The record-union., 1896-12-30
THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY.
A Lively Meeting and Large Additions TO
Membership.
The Relation of the Work of the
Society to the Duty of the
Police Authorities.

most interesting llSetlIlS SliiCS It's AoeiH-
dation last night. At O'Clock the Board
of Directors met, Mrs. c. ii. Hubbard
in the chair in the absence of President
Herrick The case of Roy Gould was
brought up and the directory advised
the society to move to haze the child
now in custody sent To the Preston
School,
1t was advised that the society pay
the cost of having Dan Healy appointed
guardian for Alice Hogeman, the girl
wishing that done to free her from au-
thority of others not friendly to her WELL
being. She is a good girl and is under
promise to repay the society as soon as
she can earn the money.
Treasurer Erlewine reported total re-
ceipts S2SS %, total disbursements
! S251 40, balance on hand $50 50. Mr.
Herrick paid in So received from the
county for money paid out for trans
portation to the hospital last summer.
| At s o'clock the society met, Vice
President Mrs. Hubbard in the chair
| Secretary Simon and a large attend
ance of members being ready for bust
ness. The recommendations of the di-
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routine matters disposed of.
Secretary Simon reported three cases
attended to by him. In one two children
had been restored to their parents whom
the society had taken charge of; in an
other guardianship was provided for a
! girl who needed it; in another a party
was warned after investigation that
! took much time. In another two small
| boys it was believed had been removed
| from influences leading them to shame.
| Propositions for membership were
! then heard as follows: BY Mrs. Beck
with. Mrs. V. S. McClatchy: by Mrs.
Cushman, Mrs. A. w. Morrison; by Mrs.
Hanly, Mrs. w. II. Leeman; by Mr.
Simon, Mrs Carl Kaufman, and they
were elected
| BY Mr.. Beckwth-J. Zemansky, l.
| Zemansky, f. f. Thompson, Mrs. +. +.
| Thompson, Mrs H. r. Thompson, II. r.
| Thompson, Judge A. G. Hinkson, Dis
trict Attorney F. d. Ryan, Mrs. F. d.
| Ryan, F. e. Duden, George H. Clark,
Mrs. G.. II. Clark, E. j. Devlin, Harry
| Rogers, Miss J. C. Lyon, Mrs. Anna
| Phillips, w. j. McCarty, j. w. Hig-
| gins r. c. Irvine, Private Secretary F..
D. McCabe, Fred Rohrer, Controller E.
P. Colgan, Secretary of State L. H.
Brown, w. H. Govan, c. f. Duhain,
| Colonel r. l.. Peler, Surveyor General
J. Wright, F. A. Wright, w Z. Doane
c. K. McClatchy, V. S. McClatchy, j.
| II. Watkins, w. J. TOland, Charles
| Schwilke, II. A. Kidder, Henry Bennett,
Mrs. Henry Bennett C. A. Root, r. T.
| Cohn Mrs Matt. F. Johnson, Miss Lot
| tie Wilsey, w. W. Chaplin, Sheriff F. L.
Johnson, Frank Miller, Mrs. E. Twitch-
ell, Rev. C. L. Mel, Mrs. E. NJ. Simpson,
| T. l.. EnIdght, Mrs. T. L. Enright, Mrs.
Carrie Turrell Judge E. G. Hart, DR.. n.
H. Haight Mrs. DR.. Haight. Mrs. F. r.
| Dray, DR.. T. w Huntington, George E.
Dierrssen and Justice S. E. Candy.
They were all elected. The following
were elected at the last prior meeting,
but their names were not heretofore re-
ported: Mrs. Governor Budd, Miss Ber
tie Groth, Miss Theodore Willis, P. F.
| McMorry.
Special officer D. Healey then made
| his report. 1t included twelve distinct
! cases, and four or five less definite
! ones. Three had been reported by pO-
! lice officers whom the society believed
should have acted on their own author
| ity and not have waited to report. One
| Of the cases are those of corrupting
young girls; one of the practical aban-
| donment of small children; one of
child deliberately placed in a house of
prostitution bya parent; oneOf natural
| born children exposed to shameless life;
| one of small children kept in vicious
| quarters; one of a Predetermined child;
one of an incorrigible child thief; one
of a boy drifting rapidly into a GRIM
! inal life; one of scandalous conduct
toward children by adults; and several
pitiful cases in which poverty and neg
! lect combined operate distressing cruel
! treatment of children.
Several of these cases, in fact most of
| them cannot be described in decent
print. In some of them rescues have
| been effected, in two the society will
probably have the children on hand and
not know what to do with them; in
some children are in custody already,
| in others warnings have been given.
in some Investigations have resulted in
correction and betterments. In all the
leases the officer had the counsel of the
Secretary and President who aided him
! in Investigations.
| The question of providing compensa-
| ton to enable special officers to do work
for the society taken UP by the directors
| had no definite action at the society
meeting.
! At the close of the reports there en-
sued a discussion of a lively order
| that brought out some vigorous re-
marks and some exceedingly touching
expressions. The question was what
| line shall be drawn to separate the
work of the society in the matter of
protecting children in their rights and
cases of pursuit of crime, which should
fall within the active duty doing of civil
and especially police authorities.
on the one side it was held that it is
not the purpose of the society to give
| it's energies to securing criminal haunts
and doing work the police should do.
and of which they have knowledge,
since there is more work than the So
ciety can possibly handle in the line of
protecting innocent children from con-
tamination, in securing them food
shelter and clothing and safe homes
and removal from communicating influ-
enCes, and in making examples OF
adults who wrong them. That if the
society is to seek out the haunts of vice
and scour the cutters Of low quarters
TO punish miserable creatures who
abandon natural children, to drag out
young girls ana boys who are in many
cases incorrigibles. vicious and fit only
| for the criminal courts it will do what