The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-03
FOR SCIENTIFIC CHARITY.
Board Of Friendly VisitOrs Organized
Eastern Methods Follow ed.


There was an organization effected yesterday
afternoon of the workers of the Bureau OF Asso-
cated Charities. The name adopted was
Board OF Friendly Visitors of the Associated
Charities" The new board is composed of
ladies and gentlemen, all of whom visit such
deserving families as may be assigned by the
board OF directors of the Associated Charities
and see that they receive sufficient but not too
much or too indiscriminaLe relief. The men,
bsrs are follows.
Misses Ayerst, MIRA g. G. Benedict, Mrs. Ed
ward Colman, Mrs. Jerome Catlin. Mira +.
aud Mrs /. K. Fleming. Mrs. J. T. Farrell, Mrs.
F.W. Hankey. Mira g. ii. Hebron, Mrs 5 D.
King. Mrs David Kellogg, Mrs. J. X. Kinnear,
Mrs. Il. H. Moss, Sidney McMechen. Mrs. s ).
Men Mrs. J. w. Phillips, Mrs. ). T. Ronald, Mrs.
G. n. Rollins, Mrs Charles f. shepard Mrs.
Winfield smith, Mrs. IL. sackman, Mn. l.
echoenfeldt Mrs. George Tompson, Mr. and
Mrs NJ. Vanwyck, Mr.. and Mrs T. I. Whittier,
Mrs w. H. Wilson.
Mrs. George H. Hebron was chosen tempo
Hary chairman and Miss Evelyn Ayerst, secre-
ssry. Bylaws were discussed and agreed upon.
IT was arranged to meet again next Thursday AZ
p. nj. at the bureaus Office, in the Seattle
National bank building, at which time all per-
sons Interested in the work are invited 10 attend
T. T. Dooiey. superintendent of the bureau,
Was invited to address the meeting aud spoke
o. follows:
This country supports q million OF men,
women and children that are dependent. deiec-
sys or criminal. at a direct yearly public ex-
pense OF $l0o.0O0o00. Seventy thousand persons
are employed TO look after these, and about
voo.Wco0 have been sunk in what We term in
sntutionai "plant."
These figures may be considered rs entirely
within the truth, since the late census actually
enumerated 10000 OF such, and IL makes no
reckoning of more than many besides that
are without the pale of public or Institutional
statistics leaves untouched the citentsge OF
public ''eutdoor" relief and the beneheiarics
regular aud occasional of the thousands of pri-
vate Charities and individual agencies through
out the Land. The Charity Organisation Society
OF New York city alone has the names of 10000
on Its reg lster. Some ground for a general com
po'huon with especial reference To the faeinc
coast have from a recent investigation OF my
own IN California. occupying the better part
OF year of correspondence aud visitation.
Rom which learned that the Gpldeu state with
us l1p,'su inhabitants has ii,Uu on tnese-o8s
toAhout every seventy Of the general popuia
Gen--and thai the charge 20 the siste treasury
aoae exceeds the sum OF s2o0,oo per snnnm
The Mere money cost, direct and indirect, OF all
This IS very serioO indeed but by no means An
itse'i the most perpiexlng feature. Is IL not
pain tsct. aud one that should indicate tho
paee tor remedial attack, that most OF tho
Individuals emhodying this vast problem were
Within the scope OF private or voluntary chaIi-
hoie treatment when proper preventive, re-
ffe>slve restorative measures would certainly
have saved us the hideous problem they con-
sttute toaay9 Heaven only knows which
NoUfG have SDfAIscd the kfSatef MISCHIEF iesA4
neglect ~ the kind OF attention that has Deeu
Commonly bestowed, tor the main idea OF nearly
syecs eAariiy--nesrly every set of charity |
might add--aIong the woraa's history, whatever
name or theory IL rnAy have borne, seems 10
have found It's chief xpress'on III minisisrtug
tlndy 10 tho body.
Poverty" We say, us no diSsraca- No,
there SIZE honest poor, but poverty 10 a condition
OF wan. of beiug lace to face with temptation
livery dangerous one. easily leading BY most
oby;oUs PROCESS IA delinquency and shame
Aeidiag poverty usually runs into paupssisin,
AMI pacreriSsn = a burning disgrace. II Is, oy
all eSpeT euce, more to be feared than what We
ordinarily mean by eriainality- Coronic pau
EstSIu - cr.la3nastty, ana not uf the accidental
Sort either. but deeper sesied IN its mslisaity.
more insl4uUus in its influence and harder 10
cure.
"N III few exceptions" ksys William Tallack.
I'VE mi that hsbifusi mendicagts are vicious
a. cfGu'us. imfosIors" Investigation proves
ths IN ntaVieen cSsee out OF every twenty, but
Tie public Ia general viii not AT cannot take
TIE trouble % sGch Investigation. A recent fs-
Port oi tie New YORK Associated Charities de-
saree ot tais Eaat "lt has been proven that over
per ceaS po>ssSsed ample means and That only
sPer Cegt- II the " hole could Dc deemed worthy
ant needy" The report does not indicate that
Tor even tie per cent sinlsgiving as tho relii'
civ
without the le@iiugs ot philosophy CT ths
testimony % kAe e2peTlsaee1 and lie success