The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-01-01
Report Shows
Great Accomplishments.
BEGGARS ELIMINATED
miZc 1lcndicacy.

IlIXc -EtEltiCtcN-
The Associated Charities has had
published for distribution a pamphlet
containing the report Of the Govern
ing Board of the organization and OF
Rev. r. S. Stephenson, the superIn-
tendent. in which is given a full sum-
mary of the work for the eleven
months from January 1st, 1906, TO De
ccnber lst, financially and with reIef-
ence to charities dom and assistance
afforded the needy and destitute OF
the city.
The governing board, composed OF
Messrs. r. II. Battle, y. A. Thompson
Leo. d. Heart, E. P. Moses. Fl. w.
Jackson, \. B. Broughton, W. j. An
dreWS, j. G. Brown, :. w. Whiting, j.
w. Bailey, +. A. ODDS and j. t. Puien,
expresses its thanks to the pupHc loi
a consistent support Afforded the OF
ganization. The aim Of the WORK -
stated to be discriminatory, IN tHdl,
while affording help to all needy per,
sons. cases of fraud are detected ana
thorough investigation is MADE o.
every case. The pubic IS ADVISED "
assist the society in putting an end 70
indiscriminate begging by sending beg
gars at the door to the rooms OF the
society, where their cases VIII be IN
vestigated, and by reporting for lnVes-
tigation any case in which the lndl-
Vidual may desire to 10 personal work;
During the eleven months reported
upon. there were added by subscrip-
tions to a balance in bank January l.,
1906, $2.412.85.
OF this sum on December 1st there
had been expended by way of salaries,
rent and expenses S656.I3, there a
been transferred from general TO saw
ing account for an emergency fund,
5000. and there was a balance in bank
of s515.86.
SO that there was actually expended
to the poor in money during the eleven
months the sum of $940.26, of which
$437.S7 was for wood n drayage,
$337.75 for groceries, and $1S.45 for
drugs .etc.
OF purse the balance remaining to
the association will be greatly cut down
during the winter months through pur-
chases of wood and the money expen-
diture is a very small part of the
work. which consists largely in visits
to the poor and the distribution of
necessities donated by charitably dis
posed persons, such as second hand
clothing, bedding, food supplies, etc.
In addition, and in line with its policy
of as small an expenditure of money
as possible while caring for the wants
Of those it is called upon to aid. the
association has found employment, sent
nCCQy persons out OI the Guy ~ IlollISS
where they will receive care, main
tanned a sewing room for ONE ETC.,
In their report the Governing Boar
makes a special call for thirty men
and women workers, who Will be will
ing to assist in the task of visiting the
poor and to aid in bringing 10 pass in
as many instances as possible the ideal
of the organization which is to help,
to the end of self-help and independ-
ence. The charity of the association is
so directed as to tend to remove the
necessity for charity.
Other needs expressed are for q new
building and for an assistant to the SUI
p~erintendent and for additional sew
ing rooms.
In the few years Of it's organization
the Associated Charities has done
what seemed impossible of achieve
ment short of cruelty-practically
abolished street and door-to-door beg
ging. In this one particular it has
been of the greatest benefit to the
city. It has drawn the claws of fraud
and in many instances compelled va
grant mendicants to &C to work.
The OF the work of the asso-
citation is so admirably and briefly set
forth in the report If superintendent
Stephenson that it is printed in full:
work Of Association DigcSted.
During the past yea the Associated
Charities has received at the office on
Hargett street about 2,416 calls for
help. Old and young are numbered
among the applicants for aid. Poverty
is no respecter Of ages. Ignorance, in
temperance, vice, sickness and disease
do not count the years; they prey
upon all alike. Our aim is to say
the children. to protect the mothers, to
punish the deserving and lazy husband,
to help the blind. crippled and aged,
to comfort the sick and those in dis
tress, to encourage and uplift them all.
Our aim is to be in a position to offer
work for every a~Dle-bOdied person ap-
plying to us for aid.
Time help has been extended. 1904
"Times applicants have been
refused Az
''Visits made by the ladies Of the
general committee, Superin-
tendents and Col. O1ds...... 1907
" ..ParsonI Observation-Disclosures. g 5
Homes found for helpless chill
Qron Is
Homes found for helpless grown
'Times secondhand clothing has
been taken from the office by
the ladies and superintendent. 1000
employment found for........ 81
Baskets Of food given to the
poor on Thanksgiving Day.. 300
The children of the graded schools
aided us very much in our Thanksgiv-
ing Offering, and the band of sun
sinners. under the leadership Of Colo
mel OldS, have been of great value to
the association, ever willing and ready
to go on errands of mercy and love.
THE sewing room, run in connec>
ton With our work by Miss Elizabet
Cheshire. is teaching the unskilled
woman to adapt herself to the eco
monte demands for labor in our midst.
In closing this report I want, as
superintendent. to pay a special tribute
Of thanks to the ladies of the general
committee. for by their services and
sacrifices have we been able to accom-
plish the past years work.
and [ wish to hank the good peo-
pie of Raleigh for their kind support
in this work, which was near to our
Masters heart"