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Florida Rescue Home and Industrial School
For Colored Youth. .... Jupiter, Fla.
MRS^AI
NNIE E. BROWN, FOUNDER
TRUSTEES
Mrs. fedwin Nelson, Miami, President
Mrs. E. A. Rickfirmer, Miami, Vice-President
Mrs. Anna E. Brown, Jupiter, Sec. and Treas.
Mr. Henry Brown, Jupiter, Superintendent
Mrs. J. W. E. Bowen, Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Maggie L». Walker, Richmond,Va.
Mrs. W. F. Harp, Jupiter
Mrs. S. E. Thompson, Miami
Mrs. N, S. Powers, Miami
A STATEMENT AND AN APPEAL.
This institution was bo^n to meet a crying- need,
Scores of Negro youth in the great state of Florida are
thrown out upon the streets to become vagrant, and
criminal and unless a definite Christian effort is put forth
in fcchatf Qf thess WlfQrtunate ones, ©ur state, in every
comitiunity, will be the prey of a lawless, debauched and
criminal element. Two ideas, therefore, are uppermost
iv; our institution. First it is a
RESCUE HOME
This is a Christian idea. Every effort is making to¬
day to save the fallen. This Home lelieves in preven¬
tion and rescue. The police court records show a large
number of Negro boys and girls to be 1 eating- worthless,
and in some cases, criminal^'liveiS upon' the streets of
many large cities. Many of them were outcasts from
infancy. Shall we continue to allow these children, for
want of a better place, to. L.> sent to tne prisons, stock¬
ades and chaingan^s ? Are not tnese places calculated
to harden and comifm them in a life'of sia arid shame?
Our Florida Home and Industrial School is planning to
take Negro youths from all parts of the State and save
aiid train them.
In the next place, we believe in industrial training
for the youth. What'the Negro youtn needs is hand
and heart training. There are too many idlers among
the young people of the race. . We seek to have these
unfortunates well grounded in an elementary public
school learning, and in the domestic arts of cpoking, sew¬
ing, laundrying, house-cleaning, gardening, farming and
fruit-raising and dairying. The Negro must learn that
work with the hand is the first duty of man. Thus we
combine heart-culture and hand-culture, book-learning
with work; salvation with industry.
WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED
Through the effort of our Secretary, Airs. Annie E,
Brown, Evangelist, twenty acres of ground near Jupiter
were given by Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Harp, of Jupiter, Fla.
Since that time, Mrs. Brown has succeeded in adding to
this original gift one hundred and twenty more acres to
be paid for- in five years. Friends there came to her help
end a twp-story building has been erepted. This build-
jug contains a chapel and thirteen rooms, including
kitchen. Five acres of ground have been cleared for
fiuit-raising and gardening, and the work of teaching
Slid training is already begun. The Metropolis, a lead¬
ing paper of Jacksonville, says : "This work ought to have
the support of all the white people, as Mrs. Brcvn is
recommended by the leading white and colored citizens."
OUR NEEDS
We are in need of funds to finish our building and
to furnish the same. Mrs. Brown is giving time, labor,
her own money freely and cheerfully without salary to
complete the building and carry on the work so well be¬
gun by her. We need furniture for our chapel such as
seats, desks, bells, tables, and other school supplies. We
need furniture for the rcoms and articles of wear in a
household of girls, young women an,d boys, and we need
supplies for our laundry room, sewing room, kitchen ana
garden. Any article or money forwarded to us will be
well used and properly acknowledged. We need you
as a Friend. Will you help us to save ourselves by sav¬
ing the Negro boys and girls from becoming criminals,.
?nd so becoming a danger to the peace of the land and
a heavy burden upon good men and women?
COMMENDATIONS
Tallahassee^March 26, 1909.
Annie E. Btfown,
Care Rev. P. K. Johnson,
Eden, Fla.
Madam:—You are doing a good work for the
colored people of this State, and in helping the
colored people you are also helping the white people of
the State, because the lessening of crime is beneficial to
all the people in the State.
Yours truly,
ALBERT W. GILCHRIST,
Governor.
Wgst Jupjter, Fla,
To Whom It May Concern:
We, the undersigned white citizens of West Jupiter,
Florida, do command the work begun by Annie E. Brown
for the rescuing and gjvjng an industrial training to
colored boys and girls of Florida. The home is partially
finished and already contains six dependent children, and
to those who are. charitably inclined, we think it a worthy
cause. The hQUS§ contains, when finished, 14 rooms with
chapel,
F. C, ARCHER, Justice of the Peace,
C. W. CARLIN, Constable.
E. F. BOWERS, County Com,
E. L. WINTER, Asst. P. M.
J, J. SILVA, Bridge Tender,
To All Concerned:
This is to certify that I have looked into the work
ol Mrs, Annie Brown in trying to establish a Rescue
H^me at Jupiter, Florida, £nd believe it to be a worthy
enterprise,. I also have seen sufficient endorsement of
Mrs. Brown's character and work to know that she is»
competent ea« be trusted with this work,
(Signed)
REY, LUTHER S. RADER, D.D.,
Pastor First M. E. Church,
Evangelist', Mrs. Annie E. Brown, is personally known
to me as a woman of high character and thoroughly com-,
petent to carrying the work of the Florida Rescue Home
and Industrial School for colored youth. She has done>
similar work in other states and her devotion to the
work and her unselfish spirit have always commended1
her ai^f hex work to the best people wherever she has*
gone^
J. W. BOWEN, President.
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