A Private Gamble for Public Welfare
C. B. Hysom attempts to save a stalled orphanage project by linking it to a commercial dairy ranch.
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EVERETT, Jan. 14.—By placing at the disposal of the enterprise certain private property of his own, C. B. Hysom, president of the Orphans' Home of America, hopes to open the home located on Thirty-eighth street, near Broadway, in the near future, and make it self-supporting besides. The failure of the organization to open the home before now caused Mr. Hysom, who is one of the prime movers in the enterprise, to secure a ten-years' lease at the regular meeting of the association, with the understanding that he go ahead with the work along lines of his own choosing, the organization to work as an auxiliary. Among other plans, Mr. Hysom intends to eventually conduct an industrial school in connection with the home. In addition to a 460-foot front on the Snohomish river, a short distance south of the Eclipse mill site, Mr. Hysom owns a 120-acre ranch near Lowell which he will conduct as a dairy, and which he will devote to the maintenance of the home.
“Mr. Hysom intends to eventually conduct an industrial school in connection with the home.”
This story highlights the era's reliance on private individuals to patch systemic holes in social services, using industrial labor (the dairy ranch) as a model for 'self-sustaining' charity—a precursor to modern privatization debates.
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