The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-04-28
CHARITY
CONFERENCE
Yesterdays Session De.
voted to Reports Of In
StitutiOnal Work.

The Confer ence Of Charities Philnnthro
pies and Institutions resumed Its session
at the New Cent ury Club yesterday after
noon. Much Of he afterno on was devoted
to hearing reports.
The report OF The Home for Aged Women
showed that l19 women had been inmates
asince the institution was opened. There Ia
misunderstanding as to the finances OF
the home, and recently two legacles had to
be used. Miss Emma Worrell reported
that the Home for A ged Couples was in
need of money and 1t contalnad nineteen
inmates, all in good health; Mrs; Gilpin
read the statistical repO OF the Delaware
Hospital, and stated that the revenue is
less than the expenses. and more money Is
needed to fulfill the work. She said she
understood the use Of the hospital aud tho
services of its staff were to be rendered to
the government during the war.
Mrs L kittinger, In her report for the
Homeopathic Hospital, spoke Of tho offer
made to the government. ArchdeacOn
of thirty children to care for. He told Of
4 boy who was confined there, and later
was removed to tho Williamson School at
Media. through the efforts Of Bishop Cole
man and others in having a special law
passed providing for the boys admission.
Miss Kruse reported three inmates Of
tho Sarah Ann White Home. She said
l0kuCy vi pO,VUU WAS uuo lTOiu Juo obuhUb VI
Thomas Harding, and when 1t Is received
more commodious qua rters will be taken.
She said there Is no prospect Of the two
colored homes In this city consolidating.
Superintendent Hnines reported 70 in
mates 10 the Ferris Indu s:rial School, 10
being admitted and 20 rel eased during the
year. Tho total mum ber released, but
under the authorit of the school, is 81,
of which 80 per cent. are leading better
1iuau md chou n tandanpv IN rntnrp n
their old habits. Mr.. Ealnes called atten-
tion 10 an exhibit OF articles In the room
made hy the boys at the school.
Mrs Nutter told of the work at the
Girls Industrial School, which now has
18 inmates. She demonstrated the neces-
sity of a new and larger home for the
school.
Mis-. Conner read the report for the
Florence Crittenton Home, which has five
women and three infants as inmates. She
told Of tho removal Of tho home into new
quarters and of the financial assistance
being given by circles organized in
churches
Mr. Whitley reported for the Sunday
Breakfast Association. Tho feature Of the
work there Is the employment Of weaving
carpets, repairing chairs and making
wooden ware given to men, which in ad-
ditlon to making them seli.supporting
also nets money to be used in defraying
the associations expenses.
Mr.. Satterthwaite reported for the new
Home Mission, which has accommoda.
tions for sixty dodgers. From ten to twenty
persons are accommodated every night,
. and employment has been secured for
many.
Mrs. William H. Hill reported tho new
feature of the Penny Provdent Society to
be tho Kindergarten. She said its attend
ance was not as large as the kindergarten
could accommodate, and asked the audi
ence to aid In securing more pupils
Mrs. Wogan. the police matron, said the
number of female prisoners the past year
planned the necessity of proper room and
bathroom for women prisoners at the
City Hall. She advocated the establish.
ment OF county workhouse, where the
women could be sent instead Of to jail
Mrs A. ID. Warner reorpted for the
county jais and almbouses and the United
Charities of New CASTLE where she told Of
the alleviation Of the recent distress.
Tho Kent county almshouse has ITO in
mates A laugh was caused when Mrs.
Warner displayed the report sent to her
from the Sussex county jail. 1t was on a
strl,> H. iirty paper about five inches In
leng a aud two inches wido, and tho infor-
mation 1t conveyed was anything but
calculating. Mrs. Warner said The audi.
bUCC VI GQ6 luSGl-
tuition from the official paper Of the insti.
tuition.
The report of the Children's Home an.
nounced seventy-six inmates.
Papers on "The work of the Young
Women's Christian Association and how
Modern Educational and Industrial Meth
ods and Preventatives of Poverty and De-
pcndenoe'' were submitted by Mrs. J.
Frank Ball and Miss Il. b. kruse.
In the evening Mrs. M. A. II. Clark sub.
mitted a report of the working of tho as
ISOLATED charities.
A. G. Thatcher reported on behalf of the
that has placed the project in
operation in Wilmington. Superlntend-
ent Brothers stated that the committee
bad more land offered than could bc pos
sibly used.
Owing to the absence of DR.. Il. A. Nc
Curdy, there was no discussion of the
prison reform question.
Il. J. Powell, superintendent of city lots
in Philadelphia, made an address on"The
Experience in Philadelphia of Cultlvating
Vacant City Lots.