Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-13
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES.


 Exposed Through the Instrumental- 1ty of Agent Preston.
 The annual public meeting of the Associ- ated Charities which was to have been held in Center church chapel yesterday was post poned on account of the storm. The annual report for the year ending January 3, 1888, was given out for publication, however. and abstracts are herewith printedt The cash transactions are first presented Balance from previous year, and receipts,
 including Christmas and Thanksgiving = Pavments na incllding amount expended for S'N' ''
 Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. 434 5 Balance to new account 95 O4 Total. s529 57
 The payments in this department are large lv for relief in emergencies-food,f fuel, tele- grams, transportation to institutions and friends and a variety of expenditures that are not provided for by the existing institutions
 EMPLOYMENT ACCOUNT. By receipts from sales of wood and
 celled claims against account.......-. S4,OS1 "A By Bsisbs. %ssls from old account lsI sI 4s E1Ssaaitures Tetaii '...-,. sse 9se s5 s5 Balance to new account. -. ............ 176 36
 Total ..... s496o st
 Of these expenditures $1, ,64S 23 was given in wages for temporary work to persons who in he majority of instances would otherwise have had to receive aid from charities or town.
 The peculiar value of this department con- sists in it's being
 First-A work test by which the character of applicants is immediately determined, and
 Second-Industrious people have an op- portunity to preserve their self-respect, and earn enough to tide over an emergency with out the humiliation of receiving aims.
 OFFICE AND HOUSE ACCOUNT RECEIPTS By balance from old account, subscrip-
 tiens, donations, rents, lodgings,
 fees and sundries ............. g., ,259 8 Drawn from employment account to sup
 ply deficiency ...............t. sl s7 sa,a91 60 PAYMENTS. For rent repairs, fuel, postage, station
 cry, car fare and sundries s 974 2s Salaries of agent, clerk and matron 1917 B
 Total cost of work. $2,e9t 60 STATEMENT OF WORK. The applications for assistance have been 1909 for the year, somewhat less than for previous years.
 With each succeeding year there are indi- cations that the number will continue to les sen in proportion to population; the investi- gations by private charities and town author ities are more thorough and the agitation of /! the question relating to workhouse and poor relief, exercises 8 deterrent influence on the l class known as ''rounders.' This influence has been particularly noticeable since the | action'of the town meeting on workhouse | question few months since. | Of these applications five hundred and | forty-two were residents and five hundred l and seventy non-residents, making total of ! 1,112 different cases, representing 2,270 per | sons.
 l Besides these we have in condition for i'm 1 mediate reference a record of about g. OO0 other persons.
 NATIONALITY. Nearly one-half, 527, were Irish; nearly l one-quarter, 270, were Americans, and the | balance were of thirteen other nationalities. l Some curious facts appear. Much has been said formerly in disparagement ot the Ital- 1 ians, but the experience of this office has not ] warranted such criticism. | TREATMENT REQUIRED. Of the l, ,112 different cases, 56 required l permanent relief; aged people, incurable in- valids, cripples, subjects for institutions, l homeless, neglected or abandoned children and the like.
 Two hundred and eighty-three needed tenn l porary relief-mainly through sickness and l inability to secure sufficient work.
 One hundred and eighty eight were sub | jects for police treatment and needed the 1 strong hand of law to restrain them in their l idleness, viciousness and imposture, Five hundred and eighty fve-over one. half of whole number, needed work only ! DISPOSITION OF CASES. | Over three-ffths GOA were provided with sufficient work to relieve temporary necessi- i ties.
 Fifty-sight were dismissed as requiring no attention.
 l One hundred and seventy two were referred | to churches, societies, individuals or the town agent for relief, and it is peculiarly gratifying l to notice that in every instance where dis | tinct recommendation was made help was af- 1 forded in accordance with such recommends tion, and in this connection the agent would l acknowledge with hearty thanks the uniform kindness and valuable cooperation of the l representatives of tho several charitable or ] ganizations, the town agent and his associates, ! the judges and attorneys of the City court the chief and members of the police depart ment, the press, the clergy, Protestant and Catholic, the attorney and agents of the Con- necticut Humane society and the community | in general.
 Business men, manufacturers, managers of public and private institutions and ssall l classes and conditions of men," in the oity and outside as we'll, have given time and in formation cheerfully with few exceptions | and this cooperation has very naturally aided in making the office what is intended, name ly, a clearing house and bureau of informa- ton of charities.
 Here follow illustrations of the value of cooperative work.
 One of the seven illustrations cited we print:
 Mrs. M came to New Haven August l, 1886. Had been living in another city for several years in great distress by reason of neglect and abuse by drinking and partially