New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-14
sEMr-ANNUAL REPORT.


The following report was read by the general
secretary at the seni-annual business meeting Of
the T. s. s. last Tuesday,
1902 the s. has steadily nerea as a IN nu
are constantly being brought to the notice Of the
general office It is only possible to hint at the
manifold benefcent deeds done in the name OF
Sunshine If each act publicly reported were null
tiphed hundredfold it would not adequately e&z
press the amount Of good cheer work accoInplshed
by branches and individuals. for the co,operafye
sion viii be made the work of the general office
and to those States and branches not represented
mere caces snd Invalid comforts are forms
Of sunshine constantly contributed to the sick IN
f9ilies to look after-heIp with the rent when
necessary, buy food and give delicacies; others
look after the neglected poor, especially at the
holiday season, and also remember the blind Some
invaIds and isolated members. One OF the heipz
fu forms Of sunshine Is the 1nva1qs ana So Iiea
country. Aside from these Individual gifts OF
reading the ranchmen OF South Dakota and Mon
k Sat1 Of FTorida and North Carolina, the fish
ernen of Massachusetts and the sponge DIVERS OF
shine. It also goes to an Institution for hayward
New-Jersey and Massachusetts, and mission and
Settlement houses in various localities. south
gina. for poor mountain whites; branch in Flor
IDA supports free Sunshine day school for pooTT
children: another branch helps to buld a cnapel
for an Impoverished parish: another passes on
bulbs orange blossoms, cacti, etc, as southern
cheer to Northern members. Tennessee mas a
travelling neighborhood library, the gift of Man
haitian member. An Alabama branch is conduct
ing an industrial institute for poor whites or both
sexes and will open q summer school this year.
Oregon does splendid work not only for the poor
and sick in local branches but carries regular
cheer into the hospitals and GTphI bas riyen no
less than eight hundred special gifts to shut ms
ADJUSTMENTS arranged Tor the 1hlidty lIS5!t III g
Philadelphia hospital is q form Of sunshine NOT
hitherto attempted. Maine, vermont NeW-ffdII amp
SHIRE Wisconsin. Illinois Iowa. Minnesota, KAN
sas Idaho and Missouri. as reported 70 me o1Ge
!Iag 5 ~ 20 Tsg feT7 S1eh6e gardens and tenement
borhood libraries and unnumbered neighborly acts
From the genera; office thousands OF gifts, lnclud
ing every kind OF wearing apparel bedding maze
rails for sewing and embroidery classes, nav gone
10 East and West Side branches in this city and
to mission schools and Settlement houses BOOKS
have been given fo- a neWsboys homei schoo
hooks to elTDfy the needs of struggling schools IN
Florida and Alabama while other packages o.
cheer without number have gone 10 mnerent
eign branches in the Bahama Islands Turkey; f}ul-
garia and Japan. AS there We're three, MONDAYS
during the last six months bne r ere
used to give special cheer at ThankslFing ChrlsJ
mas and Easter to the poor. the Sck ana me aEsq
Orfe hundred dollars was EXPENDED Tor conn 49,
ned sDrings mattresses and cushions for inVaLIs
IN three States who helpleSSly conlned 10
their beds. a sewing machine provided for a poor
for an invalid in ConnectcIt one fneInpef raises
So monthly support little crippled boy Il! d
room rent of reduced gentlewoman. An IN
valid outfit has oeen provided for the LltIle
Mothers Settlement House: boxes OF usefuI 6IItS
for three Indian branches IN South Jahotd anu
North Carolina; wheel chairs for inVa I!ds IN New,
York and Texas and birthdays or SICK alc acc
made bright and happy ne o Po0I a am man hard
pIaces during the winter by temporary aid especial
" through the coal tlnc'