New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-16
ORGANIZING CHARITY.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY.
ELECTION OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES BY C. D. KEEL
LOGG, MAYORS LOW AND GRACE AND OTHERS.

ELECTION OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES BY c. d. KEEL
LoGG, MAYORS LOW AND GRACE AND OTHERS.
The first animal meeting OF the Charity Organza-
ton Society took place last night at No. 81 Nadi-
the the society elected officers for the en-
ed members of the Central Committee:
Dr. :. .. NanderpOel Lucius Tuckerman, Arthur
NJ. Dodge j. j.. Roosevelt, Horny H. Pellew, DIR.
Mark Blqmenthal, DIR. Richard IL. Derby, Dr: +. H.
SSturgis, D. Willis James, Alfred Roosevelt Joseph
can Harris, Peter Is. Olnoy, Robert Is.
Mmturn, Henry Rice, Arson Phelps Stokes.
Rutherford Stuyvesant and Ludlow Ogden.
DR.. Nanderpoel was elected president, j. II. Roose-
welt secretary, and Arthur NJ Dodge treasurer OF the
organization. The report OF the treasurer showed
the amount of subscriptions received to be S3,53l,
and the expenditures SG5l, leaving balance on
hand of S2,S76. DR.. Vanderpoel then took the
chair. ong list was read OF churches
society. The first address of the evening
was by Charles s. FairchId of tins city. Mr. Fair
child outlined the scope and policy OF the organlza-
uon and stated that similar societies we're IN sue
ces,tul operation iii several cities OF the United
States and Europe. The organizing secretary,
Charles ID. kellogg, then read paper giving III de-
tai the objects and workings or the society. lie
said III part:
The Charity Organization Society OF the City of New
tn charitable activities Of tae metropolis, civic, cher
tered and individual TIE benefits which are found to re-
partments Of social fe. 1t Is based Gu two germnal
or natonaiity; second, it VIII not di-
fhs society ams At netting less than the moral and
social elevation OF the poor BY bringing into closer ana
the refined aud the degraded by thorough system OF
personal vsitation and TO effect Ibis, proposes to
cover the city az rapidly practicable with network
OF district committees or branches, 50 extensive as to
with district Offices convenient that all benevolent
pknoSn Gpeant lo relief and that all sufferers may
nd larPu near hand pledged teuuerN I'LL
TO examine tHCir needs and To select and secure the
proper material remedy and supply that friendly
oversight and continued care which are
thousand-fod better than aims These district
committees to be composed OF men ana
women tltted by natural Instincts by experience il pos
sbe, and by u lnent and tact tor their responsible
work These being prevented from administering
aims will have power ANA opportunity untramuelled
by the greed and dupcy they would else encounter TO
carry into depressed degraded homes the best social
and moral influences aud the rcn and subtle forces OF
friendship, aud to besOw share OF the judgment ana
ambitions, the training aud hopes which nave made
their ow lives happier and nObler and more fruitful.
They ounyersant with all the charltabe re-
sources OF city that they encounter real suffering
they can refer t. the appropriate agency
and secure remedy needed lorthe spec ccises
and thus save the present enioIccd pima gioPg among
scores disconnected societies Tor the exact remedy To
requisite intelligence could Immediately refer
1t, and hch real cooperation Would specify Obtain
Tue central office VI the society IS to be clearing
house of information and IegistIatlon not only Tor us
own district branches but also for ali the relegiyng
agencies OF city, thus detecting and exposing ul-
posture and overlapping anu gaherin5 lnornatlon COZ
ceruing worthy and unworthy, Which, under suitable
guards, will be available ~ all cooperating charities
josiah Il. Sypher, of Philadelphia, was the next
| speaker. He gave account OF the work OF a
similar organization in. PhaGe pha, and said that
Its success had shown that charity could exist
without being a dispenser OF ora clothes anu aug
broken Yictuals""Ihe problem heretofore has been
said he to see how much you could collect and
| give away. 1t is now to see how much good you
can do without giving away anything Mayor
Low, of Brooklyn, WIS then Introduced, ana spoke
| substantially as follows:
Ihave bean much interested i'll hearing Of the working
OF this knict organization IN 2tnr oe5 Inu 1l lnt
the side VI those desiring 10 gtYcin charity central
register Of those who ask for help Is In order
thai they may give lnicgenty ana whore aims VIII do
ihc mo,i good All OF objections ARISE TO IT, one
is TOO bad TO place on Me the names OF all VINO
ask Tor help. This arises almost entirely from the
churches, AID am sure that We Wih all
appreciate the spirit IN which IL Is Made' \
thought needed help. she belonged To church which
had refused to cooperate with the Bureau Of Charities
b,ctlse OF the publicity. her efforts to help this
needy family publicity she went around from
imagine when they want TO do good they do not
sea- that think That they 10 not need rudder because
the wind that ILLS ne sails Is the breath OF heaven In
applying this 2, stciu OF org inzcd charity NewYork
@ a., ,ia now, ditiirnltirs uris. ~ hich have not
10 be contended with III otner cities.
Robert Treat Paine, the superintendent of the or
glnized charity system OF Boston, at the cioSc OF
Mayor Low address gave ali account OF Tie opera
ions OF the Boston society. me last speaker
was Mayor Grace. 5GecGgn'z ze, . among
who have been active III charitable wOrA
in this city L am in sympathy with any
movement that Will tend 10 lessen poverty AMI
crime | cannot say however that am fully in
| FAVOR of this purely business method OF dealing
with charity. Ii is haTd to get nd OF tine influences
of early relg iou- training. for my part, do not
wish 10 gel rid of them, and IL Is TO them that NY
feelings may be aScrbcd. RellgIon Is the very i0un-
tain head OF charity | be lcye that proper dis
penSer of charity cannot be had for conponsatlOn
lei see no reason why what has been done IN bos
ton may not be done here, and ain III entire SYM
patty with this movement