New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-21
sECRETARY's REPORT.

sECRETARYs REPORT.
The annual report OF the T. s. S. secretary was
IN part as follows:
with the ever increasing interest in the T. S. S.
Il is always difficult to give even an approx
mate idea Of the amount Of god cheer accom-
plished through the general office or by It's nu-
nerous branches while the individual work OF
members is beyond all record. In general
way, the various forms Of special sunshine tnat
have passed through the main oftlce during the
last year in response to imperative needs may be
briefly summarized follows: Aid was given 10
a struggling woman in New Hampshire to help
pay her mortgage; to two women dying with
cancer; TO provide comforts for a cOnsumpttve
working girl in Manhattan; to help pay the fu-
neral expenses Of two members in New York and
Virginia; for wheel chairs for invalids in three
states; for a rolling chair for paralyZed boy;
to blind girl in Alabama; to a crippled girl in
Tennessee; to the Rosary Hill Home for the
Cancerous Poor, in Hawthorne. n. Y; for life
insurance for woman in hospital: clothing
and reading matter We're sent to the Chrysue
Street Home for Hayward Boys; baby car
riages and gocartS for poor mothers; hammockS
for semi-invalids; boxes of clothing to farmers
wives and poor ministers families in isolated
places in several states and to inmates of homes
for incura bles; delicacies for the sick poor; two
scholarships were secured for little girls in
blind school at Oorfa, in Turkey, Asia. Sunshine
flowers were distributed to missions hospitals
settlement houses and inValids, and birthdays of
shut-ins were made CHEEKY by numberless
greetings.
Large contributions Of warm clothing were
sent to the medical mission of DR.. Grenfeu in
Labrador and a liberal Christmas box for the
fishermen's children of that cold country was
also forwarded from the general Office. Pc
cuniary aid has been given to industrial insti-
tute in the South; money raised for the MAIN
tenance Of a crippled girl in the Darrach Home;
Tor widow with incipient consumption; for a
solder who had lost all his effects by fire and
for gentlewoman with invalid husband.
While all these special needs. including others
not recorded here, have received attention from
the ONCE. unnumbered minor wants have been
supplied daily from the generous contributions
of our members. The Thanksgiving Christmas
Easter cheer Oh dar7t han
during the last year. Many homes destitute
through poverty and illness We're made CHEEKY,
and the most needy invalid members in different
parts OF the country received a substantial ray
OF sunshine on these holidays
SUNSHINE LIBRARIES
Five travelling Sunshine libraries have been
forwarded to the State Library Association of
Colorado for distribution in isolated places: a
permanent library has been esta blished at Har-
pers Ferry: w Va; one at Annsville N. Y;
sent to the T. S. S Libraries of the Palmetto
branch in Florida and the Clark's Falls (Conn1
branch The Sunshine library in Chelan Wash
nad the honor of receiving from Mrs. Theodore
nooseVelt tWenty-seVen bound books. The
amount of reading matter. religious and secu-
lar' mat goes regularly TO mission schools,
inountalneerS' ranchmen lumbermen, seamen,
lighthouse keepers, homes in isolated places ali
over the East, West and South, 1t is not posi-
bic to compute nor is any form Of the work
more permanently helpful in it's refining and
educating influence than this passing on of
nTst class reading matter to those who de-
for themselves.
OUTING PARTIES.
The chief work done during the summer was
the trolley and outing parties given for neglected
children. white and colored; for poor mothers
and sick babies for the children Of the Temp
klns Square Industrial School and for the Mott
street Italian Industrial School of the Children's
Ala Society, and special Sunshine drives for
shut-ins' in Illinois, North Carolina and New
York. Four hundred and ninety dollars was re-
ceiwed and expended In this form of cheer
The largest number of branches was organized
curing the year in the State OF New York but
MaysviHe. n. c.. with its six hundred members
was the banner branch in numbers. Associate
branches including the Y. NJ. c. A., Kings
daughters, Christian Endeavor. Sunday school
classes and guilds in many states are affiliated
with the T. S. S. work
While the city branches must necessarily carry
on tneir sunshine work in an organized way, the
neighborhood cheer OF the smaller paces-the
numerous little acts OF kindness that go
chronicled on printed page in verbal report
are no small part of the sum total of good cheer
that radiates and brightens the world through
the efforts Of 7. S. S. members