New Britain herald., 1915-01-16
MANY MEETINGS 10
 BE HELD NEXT WEEK
Chamber of Commerce Hears of
 Cleveland Plan Of Charities.

A particularly heavy program has been arranged for next week by Sec retary A. II. Andrews of the Cham Der of Commerce. Eight meetings Of committees and directors are already scheduled and it is possible that a few more meetings will be added to the list.
 The executive committee of the chamber has it's first meeting Monday evening at S:3O o'clock. On Tuesday the committee on uniform hours and practices mets al o'clock with the clothing end shoe dealers of the city and at go the directors of the cham Der will meet.
 The committee on cooperative de- liVeries will meet at 10 o'clock Wed- nesday morning.
 Two meetings are scheduled for Thursday. The committee on uniform hours and practices will meet with the dry goods dealers and milliners at o'clock. At 2 o'clock the committee on street railway extension will have a meeting to discuss the investigations that have been made to date.
 The committee on charities will meet at 4:3O next Friday afternoon and the membership committee will meet at P. M
 new map of the city prepared by the city engineer was placed in the rooms of the chamber today.
 The department of commerce at Washington started the publication ot a daily paper the first of this year and the chamber has become subscriber. The paper will give considerable in formation regarding the financial con- dtions of the country from day to day.
 Reports on Charities Plan.
 K. w. Pelton of the committee on charities reported to the meeting yesterday afternoon on the origin, methods and accom- mplishments of the Cleveland federation for charity and philanthropy as outlined by C. w. Williams, secretary of the federation, who spoke at a monday luncheon or the Springfield Board of Trade yes terday Mr. Pelton returned from Springfield in time for the meeting o1 the Civic Bureau committee and gave the information to the members IL some detail.
 One of the things MT. Pelton learned at Springfield was that there are national organizations, some ol which are located n New York, i which make it a business of furnish ing to any needy organization solcl- tors of either sex or of any age who raise any desired amount of money for charity at commission rates vary ing from 20 to 75 per cent. It is es- timated that fully $6O,O0O year is saved today for Cleveland by the in formation now made easily available and by the adoption of the methods now employed by the federation to take the place of indiscriminate sub scription for local charities.
 The present federal plan of tinanc- ing charitable work represents the belief that charitable activities as worthy of recognition as civic enter prises. The board of trustees of the Cleveland federation is accordingly made up of ten persons elected by the ( constituent organizations, ten elected by the constituent giveIs, and a third ten chosen by the president and the directors of the Chamber of Com merce for the representation of the city at large. As thus organized on a community basis, the charity organ izations represented number fifty-fiVe and are in a position to receive the co-operation of other organized in struments of civic maintenance and progress Acting thus a unit, 1t has been possible for them to receive in a surprising and satisfactory de- gree the aid of the city schools, the public libraries, federated churches, consisting of 200 Protestant pulplts, the Catholic diocese, city department of public welfare and others.