New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
BOROUGH GOSSIP
ChiIdren'S Society at Annual
Meetinu Reports Years Work.


The Chldren's Society, whose offices are
at No 105 Schermerhorn street, held Its
annual meeting the other day. According
to the report of its secretary, the organ
ization did a big amount of work In the
wear which ended with october 81. THESE
are some of the things that 1t accom-
pnshed: Investigated 9,6l7 complaints OF
cruelty. which involved the welloeing OF
81 go children: prosecuted l.46S cases for
offences against children. securing the I'M
position Of terms of Imprisonment agsre-
eating 376 years and months, and OF
fines aggregating $6.60S; cared for Sso' emil
6ren at its building. served $500 meas'
provided 1874 lodgings; had 1'4s' chiloren
placed in institutions, and 2s2 with famihes,
an6 was responsible for the collection oA
$40 eqS "a from parents whose children were
In institutions and for the payment OIL the
sum TO the city.
Bids were given out some time ago LOT
the building Of a big institutional cnurch
for the Bushwick- Central Methodist Epis-
ofnal Society. The new building, which 10
a. ba 14o feet front by 125 feet deep, is 10
he one OF the most complete structures ior
institutional work in the whole country'
About $4,000 is now on hand with "hich
20 begin the worh, Of which the peopio
=, The congregation and their friends have
o,,,.e, see 900 The Brooklyn Church so
c,stv has contributed $4,000 and James
Nj BROWN. brother Of Frank l.. BroWn'
the superintendent Of the Sunday Schooi'
has added 5000.
When the institution is completed II Is
% he one Of the most complete depart
mental buildings of it's kind In the Oniteo
states. A gymnasium, basketball court
shower bath and reading and game rooiils
are 10 be provided for, all OF which Is 10
be supplemented by an employment bureau
Two thousand dollars is needed 10 make
-, the sum of $4,000 originally asked for
nv the trustees, and they feel conhdent
that within few days that amount VIII
be subscribed.
Work will soon begin on the new Heore"
Home for the Aged, which is TO De pulit a.
Howard and Dumont avenues. For the ia9'
four years the project Of new nome h"a
baen aeitated from time to time ana al
last It is approaching its realization.
Tho building is to be Of pressed DITCH
and stone. while the interior constructio"
work will be Of steel. It is TO De three
,+ories high and is estimated to cost aoout
troooo The building is 10 be freprool
throughout and to accommodating Z%'
The Mot of land selected is large enough
N hermit the enlargement OF the ouiioihe
~ necessary. and a building TO accolnilo.
date l 900 can be built on the plot wlthou'
annearing overcrowded. The land ltsen 10
free from all debts, and there is tunu Oh
$40 600 in the treasury. However the rea'
strugele will come when the work OF ouiiu
ING the home is begun, and as the SOCIETY
is DESTROYS Of erecting the nome "l'hou'
having 10 Mace a heavy mortgage on II
oortributions are being sought from per-
sons who are philanthropically inclined
The tventy-seventh annual meeting OIL
the Unitarian Conference OF the Nliuo,'
c,otee and Canada will be held this week
=, ,ho church of the Saviour. Pierrepont
street and Monroe Place, on the invitation
of the pastor, the Rev. John ho"iSiu
Tatbrop, and the congregation
The opening meeting at o'clock on Tues
dav afternoon will be held under the au-
,pices of the National Alliance OF Ohl,a-
rian and Other Christian Women Mrs' r.
W Sargent presiding. Addresses VIII De
eiven on Essentials in the Alliance pS
Mrs. Leon A. Harvey, and the Oohese
Graduate Circle" by Mrs. Reinharo ~
Netzell. In the evening the conference
sermon will be preached by the Rev. Ut
l.. G. 3. Pierce. OF Washington cnaplair
of the Senate and President Tafts min
lister.
on wednesday morning at $3.50 the presi
dent of the conference, Adelbert Moot OF
Buffalo. will make the address OF welcome
committees will be appointed and the re-
ports OF the treasurer and secretary VII
no received. The Rev Anna Garlin Spen
Ger. Of the New York School of Civics anc
Philanthropy. will deliver an address or
Modern Problems of Marriage and d.
yorce." TO be followed by a discussion lee
by the Rev A. r. Hussey, OF Baltimore. Al
the afternoon session, beginning at 2lo
officers will be elected, and four addresses
will be given on Significant Factors N
Contemporary Morals" under the following
s,lbheads: "The Theatre" Percy Mackaye
The Newspaper" Norman Hapgood
1.-The Novel" Professor Phelps, OF Yale
and "The school," Rev James A. Farley
of ROGER Ascham School White Plains
n J.
The evening session will he devoted to 4
discussion on The Layman's Response
bilitv" I'm which Adelbert Moot george
Hutchinson. Emerson p. Harris and DIT
J. Mcfarland win take part.
The conference will end ON Thursday
morning with a meeting devoted to the In
terests of the young people and religious
education held Jointly with the New York
Sunday School Union. O. Ellery Edwards
will preside. and there will be two ad'
dresses. one on THE Problem Of our Young
People" rev Edgar 5. Wiers, Of Mont
clair. y . and the other on How to Get
Hold of the Sunday School Problem" Rev
william H. Lawrence, president of the
Unitarian Sunday School Society dis
cussion opened b. the Rev Kenneth r
Evans will wind IN the meeting.
The Church Of the Saviour is the Oldest
CONGREGATIONAL church, either Trinitarian oil
Unitarian, in Brooklyn, having been found
cd in 1894 Many eminent preachers have
occupied its pulpt. The present incumbent
John Howland IAthrop, took charge only
last spring and has already taken his place
among Brooklyns best pastors.
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