The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-09-21
ASSOCIATED WORK
OF THE CHARITIES
ANNUAL MEETING YESTERDAY AFTERNOON SHOWS
THAT THE WORK OF THE YEAR HAS BEEN Salts
FACTORY INFLUENTIAL ATTENDANCE - REPORTS
OF THE TREASURER AND MANAGER


The annual meeting OF the Associated Charities held yesterday
afternoon the directors OF the Bank of Hawaii Judge Doe
presiding and Mrs NJ Whitney acting as secretary There
large attendance among those present being Governor Carter Bishop
Restarck Rev. Rather James Judge Whitney Rev. Father Ulch,
Clarence Cooke Captain Bray Johann Eckhar H. Rev.
AeX Macintosh and Rev. Dorcmus Scudder
The easuer report showed receipts for the year ending June &c.
amounting 5+7o and disbursements OF 353o5 leaving
balance SOLOS,
Mrs Whitney made interesting report concerning her attendance
the National Conference OF Charities and Correction held the
Portland Exposition.
Mrs. Edith F. Berger manager OF the Associated Charities read
am glad to report decrease in the number of applications for
assistance the year both and the
Dire 70 the TACT that t iabor are not So exacn as o te lima Of
employment they have willing for smaller wage
II ere is more work in the local field for common aborers times will
continue be hard for this Many have left the country
man pucy than another will California work for
and send family friends Frequently however the
weaker left behind and here they be cared for
In the family the requests nearly all from womewidow
with children wives whose husbands disabled deserted wives
There have been these applications this representing
than hundred people Many these families all their
wants suppiedren food and cohngwhen the children young
the mothers The mother proper person
for the family SO, unless her earning capacity be above the
ordinary why send her out to work and get some incompetent person
IT. for her family? But where mothers be spared
Of the day competent able work. find them places
making them semndependen and increasing their self respect
If you think we have no poverty here just come with me on my
rounds and for yourselves No is danger of starvation We
see that these people have roof food and clothing but they very
there many children constantly applications
full and the Salvation Army Rescue Home intended do
spare and few assist easy place these children in
good private While Hawaiian people freely adopt children
have been adopted into good homes Yet the Portuguese who
ask frequently admission Orphanage
Army Home needs of Honolulu
for these little where they be comfortable and receive the
training that will fit them for useful life They far from recev
ling that An industry that could employ and children
above would be boon this
an industrial colony instead OF pauper colony.
But nearly escaped evil which of much
bic eewhee-the tramp Only "a single have applied the
office this year. against o. 70 previous years Among
little encouragement and the police department disciplined them
WELL that they CAD to leave the country and spared
army of tramp
one works passage port employment
liking he is advised work his passage back again If soldier
weary reach his transport sail with his company
advised to apply Camp Mckinley If Jack decides leave his ship
here there are the ean Institute and the Sailors Home TO get
him another any laborer plantation
hereand they from all the pantaons-why here
they destitute they are persuaded that plan
taon life is their wises These people way belong
and make their living this country And many of them
needing hospital treatment the Japanese
Chinese aboer but the white people of all natOna the Por
ugue the Porto cans and the Koreans Twenty-Five Koreans
have applied the Quen Hospital for treatment though they
Plantation aborers and the plantations supposed for their
sick.
Rans city and they trouble
than they Many have left the country San Francisco
reports six hundred Telegraph Hill They poor
The physicians find the difficulty in treating them there that we
had here remember well the visits that Dr. Alvarez
to the sick Porto Rcans with guide when they
e refuse to take the medicine prescribed The first grippe pain
made them think they posoned and dose of medicine
usually enough ghen whole neghborhood Now
co has them Needless to she does not thank for this emgra
ton
The donations this year large beginning with the Thanks
giving offerings from the schools At Christmas time looked rather
dark for the poor when the p o. and the American Relief Fund
nade fine donations and had most satisfactory Christmas Din
ns6ed iS O'uOs ana SHOES ne" ana o. good q"' were o'
The the helped with large sum after
their most successful M and japanese prince travelling to the States
thousand dollars the charities These with
usual donations have enabled the Associated Charities the
affiating societies for the poor.
Fifty people have made donations of clothing supply
nearly quaed the demand this year obliged to
buy quantities of material make the children preentabe
school The Missionary Cleaners always help in this and the Amer