The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
ORGANIZED AID.
Board Of Directors Elected
Last Evening at An
nual Meeting in
City Hall.
Mr.. NICHOLS ADDRESS
Constitution Amended De-
spite snag Directors To
Elect Officers.
Mr.. NICHOLS ADDRESS

| 494OOu \2lASOl Be
| The annual meeting of the Organized
Aid Association was held last evening in
the Mayors office, City Hail. and after
the various reports from the officers of
work done during the year, Mr.. Nichols,
who is connected with the Aid Society os
Brooklyn, made very clear, concise and
interesting address.
| After congratulating the association
said, ct is not so much to increase the
spirit of charity that we are aiming, as to
/ give it a wider and wiser direction. The
public is very charitable but this kind Of
charity does not go deep. It is Easy
enough to get the public to give aims, but
| 1t is hard to get them to give them
| Selves
You cannot generalizef in charity Civ
ing. You must take specific cases. 1t IS
utterly impossible for charity to ac.rm-
plish its end in the dark. You may be
able to afford to lose your money, but
have you any right to demoralize the beg
gar who cannot get more per day beg
ging than by honest labor. Therefore, by
indiscriminate giving you not only demor-
salize the beggar but injure honest labor.
Whether an imposter or not your alnas
are likely to fail and their end and do
more harm than good"
ssTen times as much money is given
away annually as could be judiciously
used by the Organized Aid. Some of 1t
! is worse than wasted. You cannot help
a person by doing for him what he can
do for himself, and this is where our
! industrial department comes in. We give
these people the privilege of earning
what they get"
| He then went on to give a description
of the work as conducted in Brooklyn and
its effect in diminishing pauperism, and
extended to the Jersey City Society some
| excellent advice.
Mr.. Fox, of Bayonne who was the
| first speaker at the Organized Aid
! organization a year ago was called upon
and made brief congratulatory address,.
Miss Chown the aid agent gave her
annual report, in which she gave special
/ praise to the Philanthropic Committee OF
the Woman's Club for its management OF
the workroom She gave the number OF
-easss nth city needing aid as llaaAot
which 43 have been thoroughly investi-
gated
Mr. Myron Furst, as treasurer, reported
about 800 as the amount in the treasury,
with no outstanding bills IN the
treasurer's hands.
This completed the old business and
under the head of new business a num-
ber of amendments to the constitution
were proposed, the most important OF
which was one stating that there
should be a board of directors not ex-
ceeding twenty-five. it was important
that this should be done last evening as
it is the intention of the Organized AID
te. become incorporated as soon as pos
Il qble. steps toward which end have al
ready been taken so the organization
was somewhat appalled, when 1t ran
across a snag in the constitution, Whlch
stated that no amendment could be
made unless ten days notice was given
to each member of the society, and which
the Executive Committee in preparing
the amendments had overlooked.
This caused a long discussion as to
what should be done. Somebody moved
to adjourn and comply with the consti-
tuition, but this motion was lost on the
ground that it would be hard to again
get together as capable an assembly.
Mr.. Robert Flemmng then suggested
that the organization disband and re-
organize Immediately. But this sugges-
tion did not meet with the approval of
those present. and caused several speeches
as to how sorry the individuals would be
to disband, and eventually it was moved
that the objectional clause be waived for
the time beirg Here came in another
<75r fo xvba III
an absentee should at any time raise an
objection, but as the hour was well ad-
vaneed toward midnight it was decided to
run the risk and the amendments were
accepted one by one.
The Rev. DR.. e. Z. Stoddard and the
Rev. W. L. Hoagland were then ap-
pointed nominating committee and re-
turned with the following list Of names,
ali Of whom were unanimously elected,
with power, according to constitution, to
elect officers for the ensuing year.
Messrs Gilbert Collins, George W.
Smith, Otto Grouse, J. J. Toffey w. E.
Drake, James Flemming, Robert Flem-
ming, Robert Davis, ]. w. Hecks, s. D.
Mackay, S. J. Hartshorn, 2. K. Pang-
born, A. ]. Newbury, J. w. Hardenbergh.
Joseph A. Dear, John Headden second,
Thomas Gopsill, DR.. 7. R. Chambers, DR..
Burdette P. Craig, Rev. Cornelius Brett,
Rev. E. Il. Stoddard, Rev. Charles Herr,
Rev. w. L. Hoagland, Mrs. Brice Collard
and Miss Cornelia Bradford.
After arranging a meeting of the
Executive Committee for Monday, May s.
in the same place, the Organized Aid
adjourned.