Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-16
WILL URGE BETTER
POTTER'S FIELD
Directors of Associated Chair
ties Bureau Resume Meet
ings-Name Committee.

The possibility of a better burial
ground for the city's poor was one
of the matters discussed at a meet
ing of the board of directors of the
Bureau of Associated Charities held
at the Social Service building yester-
day afternoon. The board resumed
Its monthly meetings yesterday after
vacation since June, and considered
reports presented as we'll as discus
sing various suggestions.
The potters field subject was in
troduced because of a report current
that the city is considering the pur-
chase of u new site The bureau
superintendent, A. w. MacDougall,
said the present ground Is a survival
of an old attitude toward paupers
and is not fit for the burial of mem
bers of self-respecting families and
that its use causes unnecessary pain
to the survivors. The board decided
that the city's proposal to establish
q new ground opened the way for
suggestions to the poor and aims
committee that it establish a better
type of burial place. The following
members were appointed to see the
poor and aims committee and to urge
these points: Jerome T. Congleton.
Henry F. Hilfers and Rev. Henry R.
Rose.
The registry of cases at the bureau
was especially considered by the
board, the desire being expressed that
other organizations in the city would
make a wider use of this record OF
81 ESQ cases.
Stephen b. Gilhuly. chairman of the
registry committee, reported that the
records had all been gone ever and
brought up to date during the sum-
mer.
Miss Cyril Frank was appointed to
the vacant position of registrar. The
value of hospital social service was
discussed, and a committee appoint
ed to cooperate with movement to
establish such service in the local
hospitals, particularly the City Hos
pital.
The members to serve on this COM
mittee are Rev. Solomon Foster, DR..
William S. Disbrow and Herbert +.
Gleason. Delegates were appointed
to attend the meeting in the interest
of a peoples legislative bureau. This
meeting was announced to be held
in the Public Library on October %.
The Representatives chosen were MI.
MacDougall. Lathrop Anderson and
Rev. John j. Moment. The resigna-
ton of Archibald NJ. Woodruff from
the dictatorship was accepted. Mr..
Woodruff explained that pressure of
other affairs necessitated his relin-
gushing his place on the board. Miss
Marjorie DeS. Hanson was appointed
a visitor to fill vacancy among the
district workers.
A report of the last four months
work, given by the superintendent,
showed that emergency relief had
been given in 523 cases. and continued
relief, including weekly pension, to
eighty-nine families, while the total
cost for relief during that period was
s1s25.T6.
Other assistance given to the 1888
distressed families and individuals
dealt with was grouped as personal
service, and showed that there had
been 1851 calls paid by workers and
$40 interviews with applicants at the
Office.
Under employment it was reported
that temporary work had been given
twenty-three men and permanent
places found for four; the work-room
for women had supplied 264 half
days work and sent out ia women
for days work and thirty-one women
were permanently placed. In connec-
ton with this, it was stated that four
people had refused work,