New-York tribune., 1896-05-09
GOOD WORK DONE FOR THE YEAR.
REPORT OF THE CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS
SOCIETY.

Owing to q recent change in the fiscal year OF the
Charity Organization Society the usual annual rs-
port Is postponed and will not appear until early
autumn Some details OF the soc.ety's work during
1896 are thus summarized by one Of the o'nesrS
however.
It will be remembered that its immediate contacs
with the poor is through its department OF dstrcs
work. carried on by.its e.even dlstric. committees
which cover oil Of Manhattan Island and nearly al
the well-settled parts OF the annexed territory
The returns Of these districts show that during sne
year they dealt with over ave thousand cases' fheS
investigated for other organizations and for private
persons over six hundred Its friendly visitors
had under treatment each month an average OK ID
cases. Its districts placed In charge OF eaircnes
or societies during the year ISL persons. ana N
hospta;s and institutions 20l psrons Tney pfosufse
relief from private sources In more tnAh '"e.ve
hundred instances. and In nearly twice as many ~
sta aces relief from churches or societies put IN ov
ffty-one instances from the Department OF Snan'
ties. They procured permanent work for over tnrse
hundred nersons and temporary work they secures
nearly fifteen hundred times; while transportauou
To ether places was secured for ia persons Mosv
than three thousand wood yard tickets a. Iaoor
tests. and more than eight hundred work'oo"
tickets were given to persons seeking or needns
employment and nearly two hundred other persons
found work at the socie.y's laundry. where women
are trained to be expert laundresses Inc asen's
and their assistants made about twenty thousano
v,s,ts and the friendly visitors and the committees
themselves more than hve thousand ABOUT NV
thousand calls were made at the district ofuces ~
nersons Who wished to consult with the agents. ana
more than twelve thousand calls were mace AZ sns
onsc-s by applicants: while over ten thousand lev
TORS were written to or In behalf OF families ana
Individuals on the society's records. These hsusss
show n enormous and most helpful activity ia '"s
work OF the districts. The committees met W.
six hundred times, and at one time there "eS
seventy-two friendly visitors working ror ee
ciety among the poor. while the numoer 0. ...,rc
societies etc. with whom 1t was co-operat"S
averaged IA per month. ..,.a an IN the
Not ony has all this work been carried On ~ s ~
regular lines by the districts put .ngrtde .neI, In
MS work The Tribune Fresh Air Fund prineeipa.y
provides the transportation to ana fso; m the nartss
Shs2en Shs IN bsiors going
Society selects the children Thch ah' Of Involves
IN ueh S,op work In the summer Of 1895 the dissrc{
agents aided by the fund thus seected eon.
ard Ismsh 'S s Children cahOS
Children sent cahojc hos,' gcs9y
The coSntry Sr by sre sne sent M for day excursions
1t should be borne In nina inas t great body
resent only the work OF the d,st,ca M time through
o. Of Unst.t,ation Bureau That bureau invesusateo
IN 1905 more than four thousand cases A%oou' % wash
half OF sss hout being sent to the districts for
Tnrther consideration and treatment me ne ,wsntv.
eating agents in this Work maze ~ travel this re-
M 1wT NAV be gathered from the fact that owe, %s
Vas spent by those agents for cariafe n sne vear
sent sre,ysd out ossr over ten thousand reports
bass rres win enable the pubic to resiSe se
much the society is doing ana rssurn the 20 ,ety
sns Tor the continued cooperation ana suppo's
the benevolent public