New-York tribune., 1901-11-27
". C. OSBORN PRESIDENT.
SUCCEEDS D. WILLIS JAMES AS HEAD
OF CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
SPLENDID WORK DONE.

The Children's Aid Society held its annual meet
ing Yesterday afternoon in the directors room
Of the Chase National Bank. received annual re-
rorts from its secretary and treasurer and elected
officers FOR 1902 and trustees to fill vacancies
n Willis James. VINO has been president Of the
society since 1892 asked to be relieved Of his eX-
c1,rive office while expressing willingness to serve
as = trustee for his unexpired term William
Church Osborn. who has been trustee Of the So
rietv since 1889. elected president in Mr.
Jarness place. Charles E Whitehead. vice-presi-
dent: 4 3 Hepburn. treasurer. and Charles Loring
Brace secretary. were reelected. as were William
D Sloane. F. Deano Weekes and Archibald u
Russell trustees
In the fortv-ninth annual report OF the societys
treasurer is the information that the society re-
ceiyed and distributed &4@9055 81 last year bringing
The total Of societys receipts and expenditures
in forJy-nine years up to Slo177'7s6 81
The report Of the secretary contains the following
REGARDING the societys industrial schools:
our industrial schools are designed to cooperate
with the pubic schools ny seeking out children " no
attend the latter because OF PoEetty,
ing them up and training them to some degree OF
Dj TeFsT.5E seboos We now have nineteen day and
eight evening industrial schools with an erTolnen5
Of G-l ald 4 daily attendance OF i.2-e
chidren-an attendance equal to that OF the 2Goig
our buildings and under our immediate control are
carried on under the supervision. direction and
approval OF superintendent OF ne boadu Oh Etr
cation. ny law required The teachers are
- m '3i nd f1r3i,srrial and moral training.
signed 70 these children for an early start il
| wage earning
The homes OF the children are visited by our
| teachers. and the non-attendants are hlhlri %
ana @sla p - MS nature nave been made
and often was It found that the LarliTs tLI
that the children might attend school il was neces-
sary to ma some l2ri 34 ~ nf instances to give
additional nourishmenJ. 80 that the chLdre7n ma
For this reason hot lunches have been established
Very often they are ftted out with strong shoes
and additional clothing in winter "Iirn 5 ~ -
and in mar
ance and progress in their studies. The children
m m Sense sense psPeTized our graduates all walks
Of life and although our schools were re a 81
pauper among them
The report contains fun accounts OF other
branches Of the society's work including the 1oi-
lowing:
The classes for crippled and deformed ehliqEein fi
which were organized in three schools OF the mi
drens Aid Society two years ago haTe 5e Oee95 6eorb
and welfare Of these little unf9rtunates IaI
4sa cbiI5ren in tIese schools who are brought
in our wagonettes in the morning having 10 o, ne
carried down the tenement mouse stdlrs fsyroon ny
attendants and returned again IN the aI'e'Hoo"
The average nightly attendance of h2meless boys boys
and girls az t9e ioGslti5 I Iear ga children were
31i. and during Iht Seal - 80 - rnnnth and
the average age was sixteen years. and the amount
paid by them s dS fSF yeaT % children have been placed
family homes mostly IN the MeS[; ana ana dr n(ier
in homes mostly with farmers families un6er 6 our our
eents during the year that these little ones
are properly cared for and sent to school an,
the children placed IN fdnlllleS'
-rere have been situations at wages IN "a m
iIiss in the country 263 older boys and girls. and
moor narents with $50 children have been assisted
to reach employment in various parts OF the
nv 144 boys who were runaways from their homes
in distant places and were found In despera t6es
e+raits were returned their parents In all. l4D5
destitute children have been removed TO homes IN
he country during the year
The Chfldrens Summer Home. at Bath Beach
was crowded from June to September- and thou-
ea1de nf children turned away. the mum per
OF children who spent week was ISL ana ana, POO SZoo
attended day picnics. while 2s5 crippled chlldrel
spent two weeks each in the HaXtun cottage.
The Health Home at Icney ,iS5-r iS54' e o PGs eIe6
ised 70 its full capacity by 31S little sufferers sent
down BY the dispensarles -, - ,.,.-
The Brace Farm School. at hensico. gave sheiJe
OF rhe lSI returned 70 the city as
I,eejess for farm employment. and were returned
found to be runaways from
home and were returned 70 their parents, ana 81
were placed in homes OF situatioii9 "' aees W