The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-01-16
BREAD WINNERS
Permanent Bureau for
Them is Needed Here.
Report Made at the General
Charity Conference.
At the Evening Session Several Ad-
dresses Were Delivered.

The principal paper presented at the
general cnsrity conference yesterday, un-
der the auspices of the Providence Society
for Organizing Charity, was the report OF
the committee on inquiry OF the facilities
for employment in this city. IL was read
by the chairman, Raobi Bianstein and an
abstract 10 ss follows:
"There are % places in this city en-
gagged In securing employment Tor those
In need of il. Some are called intelii-
gence offices. Being private enterprises,
no statistics were taken from them.
Licenses or 13 have been granted since
the first of January, and Others are under
consideration. The other places are inde
pendent charitable organizations and de-
psrtments of work connected with the
churches.
In con clusion. the report contained
the follow ng suggestions: "with two
exceptions the work furnished has been
mostly for women and that not over per-
manent. What we need in this city is
permanent bui eau for bread winners, q
central place where employer ana en-
ploye would easily be brought together,
and where the character OF both would be
Investigated. AS stated before, the com
mittee is not ready to formulate a defi-
mite plan. But open to discussion for the
conference this afternoon. they would
throw out general suggestion. For IN
mediate help in the time of business de-
preston, which Is not yet over, the cltl-
zens should petition the City Fathers 10
give to the unemployed whatever public
work there is to be done. liz there Is
none let them subscribe to fund to be
devoted to the purpose OF further public
i'm movements. Money that Is now given
| in charity would in that case afford just
as much relief and In addition help TO
| besutify the city.
uIhe establishment OF such a bureau
| should not involve the abolishment OF
| those first mentioned. Although the ex-
| isting charitable organizations in this
| city find il a difficult matter to maintain
| themselves, yet the bureau proposed
| would not be an additional burden on the
| public. BY securing work for applicants
Tor charity. this bureau would aio Oil the
charitable organizations"
| Mrs. Cheney of the City Missionary
Society recommended the establishment
| of Laundry as one means of furnishing
employment.
MIR. Henry Peterson. general agent ol
| the Boston In 1ustriai Society, told how
good work is accomplished in Massa
| chusetts and gave some goou suggestion
1 for the soc ieties here.
At the evening session Professor IL. Is
| Gardner, president of the society, stated
the purposes of the association. Among
other things he said:
| "AI this organization is but prepara
tory to doing a greater charitable work
| The roll we keep in our office is not
! blacklist ana reflects no discredit upoi
| the persous whose names are writer
thereon. Besides II il strictly private
All the money we receive goes toward
| Office expenses GnG not cent goes towar'
the Immediate relief of the poor. In
visitor attempts to arrive at the cause o
the family's misfortune, ana remove
forever. Another purpose of organize
charity is the protection OF the publ
| against fraud"
Mayor McGuinness spoke for the cit,
and said hat he would rather have Sl
expended in providing employment tina
to have one given to the unemployed. l.
conclusion he said: 1.-The city cannot q
its full duty unless aided by its citizens
We need the help of this organization j
order that the city poor department ma
be more successful. advise all citizen
TO give their support to this pody, and
| pledge the city's cooperation with thi
| organization the coming year."
Professor Francis q. Peabody of Harvar
said:
"under our modern civilization cbsri
| able work has to desl with three classe
They are the can't works, the worth,
| Invalid poor; the out -of-works aud tt
wont-works. Almost always cities col
| found these three classes. I'm less di
| elimination is made the first two class'
sink to lower order OF society and Il
last class IL favored. Discrimination
! the very note of progress. Have
patience whatever with the protest. on
tramp, but give with all your neart to II
| restoration OF arduous work Tor the ma
out Of an occupation.