The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-27
FOR CHARITY'S SAKE.

GENEROUS APPROPRIATIONS MADE TO cHARIrA-
Z BILE INSTITUTIONS BY THE BOARD OF APPoR-
TIoNMENT.
At meeting of the Board of Apportionment yester-
day the following charitible institutions awarded
the sums mentioned:-Five Points Mission. $1,000;
Home for Little Wanderers. S1.l50; Ladies' Union
Relief Association, $500; German Ladies' Society
for support of Widows and Orphans. Sl.1s0; New
York Diet Kitchen Association. 050; Female Assist
Society," $50; United Hebrew Charities. $4,000;
West Side Relief Association $500; German So
ciety of the City of New York. $1,000; New York
Colored Mission, $3.50; French Benevolent Society,
$3.50; Belgian Benevolent Society $3.50; Swiss Benevo
lent Society. $3.50; West Farms Benevolent So
ciety $780, the Prison Association. 1922; Twenty
fourth Ward Relief Association, S134; st. Ignatius
Guild 5000; Olivet Sewing Relief. $780, Society of
St Vincent de Paul, $1,000 Wilson Industrial school,
$3.50; Harlem Missionary Association, $500; New
York Training School, $500; New York Society for
the Prevention Of Cruelty to Children 1000; New
York Employment and Relief Association, $3.50; the
Gilbert Library. $500; Eighth Ward Mission, $500;
Twelfth Ward West Side Relief Association. $1,000;
St. Johns Guild and Floating Hospital So, 400 New
York Association for Improving the Condition of the
Poor S2.400 Church Mission to Deaf Mutes. $3.50:
House OF the Good Shepherd. Sl,s2o: New York
Christian Home for Incorporate Men, $1S75; Home
for the Aged of the Little Sisters OF the Poor,
s2.4i5; St.. Josephs Home for the Aged.
So, 900; Sheltcring Arms, 81, 665; House of the
Holy Family. $1,000; Home for Aged and Infrm
Hebrews. $3.50; st. Vincent's Home. $1,000: Chaplin
James Home, $3.50; House of Rest for Consumptives,
$500; the Midnight Mission, $420; Institution of
Mercy. $4,000: st stephens Home s1.5oo; Lying-in
Asylum, ST 900; Society for Relief of Destitute Chill
dren of Seamen 1896; Five Points House OF Industry
$1,000; st. vincents Home for Girls, $1,000 st. Bar
nabas' Home $1,000; Marthss Rest, $3.50; Home for
Incurables. i2OO; Home for Old Men and Aged
Couples, 1910; st. Josephs Home for Children,
sis5o; Peabody Home for Aged Women $500; Meth
Christian Home, $780, Young Women's Aid Asso-
citation. $3.50; st. Luke's Home. s975 Home for
$500; Women's Prison Association, $3.50; Ladies'
Home Society Of Baptist Church, $3.50; Asylum
Of St. Dominic $3.50; ST.; Josephss Orphan
tant Episcopal Church, 81 200; Society for Relief of
Half Orphans, 81 235; Asylum Of st. Vincent de Paul.
$1,000; Association for Colored Orphans 81 900;
Roman Catholic Orphan asylums $4,000; Old Gentle
mems Unsectarian Home, $500; House Of Our Lady
$685. the Colored Home, 1000; Womens Hospital,
$4,000; St. Francis Hospital, $4,000; st. vincent's
St nizabeths Hosnita SToo: Mount Sinai Hossa,
$4,000; St. Lukes Hospital, $4,000; st. Mary's Hos
pita $3.50; German Hospital, 81 GOO; Medical College
Ear Hospital, $500; Ophthalmic Institute S1,OOo Or
thopcdic Dispensary S1.G00 New York Dispensary,
$500 Demilt Dispensary 1901; Eastern Dispensary,
homeopathic Dispensary. $525; Tompkns Square
$3.50; Harlem Dispensary. S400 West Side German
Dispensary. S4oO Yorkville Dspcnsary. 1925; n. L.
IL. Dspensary. $500; Homeopathic Medical College
Dispensary. $3.50; Eclectic Medical Dspensary s3TS;
Dispensary of Medical aud Surgical Relief, Twenty
third and Twenty,four It wards $3.50; New York
pensary, $500; New York Eye and Ear Infirnary,
$500; Inhrmary for Women and Children. $780,
This money is appropriated. on the recommended
ton Of Comptroller Kelly. out Of the Excise funds.
The total amount is $11l.571.
The societies which for weeks past have been pa
fient1y waiting their ehares cap mr. wv
go to work earnestly and at once to relieve the num-
bers of families dependent on them. Appeals for
daily, and private charity to have become
hausted for the time as the societies have been
ceivng applications from well to do citizens to say
that more general help is needed than they them
selves could afford to give.
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES DISTRIBUTION.
Representatives from nearly all the charitable and
benevolent institutions in the city in the Mayors
Office to consider the plan suggested and prepared by
Mr. Sanders for the alienation of the suerings of
the poor during the winter. preliminary meeting
had been previously held to prepare the way for yes
tcrdays meeting. The plan adopted by those charity
representatives as follows:-
First-After giving due notice through the press
and pulpits and by the distribution of handbills
through the city, the community will be divided into
districts which will be canvassed by bands of orphan
boys and wagons. superintended by officers Of the
several institutions. Those boys and wagons will
call at every residence and store in New York and
ceive such articles or packages OF clothing Shoes
provisions, &c, as may be contributed by such
house store keepers for the poor.
Second-The public are tSbe notified that all per-
sons who are or have been accustomed to give to
any particular institution will still address their con-
tributions to such institutions, and they will be
faithfully delivered. 1t is not the purpose Of the
collection to divert from any institution its
toned resources.
Thiyd-The balance or unspccifed donations will
be given to all the institutions equably. according
to their necessities ascertained by special COM
mittee to which every institution asking relief shall
be referred Every charitable institution shall stand
the same footing without respect to race. creed
color
This plan was adopted without a dissenting voice
by Jews and Catholics and observation-disclosures of
the different UNCONVENTIONAL institutions present.
Contributions of money will be received by Mayor
Ely, who, with Mcssrs w. H. Ramscar and W. T.
Barnard, constitute the Committee Ways and
Means. About $500 needed Immediately to enable
the collectors TO go to work ut An Executive
Committee also appointed, consisting OF Messrs
willard Parsons. of Howard Mission; James Lynch.
representing the Home for the Aged; Henry King, Of
the West Side Relief Association p. G. Dooley, Of
st. Vincent de Pauls Society and @. A. Bunting. of
the Christian Home for Incorporate Men. These
committees will hold separate meetings and then q
general meeting of all the officers of societies will be
held again in few days before the visiting and col
lection Is begun.
POOR AND NEEDY
Mr.. Nathan Lewis, of the firm OF Nathan & Lewis,
Broadway writes to st. Johns Guild to tell that at
No. A2 West Thirty -second street a woman who has
large family is in the greatest distress and needs
assistance Immediately.
A charitable lady. who has helped all she could.
writes to the Guild also to say that on the second
floor. back, of No. $50 Third avenue poor woman.
formerly good circumstances. found last week
suffering from want Of food and other comforts.
There was no fire in her sheets her bed