The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-11-20
NEARLY 1000
| CH|LORENCAREO
FOR By HOME.
SUPT. MARCUS FAGG MAKES HIS
REPORT WHICH Is
INTERESTING
Resume of What Has Been Accom-
plished During the Past
Three Years

/ Jacksonville, Nov. 20.-Supt.
Facg OF the Children's Home Society
of Florida has just recently complet-
ed his third year in charge of the
j work in Florida, and has completed
and fled with the board of directors
of the society his report both for the
three years and for ,ne first ten
months of 1918.
1889 homeless and needy children
from IS counties in Florida have
! come under TIE care of the society In
these three years, 207 of these being
i children that had been taken under
the control of the society curing the
ei2ht previous years, so that 1852
needing many kinds of treatment and
provisions, have come unGcr the su-
pcrA sion Of Mr.. Fa"g DURING his
brief reriol in Florida. This num-
her is cieht times as many as came
under tie care of the society during
its first cight years and shows how
wonderfully the society has ENLARGED
its field o. usefulness. This number
is laracr many times than the total
number OF children com'n, under the
care of all the other childrcns in.
sttutions and AGENCIES in the State.
The number of contributors to the
work has crown from l5S three
years a"o to nearly 5000 at the pres
ent time and the annual BUDGET has
increased from $4,000 three years
ago to $4,000 during the present
year.
The society owned no property
three years ago, but now has Re-
ceivinu Home with adjoining prop
erty valued at $4,000, which is all
paid for but $4,000.
Hundreds of homeless children
have been placed in carefully select.
ed family homes, child,ess ZONES
most Of them and hundreds of other
little ones have been placed with rel
ativCs, sent to special Industrial
traininy schools. widows have been
aided in keeping their children
throu"h sYccial funds, work has been
secured for deserted WIDOWS with lit.
tie babes, hospital care, special ope.
r1tions to restore si"ht to the blind,
the uso Of limbs to the c-iNp'cd, etc
have been secured for afflicted chill
drcn, temporary care has been pro-
vided for hundreds of little ones at
the Rccciyin" Home, while their 1ar.
!. ents have been tcmYorarly unable to
provide for them and in countless
ways children OF all aces and from
evcrY county in the State have been
aided
New laws for the care -nc protec-
tion or children have been secured
throu'h the activity of the Home So
cicty, the state Conference of Char.
itios and Core tions has been
launched THROUGH the efforts OF the
society and the attention of the
whole state has been cnllCd TO the
value Of the child, Floridas chief as
set.
/ Already this year coo homeless,
abandoned and neglected children
have come under the care Of the So
ciety from all sections of the State
and more are coming daily.
The Florida society In twenty
eighth place among the thirty-two
home societies in other States, has
now climbed up to the fifth place,
only the societies OF the States like
New York. Pennsylvania, H;nois and
Kentucky doing larger work than
the Florida society.
In one way the Florida society
ranks first among them all and that
is that while other societies expend
from 90 to so per cent to secure their
funds the Florida socie,y mas never
in the past three years expended
more than 10 per cent and the Flor.
Ida society is the only one where tho
board of directors and Ladies' Auxil-
iary assume the responsibility for all
! salaries ard expenses. In order that
every dollar sent In BY contributors
can be used directly for children In
need.
The only hindrance to the great
and growing work OF the society dur.
Ing these past three years mas been
lack Of funds to work with and right
now the work Of the society is really