Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, New York City. [Volume: 2, Issue: 9, June, 1896, pp. 469-474]

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THE AMERICAN JEWESS.

adequately the tortures imposed by that double calamity, everlasting poverty and incurable sickness, for the latter insures the existence of the former.
Helpless, healthless, homeless! These terrible tidings loosen
the purse-string even of a miser. Sex and sect, creed-bound or
faith-free, young or old, each and everyone harboring a conscience ought to enlist his name as a contributor to the Montefiore
Home, which, honoring a dead philanthropist, has cause sufficient
to rear living ones.
The officers and Directors for I896 are:
Jacob H. Schiff, President; Louis Gans, Vice-President; Hon. Isidor
Straus, Treasurer; Raphael Ettinger, Hon. Secretary.
Directors: Lyman G. Bloomingdale, Isaac Blumenthal, Isaac Brandon,
Louis Clark. Jr., Samuel H. Eckman, Isaac Eppinger, Raphael Ettinger,
Michael Friedsam, Louis Gans, Henry S. Herrman, Henry Hess, Selmar
Hess, Sigmund M. Lehman, B. J. Ludwig, Leonard Lewisohn, Kaufman
Mandell, M. W. Mendel, V. Henry Rothschild, Samuel Sachs, Jacob H.
Schiff, Henry Solomon, Leopold Stern, Hon. Isidor Straus, Samuel Untermeyer.
Advisory Committee: B. J. Ludwig, Chairman: Lyman G. Bloomingdale, Michael Friedsam, Selmar Hess, V. Henry Rothschild, Samuel Sachs,
Samuel Untermeyer.
These gentlemen are aided substantially by the Ladies'
Auxiliary, a brief outline of which may prove interesting to our
readers. We quote from President Mrs. Simon Borg's message:
"The Ladies' Auxiliary Society of the Montefiore Home for Chronic
Invalids, was organized in May, i888.
" Its object is to supply the Home with all necessary requisites, such as
bed and table linen, blankets, etc., and to provide clothing for the inmates.
" Sewing meetings take place weekly. A series of informal concerts
have been inaugurated by the Society, which have now become a permanent feature of the Institution. Two concerts are given every month.
" These entertainments have proved a great boon to the patients, many
of whom leave their beds so as to participate, and others, again, whose
lives are spent in wheeling chairs, consider it as one of their greatest privileges to be among their fellow-sufferers and be entertained by those who
so kindly volunteer their services and add so much to their happiness."
Officers: Mrs. Simon Borg. President; Mrs. Louis Gans, First VicePresident; Mrs. A. N. Cohen, Second Vice-President; Mrs. R. W. Stettheimer, Treasurer; Mrs. R. A. Schoneman, Hon. Secretary.
Board of Directresses: Mesdames J. Beer, D. B. Berry, A. Brussel, A.
N. Cohen. J. Cook, A. Falk, Louis Gans, Henry Goodkind, Julius Hart, E.
Heller, Geo. Heyman, L. Kohus, S. Langsdorf, S. Loeb, K. Mandell, C.
Neukirch, I. Oppenheimer, J. S. Ritterband, I. Rosenwald, J. H. Schiff, G.
Sidenberg, H. Sidenberg, Jacob Scholle, I. S. Solomon, R. W. Stettheimer,
H. S. Strauss, Wm. Strauss, Moses Weill.
But the most unique feature of the Home is its youngest child,
"The Young Ladies' and Gentlemen's League of Montefiore