The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-19
BOYS AND GIRLS AID.
Their Twenty First AnniVer-
Sary Was Celebrated
Yesterday.
SPLENDID YEARS WORK
President Perkins Tells Of the Good
Accomplished by the Insti-
tuition.

The twentv-first annual meeting of the
Boys and Girls Aid Society was held
yesterday afternoon at the home, corner
of Grove and Baker streets. Several
friends of the institution were in attend
ance, and the address of President George
c. Perkins was listened to with much in
terest.
The report of Treasurer Dudley c. Bates
showed for the year ending June l. 1895, the
receipts had been $31, 534 "a, and the dis.
bursements $21 ,545 IS, leaving a balance OF
! $99SS 80 to the credit of the general fund
which is deposited in local saving banks.
Following this report came the presi-
dents address to the friends of the society
which was in part as follows:
II am still able to congratulate YOU
upon the record of our years work and to
report that never in the history of the
society have the results, with a single ex-
ceptlon. been as satisfactory on the one
hand, or has the status of its aims and
purposes risen to so high and exemplary a
plane upon the other.
There has been housed, fed, clothed,
| schooled and instructed in mechanical
work at the home an average of ninety one
boys and girls for the year, necessitating a
force of eighteen officers, teachers and en-
ployes, fourteen of whom resided therein,
making the total number 109 for every day
OF the year.
1.-THE Industrial School of this City
having been broken up, and the Whittier
and lone reformatories being crowded
there was and is no place to which boy
can be committed by the courts of this
City except the County Jail, and on this
account the trustees of this society made a
contract with the City government to
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section 1888 of the Penal Code, for three
successive commitments, making a total
of six months, and to my mind it was
| most fortunate that the locality of our
home and its large size enabled us to do
| so, the results proving most satisfactory to
the City as we'll as to the offending boys.
| In order to comply with our part of the
| arrangement, and also to do the very best
| for these committed boys, we have main
| tanned a shoemaker, tailor and carpenter
| shop, with an expert teacher in charge of
each, and also class in penmanship with
a first-class instructor five evenings of each
week, while our day school, both forenoon
and afternoon, does not suffer by compari-
son with the City public school of the same
grade.
''In order to accommodate the several
mechanical teachers four suitable shops
were constructed on the Grove-street side
| OF the yard, the carpenter and his bows
doing all the work, besides putting up
shed at the eastern end and replanking
| the yard.
''On each returning Sabbath, the weather
| permitting, from fifty to seventy boys
| have been allowed to go home to visit
| their friends from $50 A. NJ. to p NJ. I'M
| attended-in other words, without any
watch over them whatever-and on the
Sunday following Children's day at the
Midwinter Fair, which all save one (who
was sick) attended, every boy in the house
was permitted to go.
"A great many necessary Improvements
have been made by order of the executive
committee during the year, new steam
laundry and heating apparatus being the
| most expensive. A large amount of paint
ing has had to be done, also plumbing and
repairing, new bedsteads, bedding chairs.
tables, ETC., bought, and. other proper dis
bursements made to bring the conditions
and surroundings up to the plane we con-
slider absolutely necessary. These all cost
money, as the report of the treasurer will
show, but there has been no extravaganza,
and the Aid Society is to-day one of the
most economically managed charities in
the country.
The children have been generally
healthy during the year, with no cpl
denies, and the society is under deep obi
cations to Frances r. Sprague of the Chill
drens Hospital faculty for her kind at
tendance at any and all tunes, day or
night.
con the LIST of May we received the be-
quest from the Charles Lux estate, amount
ing to $500, there being others still held in
allegiance, but which will probably be paid
before the close of another year.
at is very gratifying to our society to
report that our relations with the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
Youths Directory and all of the orphan
asylums have been of the most cordial
character, each working in common
cause, in caring for the orphan, the home
less, abused and neglected children of our
City and State, to educate. feed, clothe and
assist them to grow up and become good
men and women"
AT the close of President Perkins ad-
dress the following gentlemen were elected
trustees for the ensuing year: George c..
Perkins, Charles R. Allen, D. C. Bates, s.
c. Bigelow. G. II. Bonestell. Charles E..
Green, Charles A. Murdoch, Alphonso A.