Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 14

Oakbhd Tribune, Friday, June 13, 1952 INSPIRED BY I INFANT 4- 14 Foster Ga re Home Here Grew From Sewing Circle A tiny infant abandoned on an Oakland doorstep 69 years ago 4 lit remains the inspiration today for more than 500 East bay women 'Kwwi "mi'fiii Wfwramtir 'i wn ii'i i 1 yt TWWMM I i 7 '-'-Jli nil i i 1 i who devote time and! effort to ward operation of the Children's Foster Care Services. I spread throughout the state, and in 1887 the association found itself charged with the care of several orphans who had been left on their doorstep. As a result, they formed the West Oakland Home for Foundlings and Orphans and moved to a small rented cottage on Campbell Street in West Oakland. In addition to Mrs. McWade, the group's early officers included Mrs.

William Crocker, It was in 1883 that the late Mrs. Rebecca R. McWade answered a knock at the door of her Twelfth Avenue home and found baby girl wrapped in clean but scant, swaddling Mrs. H. Bowman, Mrs.

William Kirk and Mrs. J. H. Ames. clothes, abandoned by an apparently destitute and, frantic mother.

i The small Campbell Street cottage was soon overflowing Mrs. McWade took, the child with children and in 1889 larger quarters were purchased on the corner of Taylor (now Ninth) and Campbell Streets. Because they had more than 50 children in. The next day she enlisted the aid of neighborhood school girls and soon a "sewing circle" was at work making clothes and talking plans for the tot's1 future. It was this "sewing that became the nucleus for the pioneer fc 5 v.

jtMi lift" TT-- i 3 to "look after at this time they Mrs. Rebecca McWade began foundation work for the. West Oakland Home fax 1883 and saw the Home Incorporated in 1887. Rebecca McWade is remembered in Oakland today as the woman who "knew what to do." decided to incorporate, and on Thla old-iashioned lawn swing proved a major attraction for tiny tots in the Weil Oakland Horn lor Destitute Children shortly after ths turn of the century. Seen is backyard of June 7, 1889, the little Workers West Oakland Homej Corpora of East Oakland and the West TTnmA rtt Mufti VrnmKrfl SfrMla.

it tion now united with the Children's Agency of Oaklaijd-to op Oakland Home for Foundlings erate the Children's Foster Care and Orphans united to Jorm the Abandcned babies and tots from destitute famlliei first found shelter in Oakland at this borne established 1887 by the West Oakland Home for Destitute Children. Mrs. Rebecca McWade was the founder. The home stood on Campbell Street above Ninth Street Services. i West Oakland Home Corpora CONTINUED WORKING tion.

-FIRST $1009 PAID The school girls' continued working under Mrs. I Mc Wade's addition was made to the home, Mrs. Charles Crocker paid the first $1000 on the new home. One year later an addition was made guidance for two years sewing Miss urace Trevor started an clothes not only for the aban and Perkins Roads for $25,000. Members and their friends raised $70,000 more by voluntary subscription and by June 1929 work was started on two modern Too Many Dogs JACKSON, Miss.

(W Sylvia McKenzie's parents were pleased when their. 11-year-old daughter's pet Boston terrier, Miss Boots, presented her with three puppies. They weren't so enthusiastic when a stray fox terrier Sylvia adopted the next day gave birth to four pups. endowment fund in 1910. doned child but aiding other to the first building, and Mrs, Crocker gave another $1000.

The orphans and needy widows. In Activities at the home grew as Oakland grew and in 1926 they next big lift was a $2500 contri 1885 they organized as the "Little bution from Mrs. William Workers of East purchased seven and one half cottages to house the now well established project acres on Lincqln Avenue at Alida Crocker in 1904, when another Their generosity 'and fame The two new cottages were dedicated on February 20, 1930 I'i," it mi i ii rn- iii i one christened the Mary R. Crocker cottage and the other Iie -tJ finest named the Grace Trevor cottage. Because of its hew location, the organization name was changed in 1947 to the Lincoln Home for in ant mnd usee? trfenes Children.

