New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-30
TIE BEST M0NUgENT TO MR.. BRACE.

The annual meeting of the Chidrens AID
Society is appropriately held at season when
Good men and women arc peculiarly predis-
nosed to kindly feelings and benevolent i'm
puses. No charitable institution in existence
has better right to take advantage OF the gen.
erous shirt of the time. Its appeals are fortified
nv a wonderful record of accomplished results.
We have already published the most significant
narts of the reports made last Tuesday, but
desire to ask the special attention OF our readers
to few particulars. In the society's lodging
houses 1882 boys and girls were fed, shell
tered and taught last year, at an average COST
to the public for each child of S33 76; the
average cost for each prisoner in the Tomos IS
S1O775. The society placed in homes last
wear 2,S51 children at an average expense OF
S1O14; it costs S140 to keep child IN
poorhouse or asylum for year. The Summer
Home at Bath had 4,574 guests during the
summer. at an average cost of 81 SO; and the
Health Home at Coney Island 4,721, costing
ST 40 each The society supplied 293,t0'
meals and 2O,0O1 lodgings during the year
in its lodging houses, and more than half a
million meals in its schools, besides aldlng
12S7 persons with food and medicine through
been taught to use the sewing machine ana
As to use the typewriter during the year. ana
S7,S74 35 has been deposited in the penny
savings banks. The society has had under Its
charge during the year 36,363 individuals, and
during its existence has placed more than
$4,000 children In country homes.
These figures are eloquent, If figures ever
were. The sagacity, skill and devotion which
have accomplished these results with the means
at hand are beyond all praise. This record Is
q striking exemplifcatiOn of the difference, rct
only between real and sham economy, but also
between the integrity which IS satisfied when
nothing is stolen and that which insists upon
and knows how to secure the maximum return
from every dollar of outlay 1t is a lesson
which not a few lavishly supported charities
are in honor bound to learn This society,
therefore, deserves support because 1t has de-
monstrated a remarkable capacity for doing
noble work 1t is work which appeals ire
sstibly to every interrupted heart Pity for
the misery of adults is often justly qualified
by sense of evaporation at the burden they
nut upon the community. But little children
have an indsputable claim to compassion and
assistance. 1t is the glory of the Chlldrens
Aid Society that it has done so much to satisfy
this claim, and by shining example to pro-
mote the universal recognition of it.
Nobody can think of this institution without
thinking also of the man who devised and Or
eanized it, and for thirty five years was its
head and SOUL 1t is great satisfaction to
learn that the son of the late Charles Loring
Brace, bearing his fathers name and known
TO inherit his fathers spirit, has been chosen
to carry on his fathers work. 1t is a satisfac-
ton also to realize from the tone of public
utterances that the society and its founder are
understood and appreciated by the best part OF
this community. 81 gravely doubt" says the
rector of Grace Church, "whether any one man
could be named to whom the municipality owes
weightier debt" We believe that everybody
who has familiarized himself with the work
shares DR.. Huntington's conviction of its pre-
eminent value. On one point only do we hest
tate to agree with him. He proposes monu-
ment to MIR. Brace but Mr.. Brace needs no
monument except the society which he created.
We should rejoice to see great sum of money
raised in his name, and expended in grateful
remembrance of his services to this community
not on marble and bronze, but in extending
the work to which he gave his life.