The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-09
THE WILDER CHARITY.

The annual report OF the Am
herst HI. Wilder Charity for the
year ending June 30, 1912, has just
been published in pamphlet form,
1t gives a detailed account of the
work done during the past year
and is very interesting reading.
The Amherst III. Wilder Char
ity is the name under which is
consolidated the funds left by
Amherst H. Wilder, his wife,
Fanny S. Wilder, and their daugh-
ter, Corneia Day Wilder Appleby,
for the benefit of the worthy poor
Of the City of St. Paul, without
regard or discrimination as to sex,
color, age or religious inclinations
or belief - The entire estate
available for this purpose now
amounts to $2,753,339.52. The
charity is administered by and
through a corporation with a
board Of directors and officers
self-perpetuating body having
power to fill all vacancies made
in it's ranks by death or otherwise.
No other city in the country has
so large an endowment left for
the aid and benefit Of the worthy
poor. The Russell Sage founda-
ton Of $1O,OO0,000 was given by
Mrs. Sage to improve the social
and living conditions Of the Uni
ted States of America; but the
Wilder Charity is exclusively for
the benefit Of the deserving poor
Of the City of st. Paul.
The receipts from the fund for
the past year were $17O,615. &c. The
upkeep of the estate called for an
expenditure of $19,965.69; the ex-
pense of administration was
$10,820; the amount expended in
charity totaled $48, 455. sc, leaving
a surplus of $91, 374.31, to be ap-
piled in some form of charity that
will be of benefit to the commun-
ity at large rather than to the in
dividual.
During the past year the Will
der Charity erected an Admins
tration Building which will soon
be ready for occupancy. It will
shelter all the elief-giving agen-
cies in the city free of rent.
Among those the Guild of Catho-
lie Women and the st. Vincent de
Paul Society will have an office
in charge of the Rev. James
Donahoe, City Missionary. Pro
vision for the erection of such a
building was made in the wills OF
the testators, and also for a day
nursery, which has been in opera
ton during the past year where
the children Of poor working
mothers are cared for and fed
free of cost, during the hours the
mothers are away from home. Il
is also the intention of the Will
der Charity to follow a suggestion
made by Mrs. Wilder and erect &
public natatorium, Or bath house
in some suitable location
In the active work of direct re
lief the Amherst FL. Wilder Char
ity has two departments, that Of
the visiting nurses and the pension
aid. The nurses visit the homes
of the sick Door. and minister tt
their comfort by providing then
with whatever is necessary in the
way of linens, drugs, dressing ane
surgical appliances, as well al
nourishment suitable for the con
dition of the patients. In add
, ton to this the Wilder Char
; ity defrays the salary Of ,
trained nurse at the Baby
Welfare Association; pays for thu
: hospital care of sick babe,
, brought to the Association I
clinic, the salary of a nurse fol
! social service work in connection
/ with the City and County Hos
pital, the salaries of four of tn
/ Anti tuberculosis nurses; ant
helps to care for the tuberculosis
/ patients at the Cuenca Sanator
: ium, as well as for the poor chill
dren at the Eva Shapiro Memo
t rial Camp.
In its efforts to relieve tn
pressing needs of the deserving
poor, the Wilder Charity found i
5 necessary to institute a system o
sustained or pension aid for tn
7 support of those who would other
: wise be obliged to end their day
81 in the poor house or seek the shell
ter of the Home for the Aged
e kept by the Little Sisters of tn
r Poor. The number benefited b.
{ lthis form of aid during the yea