The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-09
FOR CHILDREN.
State Home Society Holds
It's Annual Session
in Trenton.
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
Jersey City Represented on
Two -Boards-Progress
of the Work.
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TRENTON, June 9, 1S99.-Twenty-ive
delegates, representing nearly every sec
ton of the State. met in the parlors of the
Y. M. c.. A. building yesterday and held
the fifth annual session of the New Jersey
Children's Home Society. There were
meetings in the morning, afternoon and
| evening, and considerable business was
transacted.
Reports of the different superintendent
showed that during the last year tempo
rary homes were provided for more than
a hundred boys and girls. and that
through the efforts of the organization
permanent places of abode had been found
in 81 of these cases. The 81 children were
adopted. Rev. George HI. Ingram, treas
urer of the society, reported that. $500
had been received by him in the twelve
months just ending, and that the amount
had about covered the xpenses of the
period.
Between $500 and 5000 was spent in
boarding homeless orphans in private
families. 1t was also shown by Mr..
Ingram that the last year had been a
record-breaker in the history of the as
ISOLATION, as more good results had
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tendents than was ever noticed before.
Each of the latter were called upon to
address the gathering before the noon
adjournment was taken, and they gave
a detailed account of how the work un-
der their care was being managed and
advanced.
General Superintendent Rev. M. 7.
Lamb, after reviewing the condition of
the society, pointed out that the collec-
lions in some quarters had been steadily
falling off.
The speaker, who has been examining
into the workings of the new State Board
of Children's Guardians, also made a
reference to his discoveries in this line.
He said that the Home Society had been
led to oppose the legislation creating the
board by Mrs. Williamson's public state
men that one object of the new legis-
lation was to drive the Home Society out
of the State. Evidently we attached
too much Importance to this statement
he added, 'for if it expressed her own
wishes in the matter, she did not succeed
in Incorporating them in the words of the
new law.
"Now we have ascertained very def
nitely,' Mr.. Lamb went. on. that our
society is an institution created under the
avs of this State" and that it is not
| supported or maintained by assistance
from the State, or any municipality
thereof; and therefore this new Board of
Children's Guardians can have no control
whatever or supervision over any child
either heretofore or hereafter placed by
us. We can, therefore. go right on do
/ ino ,raaisaJyy uhaf ypa hox-n hnpn doing Or all
I along in the past, receive in our care
| any poor child in need of a home, pro-
| vided such child is turned over to our
| care before the Overseer of the Poor or
| other officer has committed it to an aims
house,
The Assistant superintendent are the
Revs. w. L. Mayo, J. NJ. Hunting, c. v.
Williams and Eugene E. Pulls.
In the afternoon the election of Off
GERS was held, resulting as follows:-
President-Rev. w. w. Knox, New
Brunswick.
Vice Presidents-David warman, Nj.
D., Trenton; the Rev. James Parker, Jer-
sc- City.
secretary-Treasurer-The Rev. George
H. Ingram, Trenton.
Counsellor-Judge Robert s. Woodruff,
Trenton.
General superintendent-The Rev. M. T.
Lamb, Trenton.
Assistant superintendent-The Rev. W.
L. Mayo, Trenton.
Superintendent's Assistants-The Rev.
j. M. Hunting, Hackettstown, G. v. Will
liams, Trenton; Eugene E. Pulls, Pater-
son.
Finance Committee-Rev. L. B. Hart
man, D. D. Trenton; Rev. Judson Conk-
| lin, Trenton; Mr.. Lyman L. Pierce, Tren-
ton.
Executive Committee-Rev w. w.
Knox, D. D.; John Sykes, Rev. L. B.
Hartman, D. D.; Mr.. Lyman L. Pierce;
David Warman. NJ. D.; Rev. D.. R. Eos
ter, Rev. G. II. Ingram, Rev. Judson
Conl-lin.
Board of Managers-David Warman,
M. D., Trenton; Rev. G. H. Ingram,
Trenton; Professor Byram C. Matthews,
Newark; Secretary Lyman L. Pierce,
Trenton: Rev. Henry A. McKubbin,
Lambertville; Geo. H. Franklin. flights
town; Rev. A. E. Henry, Jersey City; Mr..
Josiah Ketcham, Belvidere; Mrs. Asa Col
son, Woodbury.; Miss Ella F. Newman,
| Newton: Rev. J. H. Whitehead. Passaic;
Mrs. ]. L. Manning. Trenton.
Rev. M. r. Lamb was elected delegate
to the National Children's Home Conven-
| ton, to be held in Minneapolis, Mime
sofa, on June II. The board thereupon
adjourned.
In the evening the Rev. Edgar W
Thompson, of the Pennsylvania Chill
dren's Home. Society. addressed the dele
gates.
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