The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-24
RELIEF WORK
Report of Associated
Charities.
Financial Statement and a Strong
Plea for Discriminating and
Prudent BenevoIence.


~ at 3 p. m, President S. B. Dole in
the chair. The managers report for
January was as follows:
Number applications for assistance -
Number cases Investigated 9
Number cases relieved by Stran-
gers Friend Society .. 5
Number cases relieved by Portu-
guese Benevolent Society .. l
Number cases relieved by private
contributor .,................. l
Number cases relieved by Associat-
Gu Cnarltles NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Number applications for positions 6
Number situations found .. 6
Number visits by manager .. 5
Number societies afiliating 49,. IA
Membership to date ...... 116
Funds dispensed for Strangers
Friend Society $102 90
Funds dispensed for American
Relief Fund ........... rs 90
Funds dispensed by Associated
Chdrltles 30
1t will be noticed that all cases in
vestigated and found worthy have re-
ceived assistance, either from, the
Emergency Fund of the Associated
Charities or from other societies or by
private charity. Also that all who
have applied for work have found sit
uations
The manager finds great difficulty in
securing rooms for applicants, since the
Mechanics Home is not available and
the Sailors Home is more than full.
One great need of Honolulu is cheap
lodging houses, not only for those who
have recently lost their homes by fire,
but for the poorer class of our own
nationalities.
comfortable home had been found
for four incurables, three of whom are
paralytics, who are supported by the
Strangers Friend Society and the
American Relief Fund. The same place
might be open for consumptives, and
the question was referred to the Board
of Health.
A committee of three, Mrs. Andrew
Fulton, Mrs. S. B. Dole and Mrs. F. J.
Lowrey, was appointed to consider the
advisability of increasing the work of
the society, especially by districting
the city for better discovering cases of
need and introducing the system of
friendly visitors so successfully en-
AS before, the officers of the society
are constantly met by questions and
remarks showing that the objects and
aims of the Associated Charities are
still misunderstood, even by many of
those who have become members of the
society by contributing to it's funds. To
every such person cards have been
given, which, if sent to the manager
with the sender's name, will secure
Immediate investigation into every
case of need and assistance if the OBJ
ject is found worthy. 1t is well known
that members of the society have re-
peatedly given money to an apparent
ly needy man, who goes about with
pathetic story, and who has been
repeatedly referred to the Associated
Charities, but has never reported to
the manager, though she could with
out doubt secure him employment that
would give him support. He knows
that in this benevolent community he
makes more money by begging. There
are women also who go about with
little children and plausible story,
whose cases have been investigated
and found wholly unworthy, and yet
they obtain much money from the gen.
erous public, who give without inquir-
ing into the worthiness of the object
of charity. AS Archbishop Whately
SAYS, People will do what you pay
them to do; if you pay them to beg,
they will beg; If you pay them to
work, they will work"
As Honolulu becomes more metro
politan, and the generous character of
its people becomes better known by
those who are willing to live upon our
charity, we are sure to have more fire.
quent calls for aid from unworthy
sources. 1t is just this danger that the
Associated Charities is ready to meet,
and we cannot too often urge upon the
men and women of this community
never to bestow money nor other as
sistance upon beggars, however plaus-
ib.e their story may be, but at once
confer with the manager of the Asso-
ciated Charities, telephone 5S7, or with
an officer OF some other well-known So
ciety, through whom the case may be
investigated. 1t is very important to
remember also that as charitable work
is now organized here there is abso-
lutely no necessity that any needy case
should go unhelped if the proper means
are employed. The simple old times
when We all knew each other and it
was safe to give with open-hearted
generosity are forever passed in Ho-
nolulu. With other new methods we
must take up the"New Charity" which
has been aptly described in lecture
by Rev. H. l.. Wayland, DID,: Moth
ing without inquiry, nothing without
knowledge. is a motto from which the
new charity does not depart. 1t was
not hard for the old charity to give
1,Y,s Al, u ap-IfU
gives hand, heart, brain, gives
nights of sleepless thought, gives in
imitation of the Divine, gives its own
self. The new charity Is full Of limo
vations, of new adaptations 1t is PHI
abe, expansive; no undertaking is too
vast for its hopefulness; no obstacle
too great for its courage 1t is always
ready to arouse it's energies for meet
ing some new emergency. 1t is the
new charity alone which can meet the
demands of the day and the situation"