Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-01-13

In the course of an interview in the
Sunday Herald, acknow Lodging con-
tribuiion OF twenty dollars to the Az
ISOLATED Charities by Hon. Thomas Il.
liaynrd, Mr.. John >. Rossell, treasurer
of tho organization, made the following
statement of what cnuld lie done by
tho Associated Charities with this sum
OF money:
~. Twenty dollars will pay for Huili-
Gent food TO support thirty seven fami-
lies with membership Of ono hundred
and oignty.tive persona for four days.
| the food supplied, including flour,
meal homiuy, potatoes, beans, coffee.
sugar. syrup and salt, or rice, ten, Jelly
and canned fruits IL preferred. ind in
cases of sickness, milk, broths, soups
and other delicaciea.
-. Twenty dollars will pay, at the
present price of coal Discount oil for
sufficient fuel to keep up one fire for
three or four weeks in fourteen families.
80. Twenty dollars will pay all the
expenses Of operating the laundry for
two weeks and give one lays employ
ment to twelve women at 50 cents pUr
day, payable one.half in cash and the
balance in provisions or fuel, with a
warm dinner at noou.
-. Twenty dollars will pay for the
wood required to give ten men work 10
the wood yard and allow them 30 cents
for each quarter of cord sawed and
split, payable in groceries or coal.
1.-The efforts o! the Associated Chari-
ties are directed both to providing food
for the hungry and furnishing work to
the unemployed.
''The mention by Mr.. Bayard OF the
commissioners of Public Charities
suggests the usefulness of commits
sion that would cooperate with the
Associated Charities and kindred or
CARNATIONS in Wilmington now per.
forming most necessary and sacred
public duty without either encourage
ment or assistance from the city govern
ment.
Permit me to remark that the work
OF the Associated Charities cannot bt
long continued without financial aid,
and that the greatest need OF the iisso
, citation at this time ia not helpless pool
to relieve, but the wherewith to obtair
tho means of relief. MIR. Bayard's con
tributiun, added to d handsome Sun
previously given by him, has aidet
materially. Will not other well disposed
citizens emulate his example anil DO 81
ut cnce?"
Some exceptions have been taken Il
, Mir. Rossell's statement, but he mad
it carefully, and is prepared to attes
G its correctness. lie shows by it tina
1 tho money given to the AsBocinte
! Charites ia made to go much furtho
in the work of relieving human suffer
ing in this city than it could throug
any other agency. The organization !
g careful and practical in its methods
Y and enjoys the beneit of cost rates i
, its purchases, So that it is able to 60
: the most value out OF every dollar
e eSpsndH.
/ The fact that this organization ppend
b its money so effectively, and docs such
l. good work in relieving distress an
finding employment for those who nee
it, should commend it 10 the public.
is always in need of funds, for n
}. matter how economically its money
q applied. the demands upon its servict
is always lSeep ahead of its means There
I fore all charitably disposed person
10 who have few dollars TO spare shout
J. contribute them to the Associate
x Charities. They will never have ocel
7. zion to regret it.