New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-17
GIFTS FOR THE POOR.
S57, 900 AND Il FARM.
Announcements Made at Il. [. &. p.
Annual Meeting.

Requests amounting to $4,000 and the gift
Of q farm of 800 acres, well stocked and other
rise equipped. were announced at the annual
meeting of the Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor. held in the Charities
RuiIding yesterday afternoon. The greater part
Of the bequests-S47 ,500-vas' left by Mrs.
BOSNIA l. Jervfs whose husband was one of the
early workers IN the society. The name of the
donor of the farm is withheld for the present.
and the association has not decided yet that it
viii accept the gift, owing to the uncertainty Of
finding funds for its maintenance. The farm is
TOO far from the city for fresh air work. but is
said 10 be ideal site for a tuberculosis
forum or convaIescent home. Other gifts have
also been received by the association, which is
not yet in r position to make them public
The association spent considerable amount
Of time at the annual meeting talking about
MIX and schools. 1t appears that there are
only about fourteen milk inspectors to 10000
dealers, and from the experience of the associa-
tons own inspector last summer it was esti-
mated that $4,000 bottles Of milk that ought to
have been destroyed sold to the public
every day. A committee was accordingly ap-
pointed TO wait on the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment and urge the appropriation of
additional funds for milk inspection
A resolution was passed indorsing the efforts
OF various civic organizations to secure an IN
crease Of evening schools and lectures recrea-
ti0n centres, vacation schools and Fairgrounds.
u
William H Alters. general agent of the society,
called attention TO the fact that the Board of
pr1ation Of 100000 for this department. and
at the same time the city superintendent had
stated publicly that there was no demand for
additional evening schools.
100000 OUT OF SCHOOL.
%Tns trouble is.' said DR.. Allen. that the
Beard OF Education doesn't know what the de-
G&nd Is nor even what is being done to meet
a. and under its present method of tabulating
9Sz statistics there is no way that it or any one
Gse can find out By dint Of two days of hard
labor and much hunting through reports and
other documents, / have discovered some things
Ebst the board itself probably doesn't know, and
Chat the public has idea of.
I'VE suppose that with our increasing popula-
PFon the school activities under consideration
are on the increase; but that is not The
sorISs centres have been at standStill for three
years. There were seventy-nine in 1908. There
eighty-two now. With the recreation CEN
tres it is the same, while the vacation schools
have decreased from 12S IN 1903 TO a in 1905.
and the Fairgrounds from 12S in 1903 to Il in
1906,
tThe statistics Of the board are not only scat
tsred and unavailable but they do not give any
IDEA Of the real needs Of the situation The
reports for the present year show 19SOO truants
returned to school and $500 non-attendants.
Now. there is way Of knowing how many
children out of school who ought to be IN.
but those who know anything about the matter
know that It must be more than this. should
ssy II was nearer one hundred thousand. The
number OF employed children returned to school
Is given as lab, but after the Investigations OF
the child labor committee It is hard TO believe
that there ara nob many mora who ought to
have been returned to school.
For couple Of years the association has
been trying TO secure a better method of collect
Ing and tabulating statistics at the Board Of
Education and until get 1t there will not
be much hope Of Improvement People can't be
expected TO be enthusiastic over things they
know nothing about
The association reelected the following Of
dcers: President r. Fulton Cutting; vice-presi-
dents John Seeley Ward, jr, Howard Town
send. William G. Hamilton and Theodorus B.
Woolsey: secretary Leonard z. Opdycke; treas
urer Robert Shaw Minturn; general agent,
William H Allen, and counsel, John Cadwal-
ader.
The expenditure of the year was $222.o00 and
the receipts $685., 600 Relief was given to 10000
psrsons and as many more were aided in the
tresh air department