The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-11
State Charities Aid Asso-
citation Finds Them
Pleasant Abiding
Places.
CRILD-W WAIF PROBLEM DISCUSSED
Mrs. Williamson Thinks Public
Institutions Less Harmful
Than the Binding Out
System.

Inc dlllual meeting OF lne state .Cnarl-
ties Aid Association was held today in
parlor B, Taylors Hotel. The President,
Charlton T. Lewis. is in Egypt, and the
Vice President was unable to be present,
so the Rev. Kingsley Twining, D. D.,
was elected chairman. The Rev. Z. G.
Read opened the meeting with prayer.
Mr.. Thomas Gopsill the Treasurer of
the association, reported receipts S6S2S0
disbursements. S67s.25. Mrs. Benjamin
Williamson, General Secretary of the as
sociation, read the report of the Board
of Managers. which is presented annual
~ to the Governor of the State. The
condition of the State and county insti-
tutions was described. The almshouses
and most of the jails are now in good
condition. The report said:-"There is
no more perfect system for perpetuating
pauperism than that of boarding the
poor with private families; farming out
is the technical term, sold to the highest
bidder. We do most earnestly advocate
the establishing of .almshouses in all the
counties of the State for the care of the
poor. County care is preferable, both on
the score of humanity as We'll as econo-
my" To this DR. George S. Mott took
exception. He said he thought aims
houses tended 10 pauperism far more
than did farming out. Mrs. Williamson
defended her report by saying that while
farming, OUT answered in Dr. Motifs
district it had evil effects in other eoun-
ties. Mr.. Thomas Gopsill stopped the
lengthy discussion which was threatened
by suggesting that that part of the re-
port be referred to the Board of Man
ayers for action. This was done. Atten-
tion was called in the report to the con-
dition of the chronic insane and the
pauper children.
Dr.. George s. Mott read the report of
the Committee on Prisons and Peniten-
tiaries. He said:-ssWhat we shall do with
the discharged prisoner is quite as impor-
tant as how we shall discipline and in
struct him while in prison. An average
OF 364 a year are dismissed from the State
Prison and these people have no place to
go. For several years those in this State
'ppsho are deeply concerned for the reform
rrpf conviets have realized the urgent ne
s,scessity for some agency or continued ef-
Z fort to look after them when they go out
of prison. II is to be hoped that meas
fiu-es now contemplated may soon result
lin q practical endeavor.''
n Mr.. Z. 3. Lee, Of Trenton, read the re-
per- 8 che Committee ess Rsfornlat5ries.
The con1mittee has felt thai action was
lnealled for because Of the inaction OF the
Major z. K. Pangborn read the report
OF the Committee on Insane Asylums and
Hospitals. No important changes have
been made in the current year. Major
P2ngborn referred to the insane asylum
at Honolulu, Hawaii, which is in most
excellent condition
The election of the Board of Managers
for the ensuing year resulted as follows:
Mr.. Charleton Il. Lewis, Morristown;
Mics Tweedy, Plainfelo; the Rev. George
s. Mott, D. D., Newark; Mrs. Archibald
Alexander Hoboken; Mr ]. C. Pumpeiiy,
Morristown; the Rev. Albert Eardman,
D. D., Morristown; Mrs. William NJ
Hughes, Morristown; Hon. William Bur-
CESS, Trenton; Major z. K Pangborn, Jer-
sey city; Miss Sarah Riley, Bridgeton;
Judge Abel |. Smith, Jersey City; Mr..
Thomas NJ. Gopsill, Jersey City; Mr. Da-
yid 2 Hail. Plainfeld; ]. B. Richmond,
N. D.. Newark; President Austin Scott,
erville; the Rev. E. G. Read, Somerville;
Mrs. B. Williamson, Elizabeth; Mr.. H. p
Reynolds, Pfainfeld; the Rev Kingsley
Twining, D. D., Morristown; Mr.. F. B.
son; the Rev. Alex. Mann. Orange; Judge
Howard Carrow, Camden; Mr.. H B. New
hall, Plainfeld; Wilson Farrant, of Nor
ris County. and the Rev. J. r. Atkinson,
Mss Edith W Cook, Secretary of the
Hudson County Auxiliary said:-"The
Branch has found its Chief encouragement
in the interest shown by the officials of
the county institutions in its efforts in
behalf of the efficiency of the institutions
under Their charge. Improvements have
: been made The Penitentiary remains un-
DER the same careful management as be-
fpre. At the Jersey City Hospital I'M
EFcyements are made from time to time.
me needs of the County Jail seems to be
those common to jaiis in general. This
Branch has already called the attention
of the State Association to the necessity
OF some better Improvement for female
and juvenile delinquents as well as for
witnesses. The wooden pavilions are no
longer in use at Snake Hill The new
school house and chapel have been in use
the housing and training of the children is
still unsettled. The children receive no
industrial training.
An hour was devoted to tie discussion
of the condition of the paupar children of
the State. Mr.. Stewart, Deputy Warden
of the Almshouse, said there should be
laws empowering the Freeholders to con-
troll the children "bound out" He in
stanced several cases where children in
dentured to well-to-do people have been
taken away by their parents to tenement
House, at the request of Dr. Twining,
gave several instances of the bad treat
ment of children. She said 1t is not at
all uncommon see women life children off
their feet by their hair and then shake
them. One woman kept children drugged
for weeks. She said a society will soon be
cruelty to children. She said she thought
there should be in this city an organized
Charities Bureau, and an organized Re
lief Fund.
All the suggestion Of Judge Howard
Carrow, the following resolution was
adopted
Resolved. That the matter of better
legislation for the protection of children
pe referred to the Board of Managers
with full power to act in the premises"
An invitation was received to attend the
exercises of the laying of the corner stone
November is, of the State Reform School
IN Railway The Association has worked
for some years trying to get this building
Immediately after the association ad-
1ourned the Board of Managers met and
Charlton T Lewis. LID. Morristown
Vice President, Rev. Albert Erdman
D. D., Morristown: Treasurer. Mr.. Thomas
NJ. Gopsill. Jr., Jersey City: Secretary
Mrs. p. Williamson. Elizabeth; Librarian
Mrs. b. Williamson, Elizabeth
Hudson county is represented in the
stapGing committees by Mr. Thomas Cop
sill. Ways and Means; Mr.. d. l.. Haight
ard Mr.. Gopsill Prisons and Peniten-
tarjes; Mrs. Gopsill Reforma tories; Mrs
y. K. Pangborn Lafis and Station Houses
Mrs G. 9. Alexander. Miss Mccartin,
Major q. K. Pangborn and Rienzi Cadu-
gan, Almshouses, Poorhouses and Chill
dren: Mr.. Richard Stevens Mr.. Hugh r.
Fox Children: Major u. K Pangborn
Henly d. Fuller, Miss Edith Cook Mrs
John L, Scudder. Hoxpltals and Asyiurns: