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VOLUME SIX
NUMBER EIGHTEEN
HA WKES WILL SHIELD INSTEAD OF STEAL
Big-Hearted Atlanta Philanthropist Gives Fifty Acres For Establishing “Girls' Educational and Industrial Home”
A Beautiful Chain of Practical Charities,
E are feeling too good over the
glorious benefaction to indulge in
“punning,” but when a man
named Hawkes keeps on giving
to every worthy thing in sight,
and finally crowns his long list
of benevolences with the princely
gift of fifty choice acres in At
lanta for establishing a beautiful
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chain of Christian charities for sheltering
unfortunate children and girls who need a
blessed haven of a Home— well, you just
can’t help thinking of what a rare brand of
“Hawkes” Atlanta has— Hawkes that can
never be charged with stealing the helpless
young, but rather always with shielding
those who need the touch of hands of sym
pathy and hearts of love.
A. K. Hawkes, the famous optician, who
seems busier looking for places to do good
with his modest fortune than he is in plan
ning how to make more money in his thriv
ing Whitehall street store, has just pur
chased a magnificent plat of fifty acres out
on Stewart avenue, and given it in trust to
a board of noble and notable trustees for
the purpose of establishing the “Harriet
Hawkes Educational and Industrial Home.”
At Mr. Hawkes’ suggestion, Rev. E. H.
Peacock, who did splendid work for many
years as Dr. L. G. Broughton’s assistant at
The Tabernacle, selected this Stewart ave
nue lot as the best he could find anywhere
around Atlanta, and then Hawkes wrote the
check.
Mr. Peacock, who is the tireless superin
tendent of the Barclay Home for Girls, is
singing psalms and shouting hallelujahs
over the plan of the wise, big-hearted doner
to take not only the present far-reaching
work of the Barclay Home under the aegis
of his protection, but just as many other
charities for the afflicted, the poor and un
fortunate as the space and outside benevo
lence will allow.
Honoring his mother’s memory. And how
beautiful and touching the thought that
over all these tender ministrations to the
suffering and sorrowing, so like the spirit
of the Lord, who bought him, and the
mother who bore him, are to honor the name
of that dear old mother who taught her boy
that Christian character and genuine gen
erosity are worth more to the purse and the
cause of God and man than all the selfishly
hoarded money that the world ever knew.
The Harriet Hawkes Educational and In
trial Home is the outcome of a long and burn
ing desire that the sainted mother of Mr. A.
ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 22, 1911
K. Hawkes had, toward helping the helpless
and unfortunate girls. Her son, since her
death, has been trying in many ways, to pro
mote various lines of charity, in which he
knows his mother was especially interested.
Also in his own heart there is a burning de
sire to provide an institution where the unfor
tunate girls can find an open door, rather than
to be placed behind prison bars, in the chain
gang or in the stockades.
Foundling Home.
This institution proposes to operate a chain
of charities, covering a territory that has not
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Philanthropist.
and is not at the present time being covered
by any charitable institution. First a found
ling home, to take and care for homeless and
motherless babies and to secure them a good
home in some family, where they will be prop
erly raised and given a Christian education.
And in this way give them all the opportun
ity possible to become good citizens.
The Children’s Hospital.
A hospital for crippled children who have
poor parents and no opportunities for pro
fessional aid. This hospital is to give them
the very best surgical attention, and in this
way many a child will be enabled to walk and
make an honorable living, and a good and
profitable citizen, where otherwise they would
be life long cripples, and a burden to them
selves as well as others interested in them,
and in many cases become beggars on our
streets.
The Industrial School for Girls.
An institution where a literary course is
given them, also where they are taught
branches in the industrial department. They
are given lessons in cooking, sewing, laundry
work, general house work, raising chickens,
running dairy, and operating truck farms. In
this way, giving them an.opportunity to get a
literary and industrial training and at the
same time encourage them to lead better lives
and reward them as they succeed, and in this
way lift them up morally, intellectually, and
spiritually. The home shall be made attract
ive and from time to time other buildings
added, giving opportunities for promotion,
and making the institution as near as possi
ble self supporting.
This home will give many girls who have
no parents living, or in many cases one of
them dead, making the responsibility great
er on the one left to train the girl, a chance
in life, where for the lack of this chance, the
girl gets into the habit of going to the cheap
theatre, the questionable soda water stands
and in this way she is thrown into bad com
pany, and in such surroundings it is almost
impossible for her to live the right life. Also
for other girls who for minor offences have
been brought before our courts, and because
there was no other place to send them, were
sent to jail, chain gang, or stockade, and in
many instances were forced to associate with
negro criminals. There being no institution
of this kind in the South, that is operated en
tirely interdenominational, where a mother
can send her wayward girl who needs disci
pline and restraint and at the same time feel
that she will not be given the privilege of
running away, therefore subjecting her to
bad company; ut where all the inmates of
this institution will be governed with love
and tenderness and at the same time the ar
rangement of the buildings and the general
equipment of the institutions will make it
impossible for them to get away. This will
also take the wayward girl out of the rush
of the city where her influence over the
young men of our city is greatly demoraliz
ing. One girl can lead ten boys to the bad,
while the boy’s opportunity is not nearly so
great to lead the girl astray. In giving these
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