New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
FEARS WORK NAY STOP
CRldrens Aid Society Tells OF
Financial Difficulties.

The Children's Aid Society yesterday MADE
statement OF a prospectsof financial difhculues
which il fears may make It restrict many OF us
important activities or else suspend tqem al'o-
gether.
Whatever cause We may assign as a reason for
the feeling Of distrust and uncertainty, which ap-
parently has affected the minds Of so many
member Of the organization said 1t IS sef-eVioent
that the great charitable organizations are aihOHs
the first to feel fits deadening effect ano as to
suit. al a period of the year when every enei
should be put forth to make effective the "orK
carefully organized il is found by reason OF pre-
vaiIing conditions that further efforts In the IN
terest Of those who make such strong DEMANDS
upon our sympathy must be slackened or deferred
until the financial prospect brightens-
The officers and teachers Of the Chlldrehs @tiu
Society. in its day and evening schools and also
in its lodging houses declare that keen distress
will result from any curtailment Of the work IN
these different branches The schools IN paruCu
lar are most important 10 the welfare OF 'ii0Se
who are extremely poor. The society ieels eSpe-
cisTy the need Of funds in a season so severe d.
the .iresent.
Al the Offices of the principals Of the industrial
schools stories OF suffering often told and IN
the last two months many incidents Of the saddesl
character have been narrated there-stories which
the principals although Of long experience, nave
seldom been called TO listen TO before.
From the youngest children in the kindergarten
Of which the society supports twenty TO those in
the highest grade of the primary department an
come from homes where pure air and sunlight
rarely enter and where the general conditions are
most depressing. IN addition, the supply of the
conmonest articles of nourishment is now being
divided in diminished quantities 1t Is also IeaTeo
that the usefulness of the evening schools ana me
special classes for truants and defective chlloTeh
NAV be imperilled. Both of these features OF the
soclety's work. important and yet so distinct
the officers think it would be a calamity 10 weaken
Its success, the society feels, in dealing with
truants and the Introduction of manual training, as
bearing their improvement, has been most
marked. and experience has proved the necessity
for greater efforts in these directions In me
evening classes for girls are found the shopglrls
and those who are confined all day in factories and
stores. those who receive low wages and have no
other resources for amusement These classes OF
fer to young girls between the ages Of fourteen
and twenty the enjoyment and intercourse which
they require. and must obtain someW here. The
evening schools and also the special classes are
sustained solely by individual contributions For
The truant and defective, well as for the evening
schools, teachers required who have received
2 special training and who possess natural qualih-
cations.
The entire enrolment in all the schools of the
society last year l5.Sl6
The society calls the attention Of the public 10
IT'S work and its present needs. The treasurer Is
A. p. Hepburn. Chase National Bank.