The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-13
UNITED WORKERS MEETING
ANNUAL SESSION HE'D YESTER-
DAY MORNING.

Great Work Done in All the Branches
| Officers Eiccted--.Rcports of the Treus-
urer and Committees.
The annual meeting Of the United
! Workers was held yesterday morning
| in the rooms of the workers in the Or
/ ganized Charities building. There was
q very good attendance and the re-
ports Of the different branches in the
I association showed that everything is
4 in very tlourishing condition. The
work during the past year has been ac-
/ lively carried on and the results have
been gratifying.
A strong plea was made by Mrs.
Franklin B. Dexter, the president of
! the association, to meet the United
Workers share of the indebtedness of
the Organized Charities.
The finances of the society We're re-
ported on by Mrs. Bernadotte Perrin
and showed that the receipts for the
year have been $2420.S7 and the eXpen-
ditures $2,15564, showing balance of
$32523 in the treasury.
The officers of the society were elect
ed as follows
President, Mrs Franklin B. Dexter;
vice presidents, Miss Scranton, Mrs. B.
c. Lake, Mrs, Thomas c. Bennett and
Mrs Henry G. Farnam; treasurer, Mrs
Bernadotte Perrin; recording secretary,
Mrs. James Kingsley Blake; CORE
spending secretaries, Mrs, Thomas
Hooker, Mrs. William Beebe and Mrs.
George T. Ladd.
Other officers chosen We're. Chairman
of the relief committee, Mrs. Edwin
Countryman; employment bureau COM
mittee, Mrs. A, e. Rowland, and chair
man of the boys club committee, Mrs.
Frank G. Beach,
The report of the work of the Boys
club rendered by Mrs. Beach, chair
man. was in part as follows:
Great have been the changes within
the past year. A visitor would pause
on entering, wondering what had hap
pened. The room itself has undergone
q transformation, a new coat of paint
making it look fresh and cheerful, But
the great change of It all is among our
formerly dirty boys that were so be-
grimed one could scarcely tell one from
another. Now it is really an exception
to see dirty hands or face; bright shin
ing faces greet us everywhere we look
This marvel Is brought about by six
new shower baths in the bath room,
connected with the gymnasium.
Our old tub, pipes, etc, were worn
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the Prudden fund to put in the showers.
The news of this addition to former
delights spread so that at the spring
there were more boys present than ever
before at that time of year, and in two
nights 10S had bathed. They were per-
fectly delighted, and nightly line up
outside the bath room door to await
their turn. One or two boys had stu
dirt encrusted on them. The chairman
mildly requested them to take bath.
One said: We did the first night, but
as we had never had a bath before we
caught cold and mother will not let us
try again
1--WE hope for results more than phys
ical but certain it is that great change
is already visible in just one months
usage of the baths Unusual numbers
have Joined so that the average attend
ance per night for the nine months has
been eighty-four The largest attend
ance on one night was between 300 and
400
early in the year we lost our gym
nasium teacher owing to Ill health. We
secured a former teacher who seems
N, oct Y,oo,1Iar Mr. Ora wfOr6 did the |
best work with the carpenter class that |
has ever been done in the club. SO
many wished to take lessons that night
" classes were formed, always full to |
overlooking, fifty boys a week receiv-
ing instruction. We are very sorry |
that Mr.. Crawford having finished his |
course at Yale has left us. He worked |
hard and faithfully for four years, not |
only in the carpenter work but per-
sonal work among the boys, who loved |
him and his kindness to them. We
now have another student recommend
ed by Mr. Crawford, who we hope will
prove as great a success as his prede-
ceseor."
The remainder OF the report deals
with the picnic at Lighthouse Point, the
at the Grand opera house
Nv generosity of MI Bunnell, the use
If a piano generously given by Mr..
steinert, and the care OF the showers
nd other conveniences by Mr.. Meagher,
he plumber. A plea is entered for
more visitors to the Boys club and for
donations of such things as may be
nade useful and helpful in the work.
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