The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-30
ORPHAN ASYLUM'S ANNUAL
OFFICERS ELECTED IT MEETING
 HELD YESTERDAY.
Encouraging Reports Read Enhances in Good Condition-Board of Mane- gers Make Exceptionally Comprehen- sive Report, Reviewing History of the Society.

The sixty-eighth annual meeting of
 the New Haven Orphan asylum was
 held yesterday afternoon at o'clock at
 tie chapel of United church on Temple
 street. Despite the steady downpour of rain there was large attendance Mrs.
 George W. Curtis, president of the so-
 ciety, was in the chair, and Mrs. Henry
 Champion was secretary Rev. Anson
 Phelps Stokes, jr., assistant at St. PauPs church, conducted the devotional
 exercises which opened the meeting.
 The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:
 President, Mrs. George w. Curtis
 chief manager, Mrs. N. D. Sperry
 treasurer, Miss Josephine & Newton; treasurer pro tenn, Mrs. Edward l.. Clark; secretary, Mrs. Henry Champion; cor responding secretary, Mrs. Franklin s. Bradley; recording secretary, Miss Eliza K. Twining; provider, Mrs. N. D. Sperry; visitor, Mrs. Charles T. Candee; additional members of executive com mittee, Mrs. Frank w. Benedict Mrs Edward L. Clark, Mrs. John P c. Eos ter, Miss Ella B. Gilbert Miss Lima M IulppS, MI :. OOsSpl II. IOWLSclIO, iicii- orary managers, Mrs. Nathan A. Bald win, Mrs. Julius D. Bristol Mrs. Henry 70. Hotchkiss, Mrs. Frederic Ives; man. agers, Mrs. Henry Baldwin, Mrs Ed- ward I. Bassett, Mrs. Frank l.. Bigelow, Mrs. William F. Blackman, Miss Anna P. Bradley, Miss Mary B. Bristol, Mrs. Alfred Daggett, Mrs. Wilbur F. Day, Mrs. George M. Duncan, Mrs. Nathaniel L. Garfield, Miss Mary H. Hadley Miss Elizabeth c, Hall Mrs. John M Hall, Mrs. Horace P. Hoadley, Mrs. Albert s. Holt, Miss Frances s. Ives, Mrs. John G. Lewis, Mrs. c. Purdy Lindsley, Mrs. John w. Mansfield, Mrs. Edward G. Merwin, Mrs. Eugene s. Miller, Mrs. Willis E. Miller, Mrs. Thomas B. Os- borne, Mrs. c. Berry Peets, Mrs. Will liam l.. Phelps, Mrs. Charles H. Platt, Mrs. Lemuel S. Punderson, Miss Caroline E. Richmardson, Mrs. Frank H. Sperry, Mrs. David E. Thompson, Mrs. George H. Futile, Mrs. Robert veitch, Mrs. Elizabeth R. Ward, Mrs. Henry A. Warner Miss Florence M. Warwick, Mrs. Lewis s. Welch, Mrs. James F. Wheeler Mrs. William D. Whitney, Miss Charlotte Winchester; trustees, Arthur D. Osborne, George w. Curtis, George H. Ford, Henry w. Far nam, N. D. Sperry, Samuel F. Mer win, Wilbur F. Day, Henry c. White and Oliver s. White.
 The report of the treasurer pro tenn, Mary A. Clark, showed receipts for the year of $19,620, including cash on hand May 15 last $1,991, donation day collec- tions $5,SS3, other donations $190, board of children at asylum $1,7OO, interest George w. Curtis estate $6O0O interest in permanent fund $1,S45, city appropri ation $2,00O The expenditures for the year have been $16S31 the chief items being family expenses S12,57O, repairs $1 ,096, incidental expenses $402, salaries &, 900 There is balance on hand of $2,7S8.63 This report was accepted.
 The report of the managers was read by Miss Lima M. Phipps, for the board, and was one of the best ever made in the history of the society It was re- plete with interesting facts concerning the long and successful record of the society, and contained the following:
 The record of the past year seems much as usual with only the natural changes in figures which come from year to year: Number of children aid- ed during the year, 174; average num- Der, 131; new admissions 36 returned to friends, 3s: placed at service, 3; re- moved bydeath, 3; present number un- der asylum care, 190.
 Twenty babies ranging in age from | few weeks to about two and a half | years have been cared for in the Nina Lynette nursery, which means very | much in the way of loving, watchful | service Of this number three have | been removed by their friends, four have | been promoted to the House Nursery | upon reaching the age of two and half | or three years, and two have died. At present there are eleven in the Nina r Lynette. On the 18th of September, !, 1900, Raymond Coon died of gastric trou- ble, aged three and half months, hav- | ing been very weak and i'll from the | time of his admission in June. He was | taken by his father for burial.
 eW have to record this year the resig- nation of MT. and Mrs. Hunt, steward | and matron, who left the asylum for