Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-21
TIE CASE OF TEE HowARps.

| 1a6 CscS VI TEE dOWEHUS.
Practical charity is duty devolvipg upon
every community to practice. That duty
which ia incumbent upon q community is in
cumbent upon every person who is o member
OF the body. The law cannot, however far
reaching and wise, and however complete its
systems, answer all demands that shodld be
responded to by community. Under the
law, the Supervisors may and do aid, in q
small way, the unfortunate and suffering
poor; it is under the law that q free dispen.
sary is maintained it is under the law that
a county hospital and poor farm are con-
Quoted. But these aids to the poor can min
lister to their wants in but limited degree.
| The great mass of the suffering poor are Of
the ciass not possible to be admitted 20 the
hospital. and not adapted for the poor farm.
| Undoubtedly numbers Of the poor are made
go by dissipation much Of the suffering is
due to the inordinats use of strong drink I;
slne Of it is due to the brutality of the parents
OF innocent children some of it is the result
OF crime; but in the great majority OF cases
the suffering poor in Sacramento are women
and children, who are brought to poverty's
distress through no fault of their own. The
| relief OF these human beings is imperative.
No community like this, where there is cult
ure, refinement, warm, charitable hearts,
wealth and business prosperity. can hesitate
moment about it. TO pity distress is but
human; to relieve it is God-iike," said Horace
Mann; and Pope put it as strongly in diff
ferent form:
In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankinds concern is Charity.
The subject of systematizsd charity has
been one that has attracted much attention,
lwNA l.
few places in the world has anything like
perfection in such system been approached.
Until it is attained here, the people must use
the best medium available for reaching the
worthy poor. In Sacramento it is the How
ard Benev client Association, q society com.
posed of leading citizens, whose efforts in the
organization are the results of sincerely
benevolent impulses, and desire to admins.
ter the peoples charity fund to the very best
advantage 1t is entirely unnecessary to refer
to the work of the Scciety in the past; it
forlns part of the history of the
State, and makes up a record that
is IN honor to the city. Unques.
tionably the Society has been i'm.
posed upon occasionally, but 80
has every humane institution. Probably the
Towards have relieved more cases of distress.
in proportion to the funds it has handled, in
the past twenty years, than any similar vol.
country. For Elany years it received State
sid-that is BOW withdrawn. A cold winter
is upon us, and the demands on the Society
for shelter, fuel, food and clothing for the
homeless. the feeble, the sick, che helpless
young and the penniless are more than
it can answer. 1t has called on the
ladies of the city to aid it, and they have
responded. A charity entertainment is to be
given under their auspices Friday night of
this week. The business men are to meet
tonight, and undertake the disposal of the
tickets The committees are all out and at
work, and the prospect is that the charitable
carnival will be . complete success 1t is an
affair al can engage in, and an undertaking
to which everyone who has employment,
home. or o business, can afford to contribute
the pittarce that is asked from each.
An adjourned meeting of the ladies who
have in charge the entertainment was held
yesterday at Pioneer Hall. Mrs. w. A.
Henry presided. The Committee on Music
reported that the Hussar band had been se-
cured. Tbs Decoration Committee reported
that George Boyne and o. P. Dodge had
been engaged to decorate and arrange the
hall District committees to solicit contribu.
tions for the supper were announced as fol-
lows: District No. l, from Front street to
west side Of Fourth and south of K, Mrs.
Van Auie and Mrs Chadderdon; No. 2,
east side of Fourth street to west side
OF Seventh and south of K street, Mrs.
Hale i; No. g. east side OF Seventh street to
west sideof Tenth and south side of K streets,
Mrs. Kreuzberger No. 4, east side of Tenth
street to the west of Twentieth sud south of
K street, Mrs. w. G. Farnsworth; No. 5, J
and K streets from Front to Twentieth
street, Mrs. G. w. Ficks No. 6, II and
l streets, from Front to west side of Tenth
street, Mrs. H. H. Wachhorst No. Z, r
street east of Tenth to Twentieth, Mrs.
Wachhorst; No. 9, E and + streets east of
Tenth, Mrs. j. d. Kent; A, b, and d
streats, Mrs. James l. elter.
Mrs. William Beckman, Chairman of the
COMMITTEES on Flowers, stated that she had
selected the following assistants:
Mrs. George Gale. Mrs. J. J. Keegan, Mrs.
Charles Ross, Mrs. George jackson, Mrs.
Julian, Mrs. w. W. Grissin, Mrs. G. w.
Lorenz. Mrs. J. w. HUM hrey, Misses
Mamie, Wiseman, Jennie Mcfarland, Minnie
McNasser, and Belle Johnston.
Tickets can be had at the office of W. P.
Coleman, on street, between Third and
Fourth. The next meeting Of the ladies will
be held at Pioneer Hall on Thursday after.
neon at 1:30 o'clock, at which time final re-
port will be received from the various com.
mittees.
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