The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-01-07
STATE CHARITIES AID.
Local Society Discusses Plans at
Annual Meeting.

New and Comfortable Beds Wantedfor
the Sick at the Poorhouse-Insane Man
at the House-EducattonaI Facilities of
acknowledgement Avenue school
Building to be Enlarged-New Scheme
to Encourage Saving Mission Woodyard
New Ofioers.
The annual meeting of the Morris
County Branch of the State Charities
Aid Society was held on Wednesday
afternoon in the Y. M. G. A. rooms,
President John Edward Taylor presiding.
The treasurers report showed an income
from dues for the year of $l12 and bal
ance on hand of $309.5 DIR. Twining
called attention to the fact that very
large number had not paid their dues for
: the year and said that money was often
necessary to carry on the work of the
association, and that an effort should be
made to have the members pay their
dues regularly. The freasurer's ac-
counts were referred to Messrs. Van
( Doren and Ironside for audit.
DIR. Twining reported for the Com
mittee on Jail that the county Jail was
at present full and that the committee at
their various visits have found the Jail
and the adjoining Offices clean.
Mrs. Hughes reported for the Com
mittee on Poorhouse that they had found
: the house in excellent order; the provis-
ions furnished are good and the inmates
now have mush and milk and tea and
bread for supper where formerly they
had none. The ventilation is as good as
it can be where three or four old women
continually shut up every door and win
dow. The committee found an insane
man there who ought to be in the State
Hospital and it was agreed to take steps
in this matter at once, as it usually takes
about year to get man from the
Poorhouse to the Asylum, Attention
was also called to the need of four COM
Portable beds for the hospital at the
Almshouse, as the beds at present there
are altogether unfit for sick people to lie
On. It was agreed to call the attention
of Freeholder Norris, chairman of the
Poorhouse Committee of the Board of
Freeholders to the matter, the present
Almshouse committee having evinced
desire TO comply with every reasonable
requirement.
Mr.. Taylor reported for the Committee
On Visiting Children that there are
about sixty wards of the county at the
home in Parsippany and fourteen board
2 ers and that everything at the present
time is in good order. He also reported
that he had found out that there is
school accommodation in Morristown
for all who have applied, though the
schools are now about full, and the
Board of Education contemplates the en-
largement of the Speedwell avenue
school. DR.. Hughes said that it would
be of great value to have accurate
statistical information as to supply of
school room in Morristown as compared
( with other towns of the same size and
class. He was not finding fault with
anyone, but the city was growing and if
the city life is to be wholesome in the
future Morristown must be in the fore
front with its educational advantages.
MIR. Ironside suggested that if there be
room in the schools this would be good
time for the committee to urge the
appointment of a truant officer, as the
objection made to this request in the past
has always been that there was not
sufficient school accommodation. Mrs.
COLES said that some of the rooms in the
Morristown schools were oyer-crowded
e as to be unsanitary, that some Of the
/ apils have no desks or have to sit at un-
suitable ones. Montclair and Plain6eld
had been spoken of as examples to Nor
.ristown but it was not necessary to go so
far. Boonton had a school building,
which though it had plain exterior was
far better inside than anything in Nor
ristown. DIR. Twining moved that the
committee should obtain information as
to the ratio of children attending private
schools, public schools, and of those un-
provided for in Morristown and other sim
iliar cities, and report at the next meet
ing.
Mrs. WI Johnson's report for the
Committee on the Elevation of the Poor
in their Homes was read by Mrs. Erd-
1 man. It said that collectors for the
Provident Savings Committee had added
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