The sun., 1901-03-13
FOR
S. P. G. G..
Annual Report Of the Work Done
for Children.
MANY CASES CARED FOR
Urgent Need for More Persons to Be-
come Interested in the Work
Throughout the
State.

'ehLiou VI Srucity " Shiluicu htiu itS
regular monthly meeting at 4 p. m. yes
terday. The managers are grateful to
the members OF the Legislature for the
annual appropriation for 5000, payable
March Of each year. This is not an in
crease over former years, but simpliies
matters as the former appropriation was
biennial and subject to change.
1t is the earnest desire of the managers
that an increase in the number of its
membership take place ut once. Two
Gears ago Rhode Islands s. T.. g. G.
lad annual support from 600 members.
The local society has list of but so and
that for the entire State. The dues from
,hese members, added to the 5000 voted
oy our Legislature, is a small sum with
which to do the work so rapidly increas-
.ng. The society with greater revenue
could better its capacity for good, both
20 the city and State ut large. Calls
,one from all parts of Delaware for i'll
festigations by the agent Of the society
md he is hard pressed many times to
accomplish his work, being needed often
IL several places ut the same time.
or course this shows that the work is
oeing pushed in many directions and
people generally are aroused to the need
,f interference with parents and guard
,ans where cruelty and neglect have af-
.ected the health and well-being of child
zen under their care. Numerous cases
If revolving cruelty are cited in the an
lual report just published, cases which
lave been culled from nearly 5000 re-
.,orted throughout the State. Anyone
with average feeling, on reading this re-
port, cannot but think good work is
,eng accomplished, and vet on a small
oasis.
The society makes an appeal to those
Interested in the welfare of little child
zen, that they become members of the
society, by the small payment of $2,
md thereby help those who cannot help
themselves.
The membership committee is as fol-
lows: Mrs. Alfred d. Warner, Mrs. Geo.
j. Hall, Mrs. Clement B. Smythe, DIR.
Evan G. Shortlidge, Mrs. William II.
Lloyd.
The managers present Mt yesterdays
meeting were: Willard Hall Porter, Lind
ey G. Kent Edward Andrews, Wilmer
J. Ellison, David j. Reinhardt, DIR. Evan
&. Shortlidge, Mrs. A. ID. Warner, Mrs.
John Z. Wales, Mrs. J. Frank Ball, Mrs.
l.. A. Kittinger, Mrs. Benjamin Nields
md Miss Laura James.
The report of Special Agent Frank
Stout for the month of February was
Is follows: Number of complaints, 49,;
Investigations, 43; white children in
volved, 20; colored chiudren involved,
l2 total number, 50.
Distribution was made Of children as
tollows: Number left with parents, A;
with fathers, Z; with mothers, 10; with
grandparents, /: with grandmother, A;
with private families, 6; placed in Ferris
Industrial School, 2; Home for Friend
,ess and Destitite Children, 4; Delaware
Orphan Home and Industrial School, q;
tiirls, Baltimore, Md, 1; returned to
House of Refuge, boys department, Glen
Mills, Pa, /; total number of children
S2.
A meeting of the Delaware Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
was also held yesterday afternoon. The
report of Special Agent Frank Stout for
February was as follows;
Number of complaints, II; on agents
sight, 20; number of Investigations, 81;
warnings, 81.
Different DEMONSTRATING horses, 1;
Irving horses when lame, g.; driving
horses in poor condition, 1; driving horses
with sore shoulders, l. driving horses
with sore back, 1; driving horses with
| over-draw check-rein, l.: working horses
when lame. L; working horses in poor
condition, 2; working horses with sore
shoulders, l; horse suffering with broken
back, l.; allowing horses to stand un-
blanketed in cold, 10; abusing chickens,
|; over-crowding chickens in coops, 1;
shooting pigeons, 8; total, 81; number
of horses condemned and killed, 1.