New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-07
GOOD PROGRESS IN CHARITIES.
Report of Central Council of Charity Or
ganization Society.

The annual report Of the central council OF me
Charity Organization Society. which has Just ap-
reared shows. in all departments OF the charitable
work carried on In this city year OF satisfactory
progress This Is true both OF public and private
forms of relief
In the municipal departments. including the Tene-
ment House Department the Health Department
and tho Department OF Charities. the committee
reports exceptionally favorable conditions The
efficient work OF these departments. aided BY those
other city departments which are brought more
directly IN contact with the problems OF poverty
has Hghtened tho usual labors OF private charities
and given them opportunities TO branch out into
new fields. To these departments are credited
reduced death rate sanitary tenement. and espe-
cially. the building planning OF several new
hospitals Children's courts. Fairgrounds and new
parks also pointed out
The founding Of Greenwich House under the au-
spices Of the Cooperative Social settlement So
ciety the opening OF a building by the East
Side House the separation OF the West Side branch
from the University settlement Society under the
name OF Richmond IIilI Housc. the separate incor-
poration OF Hartley House. formerly conducted by
the Newly ork Association for Improving the Con-
dition of the Poor. and tho formation OF the Social
serve social centres in the tenement house dis
the e are Of aoea saf rsPsi Things
The creation OF the Burke foundation for CON
valescent hospital is mentioned as a subject OF
labor laws. passed in the lnst year. rounds out
and completes the laws relating 70 this subject and
rank Of progressive States
"One new move of exceptional Importance, says
the report has been instituted hy the charity
Organization Society in the year just closed That
is the measure being taken for the prevention or
tuberculosis. The only great difficulty met this
last year by the society that of supplying
fuel for the needy during the coal famine of last
winter, ms. however, was accomplished throash
special arrangements with the coal companies.
There have come TO the society" says the COM
mittee. from the Department OF correction "a
large number OF cases In which investigation ana
personal assistance in finding employment would
Justify discharge of persons committed on
various charges to the Workhouse. Three hundred
and seventy-fve applications FOR discharge have
thus been referred. and hfty-one recommendations
for DISCHARGE made There have been Sli arrests
OF mcnd'ants by the special squad detailed 10
work under the soCety's direction. This is ex-
Ceptionally large number. and It's significance Is
increased by the fact that adequate sentences We're
uniformly imposed and that they were served IN
fun, greatly to the establishment of some Offenders
who on previous convictions had been schargSu
under a more lax system at the request OF frlenus
with pull
There has been also Increase over FORMER
years in the number of Copsumptives coming lnto
the Societys care, In the number OF deserted taII-
lies, and in the number Of widows with small chill
dren This Is attributed to an increase OF conn
dence in the society rather than of the number OF
such cases