New-York tribune., 1900-05-10
WHIPPING POST FAVORED.
COMMISSIONER SIMS WANTS WIFE
BEATERS FLOGGED.
PRESIDENT KELLER DECLARES THAT HAIR
LEM HOSPITAL IS A DISGRACE-CON-
TROLLER COLER TALKS.

TROLIER COLER TALKS.
The restoration of the whipping post in this State
and the n1iction of sound hoggings upon men who
beat abandon their wives was seriously advo-
Gated yesterday by Adolph Smis. Charities Com
missioner of Brooklyn conference upon vari-
Gus subjects connected with charities In this city
which was opened at the United Charities Build
ing. No. los East Twenty ty-second-st, and was pre-
sided by Bishop Farley. Mr.. Simis said that
present, under the law, when man abandoned
his wife all could be done to him was to send
him Jail for one, three months, where he
lived In clover at the expense OF the city.
John w. Keller president of the Board of Char-
ties Commissioners. speaking on the topic Are
the Public Institutions Adequate to Public Needs?''
called the Harlem Hospital "a disgrace to the
city He said in part:
The first garlng need to which would call your your
management aTten of charities in this city has always
been marked by spirit of the most rlgld econiny: ny
poor but l think that nothing is too good for the
sick The mel - and oear fhat pf
can get well at all in such place. II Is a 5 ois
Thoroughly equipped hospital in Harlem at once.
The second great need of the city is for munlf,
budine for Homeless mem While it is not all that
could desire yet as compared with the o1o Ptd Pe
Women and children are at present cared hT t9T az a.
city yofst of the @ size % Of we have made
children. The next great need is for different diff
for an emergency hospital tizsd 9 far
this purpose formerly either STAPLE or waIe1
Children has not the appearance of a hospital
at all. have found that of all things most dread
ed by the poor is the maternity service OF the De De
partment and there is pressing need for new
buding where women can oe cared Iof ana gfn
the period previous to confinement; ,. -
legisation feH at Albany For some reason which
have never been able to understand or en5i2 wa
taken out of the of the Department Of PupIic
Charities and Vea to 5he o e
of this building, but it seems to be pernaneenAE ne ny III III
we will Get control of it, if ever Another thing
to which would like to call your attention 11tHen lis is
our hospitals and they are G now 0 6sr ac 0
tents but hone to get an appropriation this year
for the erection home for nurses and as soon
as, contractor can be made to do his work ,,o
city is not W only o get good bindings well equipped
but good and efficient service. In the old days the
c and Mas IT no % eG
e e9 gHss rnf Rn wn "t o
out the pauper came in. Only few days ago l
@ aere hs Pg sRf to
various duties to defray the expenses of their
and p 10 for '~ one say that BeeVue Hospital shall
not be, made loafng place for tramps and
There is ono other thing Some provision should
the finer feelings LEFT, to prevent them from being
thrown into everlasting contact with the "bum,
an animal which has sunk to point almost, II
not quite. on a level with the hog
Charles l.. Brace. secretary of the Childrens Aid
Society, said that the total number of children
placed bv the society in homes for adoption during
the forty-ive years OF it's existence 22421; the
number placed In families at wages 24,ooO, and
the number who had been sent to the country and
found employment there was 5000.
Miss Mary Vida Clark, assistant secretary of the
State Charities Aid Association said that "in get
+ipor info Ton abnt fan uh hav
for children we have found that cannot rely
to any extent on the reports of the clergymen in
the neighborhood. for they seem to be rather too
optimistic, and good points in people which
can only be discerned by the eye of faith, while
the other hand the Woman's Christian Temperance
lied on 10 inform us of any badness of which the
parties have ever been guilty and even the number
or glasses of beer which the head or the house
annually consumes"
Controller Coler presided at the session OF the
Charities Conference last evening. Financial
Problems CT Private Charities Receiving City Aid
and Those Not Receiving City Aid" the sub
ject discussed He declared that the charity prob
lem one of the first in the social life. Every
private charity was hard up a matter of course
II would be a standing reproach to any private
charity if it felt otherwise. fmpecuniousness verg-
ing on insolvency the normal condition of the
most useful charities He continued:
Under those circumstances the effort to secure
financial relief is constant, and of this effort
is continually seeking the line of least resistance
position along this line; it is regarded what
sporting friends are wont to call an easy mark
In that particular line of least resistance happen
to occupy for the time being unfortunately
prominent position. L have learned to entertain
exalted opinion of the energy and eloquence and
pcrsistency of those charged with the duty of
making good deficiencies in the revenue accounts of
charitable institutions. 1t disturbs the compacency
of the taxpayer. | have met the October taxpayer
in all his glory. That month he bites; during the
other eleven he only growls.
The city cannot be expected to maintain In whole
or part every charity which the benevolent inge-
nuity of man may invent establish for the
benefit of his fellow creatures Just as there are
some charities which should be and are wholly
supported by public funds, so there others for
whose benefit the taxpayers should not be com
tremes there are insitutions-the hospitals for ex
ainple--whch should receive substantial assistance
from the city. IE regard to such institutions as
these would like to know whether the receipt by
such institutions of substantial donation from
the public fund does not make 1t more difficult
thereafter to secure private gifts. This is an ex-
remely interesting question.
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