New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-13
A WEST END" SOCIAL
Homer Folks Entertains Republican Won
ans Club
IT'S better 10 have loved and i7st
man never 20 have loved al aI

Fe hafr
Than never 20 have loved al ill
-,ter+ almost have served as text Tor yesterday
grra~,oor's programme at the West End Woman :
Republican Club. so poignantly did COMMISSIONS
Homer FoIks's description Of the present admins
-ratior Of affairs in the Charity Department re-
-4~7 rra members OF all that the city had enjoyed
for rvvo years and would relinquish on January !
.r7afora. and After Treatment" Mr.. Folks might
have christened his talk. except that ms WOrds'
dealing as they did IN places with much thar vas
fiTis- 70 the women needed title 10 point their
meaning
-7,7e moor We have always with US" said Mr.
Folks and the way they are treated Is a sub
4ar- Of great interest-at least TO themselves OF
Tho sion 0a 0oa appropriated annually by the city
for it's various departments about one-tenth goes
10 the Charities Department
Then he took his hearers on visit over some OF
the main buildings on Blackweus and Randalfs
islands.
though rather a good building. never used 10 be
warm in very cold weather" he said While the
basement and lower hall would be tOrrid. in the
wards the thernometer would stand at from z %
30 degrees. Well. we easily put in steam heating
apparatus by which the patients are kept warm
at cost Of % per cent less for fuel than il used TO
cost to keep them cold
The same queer kind Of arithmetic was apparent
when It came TO buying beef Whereas the beef
gsed to cost variousy from $4,000 10 S150G0o an
ruallv II VIII cost but $4,000 this year. yet the
patents and inmates get beef oftener, receive more
generous helpings, and the beef - or a better
quality.
The reason7 We now buy BY the carcass said
the Commissioner instead Of IN little pieces
which one can easily get fooled on. And then. we
ara huytng on IN honest contract The last con-
tractor instead Of being the lowest bidder. actually
received 5000 more d year than the lowest bona
fde bidder asked
The Commissioner told how the city used 70 feed
us sick babies on milk from cows that mad tuber
cfIloefs and how he had succeeded IN reducing the
number OF bacteria in the milk from 900 oo 10 the
rr-Ff- Cenrfr1etre 5000 10 the cubic CcnttCetre
~ told how be had succeeded in making husbands
"A no deserted their families $1,000 toward their
sfuDort in first quarter OF 1872 and 5000 IN the
same sDace Of time in 1893. against Ne'0 that Tam
many had got out OF them.
The women applauded frequently. one Of the
changes which particularly pleased them was what
Ar Folks said about women nurses
s.yVhiIe men may be very good Tor some things
v-tsr I took hold there were women nurses Tor
~ women uati-uts but men nurses IN the men g
v-a-fs Tine men nurses besides not being very
ef7ceur had 70 sleep in what We're INTENDED Tor
dining rooms so the patients mad 10 eat IN the
same wa IDS the nurses slept in As me male nurses
v-s-a Graduated replaced them with women, al
though the patients were exceedingly doubtful OF
me Change and looked forward 70 the coming or
tFe women with apprehension. Their expressions
Of gratitude and appreciation later proved n had
been q
were music bv Miss 3. a Riddle and Mss J. F.
Hard ard Rotations BY Henry Steigner. Followed
By refreshments