Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-07
TO PROTECT CHILDREN.
Meeting Of Directors Shows Good
Work Being Done.

A meeting of the directors OF
the Maryland Society to Protect
Children from Cruelty and immoral
ity was held at its headquarters, 63e
w. Franklin street, Baltimore, yes
terdsy afternoon, Hon. Riley E.
Wright, presiding.
Superintendent Parker made the
following report fer September, 1918
Cases Investigated, Sc; children
affected, 179; children reno we'd from
improper surroundings, IS; children
placed in asylums, z; children placed
| in families, 6; children temporarily
sheltered, 2; children taken under
guardianship or supervision, s +; chill
dren otherwise relieved, 81 certifi-
Gates issued, 4 proceeding conduct
ed, 8; children visited that have been
placed with families, %.
Eli .yht of the cases attended TO
were in Baltimore county and all the
others were in Baltimore city. Re-
port upon report comes to US about
children that are abused, neglected
and suffering, not only in Baltimore
city, but in the counties of this
State. We try our very best to
promptly attend to each and every
case reported and when we find the
children are suffering we do our very
best to rectify conditions, but fire.
quently more cases are reported than
can be attended to by the agents EN-.
ployed by the Society.
The Society needs the services of
two mere agents, and if they are
employed il will need money to paw
these agents. IT also needs money
badly for other necessary expenses
growing out of its special work
protecting children from cruelty and
immortality. ] am confident that
the charitable people of this city and
State would come to the Society's
relief if they kne W its needs and rea-
lized the efficient work that ssit is do.
ing for children that are neglected or
abused.
Baltimore county-Five years ago
we investigated the condition of four
children-two girls, age 10 and 9
years, and two boys, age ~ and 6
years, who lived with their father
in Canton, Baltimore county. The
children were neglected their faith
er was Incorporate and the house in
which they lived was a rendezvous
for bad men and women. Afterwards
the older girl married and 'the older
boy went to live with his mother, who
had separated from her husband.
Rep eated warnings had no effect upon
this father and conditions did not i'm
prove.
This month we found conditions,
if possible, worse than ever, the
father having for his hOusekeeper
woman of bad character, and the two
younger children were neglected and
abused. We took them from his Gus
today by process OF law and placed
the boy with his mother and the girl
with a family.
Baltimore -Reformatories do
not always reform. Ten years ago
we placed bad, immoral girl in
reformatory. Recently we found
that this girl, who is now 26 years of
age and has never married, was iv-
ing with a married man and had
given birth to five children, whose
ages range from few days to eight
years. This mother is bad in almost
every way. She and the children were
filthy and the man who is supposed
to be the children's father, was fire.
quently drunk and at times beat her
cruelty.
We took the four older children by
legal process from her custody and
placed them in asylums, but allowed
her, for the present, to keep the young
est, which is but fifteen days old.