The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-05
BIG CHARITIES
BUILDING IS
PLANNED
To Centralize Administra.
tive Work Of Local Phil
anthiOpic Organizations.

Plans are under way for the central
ization of the offices of all the chart
table and philanthropic organizations
in this city under one roof, the site and
building to be owned by a c~orpartion
to be known as the United Charities
Organization. In a few days the heads
of the several organizations interested
in this plan will meet for the purpose of
discussing the affair and formulating
plans.
With this end in view A. w. Nc
Dougall, secretary of the Bureau of As
ISOLATED Charities. has written the head
of each organization. who, up to this
time, has considered such a plan favor
ably, and it is believed that the matter
will be successfully arranged. The
prospectus sent out follows:
IL is proposed to purchase a site In the
city Of Newark and erect thereon a uild-
ing, TO be known as the United Charities
building. The site of this building Is to
be located as centrally as possible. The
main purpose is to afford convenient quar-
tiers or offices for the various charitable
and philanthropic organizations operating
in the city of Newark and other orgaii-
cations of similar character operating
throughout the State, but requiring head
quarters in Newark, but In order to meet
the COST OF maintaining Sucn n building
portions of It, in so far as necessary, may
be rented out for commercial and pro-
f~essional purposes.
The various organizations entering into
the project of erecting such a building
shall first agree by their representatives
to further the project along the following
lines:
Il. Said representative shall constitute a
joint committee of their organizations.
This committee shall meet, and. having
appointed the chairman, shall proceed to
investigate as to site, tentative plans and
estimates for such building. When this
committee shall be able to agree on site.
plans and approximate cost, 1t Will then
take up the question of ways and means
for the purchase Of said site and erection
Of such a building through the help of the
various organizations which Its members
represent.
be formed to be capitalized at an amount
sufficient to cover the cost of said site and
building. and that subscriptions to the
stock of such corporation be solicited by
the various organizations in their own in
being that the friends of each organiza-
ton, instead of making donations Of
money! shall invest In the stock of said
corporation and shall transfer their paid-up
shares to the respective organizations In
which they are Interested. When as many
as possible of such donations of stock have
been obtained, the balance of said capital
stock shall be offered to the public for
individual holdings, and the effort will be
made to sell it all, each organization using
its best endeavor for this purpose.
'3. In the event of such building being
erected as proposed the various organiza-
lions entering into this project are to
abandon the quarters which they have
theretofor occupied and will thereafter oc-
cupy offices in said building at a rental
of not less than the amount which they
have been accustomed to pay. the location
Of rooms to be adjusted according to their
fair rental value.
.sThe purpose of this project for a United
Charities Building in the city of Newark
is to centralize. in point OF locality, the
administrative work of the various char1t-
able and philanthropic organizations above
mentioned, the advantages OF which are
so apparent that they need not be enunfer-
ated here. A necessary feature OF such 9
building will be a common library OF
sociological books and reports. the nue.
Ions 81 which, 1t may be said. already
exists. and there must also be an as
sefi5fy or meeting room, where directors,
Committees and small conferences may
INJECT. 1t is believed that the advantages
tof such a building, when erected, Will NJ,
tract many societies as tenants who Will
not be, however. included among the pro-
nioters of the project. To the promoters
az the project there is offered the distinct
ndyantage of a virtual reduction Of their
rents. for while the various organizations
promoting this enterprise PROMISE 10 pay
thnir accustomed rent to the building. cor
n%oration. they will share in the dividends
On their stock to the amount of their
holdings. which may yield a balance over
and above the rent. or may at least cover
IL in whole or in part.