St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-17
WORK OF CHARITY.
SECRETARY JACKSON SUBMITS
HIS QUARTERLY RE-
PORT
TO ASSOCIATED CHARITIES.
HOW ATTEMPTS AT FRAUD ARE
DISCOVERED IN RELIEF
WORK.
EASTERN BUREAUS VISITED
by the Secretary, Who Finds That
TO ASSOCIATED CHARITIES.
EASTERN BUREAUS VISITED
By the Secretary, Who Finds That
None of Them Are Superior
TO st. Paul's.

The regular meeting of the execu-
1--WE committee of the associated
charities was held yesterday after
noon at it's office, 904 New York Life
building. In his report Secretary
Jackson said:
During the thr eemonths ending
June 80, the associated charities was
asked to investigate less than one
half as many families as during the
corresponding quarter last year. This
year there were al Investigations,
of which only 63 were from people
who had not previously been visited.
The chief causes of need were sick
ness, old age, insufficient provision
for children, mostly half-orphans, a
lew because of desertion or impris-
onment and others We're cases in
which no aid was needed, one be-
ing an application for a peddler's
license on the plea that the woman
was sickly widow with three chill
dren, aged fifteen, twelve and six
years. The applicant was then ac-
compan1ed to her home, which was
iiOI Oii liie SlIeeI 1OT DIT the num-
Der she had first given. Careful in
quiry demonstrated that she had an
able-bodied husband, and her six
year-old boy had grown and gone
away. She also had a small stock
OF goods and some other property.
This is another practical illus
tration of the necessity of submitting
every application to a kindly inves-
tigation. Though it seldom develops
so much fraud, it affords the accu-
rate knowledge on which effective re-
lief can be based. Often the best
way appears to be through the
sympathetic interest of some church.
and confidence of the churches, and
the lack of closer cooperation is
due partly to their failure to appre-
ciate the real need of it. Charitable
work in the country at large is be-
coming more systematic, though not
less sympathetic. Withal, constant
cooperation is the present need of
charitable work. We are pleased
with the high appreciation of our
work that is expressed in the re-
cent annual report of the board of
control.
During the quarter, 1 attended the
national conference of charities and
correction, which is the annual occa-
sion for meeting the best American
workers and writer's on charitable SUBJ
jects. The friendships there formed
PROVIDE EFFICIENT HELP
for regular duties; and the interchange
of experience and ideas is valuable 1t
was my privilege to tell of the Hinckley
relief work and distinctive ST. Paul
experiences. The ST. Paul potato
patch plan was regarded as better
than that pursued in Detroit The St.
Paul plan of treatment of the unem-
ployed the past two winters is consid-
cred among the very best
THE representative form of our Or
ganization is considered ideal by MANY
efficient workers, and its history is
being watched with interest by chart
table people the country over If in
terest in this associated effort con-
t1nueS to grow, this unique St Paul
plan will have a marked influence on
the extension of charity organiza ton
ideas in this country. To gather in
formation for future use, a week was
spent in visiting the organiza tons
doing work similar to our own in
Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Provi-
dence and New Haven. I also visited
the tenement districts of those cities.
81 was anxious to see how our forms
and methods compared with those of
the Eastern organizations. You will
be pleased to know that there is no
better system of registration or of
street-indexing than ours, and few
similar organizations have so complete
reports of aid granted by charitable
societies. Our records show reports
from 1850 families, of which 2,713 were
our Investigations.
Eve are in splendid condition for
our age, and it is believed that our
foundation is unusually fine for the
prosecution of constructive work
among the unfortunate One of the
most effective and the least expensive
lines of such work is friendly visiting.
If st. Paul is to maintain it's position.
we must also have this department
commence small and grow by conse-
Grated effort to a condition of effect