The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-21
CHART Y
WORK..
Regular Meeting
of Associated
Charities.
|DEpLOREs CLASS
LABOR IMPORTED
Report Of Manager For Month
Shows Excellent Progress
in Work.

The regular monthly meeting Of the
Associated Charities was held yesterday
afternoon in the office of the society, on
Hotel street. Eleven voting members
were present, and President Dole pre-
s-ded. j. Schultze and ]. F. Eckaratt
were present as delegates from the Ger
man Benevolent Society, which, by letter
to President Dole, expressed a desir to
affiliate with the Associated Charities,
and sent it's treasurer and secretary as
representatives. The two visitors were
accorded a cordial welcome, and the So
ciety expressed it's pleasure in the action
of the German Benevo-ent Society, as t
was the only large charitable organiza-
ton not already in utilization with the
Associated Charities.
After the reaoing and approval of the
m .nutes President Dole called for the re-
port of the months work, and Mrs. Ber-
ger. the manager for the society,". read
the following:
"At the last meeting, in January, the
report showed that a very sma i number
of strangers had applied at this office
for assistance in the quarter then ending,
and we predicted a quiet time, until a
new wave of travel struck our shores.
That this City is subject to such inva-
sions Is true. Periodically there arrive
by the incoming steamers numbers of
men who appear to have no money at
all, and these become a publ C charge. It
is often very discouraging and trying to
interview them and to get them work
which they will accept and do; but we
are always willing to meet these stua-
lions.
"Of the twenty-five new applications
received this month just ending thirteen
were strangers, eight of them be ng
Americans. They are nearly all un-
skilled. Another class is the sick COM
ing here hoping to be benefited by the
must be cared for. or sent to their
| homes. This seems an appropriate mo-
ment to mention these things, hoping
that the Legislature now in session may
take some action along these lines. II
| is not for the Associated Charities tc
take up the fight We must not scare
these people from our doors, because we
must get such cases on record. 1t will be
| of use to us in the future, If they are
recurrent cases, as they are apt to be.
ION the other hand, we had a man
living in positive squalor, refuse poin,
And there is lady, surely sufferer
| from nervous prostration, trying to find
an asylum with some of our good people
These cases, with two men discharged
from Oahu jail, have taken much more
time and thought than the SICK and the
worthy poor of our City, whose wants II
| is not hard to supply.
/ There have been % applications, re.
current cases, applications for work,
situation found, sent to the Queens
Hospital. 45 meals furnished, 129 office
| interviews and the funds disbursed fol
the month has been $50. Food left ovel
from the Mardi Gras pail was given t.
| lot d
and, as there was a large amount of It
! a liberal distribution was made amone
\ the various charitable institutions anc
the poor families which are under the
care of the society, ten, in number
In the discussion which followed the
Ireading of Mrs. Berger's report. the i'm
migration problem was spoken of, ant
| the carelesSness of plantation agents ii
| allowing hoodlums to come into the ISL
ands as laborerS was censured. A recen
| case was mentioned. An order had beer
sent by a plantation for one hundred
Portuguese laborers, and the San Fran
cisco agent sent instead of laborers
vagrant class of mixed nationalities, ag
lgregating thrty-three. They We're land
ed at Honolulu and turned over to thu
agents here but they refused to go tt
the other Islands, to work on the plan
tations where they were wanted, ant
were finally disposed of on a plantation
III a snort time the mel
were back in Honolulu, idle and vagrant
The society deplored the carelessnes.
that permits such an undesirable class o
people to come into the Islands, ant
thinks that something should be done t
prevent the continuation of the evil.
4 George R. Carter, treasurer, reported
4 an over-draft of sS7.41 from the society,"
b treasury, but said that the collection
kwere delinquent because he had not ha,
time to call upon the business men, VIII,
largely support the society, and he ex
pressed himself as being entirely conf
dent that as soon as he should find tim
to make the collections the funds woul,
be forthcoming. Having given notice a
a previous meeting of his intention t
move for change in the time of regu
lar meetings, President Dole made
motion that the monthly meetings b
changed to quarterly meetings. the so
ciety to meet on the third Wednesday o
the second month Of each quarter, bu
after some discussion as to the proprie
ty Of the action, the motion was lost, a
1t was deemed advisable for the encour
agement and advancement of the worl
to have more frequent meetings and kee
In closer touch than would be possibl
should the meetings be quarterly Their
was no further business to abe translates
and the meeting adjourned. Mrs Berge
reports the affairs of the society to be Il
excellent shape and the work going OF
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