| Show PHIL ARMOURS MISSION THE GREAT BEEK BEEF KING WHO MAINTAINS A SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR HIS 1118 CHILDREN pall armour notwithstanding the weather was not the aart for his rheumatism was around at his bis mission y yesterday esterday he is there every sundy sunday during the week it is run iun from his fais la salle street office just as his packing houses house sare are baere are arc now about 1100 children at the mission on sunday there are men at the different packing houses armour will wili be besets satis red fled when there are as many little folks up at the thirty third street establishment on sundays as are men at his bis houses on week days therease there Ther eare are about as many departments at the one establishment as the other at the mission there is a kindergarten the most perfect in some respects in the orid it t is an important part of erol jord roe bles system hat there be F tte ahl ph djept a 4 goad siz sied ed circle out in ways into segments upon they co form and march the circle on the bajor in the kindergarten up at armours is the largest anywhere its only a deep black line of paint making a circumference with fifty foot diameter but it oost cost high the plans 1 of I the mission were drawn so that when it came to making that big circle on the floor of the kindergarten arten a pillar stood nent in the way the the teacher was in despair A kindergarten without a perfect circle on the floor would be a failure when the trouble troi ible was explained to phil armour he clec declared lared at once that lie he was with the teacher it if he could not have kindergarten of the right sort he be did not want any building so the pillar had bad to come out and the foundations had to be bd changed and the building a little altered it if took two months additional time and probably extra expense but the kindergarten up at the mission has got the finest and big ge gest st circle in creation there ar are ninety little ones in the class and each one of the finety has a history of his or her own most of them were picked out from the most distressing sort of I 1 surroundings fixed up by the sewing society which is another department of the mission and entered in the kindergarten der garten children Childr eji whose parents can afford to send them to a pay school cant get into phil armours this is about the only sine qua non about the thirty third street establishment people who can afford to pay a doctor are turned away dispensary people ae who can possibly buy their own 0 wn medicines e d tac I 1 ne s do dont t get et prescriptions 1 lea free I 1 ii faren enose ose parents jak paye aye got ot a anything I 1 gat at all a are re not taken V at th kinde garten its just the other ay at 1 armour packing house where nobody lets gets anything unless dinless they have got t the money in t their air clothes the fate te J Q armour left to establish cablish sl t this is disston gis mission ston all al af that wen went t into the on building qu proper phil armona has has given give nah 0 more to 6 keep the sue work going this is has been put into apartment buildings forty five lists flats have been finished and thirty five of them rented forty five more are in process of bullying buildt ng the buildings were put in a modest neighborhood as directed by J 0 Ir armours mours will but the flats fiats and mission are so handsome that theof they have greatly improved the quality ty 0 of the surrounding property this was the case too at philadelphia with the wanamaker mission which was early put into quite a poor locality but which finally altogether changed and lim improved proved its neighborhood for a considerable dista distance uce round when all the flats are finished they will give the mission an income of to wa a year those occupied now earn they are run like a machine the flats fiats are uner finer than can be gotten anywhere an where else in the city for the money the he grounds around are kept fluer finer even the sunday school chool is run on business principles when ona of the teachers suggested that it would be a good thing to give every scholar a bible who would bring another little one along with him ai armour mour immediately sent out his purchasing agent and got a thousand of the finest revised editions to be had apen tien it occurred to him that that be quite business and that perhaps other sunday schools would lose their scholars and feel sore everybody now HOW will get a bible without any condition attached to it armour expects to leave the mission so well provided for that it will be going a hundred years frona from now when the packing houses are all gona agn then the only thing the people will be able to recall about armour will be that he founded and generously endowed during his life the armour mission chicago herald |
