Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-27
PROPOSE HOME
FOR ClTY'S POOR
Largely Attended Meeting
Held This Afternoon at
Commercial Club.
STARTLING. FIGURES PRESENTED

What is Albuquerque going to do
with its INDECENT sick? This is a ques-
ton which has greeted the city every
winter for many years in the past and
which faces it now IN a most startling
light.
Thu sisters hospital is filled with
free patients, the N~on-Sectarian Bene-
VIOLENT society have more poor than
they can well take care of with their
limited means and yet many beggars
walk the streets. The city is overrun
with them, and the problem of caring
for them is a grave one. So grave has
1t become that the different benevo-
lent societies have appealed to the
city for help, and a meeting was held
at the Commercial Club this afternoon
10 organize some plan to provide this
help.
II was the largest meeting of the
kind ever held in the city and the in
terest displayed is very f~lattering to
the many philanthropic aides and gen
tlemen present. After listening to
short addresses by e. S. Slower. Mes
tor Montoya, DR.. Kaplan and several
others. Mrs. Geo. l.. Brooks was elect
ed chairman of the temporary organ
%ization, and after further discussion,
d. A. Macpherson was selected secre-
.tary.
Albuquerque Has Many Poor
E. S. Slower represented the Sisters
hospital and read a tabulated report
on the charity the sisters have accom-
plished both during the past three
years and the time since July l, of the
present year. These figures were
startling. and reflect wildly the good
work being done at this institution,
and furnish some idea of the greatness
of the problem which the city must
cope with. These poor must be cared
for.
During the past three years the
Sisters cared for 600 INDECENT sick at
a cost OF approximately $23 600. Since
July 1 the hospital has held 235 pa
tients. OF these 1870 were pay patients
and 1916 were free. The cost of caring
for n patient is slips a day, and the
cost of caring for the free patients at
the hospital since July l, it viii be
noticed, amounts to more than $4,000.
II was also stated hat the hospital
carried an Indebtedness of over $45,-
600, with an nnual interest amount
ing to over $1,000. The appropriation
VI lnC ttllllOlg W NlIt CoPlto 20
81, 200.
Mrs. II. b. Ray represented the Non
S~ectarian Benevolent society at the
meeting. Mrs. Ray said that the So
ciety was furnishing shelter fuel and
food for twenty poor people and that
they received many calls for help that
they were unable to meet. The $40
e month furnished the society by
IL a.. urD~ mi - NOV rnIInn
The society had made a little money
each year near Thanksgiving day by
giving a dance. and this had helped TO
tide them over the winter. They were
very sorry that the Sisters had hit up
on this ptan this, year, but she thought
that maybe both societies could give
one ball and divide the proceeds.
Move to Provide Home for Poor.
Rabbi Kaplan, of the Jewish syna-
gogue, spoke at length upon the need
of a permanent relief from the pres
ent %depiorable situation. Rev kaplan
said that the plan talked of would pro-
vide only temporary relief. A home
for the poor is what is needed. Mr..
Kaplan told of a plan suggested by
Maynard Gunsul whereby a place
could be provided for the wandering
poor; a place where they could get a
meal and a bed by doing a little work,
saving wood or by some other means.
Funds for the support of this would be
furnished by the people OF the city by
annual subscription, in annual OF
monthly payments, and h subscrlD-
ers would be supplied with tickets,
which they could give 10 a needy per
son who needed q meal and the meal
would be supplied at the home II the
person was really needy. II was a
drunkard that begged for money, the
ticket would not be given. That was
the plan for caring for the wandering
poor. but the caring of the helpless
poor and the INDECENT sick would be
provided for by another branch of this
organization.
Tie plan of a home met with the
approval of the meeting, and great en-
thusiasm was displayed when Mrs.
Raw arose and announced that the
Non-Sectarian Benevolent society
held a bequest of 5 1,700 which they
could use for just such a purpose, and
none other. 1t was left with the so
ciety for a home for the poor.
The plan partially adopted by the
meeting and which will most likely be
put into effect, is an association OF
charities very similar TO those OF neal
ly every large city. II will be compos-
of three departments, each TO re-
ceive its support from a general fund
contributed by the able people or the
city and distributed by a board of d.
rectors. It will be a charity organlza-
ton conducted on business principles.
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