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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), The Charities of Cambridge. (search)
ntelligence as to the purse of Mrs. Quincy Shaw in this charity. Next to the children the old people, those who have passed the time for self-support and have no relatives to care for them, need a helping hand. The Cambridge Homes for Aged People is a corporation founded in November, 1887, for the purpose of providing for respectable, aged and indigent men and women. The only part of this scheme in operation as yet is a Home for Aged Women, made possible by the legacy of the late Caroline A. Wood and other gifts, which shelters at present eleven inmates. It was opened in November, 1891. A Home for Aged Men and a Home for Aged Couples will be added to the work of the corporation as soon as adequate funds are provided by public-spirited Cantabrigians. The Baptist Home for Old People and the Rescue Home — the latter a branch of the Boston Citizens' Rescue League, not especially intended to help Cambridge-deserve such description as their titles may give, though it is beyond th