Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-24

oaifoi "a hho
yesterday in the headquarters of the
Columbus Club. S7s-Sso Broad street. OF
the New Jersey Chapter, Knights OF
Columbus. 1t was the largest and most
representative annual meeting that has
ever been held by the knights. The
reading of the reports of officers was
listened to with interest and there were
interesting discussions.
Following were the reports of of
ficers:
The report of the hospital bed COM
mittee, submitted by Chairman Paul V.
Flynn. showed hat from January 8 to
December 4, 1909, twenty-seven patients
received hospital treatment, and for
the expenses of twenty-five warrants
aggregating the sum of s614 have been
certified and paid out of the treas
ury. OF the five other patients. four
paid their own expenses and for the
fifth st. Miehael's Hospital would make
no charge. Were the expenses of the
five patients met by the cha pier the
sun of $614 would be increased to $685..
In three cases patients have made do
nations to the bed fund of s25. $2s and
$4S.
Two Patients Died.
1.-TWO patients died in the hospital"
reported Mr.. Flynn; lone, a member of
Bayley Council, in the Alexian Broth
ers' Hospital, Elizabeth, and the other,
a member of Belleville Council, in St.
James's Hospital. OF the twenty-seven
patients, eight were treated in the
Alexian Brothers Hospital, Elizabeth;
ten in st. Michael's Hospital, Newark;
four in st. James's Hospital, Newark;
one in the Newark Eye and Ear In
Urinary; one IN St. Elizabeth's Hos
pital, Elizabeth; one in the Muhlenberg
Hospital, Plainfield, and one in the
LOOMS Sanitoriurn, e Liberty, New
York State. The last case was sup
posed to be incurable consumption, and
the physician attending the brother
suggested that a last hope of prolong-
ing life was to send him to the noun
tains. The policy of some chapters be-
yond the confines of New Jersey is not
to are for supposed i%ncurables, but
the hospital committee of New Jersey
Chapter No. /, in the wisdom of It's
members, unanimously decided to de-
fray the expenses of that brother. in
spired by fraternal love and the spirit
of humanity.
IdtltIlt tnttIto tie SdhltdiluiIl "
ruary 10, 1909, and in a comparatively
short period he was discharged; If not
a perfectly healthy man, he was SO
much improved Is to be able to again
resume his usual avocation, and he Is
alive today calling down benedictions
upon the order of the knights of Co
lumbus. If in this case your commit
tee violated any rule, at a financial
cost of $74, we have no regrets to ex-
press, but rather have we reason to re-
joice that we exercised our best judg-
ment in the emergency and thus saved
a human life.
There were four brothers cared for
by the hospital bed commit who
were members Of councils not affllia-
ted with this chapter. One was a MEM
Der of Bedford Council. Brooklyn; one
a member of Lafayette Council, Dover;
one a member of Trenton Council. Tren-
ton, and one who had a travelling card
from Lynch Council. Charleston, S. G..
Division of Expenses.
"Of the patients for whom the chapter
paid expenses, Bayley Council had
eight, Lafayette Council 1, Kearny
Council six, Newark Council 1, Star of
DetHieIem COuIiCil q anu WdtSilui6
Council l.
THE facts herein presented speak
more eloquently than words for the
spirit and genius of our order. 1t is
the glory of the Catholic church that
she cares for the afflicted. What the
unfortunates receive in charity through
societies affiliated with parishes Is pre-
e%minently p~raiseworthy. The New Jer-
sey Chapter No. /, through the opera
tons of it's hospital bed committee,
however, does not bestow charity. Ours
is fraternal duty. 1t is the right of
every member of the order who re-
quires hospital treatment, and who Is
connected with any council represented
i'm this chapter to receive 1t, n it is
our duty to fully recognize that right
and thus we have ever done in an
transformations through our
hospital bed committee during the past
five years. Nor have we yer failed
to recognize the fraternal claims of IL
brother, who is not a member of a
council within the jurisdiction of the
chapter. We have known no geographi-
cal lines. Not in a single case has the
name of one of u sixty-six patients,
who nave been treated during the past
five years, been revealed-even at chap
ter meetings. What a the chapter
accomplished? p it may be asked. Tit
work alone of the hospital bed COM
mittee is a sufficient answer"
Mr.. Flynn's report to the labor
bureau as secretary was presented t
the chapter, and the recommendation
were concurred in as follows:
During the past eleven months, from
March /, 1909, to January 20, 1910, posi-
tons have been secured through tbs
labor bureau for twenty-five brothers
There were fifty-nine applications, Sc
that thirty-four failed to secure work
The secretary had positions for struc'
tural engineers, three b~ookkeepers ant
four clerks which he could not fill. Th'
salaries ranged from s12 to $14 a week
and If all continued in their positions
the gross earnings would exceed $14,,
600. Still the results obtained are 40
regarded as satisfactory by your secre'
tary, and In making his monthly re
port last October he suggested. because
of lack of hearty cooperation in certain
quarters, he might feel constrained t.
recommend that the labor bureau
should be abolished, as. in his opinion
the results we're not commensurate
with the expense of maintaining it, ant
now I heartily recommend that TIN
Office of paid secretary be abolished a
the close of the incumbent's term, Feb
ruary 2s. 1910, Indeed, your secretar,