St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-10
WORK OF RELIEF.
1t Is Reported by Secretary
Hutehins, Of the Relief
Society, to
THE QUARTERLY MEETING
a Large Decrease in the Num-
Der Of Applications
for Aid.
BUT THE AMOUNT GIVEN
Was Greater Than for the Cor
responding Quarter Of
1894.
BUT THE AMOUNT GIVEN

The regular quarterly meeting Of
the st. Paul Relief society was held
yesterday afternoon. Nearly all the
officers were present. The report of
Secretary Hutchins was a feature of
the occasion. 1t was quite an in
teresting document, and is appended:
The applications for the quarter
ending March 81 were 1,794, as COM
pared with 1,S43 for the last quarter,
and 1880 for the corresponding quar-
ter Of 1894. The applications for the
quarter were 664 in January, 5S4 in
February and 546 in March. The
number representing families was
1884, individuals no, of which 1.4O2
were aided and 1872 not aided. OF the
1,794 applications APT were new cases
and 1857 recuTent. The amount of
aid given from this office was ST.
6n.lO and GLIB garments. Food has
| been supplied to the amount of $419,-
O6; fuel to the value of $15S.10; meals
| and lodging to the amount of S41O;
furniture and bedding, $64 Total
amount given out, $3,1SS.58, as
against s2.494.47 in the April quarter
of last year. Number of persons re-
ferred to other institutions, 491.
You will notice the April quarter
OF 1894 shows the number of appIica-
lions to be twenty-three hundred and
thlrty-nine (2,339). while the present
quarter We have had but seventeen
hundred and ninety-four 0,794, a
decrease of five hundred and forty
five (545).
L will also call your attention to
the fact that the amount of aid rem
dered from this Office in the April
quarter of 1894 was 50, 494 47-and
that the present quarter we have
rendered aid to the amount Of So
1858, which is s794.0S in advance of
what was given last year. We ac-
count for this as follows:
Last quarter we had
CLASS OF, NEEDY
to assist that could be helped liber-
ally and who would thereby take
heart and start in heroically to help
themselves. We think it is the best
plan to aid literally as well as
promptly those whom it will benefit,
instead of encouraging them to eX-
pect weekly or monthly dole from
this society. In connection with this
we vigorously use our work test, our
employment bureau system, which,
as you all know, consists of each
person being sent out with a card,
which is signed by the party for
whom they work, and returned to
this office, showing the amount
earned, and whether satisfactory or
not, and then transferred to our
employment register, on which a
careful account is kept.
The outlook for our poor seems to be
exceedingly encouraging, and when
the noble plans our philanthropical
townsman, A. B. Stickney, has sug-
gested and partially arranged for can
be put into practice, and the tPingree's
poor peoples potato patch PLAN shall
have been put into active operation in
our city, as it has in other cities, eSpe-
cially Detroit, We think our poor will,
at least this season, be taught a Valu-
able and helpful lesson towards sup
porting themselves. Mayor Pingrees
plan has been worked in Detroit, and
mas shown magnificent result 1t
seems to me when the Mayor PiHgree
plan, or Detroit plan, So-called, can be
put INTO operation in our city, that the
question OF helping out the unem-
ployed, which has been so ably handled
by w. L.. Wilson, will be to a great ex-
tent solved. These ablebodied men
and their large families will not only
be uliers of the soi& but develop into
good citizens, who will know what it
is to become self-supporting, and what
blessing it will be
TO THEIR CHILDREN,
who are now SO ill-kept, whose educa-
ton is with the unwaslaed throng upon
our streets or in alleys We long for
better laws for the protection of these
little ones, and we hope the bill now
before the legislature, the newsbcys
and bootblacks permit bill, so-calied.
will be unanimously passed, for we
need such law very much. We have
recently been called to homes where
the condition of the children. through
neglect of the parents, was indeed, DiIi-
able.
At present we have three extreme
cases Of sickness. These poor Great
ures, between our society and the
Kings Daughters, are being cared for.
one we transferred yesterday to the
hospital. Another is an old lady
eighty-three years OF age alone in a
block. The other is an estinable lady.
| who has been recently running a bust
ness in one of our fats, but through
sickness and loss of customers was
obliged to accept of the kind treat
ment, through charitably-dis peo-
pie, she having no relatives in our city.
We are glad to state that through the
committee sent out by Miss Wheelock,
the efficient president of the Kings
Daughters. that all these cases of sick
ness are tenderly cared for
A few more donations of deIicacies
for the sick will come very acceptable,
knowing, as we do, the homes of the
poor and the neglect poor children are
subject to on account of indolent,
DISSIPATED PARENTS.
We would strongly recommend the
formation of home Improvement cir
cles. / mean, in a word, ladies who
are influential, and have the time to
make regular visits to the homes we
! may designate, and instruct the poor,
iiHserate mothers how to take care of
| their house and children. We do not
need any more institutions. but better
home training for our poor"
The report was adopted so far as
the affairs of the society are concerned,
and the report on Mayor -Pingree's 20
fato PLAN was simply received favor
ably.
The report of the treasurer showed
+ that the society had on hand Jan.
$685.; received since then S1,01S1S, a
total of s., 39S.13. The expenditures dur
ing that interval Were S1,257.52, leav-
ing a balance of Si40.61 on hand. The
Ioaning department showed q balance
Of $142.09 on hand.
The -woman's auxiliary report con
taired some Interesting features Few