New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-07
CHARITY WORK IN STATE.
1enaal Report Of lid Association
Shoes Grosciag Usefulness.

.,;-,v-t,lird annual meeting OF the State
tiles Ala Association was held in the United
-t-i,ies Building, yesterday afternoon. The vari-
- .o,7r-ff.ess and agencies for the care of de-
0o 5s,,+ children made reports showing that I29O
p.,5-s-, were IN families under the supervision Of
.,sociation on October last. It was said that
:. .r.se children were supported in institutions
~ would cost the public about $4,000 year.
77,a number OF situations provided for homeless
.o+re-s with babies last year SEQ. an aver
= .ost <or each mother and baby of s. 2
c.orre e Garfield. president of the association,
=. his report as chairman OF the Committee on the
Trszne. said that there was decrease in the num-
- ~ new cases this year. compared with last
- and that the increase in the number OF the
ororoitted insane. during the year. was less than
=, o7,. year since 1890 the total number being 547
= ,or,Dsred with q27 last year and average Of
Ks wear for the preceding ten years.
r,a total number OF committed Insane IN State
.osnitsis and private asylums. October 1.
ygs Of whom all except eS5 were in State hos
pials.
,r in size and in usefulness. The New-York State
T{ning School for Girls, established by the legis
lsron obtained by the association two years ago,
,5 Installed in the buildings formerly occupied by
he House OF Refuge for Women at Hudson. is
now almost filled with young girls. who are
csivf7r an excellent mental moral and manual
training
ford and Albion are being increased in size by the
addition Of two cottages apiece. each providing for
4hfrrv girls. Five additional cottages allowed
last year IN addition 10 the sixteen provided for
fNe year before IN connection with the Rochester
state Industrial School for Boys. and considerable
progress has been made in the construction Of
buildings at The new site for this institution, and
sIso in the selection of site for the State
Agricultural and Industrial School. which will in
tine take the boys sent to the House Of Ref
,Ire on RandslIs Island.
The legislature of last year made provision for
increased accommodations At the institutions for
he feeble minded and epileptic- The Craig Colony
for Epileprics was allowed new building for two
hundred inmates. the Newark State Custodisl Asy
Inn for Women two cottages, each for sixty IN
mates and the Rome State Custodial Asylum
dorrni1ory building for hundred inmates, and
sufficient money TO purchase $50 acres of farm land
with standing buildings sufficient TO accommodate
about hundred men
The annual report of the treasurer. presented by
Charles s FairChild showed the total expenditures
of the year for all purposes 10 have been SIS rs S.
Of which S4 402 Is for the general purposes Of
the association s. 45 81 for the NeW-Gork City Wis
sting committee 5000 IS for the placing out and
sfpervsion Of dependent children in family homes,
HiS 81 for assisting and finding situations for
mothers with babies. and S254S 6S for the aSEocia
lions Of the work for foundlings and mother
less babies.
IS managers Of the association for three years:
Dr. Charles Hitchcock, Francis {. Huntington,
Morgan Mrs. Henry Oothout and Mrs. William B.