The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-21
CALVARY HOME.
ANNUAL REPORT BY SUPERIN-
PENDENT BUTTERFIELD.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES tacts hcSarulnS
the Work Proyided-I5,OO0 Days
Work for Needy Men-NearIy $1,000
Meals Served Daring the Year-249
Religious Services HeId-7214 Posi-
lions secured for Members of the
Home.
Following is the superintendent am
nual report submitted to the board CT
directors of Calvary Industrial Home
january 10:
AS the years roll by, as men come and
go, as the wheel of life rolls on, as we.
come to see the many sides of this great
problem the more immense and unsolv-
able it seems. Many men of many
minds makes the solution still farther
in the future. After twelve years of al
most constant work and at least ten
years of personal contact with the un-
employed and unfortunate l am more
positively convinced than ever that we
are working along correct lines. Our
principles and purposes I believe to be
positively correct, however much we
may fail in the detail of working them
out. The only lasting remedy for the
ills OF life is found in the old, old gospel
of love and sacrifice. However much
we may deplore the conditions as we
find them, the fact of the conditions re-
main. However important preVentiyes
may be the cure must still be applied
so long as present conditions exist. So
long as men are selfish, foolish and sin
ful, just so long will our field be large,
and our mission still before us. Our
work Of the past year may have had its
discouragements and it's failures, yet
when the last records are read am
sure we will find that our work has not
been in vain. One has said that all new
ventures have a sort of enthusiasm
which acts as a selfimpetus that car
ries them along, which after few
years. dis appear and we are faced with
the problem of maintaining the interest
of our work in the minds and hearts Of
the people. Thissis true to large ex-
tent, vet the real impetus of all work
such as ours must not be enthusiasm,
hut faith and brotherly love reinforced
by our own sense of duty towards those
whom we seek to help. The past year
has presented no new phase of the pro-
blem, neither has it presented any new
method of procedure. We are where we
begun eleven years ago with an army
of unfortunate foolish and sinful men
around US, clamoring and striving for
the necessities of life and in hundreds
OF cases with an underlined longing to be
set free from the snares and sins of life.
We stand as ever for the redemption of
men, as well as the relieving of present
physical distress.
Hey. Edward NJ Poteat, seven years
ago said in his report: Another year
has added it's vindicationy of experience
to the principles and aims under which
our work has been conducted from the
beginning" So today we may reierate
that statement, with seven years of adj
ded experience. There has been no new
way discovered whereby men may be
permanently helped through the minis
tration Of a temporary home.
The home has provided 14,S20 days
work for men, in which they have been
able to earn a large share of the money
needed for their support The men as
whole have been faithful and consci-
entious iii performing the tasks as
signed them, the exception only prov
ing the rule. Many men have not been
able to produce much, but have put
forth an honest effort in the right di-
rection. Men discharged from hospit,
ais or sufficiently recovered from sick
ness to look for work, yet not possess
ing their full strength, together with
men who have devoted their entire life
To. clerical or professional work with
skilled mechanics, make up a large
class of the men helped Thus showing
a vast contrast to the class helped al
the inception of this work eleven years
ago, when there was a large army of la
boring men out Of employment. During
the first year of this work eighteen
hundred men awaited themselves of the
privilege of the home, remaining for ar
average period of six days.
While during the past year five hun.
dred men only have been helped, re
manning an average period of twenty
six days While this may not NEAR
much to the cauual observer it means
everything to the men helped. On gen
eral principles the longer a man re-
mains the better for the man. Expert
ence teaches us that the graduates Oh
the home who are doing the best to-day
are those who remained for Longer
\ time than the average man. On tht
other hand the less time man remains
the less it costs to maintain him. Dur
ing the past year the home has provl
ded 81 ,S74 meals and lodgings which
have been worked for by the recipient
The men have produced by their Labor
in round figures $500, a very creditabli
showing, considering the very small
nrofits to be derived from handling
wood; 249 religious services have beer
conducted in the home, with an attend
ance Of 9,467. About eight hundred
: garments have been distributed among
the men and 214 positions secured fol
members of the home, the same belns
fortv.five per cent of the men helped
besides many who secured positions
themselves of which we have no record
By far the most important part of oul
work is that which the public sees O.
hears little. The one distinct featurt
Of our work that separates it from al
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