The Osceola times., 1885-09-12

fully worked twenty cities IN the conn.
Try They left New York ten wears
SINCE aud returned lately. But we had
their whole record. and made il too hot
ior them' Ihey went to an interior
cry; description of them came TO ms.
ana iull Information was at once sent IN
the authorities, In this way the busj.
ness OF the impostor will gradually be
extinguished. ~
=, again, In the matter of foundlinps.
.he society does valuable work. Know.
ing and keeping a register of all the five
hundred nurses in the city, those little
walls are watched and cared for. and
mot iarmed out" to be slowly starved.
IL may surprise people not acquainted
W. WIN ha ,he . dark ways of big city's life
10 pe toid that there Is great deal of
professional abandonment of children
gong on. There are numerous cases in
"hich children are abandoned in In.
lancy and claimed when they are old
enough TO earn money for their heart.
.ess parents. All such cases are care.
iuily and exhaustively investigated by
tne nine district committees and maid
uislrlct agents of the society.
The clearinghouse statistics of the
socie,y comprise over 10000 reports
concerning over $1,000 families. all ar
ranged and classified by street and by
name IN a bureau in charge of the two
iady clerks. The various aliases OF i'm
posters, the streets in which destitution
most abounds. the houses that become
begging centers and schools of mendi-
cancy thus admit of classification ready
Tor instant reference.
AS an illustration of the amount of
perverted beneyolence which character
lzes this city, Mr. Kellogg said: "A
year ago we took at random the reports
IN our bureau relating to about 20. 600
cases. Of these cases. the information
OF about 1000 was full enough to admit
OF exhaustive investigation. The re-
suits, divided into classes, were as fol-
lows:
With Children
CnuoIes s''''''''' ''''''.''''..''....ls s9
,ouPics' ........................ .8,ssG
couples, father reported sick 7g-5 isr
Withsut Children
SILL ;. .'''''''.'''.............. E6
Sinri ,..' ,''l'..' - ''''''' '''''..'..... 80
single women. en...................... 319-lsN
Total examined and classified 900. G.oei
In other words, of 1854 cases, 4,577,
or over 65 per cent. were men with or
without children, aud so far as appeared.
able-bodied; and but l,90S eases out of
6'955, or less than 274 per cent. were
widows with children and families
where the bread-winner was reported to
be sick, while only 81 per cent. were
destitute and helpless, and even for these
there was full provision existing some
where. This shows most undesirable
state of things, even allowing fora very
large percentage of cases Of exception
able hardship" One of the important
missions Of the society consists in OBJ
tanning employment for abe-bodied
men in and out of the city. But your
professional pauper, male or female.
will seldom consent to work for living.
There are fifty similar charity organi-
zation societies in England, with which
the New York society exchange infor-
nation. 1t is healthy 'sign of the
times" when the practice of inG.scrimi-
nate alms-giying is practically dealt
with. All the facts tend to show that
unless directed by some such organiza.
ton as has been briefly outlined, and
thus restricted to unavoidable suffering,
il is q source of corruption and mis-.
chief and an aid to intemperance.- N
T. Mercury.