the smaller home, where their most natural training for life is more prop- erly found. This change would be a gain in other ways, giving the younger boys the girls ' side of the building and leaving us additional places for older boys, for whom many organizations find it difficult to provide. Another plan perhaps more within the bounds of pos- sibility at present is the utilization for boys' work of our farm at Tivoli-on-Hudson. We have used the property hitherto chiefly as a vacation home, although the past few summers we have made the land produce considerable food for winter use here. But in the face of the great and growing need, it would seem that there also we should have a year-round work. So many desirable features already has the house and its surroundings that whatever might now be expended upon them would have immedi- ate results. A few thousand dollars would convert the place into an attractive, comfortable home-school for thirty boys, whom we would otherwise be obliged to refuse. CONCLUSION In closing, we wish to express our thanks to those whose contributions and gifts during this difficult year have helped to relieve our anxieties or have added to the efficiency of our work or to the pleasure of the children. A word of appreciation is due also to the hospitals and clinics in Yonkers and New York City where our boys and girls needing operation or special treatment have received such careful attention and unfailing kindess. 18 WOODS AT ROSE HILL Expenditure and Income Account Year Ending December 31, 1918 EXPENDITURE Maintenance and Care of Household : Provisions $22,966.58 House Supplies, etc 2,371.79 School Supplies, Stationery, Books, etc 1,271.00 Recreation, etc 433.67 Clothing and Shoes 6,364.77 Physicians, Medical Supplies, Dentistry 2,122.52 Tivoli Sundry Expenses 629.54 $36,159.87 Outside Boarding Charges 138.30 Salaries and Wages : Superintendent, Principal. Secretary, Housekeeper $ 4,134.00 Teachers 4,325.38 Nurses, Supervisors, Seamstresses, House Wages, etc 17,951.09 26,410.47 Upkeep of House and Grounds, etc.: Garden and Grounds— Yonkers $ 287.76 Garden and Grounds — Tivoli 223.69 Stable . 1.879.91 Furnishings and Bedding 3,381.41 Repairs to Buildings 5.199.64 Insurance 726.28 Taxes, etc 30.00 11,728.69 Heat, Light and Water 11,781.45 Administration Expenses, etc. Telephone, Traveling, Postage, Typewriting and Professional Services, etc. etc 1.897.10 $88,115.88 INCOME Interest and Rents from Securities and Property $35,282.48 Grants and Contributions from Public Authorities.. 36,687.97 Donations, etc 3,784.88 Contributions — Parents and Guardians 6,489.85 Sales at Institution 267.83 $82,513.01 Deficit for the Year $ 5,602.87 We hare audited the accounts of The Leake & Watts Orphan House in the City of New York for the year ending December 31, 1918, and hereby certify that the foregoing is a true statement of the transactions stated. Patterson-, Tkblh & Dbnnis, May 8, 1919. Accountants and Auditors. 