Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-22
The New OrIeans ContinentaIs.
Associated Charities.


Fifth Annual Meeting of the Board-In- teresttng Statistics.
 The fifth annual meeting of the New Haven Board of Associated Charities was held on Wednesday evening at the chapel of the Third Congregational church. There was a good audience present, including many ot our prominent citizens and the reports and
 addresses were listened to with evident in- terest by all. Hon.. Francis Wayland, the chairman oi the. board, presided at the meeting, which was opened by prayer offered by Rev. T. Sts Samson, pastor of the Calvary Baptis church. The reports for the past year, as given elsewhere, were presented by officers of the board; the financial report by the treasurer, MT. 0. A. Sheldon of the Second National bank, and the statement of work for the year by the recording secretary, Mr. c. P. Wurts.
 Rev. w. D. Mossman, the correspondipe { secretary of the board, reported correspond ence, exchange of reports, &c. during the ! year with sixteen other societies of similar nature in twelve other cities in this country and elsewhere. Invitations had been received from several of these societies to attend their annual meetings the latest being at New York, where Judge Wayland, the chairman of this board, delivered one of the addresses By request from Pittsfield, Mass, Mr. Moss man has recently presented there also the plan of the New Haven work Communica,
 tion has been had during the year with other places from which dependent people were coming to New Haven or to which some ot our own poor were going. In this way valu- able information was received and given in regard to such persons as were either coming under our own care or passing out from ours into the care of others.
 The chairman of the board Judge Way < land, said he was glad to be able to congrat-
 uIate the friends of the society upon the
 marked increase in the interest expressed by the public in this work. We need and we appreciate this encouragement, for we are dealing with one of the most difficult and del. icate problems of modern times The aues-
 tion we are trying to answer is, How can we be benevolent and also benefcent? How to give and at the same time do good? For generations and even for centuries it has been considered as rule that the giving to all applicants was to be commended as praise worthy. Only in recent times has it been
 ascertained that much, perhaps most of this
 so-called charity, was positively hurtful That
 not enly pauperism itself had been found to be result, but vice and crime in various forms had been traced in many cases direct ly to the doors of the benevolent This is a most alarming thing and should lead to ac- ton and far different result.
 When we commenced this work we had as- C6t6&1Q6Q G9a6 JUG Uu61u0SS OI- D6RQ1nQ becoming more and more 8 taint upon the young Children were begging upon our streets and at our doors. The officers at our station house told us of instances where boys of fourteen and fifteen years of age had decided to become tramps and had already started in that life. As we examined further
 into the matter and asked why it was that
 intelligent people persist in giving to un-
 known persons at their doors, we found it
 was because of their fear lest by refusing all
 some worthy persons might suffer. Our
 first action was to provide way so that we
 might assure the community that all these
 by having as part of our
 plan labor test we were able
 to find out and provide only for those will
 ing to work for what they had if they were
 able. If not able bodied they were to be
 otherwise provided for by us. This action.
 on our part, and general notice to that ef-