The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13
ANNUAL MEETING OF
CHARITIES BOARD
concluded from Page 81

methods of dealing with destitution and
degradation"
Along these lines the work has been
pushed with ever increasing success the
record of this third year shows "A most
remarkable increase in the number of ap-
plications, and in the number of children
rescued from poverty, vice and crime.
THE HARD TIMES.
Owing, no doubt to the continuation of
the hard times and consequent lack of
work, the applications largely outnumber
any preceding year. The first year but $50
were recorded, The second year ,506 were
entered upon our books. In the past year
2,lOi separate applications for assistance
in one way or another have been received.
1t is interesting and instructive to note
the increasing value of the Associated
Charities in other ways than at first
might have been supposed probable. out
of the 2,1Oi applications this year $40 were
for work only (as compared with 3Si last
year,, of which number only 154 could be
supplied; 692 applicants against 272 last
year, came for information, counsel and
advice on almost every conceivable sub
ject connected with their physical welfare.
In very many cases those applying for
financial aid were found to be only in
need of sensible counsel; S92 cases were
thoroughly investigated by the agent,
who found 62S worthy and pa unworthy or
n,onortion for in,,ostrrs h,t r,,a teo
iaraa DC oyna,ia,,na taa,hos a,,,I ha,,saO
holders who give at the coor could prove.
During the past year the good work be-
gun in the last two years has been prose
cuted with energy until children are now
-, no straot "a tha ,,,,,,,h,,, - as1,,ltt,
who hoo nuhIirly hos bao,, ,edurad 10 q
minimum SiIawoiI nendioants n,ith
signs or oroo,s ~. 'daf,rr,itia, ha,,a haen
investigated and other means eacurad for
their sIlnport
The low concert boll museum or other
ouastionnbla entertainn,a,.r hnt anotbor
form Of mandicancv bas heen invariahl,,
cloeed nv our ogant where ,bildre,, 1yara
forced tn anuear unon floor or stare
we anneai to nil houeebolders 10 sup-
mort us in sunnrassiny street bepginp Wa
puarantee ca ana assistance for ali wh0
are trulv in need. and request that all an
nlicante he rafarred to onr agant
The CHILD SAVING.
No part of the work has been of more
Importance than that of child saving. 1t
is impossible to describe with any fulness
here the work accomplished. Its relation
might easily fill volume. The agents
report will show the bare statistics, but
what imagination is vivid enough to fill
in the sad and in some instances the ter
rible history of each of tie 1888 cases From
brothel and from dance nall; from the
novels of poverty, drunkenness and hlth;
from shameful abuse and more shameful
slavery; from street and place and court
have they been rescued. Our agent has
been unwearying, and were there nothing
else upon which to base the association $
claim for existence this would be enough.
But neither investigation nor child saw
ing is all that has been accomplished.
Shortly after the beginning of the year We
realized our hope expressed in our last
report and secured the services of a dis
trict nurse.
Ihe heeu was ufsent anu tne resu''s
The nurse has been incessantly engaged
ministering TO the ignorant sick not only
nursing. but educating many in cleanliness
and morality. Fifty-nine cases. divided
among nineteen diseases, some of them
of the most malignant character have
been under her personal care, extending
only from a day in some cases to five
weeks in others In order to accomplish
so much If has been necessary for her Ia
he on duty both day and night simply re-
turning home to change her clothing Such
devotion has had it's reward in the saw
ing of MANY lives. In this connection We
should mention the kindness of the various
physicians who have so freely rendered
service. and of C. NJ. Harris, the druggist
who has filled all presrT.pIions presented
Through the kindness of the mayor and
park commissioners a vacant room in the
CITY hall has been adapted for the use OF
men and women who. having been arrest
ed or found unon the street and brought
to the station house, through illness OF
various kinds are in no conditions to be
left in the cells No less than forty-one
of such cases have been found during
the vear where If might have been death
to contine them in cells IN this connec-
tion we are glad to be able to announce
the connletion in the station house OF
senarate cells for women.
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lhf lhAMf ENil'
The tramp question is yet to be solved
by the city of Scranton. We believe much
could be done to offset the nuisance by
the lodging house with woodward in con.
nection. Here every one could be sen,
who applied for lodging and could be com.
PEELED either to pay in cash or in work tol
| its comforts. The Associated Charities
would gladly inaugurate such a place al
| small cost, but so far our funds have
| only sutficed to carry on only the abso
| lutely necessary work. 1t is to be hopeC
| that another year will got pass without
| our having an opportunity of making g
practical application of our theory which
mas pioseu 50 eliV'eil' III olneI CUES.
~ oui amps 90, q. euu.''iils .he pooi
VI oul .i.s w 'oitsine. ~ eepeoiahy. i''i
p, poi .nt,' 'to. ''.' $500 " penny aaN ms
s,iouiu @ pe mus ca ca rtsVy nlipiesseu upol
my peoPte' ~ an ''le iat Sei Gitles 'iiE
supJect mas peeh espeIialy li'pIessel
| upon ne ~ Vi''ioiis' ,t we nope that
coii'h!ttee may ne apPoti'eu iol the con
slueralion VI tne supJest anu the opeH"is
sooner OF iater Vi SAVINGS society II
| "nici 'he sniai'e9' "epoe''H may pe ie
celVeu'
| l. Appilcah's Caius III pachases Vi wen
! y-hVe lor ready use, may pe hau OF th'
agent OF secretary ihese caTus snoulu VI