The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-18
IN CHARITY'S GUISE
IMPOSTERS THRIVE IN NAME of
KINGS DAUGHTERS.
ELDERLY W0MAN'S GAME.
BEGGED FoR DAY NURSERY ON HER
OWN ACCOUNT.

Told "A PiteOus Tale of Bnrefooted
POcketed the Contributions OF
sympathetic PeopIe-Treasurer of
King Daughters Union Threatens
Prosecution, and Warns Charita-
BILE People Against the Woman.
The Kings Daughters of Savannah, IN
who have besought charity Of the public
in their behalf. have had hard road to
travel for the last two years.
Often the readers of the news
papers have been regaled with stories of
women, handsome above the ordinary and
endowed with even more than the allot-
ted share of woman's wit who have con-
stituted themselves soliciting and collect
ing agents for one or another of the
Kings Daughters various charities and
enriched themselves at the expense of a
tender-hearted and unsuspecting public
One of these fair women of fortune was
trapped and arrested, but she was not
prosecuted or punished. Evidently the i'm
munity which has been accorded trans
gressors along these lines in the past
has induced other entries in the lists,
and recently there has been a formidable
one.
The romance that should cluster around
the story, the new collecting agent of the
Kings Daughters is missing for she Is
neither young nor handsome. She is fast
veering, indeed, toward three-scores and
is certainly old enough to know better.
Along during the holidays, before Christ
mas, this elderly woman was beseeching
the aid of the charitable for the poor of
the city. She evidently included herself
within this designation, though she did
not explain her meaning to those she -ap-
preached with requests for assistance and
whose hearts she touched with piteous APP
peals, based upon the inability of her
wards to enjoy Christmas and experience
the ordinary and proper emotions of the
season, unless they were suitably clothed
and fed.
With the passage of the holidays, the
advocate of the poor evidently found it
necessary to name some more specific OBJ
ject of charity, in order to accomplish
good results AS the Day Nursery, con-
Quoted by the Kings Daughters, is a
favorite charity with the people of Sa-
ICES is doing good along really wise and
benehcent lines, she selected this as just
the thing with which to back her APP
peals.
She would wander into one of the down
town stores, approach member of the
firm, and begin piteous tale. 1t was to
the general effect that the children at the
day nursery, because those in charge had
endeavored to. spread out their charity
4f,, IN Iuv tah1
dition. They were without shoes and
stockings, so the story ran, and the chill
ing winds of winter were playing about
their bare legs whenever they took their
wonted exercise on the streets or piled
their way to the Kindergarten at which
they are instructed.
Very rarely, with such a story as this,
did she fail to make a touch. The mer-
chant whom she approached would make
a liberal donation or small one as his
means and inclination dictated. but almost
always he would come across with some
Thing for the barefoot and barelegged
children at the Day Nursery.
This came to the ears of Miss Viola
Kennedy, who is really in charge of these
collections. 1t has been announced time
and again that Miss Kennedy is the only
one authorized to receive these donations,
but such authority has been assumed and
collections made nevertheless. The last
impersonation came very much in the
nature of the last straw.
The Identity of the woman who has been
making these collections under false pre-
lenses is well known, but the
Kings Daughters have no desire to ex-
pose or punish her if the necessity can be
| avoided. However, they don't care to
have her circulating misleading reports or
collecting funds for the children of the
Day Nursery, from which the children
receive 10 advantage.
If she continues her practices the man.
agreement announce it will have
her prosecuted for obtaining mon
ey and goods under false pre-
lenses. If the step is forced, Miss Ken
nedy says 1t will not be abandoned but
every effort made to have the woman who
is guilty punished for what she has done.