The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-28

the state of Massachusetts and especial | ly in the city of Boston. He said that outdoor aid was usually given in the
 shape of groceries, which were distrib- uted from the storehouse of the board
 of overseers of the poor Those whc live within a reasonable distance and are able bodied call at the storehOuse and carry the groceries away them
 selves. Those who live at great dis tance have their supplies delivered to them, the overseers paying the express age There Is home for women and
 children, which has trust funds of $7OO,- 900.
 In continuance he said:
 Public outdoor rel1Af Is not the best
 manner of relief, I do believe that the
 best method of relief is the personal
 friendship of wise and proper persons.
 This is what the command of our Saw
 four, that we should love our neighbor
 as our own self, meant To rescue a
 boy or a girl from a life of crime and
 vice is to add another home to the hap
 py homes of our country, And think of
 the generations of children stretching
 out from them. I think that our so- ciety has cause to feel encouraged at
 the great progress which is being made
 along the line of these grand ideas"
 Rev. John c. Brooks of Springfield, Mass, spoke on "The Best Methods of Poor Relief In Small Cities" In his ad dress he said:
 "The only serious reminder of abject poverty which we have in our smaller cities Is the continued presence of the tramp We do not find the squalor and utter ignorance as in a metropolis"
 He compllmented New Haven for It's system of Organized Charities and spoke of the methods of work in Den yer, Col, Buffalo, N. T., and Fitchburg, Mass.
 He said that Springfield had estab- lished in the last year or two the rag carpet industry, which promises to be a great success, and had also provided fifty acres of land for those who wished to cultivate it after the regular hours of work The latter isl a Detroit idea. An evil they have to struggle against is a too lax police court, which makes sentences for drunkenness much too short to build up the families of the in dbriates on any permanent basis before the drunken head of the family is out of jail again
 His address closed the exercises of the evening.
 DOTNGS YESTERDAY MORNING..
 The third days session of the Ma tfonal Conference of Charities and Cor reotVons began in Alumni hall on the Yale campus yesterday morning. The hall was well filled with the delegates and the business of the day was be- gun by reading reports from the follow ing staltes Delaware, IdahIo, Illinois, Indian Territory, Iowa, Kan- sas, Kentucky and Virglnta. Robert Treat Pailne then announced the nIa,- tional committee on organization F. H. Wines of Illinois is chairman, Pro iesaor Francis Wayland Is tIhe Conniec- Ilcut representative.
 In fils report on contvicit labor, Ever stt P. Blclonell of Indianapolis, sadd | hat in Indianiai dealers in prison made | goods were obliged to pay a license fee | # $500.
 Professor o. A. Wright of Wisconsin | cad a paper on pensions and soldiers | md sallons' homes. Inn reference to | he said the system was a | ;pecies of accident insurance and was | necessar'y feature of the volunteer | lrmy plan iIrn this country. He thought | hat there ought to be some law inacted whereby soldiers and sailors n nlationGal homes should not receive heir pensions direct, but they should | 'e put into the hands of some responsi- lie person. 1Ihis, he thought would To away with a, great deal of iIntoXica- ion amid other abluses which are often upon the inmate receiving is pension.
 c. E. Faulkner of Kansas read a aper on "State Soldiers Homes," and hem the governors of the various | tate hounels throughout the country ubmitted tllleir reports.
 The spediial committee on homes for oldiells' and sailors, of which C. F. 'aull1nter of AtchIlson, Kan, has been Is composed of Federal and veteraIns Major N. " randolph of Richmond, Va, al member the committee, i's president of Lee amp Confederate Home alt Richmond l 1ajou' R. H. Dudley of Nashville, Tenlm,
 uIlG D1eEnueIW or ltle DOdIu or UruS- l ses of the Confederate Soldiers Hodne [ Tennessee, which occupies the site of le "Hermhtage,' near Nashville. The Ill committee is aus follows: C. D. { A. O. Wright General R. General w. B. Franklin, lajor R H. Dudley, Major T, J. Charl- z Nh, Major N. V. Randolph, Captain l.. (
 StorltA The committee reported yes ,rday as follows: The first duty of )ur committee is to urge attenuiOn ths need of 'expNeditfng measures for { lief Thle ratios of disability and de- 8 in the ranks of our soldier ( ,pulation are rtistng with a r1apidity r hich over'taxes every present re- t urce. Government policy should be q by tChle enlargement of such LtionIal homes as are susceptible of | wiIthin the requirements of proved conditions without delay, and I w hornes should be established at lIent poinlts under the mama gement
 the government to meet the nleeds il
 changing conditions. Your commdt- " 3 advise action to secure uniformity I
 statistical reports pertaining to all ( 5titutions including those which are I aIinItadned by private contributions. Il On June 30, 1894, the total acreage of ld held by soldiers houaes throug'h- S t fine country was 4227, anLd the trIhal k