The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-01-04
NO ANNUAL MEETING. HELD.
Action Of Charities Aid As
soeiation Gives Rise to
Many Rumors.

held no annual meeting in 1893. This
strange omission gave rise to many sem
sational rumors, the most prominent Of
which was that the meeting of the as
ISOLATION was postponed for the purpose
of killing the charter. Mrs. E. e. Will
hanson. the secretary, was interviewed
on this subject and this is what she had
to say
1.-THE State Charities Aid Association
was organized in Morristown in 1886, with
the following objects
81. To promote the Improvement of the
mental, moral and physical condition of
the inmates of all charitable and penal
institutions in the State, and, in particu-
lar, of all prisons, penitentiaries, reform
atories, jails, station-houses, county, city
and township, almhouses and poorhouses,
lunatic asylums, orphan asylums and all
places where for charitable, penal or
reformatory purposes any individual is
supported at public charge.
80 To collect and distribute informa-
tion which may further methods OF char-
ity and prison reform wherever needed.
49, To induce the adoption by the COM
munity at large of such measures In. the
organization of both public and private
charity as may develop the self-respect
and increase the power of self-support OF
the poorer classes of society. The power
of visitation and inspection under the law
is given to the Board OF Managers py
the Justices Of the Supreme Court IN
their various districts. The Board re-
ports to the Governor and Legislature
each year.
tsThe Board by order of the constitu-
ton, defines and adopts such course
of action as may best promote the objects
of the association The Board has full
mower TO direct and control the affairs and
funds of the association and shall be re-
sponsible for its good government. Inc
Board shall elect its own officers and
make it's own bylaws. The county
branches and local committees are re-
sponsible to the Board of Managers.
1.-The orders of visiting are given by
the Board of Managers. All reports are
subject to the Board of Managers.
1.-THE constitution provides for annual
meeting to be held in such place as the
Board may direct ten days notice to be
given to the members entitled to vote.
'oThe annual meeting this year was
postponed until January, by the Board on
account of the absence of the president,
Charlton T. Lewis, LID, in Cuba.
where he was sent by the Prison As
sociations of the United States to report
to the Secretary of War Cat the request
of General Wood, the conditions existing
in Cuba in the prisons and peniten-
tiaries.''
Mrs. Williamson further explained that
the Board of Managers held meeting
previous to the departure of Mr.. Lewis
in October of last year and deemed 1t un-
wise to hold the annual meeting until the
return of the president.
..There are clauses in the constitution
that gave the Board of Managers power
to change the date of the annual meeting
to suit themselves she said. "The meet
ing was 10 have been held in November.
but the managers are to arrange for the
meeting next week"
Mrs. Williamson stated that the meeting
would be very different from those OF
former years. The meetings heretofore
have been Of a private nature and were
almost always held in Ts vlor's Hotel, now
razed. The First Presbyterian Church of
Newark, will be the xcshe of this years
meeting. 1t will be a public one and the
work will be discussed on q broader
scale. The session will be held in the
evening. President Lewis will be the
principal speaker Others have been in
vited to take up the subject and interest
ing talks are promised.
Mrs. Williamson denied that there was
anything back of the delay in the holding
of the meeting. She stated, however, that
she could easily guess where the rumors
emanated.
''The Board of Managers continued
the speaker, 'shave right to throw out
any county report if it so desires. have
an idea that some of the Hudson County
members have drawn up an adverse re-
port WHICH was adopted at a sparsely at
tended meeting of the Hudson County
Branch Mrs Williamson was asked If
this report would be thrown out.
Possibly she replied She added that
she anticipated no trouble from the Hud-
son County branch.