19 Contributions 1918 Andreas, Mrs. Mabel 5.00 Anonymous 5.00 Anonymous 5.00 Applebee, F. J. 50.00 Averbeck, M. J. 5.00 Aycrigg, Miss Kate 5.00 Battle, Geo. G. 2.00 Beach, Mrs. Rex 10.00 Berlin, H. C. 5.00 Best, H. D. 10.00 Best, Dr. & Mrs. W. N. 10.00 Buck, Mrs. Julia F. 5.00 Butler, Mrs. Mary R. 10.00 Cahen, I. J. 5.00 Cammann, H. H. (for pathescope) 247.50 Candee, Mrs. Lyman 10.00 Chapman, Henry S. 20.00 Through Central Nat. Bank of Cleveland, O. 10.00 Choate, Mrs. Jos. H. 25.00 Clarke, Roger H. 10.00 Clausen, Mrs. Geo. U. 5.00 Courtney, Miss Bertha F. 1.00. Davis, Lee Parsons 10.00 Daw, Mrs. Emily L. 5.00 Deeves, Richard 10.00 Dix, Mrs. John A. 25.00 Dodge, Cleveland H. 100.00 Dutton, Edw. P. 10.00 Eickelberg, August 25.00 Emmett, Miss Lydia F. 5.00 Ferguson Bros. 75.00 Francis, Dr. Lewis 5.00 Fridenberg, Robt. 10.00 Frueauff, Frank W. 10.00 Gillies, Edwin J. 5.00 Gould, Edwin 1,000.00 Greeff, Bernard, Jr. 45.00 Haines, Chas. D. 10.00 Hague, A. J. 10.00 Hamersley, L. Gordon 25.00 Harding, Miss Caroline 5.00 Harkness, Edw. W. 150.00 Harrington, Mrs. J. W. 5.00 Hayden, Mrs. Peter 20.00 Hewitt, Miss Eleanor G. 5.00 Hoyt, Miss Gertrude L. 5.00 Hyde, Miss Mabel L. 25.00 Hyde, Mrs. Clarence M. 50.00 Ulmensee, George 2.00 Innis, Mrs. Wm. R. 10.00 Jackson, Mrs. Geo. T. 10.00 Jackson, S. Y. 5.00 Jahn, Mrs. Gustave 5.00 Jenkins, A. W. 10.00 Johnson, Isaac G. & Co. 25.00 Keeling, Mrs. Wheldon 10.00 Lavelle, Rev. M. J. 10.00 Lawrence, J. J. 3.Q0 Lyon, Chas. O. 5.00 McCutcheon, James & Co. 20.00 McKenney, H. P. & Co. 10.00 McLean, Miss Ethel L. 25.00 MacLean, Mrs. Chas. F. 10.00 Maguire, Mrs. J. P. 25.00 Marburg, Mrs. T. H. 3.00 Milliken, John B. 25.00 Morrison, Wm. A. 10.00 Muller, Frederick 10.00 Nichols, Wm. H. 50.00 Noble, Raymond G. 5.00 Northrop, Miss Catherine R. 10.00 Noyes, Chas. F. 15.00 Openhym, Mrs. Wm. 3.00 Opdyke, Mrs. Emerson 5.00 Page, W. H. 10.00 Peck, Miss Lilian 5.00 Pell, Rev. Alfred Duane 10.00 Penfold, Edmund 25.00 Perkins, Mrs. Geo. W. 25.00 Peters, Mrs. Theo. L. 25.00 Porter, Mrs. Frank B. 10.00 Post, Abram S. 10.00 Post, James H. 250.00 Prizer, Edw. 10.00 Reid, Wallace 10.00 Rein, John 1.00 Reisinger, Mrs. H. 10.00 Rhodes, W. W. 2.00 Riker, Wm. J. 10.00 Robbins, Miss Harriet L. 5.00 Rockefeller, Mrs. John D., Jr. 25.00 Rockwood, Miss Katharine C. 5.00 Root, Mrs. Paul Ward 10.00 Ross, P. H. W. 5.00 Rowe, Garvin 5.00 Sachs, Dr. Barney 10.00 20 CONTRIBUTIONS (Continued) 1918 Sanders, Miss Josie 2.00 Sawyer, Mrs. Homer E. 3.00 Schwartz, Jos. 3.00 Scott, Miss M. Evelyn 150.00 Scott, Robt. 25.00 Scoville, Mrs. E. H. 10.00 Seeman Bros. 25.00 Seymour, H. T. 5.00 Sexton, Geo. W. 10.00 Sheldon, Mrs. Edwin B. 5.00 Sloane, Henry T. 20.00 Smith .Pierre J. 10.00 Smith, Miss Josephine C. 10.00 Steele, Charles 50.00 Steinmetz, Harry 15.00 Strauss, Chas. 25.00 Sturges, W. W. 20.00 Terry, Mrs. John T. 50.00 Terry, Wyllys 5.00 Tiemann, Mrs. Ella A. 10.00 Tifft Bros. 10.00 Tobey, Miss Elizabeth W. 5.00 Tobey, O. H. 15.00 Todd, W. Parsons 20.00 Towne, J. H. 15.00 Tyrrell, Dr. Chas. A. 10.00 Van Winkle, Edgar B. 2.00 Wagnalls, Miss Mabel 5.00 Wanamaker, John 5.00 Wandling, James L. 10.00 Ward, Chas. P. & Son 10.00 Ward, Arteinus 25.00 Ward, Harry E. 25.00 Warren, Mrs. J. Kearney 10.00 Watson, Arthur W. 20.00 Watts, Mrs. Martin S. 1.00 Webster, J. S. 20.00 Weeks, Dr. John E. 10.00 Westervelt, Wm. Y. 10.00 Whitehouse, Mrs. J. Henry 5.00 Wiesendanger, Ulrieh 5.00 Willets, Mrs. Amelia 10.00 Williams, Frank B. 10.00 Winkaus, A. C. 5.00 Wolff, Mrs. Jacob 10.00 Wollman, Henry 1.00 Yuille, T. B. 10.00 Zorn, Mrs. J. T. 5.00 Donation for Candy 5.00 Christmas Fund : Agnew, Austin A. 10.00 Harding, Miss Caroline 1.00 Sullivan, Mrs. Susan E. 15.00 