St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-17
SAINT PAUL.
RELIEF FOR THE NEEDY.


St. PauI's Chief Charitable Organ
ization makes Creditable
Showing.
The board of managers of the st. Paul
society for the relief of the poor held its
regular quarterly meeting yesterday.
First Vice-President w. L. Wilson pre-
siding. Among those present were
Howard, Rev. S. NJ. Crothers, R. E. G.
Mitchell. General Agent, NJ; L.. Hutch
ms, Secretary r. Hall and Mesdames j.
H. Murphy, R. Hall, j. F. Hoyt, j. Il.
Pomroy and Tompkins. The report of
Treasurer d. r. Noyes showed cash on
hand January 10. S44.S4; receipts,
81 ,O52. 20; a total of 81 ,O97.O4; Expendi-
lures. 81. 144.S2; overdraft.S47.77. Secre-
tary Hall reported 960 applications tor
the quarter against 6S3 for the preced-
ing quarter and 730 for the CORES
ponding quarter last year. Of
the number 430 represented families;
$50 were single individuals: 426 appli-
cants received 1,625 pieces of clothing;
55 were aided to fuel, 80 to groceries; 5
by payment of rent; 10 to furniture and
bedding: S3 applicants. mostly for fuel
OF provisions. or both, were sent to the
city board of control; IL to the city
physician: to the fuel diSpensary.
204 West Ninth street; furnished with
medicine; 4 with transportation; 10
with cash, in small sums; 4S with lodg-
ings: 204 with a fifteen cent meal: 4
were referred to churches of which they
were members, and relieved by them;
4 to the Hebrew Relief Society; Z to the
Home for the Friendless; to the Prot
estant orphan asylum, and "a to the
Catholic Central Bureau.
The estimated amount of material
aid disbursed by the society
during the quarter, in cloth
ing, furniture, bedding, vegetables, etc,
and not drawn from the treasury. is
S604.25. The Woman'S auxiliary, Mrs.
j. G. Callahan superintendent, reported
through Miss E. B. Greene, secretary,
that twelve women were furnished reg
ular employment during the quarter,
231 garments were made for the Relief
society, and fifty-three for the Orphan
asylum. Miss Greene, in her report,
says: "Our society has this month lost
one of its most faithful and capable
members 10y the death of Mrs. j. G.
Boyden. At the request of the presi-
dent. the society sent note to her fam
lily expressing our own sense of loss, as
well as our deep sympathy with them
dustrial school, Mrs. ii. G. Burbank.
superintendent. has continued its
weekly sessions every Saturday fore
noon during the quarter, and has quite
Outgrown its present accommodations.
Six half days every week, the hall above
has been in use for free kindergarten
for the children of the poor. with total
enrolment of IS and an average of 20
pupils for the three months. in charge
of Miss NJ. M. Henderson. The day
nursery, which languished some during
the winter for want of patronage, is
finding enough to do as the weather
expected, great help to the working
women. NJ. l.. Hutchins. general
agent of the charity organization de-
partment. made an interesting verbal
report, detailing his experience in in
veStigating some noted cases. Thanks
are due to those who have kept the Re-
lief society cellar so generously sup
piled with vegetables, to be dealt
out in small quantities to the poor (who
have no CELLAR during the cold weather.
Not for three years before has the stock
Of clothing of all kinds, for men, women
and children, been so low as at the
present time, not because less has been
sent in, but because so much has been
given out. Except coats for rather
small-sized men. the society has almost
nothing now on hand. 1t is worthy of
mention, as new experience during
the quarter, that one contributor in
sending in some children's shoes for
the use of the society, also sent money
to get them mended; for all of which,
and many other things, the society has
great reason for gratitude to its gene
rous and thoughtful friends in the
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