Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-06
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
Monthly Meeting of the Organization Held
Yesterday Afternoon.
Report of the General Secretary SUBJ
Dsitted-Statement of the Saw
inEs Fund Collected.

| The regular monthly meeting of the board
| of managers of the Associated Charities
was held yesterday afternoon at the CEN
| trail office. Sl1 q street northwest, at i:15
| o'clock. There were present Prof. B. T.
| Janney. chairman: Rev. j. II. Bradford.
Mr. John Joy Edison, Mr. F. l.. Moore, DIR.
| NJ. D. Peck and Mr.. Jas. b. T. Topper.
| with the general secretary, Geo. S. Wilson.
| After the reading of the minutes of pre-
vious meetings and the transaction of rou-
| tine business the general secretary sub
mitted his report of the work of the society
| for the month of September The report
| was. in part, as follows:
THE total number of applications for
! sistance made to the society during the
month of September 166. compared
with 1856 during the month of August and
| lie in September of 1898. OF these 1876 ap-
! plication u were made by white persons
| and IS by colored. The total number of
| families represented in these applications
| is 10. Nineteen of these families report
! ed new cases. all the others having been
| known to the society heretofore
| Relief was procured as follows for nine
| ty-one families: From churches for six
families from private individuals. direct
| ly, for six families; from private relief So
! cities for family: from the Golden Book
Fund for three families, and from the Citi-
zens' Relief Association for seyenty-five
| families There are still many cases of
| diphtheria and scarlet fever among the
| poor of the city and a large number of
| those relieved are families quarantined on
| account of these contagious diseases.
| Applications for Employ ment.
| Thirty applications for employment We're
made to the society during the month, and
| employment was found for twelve persons
| permanent employment for two and tenn
| porary employment for ten. Three per-
| sons We're placed in institutions for Tempo
| rary treatment. Transportation pro-
| cured for three families. One of these fam
| lilies was that of colored woman with
| five small children, who had been induced
| to come to Washington by her relatives,
| and found when she arrived here that they
| We're not in position to do anything for
| her and she was unable to provide for her
! self and the children. The family had
! lived out in the state of Iowa and had been
| sef-supporting so long as the husband
| lived.
| ''Thirty-two letters We're received during
| the month making requests for investigl-
| lions, etc. and sixty-eight written reports
| on such Investigations We're sent out. The
| number of Investigations for the free dis
| pensaries during the month were as fol-
| lows:
Central Dispensary-Total Investigations,
| 237; certificates granted TO .DJ. certificates
| refused to twenty-one, false addresses Were
| given by eleven.
| Eastern Dispensary-Total number of in
| vestigations, 30: certificates granted to
| thirty-two, certificates refused to three.
| ''Womans Clinic-Total number of inves-
| LEGATIONS Is: certificates granted to eleven,
| certificates refused to one, false address
| given by one.
| The Savings Fund.
| "A total number of = 736 visits We're made
| by the agents during the month in the
| work of investigation, collecting savings.
| seeking employment, giving friendly ad-
| vice. etc. The amount of savings deposited
| in he ct month
| was S2O965, as compared with S23SJ IN
| the previous month, and $loS. so in Septem-
| Der, 1888. The amount of savings deposited
| has been somewhat less than it in Au-
| gust. In September this year the amount
| was nearly double what it was in Septem-
| Der last year. The fact that We have had a
| full corps of agents during the present
| year has enabled us to accomplish more
| than ever before in the work OF collecting
| savings and general constructive work
| among the poor.
| Since your last regular board meeting,
| in July, moathly reports of the work Of the
| society have been compiled and have been
| published in the papers from month 10
| month. During those three months the
| agents made more visits in the homes of
| the poor than in any three summer months
| since the reorganization of the society. In
| July the number of visits reported was
2.243, in August 2,169 and in September
| 2.756.
| lone thing that indicates what has been
| accomplished is the marked growth in the
| savings fund during the present summer.
| This fund is the savings of those who have
| been recipients of charity. The growth in
| this fund is shown by the following figures
| for three months-July, August ana Septem-
| Der, 1898, and the corresponding three
| months of 1899. In 1898 the amount of
| ings deposited was for July SS0S5, for Au-
gust, $11o.65; for September, sloS.s0 In ls:a'
| the amounts We're for July, S201 80; for Au-
| gust, S26;1. So for September, S2o3.GJ or a
| total for the three months this year of
| S6751 as compared with $3oS. 30 for the
| pnr Ia g shows
| a most encouraging growth, and there is
| every reason to believe that this growth
| should continue the people become more
| and more familiar with the system.
| I'VE find that many persons now are per-
| fectly willing to make deposits and have
| every confidence that their money is safe,
| whereas two three years ago, when We
| first commenced the work. many of the
| poor were suspicious about making de-
| posits This is undoubtedly due to the fact
| that many have been victimized through
| paying money into unreliable savings nsti-
| tutions irresponsible and unknown build
| ing and loan associations badly managed
| and unwisely planned death benefit socie-
| ties, etc. Many of the persons who have
! savings accounts opened through our
| agents have had just such experiences.
| ''As the poor people learn more and more
| from experience that their money deposited
| through our agents is in safe keeping, and
| can be had at any time they become more
| willing to make deposits, and there is good
| reason to believe that well-conducted
! savings system might ultimately supplant
l
| and unreliable schemes mentioned
Stamp Plan Adopted.
| 1t was decided to have savings stamps
| printed for the of the agents of the
| society in collecting small savings among
| the poor. By the stamp system a person
| can save in any amount from ) cents up,
| stamp being given in return for the
| amount deposited The depostor keeps
| stamp book with the stamps attached. and
| when the amount thus saved amounts to
| 81 or more it can be deposited in the
| ingS bank.
! A committee, consisting of Prof. B. T.
| Janney, Rev. J. H. Bradford, Mr.. f. l..
| Moore and the general secretary. APP
| pointed to make arrangements for the
| holding of the annual meeting of the
| ciety. The fiscal year of the society ends
| October 81, and the annual meeting will be
| held as early in November be
| ranged for At that meeting the officers
| and five members of the board of managers
| will be elected to serve for the ensuing
year.