It wasn't until October 1950 that they finally changed their official title to Children's Foster Care Services, COTTAGES BUST The cottages! at 4368 Lincoln Another early 1900 play scene at the West Oakland Home, then at Ninth and' Campbell RlMta. rrmwm nnt In cmrfhov has alwan been nomilar Illcrv SPOt for YOUnastersJ Note PIANOS RENTED GRANDS SPINETS UPRIGHTS the romper garb and lona, black cotton stockings. Avenue are still busy as ever but work of the group -has expanded rvi iu4 i wf 4tj I rh 4M 1 Vrl LI I r-t wpywC i Deputy Forced to. Yell Per month today to where a central office uer uonressipn has been set up at 2206 Mac-Arthur Boulevard. Clayton E.

i- (W PEORIA, I1L, Jun 1 ASK ABOUT OUR RENTAL PURCHASE PLAN Nordstrum has been executive director of the organization since sheriff, deputy Ray Crafton, ooel case with came out of 1948.. strained vocal cords! Chief concern of the group to See the amazing new small spinet styles. A 74-vear-oldl woman was accused of stealing $25 from an other woman in faf tavern. She day, is the treatment of emotionally disturbed children and techniques in diagnosing family problems as well as planning the best type of care for children. was partially deaf sand used an old-fashioned ear trumpet 1 in ii Him TMj.mii 1 1 1 i imt iiu 'liMrllili -in mmm 'I I rr in ihi i 1 When demands on the 1887-established We3t Oakland Home for Destitute Children axew.

Crafton nearly! lost his voice If trying to get the woman to con the Home founders fought adjoining property at the corner of Ninth and Campbell Streets. The above photo! shows the expanded Home in the early 1900's. 12TH WEBSTER OL millltowl Mmm SUS mm mm fess. After a lot Crafton's Unlike the Little old lady, who lived in a shoe? of Mother Goose Nursery rhyme fame, Mrs. shouting, she 3 vjr Above Is the Grace Trevor Cottage at the Lincoln Home for Children one of two modem cottages on Lincoln Avenue operated by the Children Foster Care Services today.

Wi lit slirts 0 S.F. Spurns Ban on Freeway Billboards The proposal to ban billboards mm 71x1 sorxG era swxicn ap sava cmanv 7 5 along San Francisco's freeways was rejected yesterday by its City Planning Commission. The commission turned down a proposed ordinance that would crisp, completely washabte rayon sport shirts in your prohibit the signs within 200 feet of the most popular summer styles! Double of freeways. The plan will go before the Board of Supervisors Monday. It will require a two-thirds ma jority for passage.

yoke 2 rrtan-sized pockets, short-sleeved with the favorite spredcolar; sizes Mf XL; checks and solid colors-and a regularly $5 value for just $2.95 each! Great Dad's Day gift! The ordinance has the support of the San Francisco Planning and Housing Association and some 40 civic and garden groups. Oakland's City Council last month banned billboards on this city's freeways. Need for Drink Defeats Bandit Garwin D. Coon, 19 might have gotten away with his holdup of a restaurant at 6528 Foothill Boulevard last night if he hadn't been in such hurry for drink. But the way it turned out, he is in the Oakland City Jail today.

Coon, who lives at 1529 17th Avenue, was released from the California Youth Authority only last Tuesday after serving time for an Oakland robbery in Jan-uary of last year. According to police, he entered the Foothill Boulevard cafe three times in quick succession last night to have coffee. On his fourth visit, he took $35 from the owners, William Stewart, 44, and his' wife. Pearl, 42, of 5530 Foothill Boulevard, pretending to have a gun in his coat pocket fled on foot. Mrs.

Stewart's sister, Mrs. Petie Kaness, 35, came into the restaurant a short time later, of the holdup and then left to go to the Stewart home three blocks away, On the way, she dropped in at a tavern at 5819 Foothill. Having a drink there was the robber described to her by her sister. She went back to the restaurant and got Patrolmen Dexter Mast and Ercel Crawford, who were questioning the Stewarts. They arrested Coon at the bar after he was identified by the Stewarts.

1,1 4 14 Last Chance for Father's Day Shopping Delight Novice Driver's Son Hurt in Crash EL CERRITO, June 13. Gary Galloway, 4, was injured last night, victim of his mother's driving lesson. The boy's mother, Mrs. Muriel Galloway, was practicing driving with his father, Kenneth, of 7206 Plank Avenue. At 616 Key Route Boulevard Mrs.

Galloway struck a car owned by James Velasco Jr. of 1322 McGee Avenue, Berkeley. All three Galloways went to Herrick Hospital for treatment Gary was taken to surgery for treatment of facial cuts. His parents were treated lor minor injuries. All three were released.

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