The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-17
WORK Of THE PAST YEAR
REPORTS OF THE ASSOCIATED
CHARITIES.
Mrs Berger Gives in Detail What Has
Been Accomplished-Pres Dole
Makes Annual Address,

At the meeting Of Associated Chart
ties yesterday afternoon reports were
submitted by Mrs. Berger, the manager,
and by the treasurer The former de-
tailed in a most interesting manner the
work of the past year. In the report
was the following summary:
Since the office of the Associated
Charities was opened last August there
have been 1876 applications for assist
anCe and 25 Tecurrent cases, making a
total of ISL. OF these, 9S were single
men, IA were single women, and A
were families Altogether, 800 persons
We're represented. Immediate relief has
been given to 20 persons and situations
have been found for 90. Sixty persons
have been clothed, and $50 meals have
been furnished. There have been more
than loo office interviews, g. visits Of
investigation, and 81 regular visits.
The Associated Charities has dis
pensed for Immediate relief, Sl09 so, and
for the Strangers Relief Society,
1854 so; for the American Relief Fund.
1865, and private donations to the
amount of $34, making a total of ST.
273 80.
THE membership to date is 100, and
the number of societies affiliating, a.
"Of the A families that have applied
for relief, 20 are now self-supporting,
were found not needy, or unworthy,
by the various societies."
The report continued with illustra-
tions of some of the work of the year
in which it was shown that begging
from house to house had practically
ceased to exist.
The treasurer's report made the fol-
lowing interesting disclosures of the
finances of the association:
RECEIPTS.
G u
Dole, 81: Yee Chum, % cents; p. King
Chong 25 cents; w. G.. Irwin, 800; c..
NJ. Cooke, 500; ] B. Castle, $50; Mrs.
j. P. Cooke $40; Miss Paulding, Kokua
School, SO; George F. Renton, $25; T.
May, 800: Peter High, so cents; Hack
| field & Co., $1,000; L. Ahlo, $26; S. B..
| Dole, $50; Mrs. ]. B. Castle, $40; Mrs.
N. NJ. White, $40; j. B. Atherton, 800;
b. F. Dillingham;, 800; M. Robinson,
800; E. F. Bishop $50; T. r. Walker,
$50; F. w. Macfarlane, $50; Kaiulani
School. IS; Central Union church, 1854;
j. A. Hopper, $40; H. Waterhouse, 800;
Mrs. Mary Castle, SIS; Mrs. G. d. Cas-
tie. $40; G.. p. Castle, 800; donation,
$40; total, 81, 1856. Membership fees, $435;
interest, 500. Grand total, S2S12.
DISBURSEMENTS.
General relief, SS3 20; emergency re-
| lief, S26. 50; maintaining Victoria Hos
pital, S399S1; office expenses, $14.SO;
| furniture, S54 .25; rent, $1S6 65; supplies
$50. rs; telephone, $40; salary manager
$3.50; managers expenses to San Fran
cisco, 5000; total, $2,142. 06. Cash on
hand May 16, 1900, $699.
President Dole made the speech OF
the day. He also referred at length tc
the work of the year. and the necessity
for future earnest effort on more en-
! larged lines. He called attention to
the fact that with the new conditions
and growth of the city there would bt
more calls for charity from worthy
sources. Concluding, he said:
Il would appeal to all interested in
this subject to throw their influence an,
financial support strongly in favor of {
strict and radical fight against pauper
ism to the end that it may be eradi
Gated, and that Honolulu may be a city
free from the reproach and injury which
will be fixed upon it if Migrants an(
habitual mendicants become a perma
nent feature of our social system"