The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-08-17
CHARITIES BODY
RECEIVES large
irwin REQUEST
twenty-five Thousand Dollars,
Less $500 California lnher-
itanoe Tax, To Be Invested
HONOLULU ASSOCIATION s
DID NOT EXPECT BENEFIT
Directors Hear Woman Writer
And Traveller Tell How Pitts
burgh Reclalms Men


w. iurinal coSnlhahce was taken yesJSr-
. lay for the first time by the board Of
directors Of the Associated Charities
of Honolulu of the receipt or bequesi
Of $4,000, less the California inherit.
anee tax Of $4,000, from the estate OF
the late William g. Irwin. By vote
of the board, the fund was set aside
as a capital investment, the iacome
from which, amounting TO between
eleven and twelve hundred dollars an
nually, will be allocated to the pay,
meut of a managers salary. 49,.
A resolution of warm thanks TO Mrs.
Irwin, who with her late husband, has
been most generous to Honolulu, both
in the years that they lived here ami
ever since they took up their residences
in. San Francisco, was unanimously
passed.
Honolulu Request Not Sought
It win be remembered that Mr.. lr.
win = win left $4,000 to the Omitted
Charities of San Francisco and a
Ike amount to the "United Charities
of Hawaii There is no such instit l.
ton as the United Charities OF San
Francisco, but there is an organization
entitled the Associated Charities OF
San Francisco.
Looking to what the court believed
to be the testator's Intent rather than
his exact phraseology, the money was
awarded to the Associated Charities
In the case of Honolulu, the thread Of
possession was even more teDuous.
Not only is there in the Territory
no such thing as an United Charities
of Hawaii, but there is no Associated
Charities of Hawaii, though there is
an Associated Charities of Honolulu.
Therefore no effort whatever was made
here to seek the money, and thar il
was permitted to come here Is grate'
fuzzy acknowledged to be due to the
friendly and continuing interest or
Mrs. Irwin.
Notable Charity Explained
Miss Martha l.. Root, an American
magazine writer, was asked to speak
Mt the meeting of the board yesterday
afternoon Miss Root is a Pittsburgher
ard she gave concise comprehensive
talk on the Men s Industrial of the
Pittsburgh Association for the I'm
provement of the Poor.
This is a self.supporting charity.
More than ninety per cent, of its pro-
cceds go directly to the poor. All sal
aries for plant are paid from less than
ten per cent of the income.
The original outlay was $25, 900. Mrs
William Thaw and her children leasei
the association the property for its
plant, valued at $4,000, and the other
$4,000 was given by members of the
board.
Books are always open for inspection
and \ audited by municipal com
mittee. Reports are published regularly
by the newspapers. %
ats a plant to help down and out
men to get up into the world of ser
vice." said Miss Root. "No questions
are asked as to man s race, creed,
morals or past. His need is the opet
sesame.
Derelicts Put To Work
1.-The association has ffty-threc
horses and wagons. The derelicts are
sent out gathering old papers, OLD
furniture. and old clothes. Everything
brought back is first baked in the
fumitory and then sorted.
"SOme of the down and cutters set
ard bale the papers, others shiI the
bales. Some work in the carrrnter
shops repairing and painting the fur
niture.
"CIothes, too, are renovated and
these are sold in three large second
hand stores, conducted by the associa-
ton. The articles are sold ut .'ust the
cost of hauling and ren0vatiRS. A
man can get suit Of clothes for a dol
lar, a pair of baby shoes for Two c"pts.
In eases of extreme need, which have
been investigated by one of the ten
district nurses, the clothing is given
outright TO those who cannot pay.
These stores are kept by the better
class of derelicts.
"Men in the home who work are
given three nourish;ng meals a dav,
aud Immediately clean beds. Be
stiles they are paid for their work.
Clearing House For Labor
"The men s industrial is q clearing
house for labor. John T. Flahcr'Y
originator of the plan and the efti>ieNt
general manager, keeps in touch with
tive steel mills, coal and coke plants
and factories, so that thousands If la
orers from the industrial are taken
cnch year.
"Some Of the big plants anl many
O. the large office buildings give their
cd paper to the industrial. Churches
throughout Greater Pittsburgh cooper
q. They have Mr., Plaherty lecture
ON their pulpits and in theIr Y. NJ,
{. A. auditoriums.
Congregations give their waste
and many of the churches go to the
secondhand stores of the radu4triaI 10
+ furniture with which to fit out
rooms for their poor
"L"cal newspapers ard weeklies IN
TIE suburbs publish heart interest sto,,
les each week about this splendid
r.rrk. Superintendent FIaherty has
been asked to give talks in Cleveland,
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