The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-29
UNITED FOR CHARITY.
Great Gathering on Behalf of
the Bureaus Work.
LINES OF SECT ARE WIPED OUT.
Able and Practical Addresses on Relief
and Elevation OF the Poor-whas
the Bureau Does.

SAtgs II mSs 1AAt OF Roman Catholic
priest, group OF Protestant pastors ami
the leader OF the Salvation Army. seated
side BY side as co-laborers in benevolent
work The occasion was the annual meet
ing OF the Bureau OF Associated Charities.
at which Mayor Phelps presided and the
following occupied places on the platform:
Rev. ID. c. Garrett, Rev. Fathsr Garland,
Rev. w. II. q. Temple, Rev. George II.
Lee. Chairman Fred Gasch, OF the county
commissioners. and Mai. Percy Morton
and Capt Robert Milne, Of the Salvation
Army.
A good audience was present when the
opening prayer was offered by Rev.
George II. Lee, followed by a fine anthem
by the choir. Secretary Winaeld r
Smith then submitted his annual report,
the chief statistical items of which are as
follows, excluding the special work OF the
Friendly Visitors, who, though separately
organized. are one with the bureau. or
as Secretary Smith said, Its practical
right hand
The Annual Report.
Cash on hand November 20, 1894. $ I94. IS
Current receipts for year. subscrip-
tons -.---..-----.--...... .-.......-. 5SS 90
From ''Midwinter Nights Dream"
net ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .--...... So. IS
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .0e4. SO
Total disbursements, including
agents salary, Office rent, tele-
phone. aid in emergency cases
anu son1fleS ...----.................S 81, ol3. IS
Balance on hand November IS, 1895. so sS
Applicants for aid. 1.746. These repre-
sent probably 5000 or 5000 individuals, 343
of which were new 10 the bureau. Nearly
100 emergency cases We're aided, besides 80
given medical aid. Food supplied neatly 800
times. Clothing supplied over 400 times,
including over 300 pairs of shoes and
nearly 1000 garments. Fuel supplied fifty
times. Employment found for nearly 200.
and free or reduced transportation for
forty-hve.
County system of Relief.
Chairman Fred Gasch. OF the board OF
county commissioners. then presented an
able paper on the work OF the county in
relieving the poor. and the relation OF the
county work to that of the bureau. He
traced the growth of the work IN the
county from six years ago, when not
more than a dozen persons would apply
for relief at each monthly meeting of the
board, 10 the present, when there are
over 500 names on the county books. lie
suggested the creation of the office Of
commissioner for the poor, arguing that
the board OF county commissioners is now
overwhelmed with work, and that most
of the care of the poor for the county
now falls on the city member of the
board. He contrasted the old method Of
relief, by helping the poor" with the
new method of teaching the poor to help
themselves" and pronounced the former
a failure and the latter a success. He
spoke strongly of the possible abuses OF
charity, saying, among other good things:
"Injudicious treatment is making pau
pers today. Free soup in winter is ter
rible temptation to idle and shiftess per-
sons What influence can be worse than
TO see that those who beg fare better
than those who work? We shall have
just as many paupers as We lure into an
easy life of idleness. We can tempt chill
dren 10 grow UP paupers. Pauperism Is
a disease, easy to catch, quick TO propa-
gate and hard to cure He held that the
main work of modern charity must be in
behalf of the worthy poor, and that the
great work Of the Associated Charities is
to Gull out every case which can be raised
into independence, and then TO do the best
TO achieve that result. He paid high
tribute to the Friendly Visitors, who, he
said. ARE the hands of this divine work,
as they certainly arc its life and soul and
inspiration"
The salvation Army's Work.
Mai Percy Morton, in presenting the
work OF the Salvation Army. presented
some interesting statistics for the months
OF February, March, April and May, 1895,
showing number of meals furnished, H.
pa. lodgings, 1899; baths, 1,Sl0; total In
come for the four months, s957.77; ex-
penses OF fitting up premises at South
Second and Weller streets, SlS7.73; total
balance for maintaining food and shelter,
$790.0i, an average OF cents per man Tor
meals, lodgings, baths, TO say nothing
OF the maintenance OF a team and the pay
OF ten people necessary 10 run the estab-
rNfr for
the latter who had thus far had TO give
their services free. lie also urged the
need OF some hunks IN the sleeping room.
His address was full OF pithy points and
terse sayings that brought forth round
after round Of applause. He summed up
the entire conception Of the work OF the
food and shelter department by saying,
Every man who works has a right to
eat, and no man is worthy TO eat who is
not willing 20 work
At this point Miss Marguerite Mckinney
sang a beautiful solo, what Though
Thou CONTEST Late" which was warmly
applauded. AS her pure, sweet voice de-
scribed in song the suferings OF a poor
wanderer and the kindly blessings that
came from above, many eyes in the audi
ence were moist.
The Tramp Reputation.
Rev. W. II. G. Temple. after humor-
Gus side address 10 Mayor Phelps in
which he chided the latter for speaking
Of himself as 1.-The little mayor of a little
city" and predicted for Seattle a popu-
lation OF 2500o within the next decade
or two, gave the following striking statis-
tics 81 tramps in the United States: For
ty-six thousand professional tramps; OF
these 1900 under 20 years Of age: s., 90
able-bodied. 37,oo0 skilled iaborers. and Al
Eo9 able to read and write" He named
as the chief causes OF this large vagrant
element: the saloon, shiftiessness. the
power of monopoly. the spirit OF stTik-
ing. the credit system. the propagating
power OF poverty. disasters Of nature, and
irdiscrirnlrate giving" Ills perSen tation
OF each Of these causes was strong and
clear, and in his suggestion OF a cure for
the evil. he reached his main topic, a
plea for organized charity" His anec-
dotes OF how he had been imposed on ~
professional beEEars. by children with
streaming eyes and bv young women with
borrowed babies in their arms. brought
down the house. AT last, I have quit
giving. I had 10. Now when a man comes
70 me for help. I send him 70 President
CARROTS bureau or TO Maj Mort0n's
wo01uile" He closed with plea for the
Associated Charities which awoke sympa-
thy in every heart
Need Of Organized Charity.
Rev. n. =. Garrett. president o. the
burea q. who was down on the programme.
said thar he had taken the liberty OF re-
leasing himself. owing 70 the fullness OF
the exercises. IN beating q retreat, how
ever. he made really one OF the best
speeches OF the evening. and though -
said bat few things. and said them brief
~. yet he said them we'll n expressed
surprise a. the wUrrnur and protest in
this city against supporting a paid agent