New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH
EfectiUc Labor for Children
Metkodists Work for MEMS Clubs.

The annual report Of President H. r. Jones
of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children made public few days ago, SHOWS
an advance in the work of the organization IN
the last year. There were 1,434 complaints in
vestigated, an increase Of % per cent Tor me me
year Concerned in these cases were Z5Vt.1
children. The society's officers MADE "I,3f :
calls a 30 per cent increase. In the rooms OF
the society 4.135 children found shelter @ IheIe ,
were 12.645 lodgings furnished and 3oo0o meals
distributed. an increase of H per cent Inc
children placed IN institutions by the SocleIg
NUM- bered J. 133. The society prosecuted 90
adults for offences against children. The cases
prosecuted were p per cent IN advance or last
year. and the combined sentences imposed were
"A per cent greater. President Jones was re-
elected at the annual meeting. He has been at
the head of the institution since it was founded.
in 1880, except in one year, when Chafles A.
Schieren occupied that position
Success has been met with in the movement
which was started last spring to organize a
permanent central body Of the delegates from
the various mems organizations of the Metho-
dist Episcopal churches in Brooklyn. There are
forty-eight churches of this denomination in the
borough. OF these forty-three have been COM
municated with by the committee which has
the work IN charge. All but three have ap-
pointed delegates to represent the mems clubs.
in all eighty-One delegates have been named
The preliminary meeting of the central BODY VIII
be- held early next month One feature of
church work which will be directly fostered by
the body will be the development of mems
Gated with twenty-five have no such organiza-
ton The motive viii be 10 unite the best
forces IN the community against gambling.
drinking. improper amusements and kindred
evils. The Mems League of the James Metho-
dist Episcopal Church began the work OF get
ting the men Of the churches together.
The Brooklyn Institute has a number of inter
esting musical entertainments scheduled for the
next few days. Next Thursday evening the
Arion Singing Society with 100 male and one
hundred female voices and five musicians VIII
give q choral concert at the Baptist Temple
The organization has Arthur Claassen as its
musical director. On Saturday evening there
viii be two programmes Josef Holman will
appear a soloist in the afternoon. and in the
Symphony Orchestra, led 10y Walter Damrosch
the same evening Shakespeare's Midsummer
Nights Dream Will be read by George Riddle
at Association Hall The reading will be ac-
companied with Mendelssohn's music given by
an orchestra and Women'S chorus and two
soprano solosts under the direction of Arthur
ClaasSen. On the evening of Wednesday. No
Nember p, Fritz Kreisler viii give a violin
cital at the Baptist Temple George Falken-
stein viii play the accompaniment on the piano
On the afternoon of the following Saturday, No
Vember 30, Mark Hamburg will give a piano
recital at Association Hall. Dwight L. Elmen-
DORIS first illustrated lectures at Association
Hall viii be delivered the afternoon and
evening of next Thursday. The Panama
Canal" IS the topic