Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-10
United Workers,

United Workers.
 The Annual Mseting-The Work for the
 Past Year in the Various Departments , of Charitable and Benevolent Effort
 The Coffee Tzouses-The Labors Among
 the Poor and Needy-The AImshouse
 PUor-Tlle E lection of Officers.
 The annual meeting of the society of United Workers was held yesterday afternoon at Trinity church chapel, opening at B o'clock, the president Mrs Eli Whitney, jr., in the chair. After devotional exercises the annual reports were read. The report of the re cording secretary, Miss Lillian E. Prudden, recited that the story of the work was old yet ever new. Each year brought it's own kaleidoscope of events. ''The poor ye have l always with you'' The field for work was large, and questions arose continually, rem dering the weekly meetings of the executive l committee occasions of serious deliberatlon l retrospective glance at the society's work ! gave ample assurance that the societys pa l tient and systematic volunteer work secured l satisfactory results. Out of the many ob. jects that ten years ago appealed to society established for practical benevolence, five were immediately chosen and undertaken with a strong faith in the interest of the Christian women of Now Haven, which was | shown by the enthusiastic and liberal support | then given. One of the agencies for good, the boarding house for working women and ! girls, was reluctantly abandoned in the sixth | year. The cost was too heavy and the other demands too imperative The coffee house, 1 after five years, became self-sustaining,
 and in the ninth year the prosperity of khn olo !, ok ! tablished-this one near the foot of Water
 street. At both cheap and good meals and lodgings are furnished Both are of course
 on the strictly temperance plan The second
 coffee house is not yet self-sustaining, but it I is we'll located and is an attractive we'll or
 dered home and in short time will no ! doubt be self sustaining. At both houses
 there are reading rooms. The donations of
 cast of volumes of summer reading made year ago have been read and read until they
 are actually worn out. An appeal is made
 for more denations-old magazines, stories,
 books of travel, etc., in fact any good read ing mattar-
 The report speaks of the good work done by the almshouse visiting committee. This
 committee has now new name, that of
 ''The Committee for the Relief of the Sick
 Poor." Tho report pays g feeling tribute to
 the patience and self denial attaching to the
 work of visiting the poor and needy, and
 cases of suffering that had been alleviatsd ! were introduced by way of illustration. It l was not all sunny work, for there were gar
 rets and novels and dismal for]orn places to l visit and repinings and grumblings were l sometimes to be endured. The report spoke
 of the Boys club, tho Employment Bureau
 and other departments of the work of the . l society, and adds:
 | s'There seems to be confusion in the minds
 of many people in regard to the connection ! of this society with that of the Asso ciated Charities. This doubtless arises from
 similarity of name, but it should be understood that while we be
 long to the number of the charities thus associated for the purpose of rendering ! our work more effective and preventing i'm l posture, we do not receive any money from that society to holp us in caring for our sick f poor even for cases recommended by
 them. Our work depends solely upon the money provided by the public for us, al-
 though the demands upon have been 7 largely increased by connection with the Associated Charities Our executive con-
 mittee has suffered greatly from unavoidable f resignations Miss Bacon kept the office of
 treasurer to which she was elected in No
 vember. for many months, in spite of tho
 domestic charges that gave her little time or
 thought for public benevolent enterprises,
 and then Miss White kindly consented , to assume the onerous task, Mrs. Church,
 who brought such courage to us ln the ln- terest with which she took up the work of the Employment Bureau, carried her work forward until she was obliged to leave town in February, followed by the regrets of our g committed, and that branch would have suf- g l fered sadly had not Miss Walker in self f denying forgetfulness of the wearisome labor g of former years. from which she had hoped y ! to escape come forward and assumed the
 I burden of care.
 Mrs. AnketelPs report concerning the
 ! coffee houses. which was read to the meeting
 ! by Mrs. B. s. Wheeler, said tho year past 2 had been a trying year, on account of the 3 high prices of meats and vegetables and the U ! low prices charged for meals. Coffee House D ! No. 9, foot of Water street, has been estab. l. ! lished now eighteen months It was doing 2 Q good work, and was patronized by working a men in that locality. It was the T only temperance place in the section. Railroad men and men who work
 ill the factories patronized it. The early
 breakfasts were success, and met popular v ! want The case of one young man sp0 d cialiy mentioned was narrated with l. ! pleasing exactness and perspicuity. He wa. s always on hand for early breakfast anc @ he was specially pleased and gratifsd witf g the coffee and always ordered two cups. Ht ), was highly thankful that the idea of early 1 breakfasts invented. His case was cited l. by way of illustration. The report further y- gave an idea of the usefulness of the coffe. @ houses and their reading rooms to poor Jacl l Tar, who otherwise might be getting into
 trouble and grief Many sailors get grea
 comfort and spend many hours in the read Il ing rooms when of duty Donations G is books and papers were earnestly solicited e Anyone having donations to make might sene ,t word by postal to the superintendent. I'm ,s l whole number of meals furnished at Coffe I 1 House No. 1 WAS 66, 473; at No. 2, 53, 2O6 t. ! The average cost was about IA cents 8 meal
 At No. IA, 249 lodgings had been furnished n at No. 2, 626 lodgings at an average cost o
 ! about 15 1-3 cents.
 Tt The report of the Employment Bureau b,
 Miss Hooker. read by Miss Walker showed 'd good work done in furnishing employment t,
 ! people who stood in need of it. Although no la 1 what they could wish them to be, tn
 ! quarters of the committee in the old Stat t1 House were retained, and the Bureau hope, as for the preservation of the old building unti
 the Bureau could get better quarters Tn eli cases requiring attention sometimes reached ,n as many as 30 or 40 per week. Many wer
 cases of struggling, overworked. sick moth i'd CTS. Two hundred and forty-e eight article ,, ! were made and most of these were sold 1 About AS pieces yet remained unsold iron last years work This committee works ii a conjunction with the relief committee Tn m ! great need of the Bureau was better rooms ia Mrs. B. c. Lake, chairman of the relic n committee, made the report of that depart ,. ment, reading an interesting paper, in whicl ,e the work of the committee among the sicI e and suffering described. The case O d one worthy English woman of family, wh, ,e was relieved when sick and in want, was feel o l ingly alluded to. The committee had sive1 ,t to poor people 25o pounds of oatmeal, 6o' pounds of meal. 264 pounds of pork, 25! 3. 1oaves of broad. 252 quarts of milk, 25 pound . l of rice, bushels of beans and other benefits including luxuries in special cases.
 Miss s. M. Day, chairman of the Boys
 club committee, made report concerning
 that branch, speaking in interesting wa, r. ! of the work done to interest street boys tho 's number attending being often over two hun a dred; also speaking of the special occasien D. given the boys, including the annual supper 'e and of special services given by Mir E. S o Wheeler c L. Johnson and G. l.. Fox ant 's the Lowell Mason society.
 e Mrs. Cowles read tho annual report of tho almshouse committee, giving an interestins