The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-10

 almost as large a proportion as our fix ed income.
 In the same period our expenses have grown from $5,951 to $7S07, an increase of $1,876 in three years, or nearly 32 per cent In this time the increase in our stated income from the endowment has been anywhere from 99 to 40 per cent. While these results are very encourag ing in so far as they show slightly faster increase in our regular fixed in come, yet they clearly reveal that we are a long way from being independent of the charity and generous support of our friends and the New Haven public. IReferring now more particularly to what has been accomplished by these public donation days the results show that these public solicitations have been very successful and they have come from a very material part of the resources from which the years ex- penses are met. The statement of the Donation Day Comfittee and our treasurer's report show that the gentlemens committee secured $2,059; and including the amount received by the Ladies at the Home, the total raised on that day alone was $2,414, | This substantial sum being no less than thirty-one per cent. of the years | expenses. If we add to this the dona- ttons collected by our managers among churches the total thus raised will equal $S, 10000 or in other words from forty-three to forty-ftve per cent. of the expenses of the Home is each year derived from the voluntary con tributions of New Haven citizens. The income from our endowment fund, for the fiscal year just closed, will ap- proximate $770.Oo which is but a trife over thirty-five per cent. of the years expenses, which amount as explained above, owing to the growth of our work and needs, forms scarcely any larger proportion now than three years ago. Never, therefore, was the necessity for the publics generosity greater than to-day
 The necessity of establishing a regu- ! lar fund to maintain a House Mother i and Nurse at the Home has been sug- gested by Mrs. J. M. Greist and re- 1 presents a pressing need for the proper development of the Home for the Friendless work We ask the Mana gers and the public to bear this need in mind that they may assist to establish a fund whereby the income from said special fund may pay for the perma- nent services of a House Mother and Nurse at the Home, Appreciative as we are for the generous response of the public 10 the calls of Donation Day. we desire to impress upon the Managers and the public the fact that they, by their position regarding the charity of the Home for the Friend less, make it possible or impossible for the Board to continue the work.
 When we realize that in this rich, prosperous and free America a large proportion of its population are fight ing hand to hand fight with vice, want and crime; when we realize that here in our City of Films with it's fair exterior, not small but large contingent of it's population are suffering and friendless, 1t is not a small but large contingent of its population are suffering and friend- less, is it not a worthy philanthropy that which tries to alleviate its misery?
 We are deeply grateful to all who have aided this charity by thoueht word or deed. and we ask the public to ally itself even more in the future in the work of the great philanthropy of the Home for the Friandless.
 Respectfully submitted
 Grace Brown Salisbury,
 Secretary.
 December 4th, 1906.