Millionaire Adopts 300 Children.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 September 1914, Page 8

Millionaire Adopts 300 Children.

Every poor child in Tulsa, Okla, U.S.A., is singing the praises of Charles Page, a local millionaire, through whose generosity they were privileged to enjoy a daily outing during the hot summer months, and who has adopted into a home he has founded 300 poor children, and hopes to increase the number to a thousand. Near the village of Sand Springs, a suburb of Tulsa, Mr. Page owns six thousand acres. He has converted eighty acres .of the forest into one of the most complete parks in America, particular attention being paid to a playground for children. An in-ter-urban railroad owned by Mr. Page connects the village and park with the city. Every morning a special car takes 'every child who cares to go to the park, and brings them back to town in the evening free of charge. The larger boys in the permanent home on the estate work on the farm in the summer. The larger girls work a number of hours each day during the fruit season, canning fruit for the home. Mr. Page says that he intends to devote dearly all of his million pounds to the perpetuation by endowment of his children's home, which is to shelter, support, ■ and educate a thousand children of tlij poor. 1913.