Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-16
CHILnREN'SG GUARDIANS
MONTHLY MEETING OF BOARD
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
Report of John W. Douglass, the
Agent, for the Month OF
February.

of children's guardians was held at the
Office of the board, 472 Louisiana avenue,
Saturday afternoon at 4:15 o. clock. Ihere
were present the president, J. B. T. Upper;
the vice president, John F. Cook; the secre-
tary, B. Pickman Mann; Mr.. Thomas e.
Sewell, Mr.. William J. Miller, Rev. Louis
Stern Mrs. j. w. Babson and Miss Mary
E. Moore, members, and Agent John Wes-
ley Douglass. Miss Moore was present for
the first time she having been appointed to
succeed Mrs Charles Moore, who is now
about to leave the city permanently Miss
Moore was assigned to the committees that
Mrs. Moore had served upon.
After the reports of the various commit
tees the report of the agent for February
was read and considered. This was, in part,
as follows:
1.-The Office has had under investigation
cases involving Jog children. Twenty eight
We're made permanent wards. OF these
nineteen are colored and nine white. The
reasons for commitment were as follows:
Seven were held to be incorrigible fifteen
destitute of suitable home, four children OF
unfit parents and two abandoned. The
twenty-eight made permanent wards are d.
vided evenly as to sex-fourteen males and
fourteen females. Petitions for the COM
mitment of twenty-five out of the twenty
eight originated in this Office. OF these
four were placed at the Industrial Home
School, nine in boarding homes, one at St
Vincent's Orphan Asylum, eight at the
Childrens Temporary Home, one at the
Hart Farm School, four al the Bruen Home
and one at board, from which he absconded
and later found and allowed to remain
with the parent.
1.-The names of seventeen children-ten
white and seven colored-were added to the
temporary rolls. OF these five were taken
under temporary care without order of the
court and twelve by order of the court
80 I,,xl, rioT
Home School, five sent out of the city, four
placed in boarding homes two at the Bruen
Home, two at the Childrens Temporary
Home and two returned to relatives in the
city. OF these seventeen one was subse-
quently permanently committed and four
remained on expense at the close of the
month.
Distribution of Wards.
1.-The whole number of temporary wards
al the close of the month was nineteen.
The whole number of permanent wards was
9s4, and the distribution was as follows:
''White-Industrial Home School, 10; Junior
Republic II; ST. Joseph's Male Orphan Asy-
lum, 3; House of the Good Shepherd, 2;
St. Vinoent's Female Orphan Asylum, 1 st.
Roses Industrial School, 3; House of
Mercy 1; in boarding homes, 80; total
white on expense. 81. Hospitals, 9: on
trial with relatives or friends. 90; on trial
for adoption, 5; on trial for indenture, 80;
on indenture, So; apprenticed, 81; abscond-
ers 10; total 30. Net total whites 3lS.
"Colored-Children's Temporary Home 60;
Hart Farm School, 20; House of the Good
Shepherd, Baltimore, g. in boarding homes,
1C5; total colored on expense 1913. Hospitals,
s. Scotia Seminary. l; Maryland School for
Colored Blind and Deaf, l; on trial with
relatives or friends, 164; on trial for adop
ton, Z; on trial for indenture, 81; on in
denture, 131; apprenticed. 2S; absconders,
A: total. AS. Net total, colored, 63S Total
white and colored. 9S4.
THE whole number of children at the in
stitution for the feeble minded at Elwyn
was 80; at Falls Church. 30.
The physicians report accompanying this
shows fifty-one children on the sick list and
a total of $50 professional visits made.
There were no serious illnesses and but one
death. that of a white boy at the Bruen
Home of measles.
Summary of Work.
Summary of the placement work-Total
number of free home placements, SO; trans
ferred from one free home to another 5; re-
turned from free homes, 8: absconded from
free homes, .; total, II: net gain in free
homes. "a. Transferred from expense to
non-expense, 80; transferred from non-ex-
pense to expense, 6; net gain from expense
to non-eXpenSe. "a.
Probation work for the mOnth-Under
active supervision from last report, 1871
probation term ended during February, IS;
sent to reform school, 2; fines paid, 1; per-
manently committed to the board 5; total,
%; under active supervision from other
months. III; received during the month, 81;
placed with relatives and friends, 81
gained during the month, 81; under active
supervision on February 2S, 14S: cases in
vestigated by probation officer, 49, visits to
wards, 40; reports to office by wards, 1893.
Financial Exhibit.
'February-Expended for administration,
$685. expended for maintenance, 81
10 20; expended for Hart Farm School,
$291. % Total s., 1863.
THE condition Of the various funds of the
appropriation at the close of business Feb
ruary % is as follows:
Observation-Disclosures to February /
as per last report, S1SG 70; expended dur
ing February, S2.7T9.2o; total expenditures,
$21 4iG.32; balance available, $l3, 253 SO.
Total appropriation, S34 100
Observation-Disclosures to February
l. as per last report, 81, 733. g.; expended
during February, S66.27; total expenditures,
50, 399. 50; balance available, $3.200.11. Total
appropriation, $500.
Hart Farm School-Expended to Febru-
airy /, per last report, $1,276.07; expend-
ed during February, $291.02; total expendi-
lures 81 ,567 90; balance available, $40, 432. o.
Total appropriation. $4,000
LAS will be observed, there Is safe
margin in each fund for~the remaining four
months"