Building construction for the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home on the new thirty acre site in University Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, is progressing with such rapidity that the ten cottages for the Home’s wards and several other buildings of the new plant will be under roof before real winter sets in, it is announced by Fred Lazarus, Jr., president. The corner stone was laid in connection with the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the institution last July and preparations are being made for the dedication of the new Home at the annual meeting of the board and alumni reunion next July. The buildings will be ready for occupancy in May
In addition to the cottages, the buildings comprise a recreation hall, which is the gift of graduates of the Home; a home for the superintendent; a hospital, a chapel, an administration building, and a power plant. The landscape plans contemplate athletic fields and playgrounds. All of the buildings will be of fire-proof construction. Children of the Home will continue to attend the public schools.
Toward the $1,600,000 being raised in the states of Districts Nos. 2 and 6, Independent Order B’nai B’rith, $1,275,000 has been subscribed to date, it is stated by Mr. Lazarus.
COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITOR
Sir:
You reported that the boy king of Roumania has honored Mr. Cretziano, the Roumanian Minister to the United States, Cretziano receives the decoration because they say he allayed Semitic indignation in the United States at the mistreatment of Roumanian Jews. Americans still bear resentment against Roumania for her outrageous treatment of her minorities. Cretziano has given pledges of better treatment, but consistent with her past, the Roumanian government has broken every one of them. The news of this tin honor is simply cheap propaganda for the Roumanian loan which I, as Congressman, and many other liberal-minded Jews, oppose.
CONGRESSMAN EMANUEL CELLER.
The Bloch Publishing Company has issued a volume of Synagogue music, “Hibbath Shabbath,” a Synagogue Service by A. W. Binder, Choirmaster of the Free Synagoguue and Director of Music of the 92nd Street Y. M. H. A.
Mr. Binder will give a concert of his original compositions on Saturday evening, December 15th, at the Town Hall.
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