Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-05
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
The Regular Monthly Meeting of the Board
Of Managers
Report of General Secretary Of worl.
Done In June-The Saw
tngs Fund.

The regular monthly meeting of the board
of managers of the Associated Charities
was held Monday afternoon. The meeting
was called day earlier than usual on ac-
count OF the regular meeting day falling
on July f.
Inc routine business was transacted
after which Secretary Wilson submitted
MS report of the work for the month of
June, as follows:
10 the chairman and board of managers
of the Associated Charities:
CONSIDERED In relation to preventive and
constructive work and to the permanent
welfare of the poor the work of the society
during the month of June has been more
encouraging than that of any similar peri
Oh III the history of the society for several
years past, at least. We have not had more
TO DO in the way of procuring material ra-
nef Tor the poor during the past month
IMAM any other similar periods in former
years, but we have had better opportun-
lty imam ever before to undertake. nositiva
constructive and preventive work. because
we have been able to keep workers in the
various districts throughout the CITY, en-
apiine tnem to study the poor and to help
ana ADVISE them to provide for themselves
IN the season of their opportunity
FROM the reports made from week tn
week at the agents meetings | feel con-
sluer. ,hat AFTER the work of the present
summer our agents will be better fitted
10 zeal with the poor during the coming
winter than they have ever been before
ana ana l venture to predict, also, that at
least some of those who have been here
totore more or less dependent upon char
ity will become self-dependent Mere stat
istlCal reports cannot show definitely the
oeheiicent results of personal effort ex-
erted by frequent intercourse with the
poor, but this months report of the num-
Der of viJts made by the agents and OF
the amount OF money collected for the saw
growth of this work.
Applicants for Relief.
Taking up first the usual statement of
the number of applicants for relief, the re-
ports show that during the month of June
175 separate applications were made to
the society, the applications coming from
ninety-nine separate and distinct families
hfty-three white and forty-six colored OF
THESE families nine were reported as new
cases, While all the others had been known
to the society heretofore. Sixty-four in
vestigations were made by the agents dur
Ing the month, exclusive of investigations
OF applicants for treatment at the free dis
pensaries.
Relief was procured for eighty-seyen
families, as follows: From churches, for
nfteen families; from private relief So
cieties, two families; from private indi-
viduals directly, ten families; from the
Golden Book fund, five families. and from
the Citizens Relief Association, 1ifty-fiye
families
Ihirty-one persons applied for work,
and employment was found for twenty
TWO. permanent for four, and temporary
employment for eighteen. Nine persons
We're placed in institutions for temporary
Transportation was procured for two DER.
sons to friends or relatives outside the
CITY. Thirty-nine letters were received
making REQUESTS for Investigations, and