The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-10
ITS ANNUAL MEETING
CHARITY ORGANIZATION HEARS RE-
PORTS AND RE-ELECTs OFFICERS.
Figures of Interest to the Contribute
Ors to the Charity Fund-Number
OF Persons Aided

The annual meeting of the Charity Organ
ization Society was held yesterday after
noon in the Charity Organization rooms at
Plymouth Church. Rev. N. l.. Haines,
president, was in the chair. The first order
of business was TO hear the annual report
Of the secretary, Mr.. c. S. Grout. He gave
the financial statement as follows: Cash
on hand Nov. l. 1893. $26.66; subscriptions
to the society. s5,593.13; special, SAP;
Friendly Inn rent from cottages, $136.50;
loans repaid, $32.31; total, $5,SO6.36. Elk
penses: For relief. $780, 10; rent, 1913; grocer
les, s2,254.7; bread, s462.66; coal, s4OS.O6;
wood, $7415; gasoline, for fuel, $1.55; stran-
gers at the Friendly Inn, $497.37; dry goods,
s123.27: 53 repairs of shoes. SAG. rs; tenn
porary loans. 500; expressage, stoves and
connections, s52.93; Office expenses, rent,
$50; supplies, 1923; repairs, s1.50; total,
s154.97. Friendly Inn expenses, ground rent,
to the State. 5000 repairs. $780, improve
ments, s4e4.7t; police commission for Mr..
Moore, keeper of the Inn. s.; gas connec
ton. SIS; total, $746.95. Expense of the an
nual meeting: Opera house, $50; printing, $11.
Total expenses, $~5.774.12; cash on hand,
S32.24 Number of men registered, 1,797;
women. 25s; children, SO; lodging for cash,
4,434: same for work, 2SS; same by benevo-
lent society, 1,72O; total. 6452. Given out
through the main office. pairs of new shoes,
SAB: old shoes. 100; garments. 1,Oes; bed COW
ers, 80; new material, 101 yards. The reports,
having been audited, were accepted by the
society.
The Friendly Inn accomplished less last
year than the year before, having been
closed four months on account of the
at the Friendly Inn to the amount of more
than 500, as ii was In bad condition. The
t tbe lPvI R9rti Toom and Of th Mr. w shd Mrs rs used Mdor as
who have charge Of the inn, have been
separated. This fact, on the motion of Mr..
Kindly words were spoken for Mr.. and Mrs.
Moore. The latter was employed during
the time the inn was closed in visiting the
not attend school. Such as she found were
supplied with proper clothes and encour-
aged to go to school; This Mr.. Haines
the work, and he suggested the value in
this direction Of the cowork of the charities.
Having Mrs; Moore work as a visitor and
keeper of the inn obviates the necessity
of having an extra visitor.
The annual election was decided by the
Officers. The names of Rabbi Messing and
of Rev. E.. b. Rawls were added to the list
of vice presidents. The officers are:
president. Mgr. August Bessonies; vice
presidents, Eli Lilly. s; n; Gold, Rev. H. A.
Buchtel. Mrs, julia Goodhart; Rev, g: A.
Rev. Frederic Dewhurst; Rev. j.. A. Mil
burn, Rev. J. A. Rondthaler, Rabbi Mes
sing and Rev. E. b. Rawls-
Executive Committee-George Merritt, S.
T.. Bowen. L. b. Martindale, Franklin Tay-
lor and H. H. Hanna.
Finance Committee-C. G. Foster, John H.
Holiday, c. C. Van Camp ana c.. E. Coffin.
Treasurer-V. 7. Malott.
Secretary-Charle w. Moores.
A committee consisting of Rev. NJ. l..
Haines, Mrs. Goodhart and Mr.. Charles
Martindale was appointed to prepare the
programme for the fifty-eighth annual
meeting of the Benevolent Society and the
sixteenth of the Charity Organization,
which will be held the first Sunday evening
gramme will be a description of the method
of the associated charities and relief COM
mittee last winter. They will give the pub
lie an opportunity to know just how the
plan. which was systematized by the Com
mercial Club committee, and which placed
Indianapolis at the head Of the list in such
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