Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28

the following report OF the work don,
during the year beginning October 26
1904, and ending October %, 1905.
FOR PERsoNs:-
Complaints and investigations. .............. "a
Without foundation NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2
chief of police and poor commissioner. D
Visits made in response to call. ............ 10
Employment found. ......... ................ A.
Food and clothing given to................. b
Children placed in state school. ............
Children and adults in Feeble Minded
nome. ..... ............ .................
Girls placed in Eau Claire Home. .
Drunken, cruel and vicious parents brought
On promise to reform, two drunken mothers
and four drunken fathers were allowed to
take their children back on trial. No. of
cnlluren. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IL
Girls brought to agents house by police and
poor commissioner OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Petitions by parents to take crippled chill
dren and place them in school for depen-
dents, because of their infirnity .......
Petition of two families of Assyrians to take
some of their children and send them to a
40 me-. they having too many. Rep
Young women taken to Poor House
Boys sent to Industrial school after four
years of experimental work by members
of the society and teachers in the public
SCHOOLS. .................. .............
Children brought to agent to be saved from
their parents either one or both being in-
competent to care for them. ............... Il
Complaints of a County Institution. ......... q
Immigrant families found out of doors with
two sick children. on Humboldt Ave-,
Feeble Minded people. wards Of the
society, and waiting for room in the
''Home" at Chippewa Falls. ............. q
Number of dependent children, now wards
of the humane society, and whose we'll
fare is being investigated ................. %
Two small children of well to do Polish
family, made to beg at back doors of
hotels and saloons. reprimanded and
MS5herS nf fo;oiiios Of
ing their nights away from home, leaving
children alone. Ten letters have been
written tnem. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
FOR ANIMALs:-
Complaints and investigations. ............. sc
Without foundation. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. q
Visits to stables reported to be secreting
sick and disabled horses. Observation-Disclosures.
Number of times Veterinary was called to
treat nOrSeS. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Lame and disabled horses being driven by
rag-pickers and milkmen in city and
Reasoned with, reprimanded and threat
ened with prosecution. ....................
Farmers bringing in stock to the slaughter
house in most horrible condition of suffer
ing. Ignorance the cause more than de-
sire tobe cruel. Observation-Disclosures. 10
Town of Holt continues to petition
the society to come to the relief of the
animals and family of Mr.. Swororap.
skies. His crimes consist in cutting
tongues out of his horses and of beating
other horses TO death, besides cruelty
beating and abusing the members OF
his own household.
This man was arrested and brought
into court at request of the society, and
the case adjourned for one month by
Justice Jones. When time for trial
came, none could be found to make a
complaint for fear of the consequences
The letters now in the hands of the
officers are evidence of the mans con-
tinued cruelty to his family and his
cows and horses.
In concluding this report, the mem.
bers of the society wish to extend their
sincere thanks for the financial and
moral support given them by our
citizens, whenever called upon. i.
For the clothing and bedding left
with us for those who are not yet on
the city's poor list.
To the press for its words of encour-
agement and inspiration.
We believe that the aggregate of
cruelty, proportionate to our popula-
ton, has decreased, as the number of
cases reported and investigated is but
little over one-half the number in 1899,
this change being due to the public
sentiment which the society has
created.
The work must go on. The need will
probably be perpetual, for the more
humane in our community must
educate the less humane, and the future
generations.
AS we cannot secure q sufficient
number of authorized agents ~ watch
our streets, we still ask that reports be
telephoned to the Office of the society,
St4 Second ST., of any case of cruelty
that comes to your knowledge.
The executive officer, Mrs. W. &.
Dickens, of the Wausau branch, re-
Ceives no salary nor other compensa-
ton, nor could she be prevailed upon
to do so. Her services have been
given voluntarily, counting no pub
licity, but with the sole aim of relieving
distress and righting wrongs.
When the society feels that it can
afford salaried man to act as agent,
then the present incumbent will gladly
return her commission to the governor
of the state.
The expense of carrying on the work
for the year just closed, was. .......S12 5O
Amount of money on hand...........S21 IS
Balance, ......So sc
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