Gould, Edwin 50.00 Interest credited by Trust Co. on balances, 52.38 FOR OUR BOYS IN MILITARY SERVICE Leake and Watts Association $58.00 James Henry 20.00 Mrs. Andrew Peck and Mrs. R. B. Bowdish 5 Hand-knit Sweaters 5 " " Helmets OTHER GIFTS Arnold, Mrs. Hicks Davis & Voetsch Howland, Mrs. Geo. F. Orne, Mrs. A. M. Pitt, Mrs. F. Wickershap, G. W. Y. M. C. A., 54th St. Clothing Box of Toys Clothing Scrapbook Books Box of Toys 48 lbs. Buckwheat Flotn 21 Board of Trustees i 9 i 8 John F. Hylan Mayor of the City of New York William T. Manning, D.D Eector of Trinity Church Richard Delafield 1 w c m . ™ , tj rj ^ Wardens of Trinity Church Hermann H. Cammann ) J David James Burrell, D.D. Senior Minister of the Collegiate Dutch Church Howard Duffield, D.D. Minister First Presbyterian Church Officers of Board Howard Duffield, D.D. President John A. Dix Treasurer* James Henry Treasurer Pro Tern William A. Kirk Clerk Leake and Watts Alumni Association John E. Gait President Arthur Wilson First Vice-President Edward Jayne Second Vice-President George J. Hunt Recording Secretary William Tresselt Corresponding Secretary William Bal Treasurer Trustees of Association William Bal Henry Brownlee George J. Hunt * Absent on military service. 22 Officers and Teachers i 9 i 8 — i 9 i 9 Albert S. McClain Superintendent J. B. Kouwenhoven. M.D. Attending Physician S. R. Rosenbaum, D.D.S. Attending Dentist Miss Mary A. Berns Principal Miss Hilma P. Holmes Secretary Mrs. Carrie B. Watts Clerk Teachers Miss Mabel Ackroyd Miss Madeline J. Relyea Miss Mabel F. Lane Miss Olive C. Kittell Miss N. Evelyn Scholl Miss Irma C. Hawkins Miss Elizabeth Abrams Kindergarten & Gymnastics Miss Lena R. Cates Household Arts Miss Mabel J. Timmins Piano Classes A. J. Hall Manual Training S. L. Staples Printing P. Woods (Acting) Horticulture Heads of House Departments Mrs. Ermina Scofield Managing Housekeeper Miss Helen B. Ridgely, R.N. Head Nurse Miss Luella J. Cooley Head of Sewing Room J. P. Porter Steward Children's Supervisors S. L. Staples ^ Miss Catherine Gracey > Boys Miss Mabel S. Wright J Miss Florence M. Beaven Girls Miss Emma J. Taylor Reception Cottage Mrs. Lily H. Miller Riverview Cottage Miss Cora Dobson Special Cottage Manager, Tivoli Farm E. Drury 23 Statistics of Children Boys Girls Total Number in Home, January 1, 1918 155 70 225 Number admitted during the year 58 51 109 213 121 334 Number discharged during the year 30 50 80 Number in Home December 31, 1918. . . . 183 71 254 Urgent Needs A larger Dining Boom at Riverview Cottage. Necessary Equipment to make "Rose Hill" at Tivoli-on-Hudson a permanent farm-home-school for 30 boys. Additional Endowment to enable us to care for a larger number of children. 24 Form of Bequest and Devise Personal Estate I give and bequeath to ' ' The Trustees of the Leake and Watts Orphan House in the City of New York" the sum of Dollars Real Estate I give and devise to "The Trustees of the Leake and Watts Orphan House in the City of New York" my real property at known as Information on this subject will be gladly furnished by William A. Kirk, Clerk of the Board of Trustees, and Counsel to the Corporation, 32 Liberty Street, New York City. Tel. John 107. Checks should be drawn payable to James Henky, Treasurer pro tern., 262 Greene Street, New York City. ERLB W. WHITFIELD NEW YORK