New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-01
STATE CHARITY REPORT.
To Be Submitted to the Legislature
To-Day.

Albany Fer. The annual report Of the State
Board OF Charities Tor lso viii be transmitted 70
the legislature and comprises IS printed pages. II
IS largely composed OF reports q the various chart
table institutions OF the State which are discussed
at great length. considerable Part CT the report
IS taken I'D with s. discussion C The routine bust
ness OF the board. its Organization, an account Of
the charitable legislation for 1914 al OF which is
now history.
The board asks Tor the following appropriations
from the legislature OF 1874:
Tor the secretary OF the board, FOR salary. $500
for suqeilntendent OF Inspection. s-s0 chief clerk
81 So9 clerk 14oo; statsticlan. = 10 enc stenogra
cicrS- ss-l. junior clerk. Ss9 for temporary help
49, lol eaNeA.is A2t-ss o. ~lle
Sheir oriciai duties. $50. Tor travelling EXPENSES
in the discharge Of their ofols duties. 81 5O5
E06; Ion postage etc s. 2oj: New-go5k ofilce-F or
superintendent A.5o1 one insI CctOT, 81 so, two in
pher. $40 Rochester oface-For one Inspector.
S2e one lnspe cor So: stenographer sou STATE
500; Tor tle deputy supc-iIJenoen ln NeE-EOrk
lions s. 90. Inspector $3.50. Tor Inspector Nsl:
1or tra5sler agent hiags $oanty Almshouse $ ce
for Clerk and stenographer $50. FOR stenoSrapher
sne1iutegdent ana inspectors s. SEQ: Tor incidental
oilce e2peSses ssNi for maintenanco. transPOrJs-
Indian poor, S26.ooo
The report continues:
The board respectfully renev-s its request 90 the
seelslatufe ioT ne APPROPRIATION Of $3.50 70 pay
TIC salary ano meet the expenses or IN additional
Inspector. Sbnse sole duty shall be g. vlst children
pace ost On family homes q this state. Chapter
- OF The laws u 1854 which Is intended TO pre-
vent abuses In the placing oUt e children i'm
lack OF sufficient inspectors. the beard Is able 90
perform this service n srnal part ouly. Realizing
children placed IN faT E5lez &c a ~ "a &c &c
nires &c cover this hel0 IN better manner, and
hopes that the legislature viii grant this request
Mneen ~ ~ considered that about TWO thousand
a. IA frrul q
year. and that many OF them have practically no
subseouent oversisit. a. Will be seen that the re-
speosor VII not be able 70 cover the field com
force that can be eNerted ~ having an inspector
devote az OF ms time 10 this service viii be pro-
The State Board OF Charities desires also 10 re-
20 pay the salary ano meet the expenses OF in
epectOr 10 examine the ed uca liouai work OF the
is required visit and inspect. ~ section s Of
the statc Charities law Il is made the duty OF
and nlantenanoe OF suoh Industrial educstionai and
moral training IN institutions having the care OF
children as Is best Buited 10 the needs OF the IN
mates Section II Of the same act. requires the
representative of ths board when visiting an in
educational and moral training. Y any. and whether
She same are best ADAPTED 20 the needs of Us IN
mates The importance ana magnitude of this
work may be conprehended when & IS understood
cfilerer IN orphan ssyiums and other homes sub
49, % t.e U1eIos Nlsl.atson, OF "hom more Than
relation 70 their scholastic an6 Industrial training
children by reason OF their hereditg and previous
environment require such examination much more
thar a Is required hy any equal number OF children
living IN their own homes.
TIE number ana classification OF beneaciaries sn
institutions subject 70 the visitation ana inspection
of the board on October ! 1906. follow: Aged ard
frienoless persons, 2Soz alushouse institution IN
mates texclusive % those classified boiop) i sS7;
blind IN uimshouses -. blind IN other Institutions
Soc ceas n almshcUses i0: deaf In other institu-
TORS. LIS. dependent children (excusive Of those
committed for delinquency, included with Juvenile
ofenders), Z.ols; incian children at Thomas Asy-
Jun. Ia: disabled soldiers and sailors ans; cpl
critics IN alrshouses. ~; epileprics craig colony
Isl; hospital patents. 7s. idioic and fesble-rnded
y alnshoUses, la4o; ici0tic and fveble-rin6ei fn
State Institutions, l.6a2. 5uve-ie Offenders, 4sZ7
reiorn3tory innate, women and girsl $50: total