Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-06-25
The Evolution Of the City Mission

| ever since. The United Workers ap-
point the city missionaries, and the ex-
| penses OF the City Mission department
are met from the common treasury.
The City Mission committee or the
\ United Workers have the advice Of an
associate committee of gentlemen.
Rev. Andrew ]. Hetrick and wife
] served very acceptably as missionaries
| for nine years, till October. 1907. They
| were succeeded by Arthur f. Corbin,
a graduate of the School of Philan-
| thropy in New York. and Miss Emily
S. Hamblen of Orange, n. J.. who had
| had experience along sociological lines
These new missionaries remained till
December, 1908. when they resigned to
take up important positions elsewhere.
Lewis A. iNickle of New London was
| engaged for while TO fill Mr.. Corbin's
place and remained till the appoint
ment Of the present city missionaries
| in March last.
The United Workers. City Mission
Department.
1t may be well to note the number
of individuals who passed the vote
| City Mission was more or less rellct-
antly acceded to by the United Work
ers and the two became one. There
were ten of them--all that were pres
ent at that last meeting. OF the ten
only five are now residents Of the city.
Two are clergymen and three are lay
men
These five resident members of the
old City Mission represented the good
will of the men who once belonged %
the mission and who contributed on
an average somewhat over $4,000 a
year towards this work. They rep
resented also the good will of those
who never belonged to the mission but
who did appreciate and approve the
work that had been done by it. Prob
ably, too, they stood for the men who
have been interested in what has been
done for the past ten yearsfby the City
Mission department of the United
Workers
The assurance thus given. construc-
lively, by the men of the city of their
hearty. cooperation and help was well
come then to the United Workers, and
it is recalled now lest it be forgotten
that the terms OF the marriage settle
ment place the men of Norwich under
perpetual obligation to the women of
Norwich to assist them in their phi
lanthropic work, especially as it con-
Germs that part of it formerly carried
on by their own City Mission. by the
Provident association and the City
Missionary society of earlier DAYS.
part the books show. While the City
Mission was branch Of the United
Workers the names of the contribu-
tors to the mission were printed in the
annual reports of the United Workers.
During the last five years of the sep
arate organization (1S95- 1897 the re-
ceipts of the City Mission from the
men averaged $4,000 a year aside from
the salaries Since the union the re-
reir1fC fTd11 that l1axro son ranIxy
averaged that amount although the
expanding work of the City Mission de-
paTtment calls for increased contribu-
lions. No regular collector nowadays
solicits subscriptions from individual
men and business firms. The books
are passed around among the men for
voluntary gifts. Everything received
on the books in the early summer, and
by the district visitors in the fall,
whether from men or women, goes into
the general treasury, unless otherwise
specified. to be used as need requires.
Only the United Workers feel bound
to continue to use the gifts of the men
for City Mission work. Those gifts,
years ago, when the men were organ
lied. were generally sufficient to pay
the entire expenses of the City Mission
branch. The salaries, too. were pro-
vided from outside sources.
During the five years from 1903 to
1907 Ceaving out the year 1908 as ex-
ceptional in some respects) the ex-
penses of the City Mission department
have been each year as follows: 1908,
S2,237; 1904, $2,459; 1905. S2.621: 1906.
1903: 1907. S3.926. Deducting salary
of 1000 for each year, the most of the
balance went for charities. During
those years the amount spent for char
tiles more than doubled natural in