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It is supported largely by voluntary contributions. Donations of money, second-hand clothing, shoes, etc., will be gratefully received.
The average cost of maintaining the Institution is about ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS per day, and for this sum the House is partly dependent upon voluntary contributions.
FORM OF A BEQUEST.
I give and bequeath unto THE FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, in the City of New York (incorporated A.D. 1854), or its Treasurer for the time being, the sum of ... ... dollars, to be applied to the uses thereof.
Service of Song by the children, Sunday, 3.30 to 4.30 P.M .; Sunday-School, 2 to 3 P.M .; Day-Schools, 9 to 11.40 A.M., and 12.40 to 3 P.M., except Saturday; at dinner table, 12.10 to 12.40 P.M.
Visitors are cordially welcomed at all times.
* TRUSTEES. *
MORRIS K. JESUP, PRESIDENT. HUGH N. CAMP, TREASURER. GEORGE F. BETTS, SECRETARY.
CHARLES LANIER.
GEO. H. MORGAN.
DAVID S. EGLESTON.
WALTER H. LEWIS. OLIVER HARRIMAN. HENRY E. HAWLEY.
SUPERINTENDENT. WM. F, BARNARD.
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THE HOME-HOTEL ASSOCIATION.
INCORPORATED IN 1888.
Its object is to found a Home for the needy who labor in literature or art, or in any of the various professions. The residence of the founder, 158 St. Ann's Avenue, New York, is at present the Home- Hotel. No entrance fee is required. It affords a permanent Home to the aged of both sexes and a temporary home to others not aged, until able to resume their labors. It seeks to find employment for such. No regard to creed or nationality. Furthermore, its object is also to provide a refined home at an exceptionally low figure to the student of both sexes, governesses and others of the educational class who can afford to pay but little. We know of no other such Home in the United States. Another feature of our work is that we provide aid to the needy of this class in their own homes, in groceries, medicines, and a little money. The Annual Report will be cheerfully furnished at any time.
We have no endowment, are dependent upon subscriptions and donations. Two hundred dollars constitutes a Patron, One hundred a Benefactor, and Fifty dollars a Life Member.
GEN. JAS. GRANT WILSON, 15 East 74th Street, is the Treasurer. MISS MARY A. FISHER, President, 158 St. Ann's Ave.
MRS. JOHN H. HINTON, Vice-President, 41 West 32d Street.
MRS. A. INEZ LUDLOW, Assistant Treasurer, 118 East 54th Street, who will receive donations, or furnish information at any time.
THE NEW YORK CHRISTIAN HOME FOR INTEMPERATE MEN, (1877.)
1175 Madison Avenue, Corner 86th Street.
Organized under special charter for the spiritual, moral, mental and physical restoration of intemperate men.
The methods of the management are distinctly Christian, not medical, not those of a permanent asylum for inebriates. The aim is to furnish a temporary home where religious in- struction and helpful association lead to Christian manhood.
Those able to pay do so, according to accommodations given, but poverty need hinder none from admission. . Five weeks is the required period of stay in the Home, and appli- cation may be made to Mr. Charles A. Bunting, Resident Manager, No. 1175 Madison Ave., cor. 86th St.
OFFICERS: REV. D. STUART DODGE, President. J. NOBLE STEARNS, Vice- President. HENRY C. HOUGHTON, M.D., Secretary. J. E, FISHER, Treasurer.
xix 1 HOME FOR INCURABLES, FORDHAM, NEW YORK. 182D STREET AND THIRD AVENUE.
President, BENJAMIN H. FIELD.
Vice-Presidents, . MARTIN E. GREENE, ADRIAN ISELIN. .
Treasurer, GEO. SHERMAN, 54 Wall St. (Central Trust Co.) Secretary, . H. M. McLAREN, 39th St. and Seventh Ave. Superintendent, ISRAEL C. JONES, M.D.
Physician, ARCHIBALD M. CAMPBELL, M.D.
The Home for Incurables was organized in the year 1866, and the Managers have aimed to make it what its name im- plies, a "Home" for that large class of sufferers whose diseases are pronounced incurable, and who, by the nature of their disease, are denied admission to the ordinary hospi- tals, while the persons themselves, though in many instances quite poor, are. in refinement, education and social position, and above all, religious character, so far removed from the pauper class that no Christian mind can for a moment bear the thought of dismissing them to the public charities.
Of such patients, some are received and provided for gratuitously, their support becoming a charge upon the resources of the Home ; while others are paid for, either by their friends or from their own means-the charge being $7 per week and upward; a higher rate is fixed for patients whose condition makes it necessary to place them in a separate room and to give them the extra attention of a nurse.
Board money of pay patients must be paid eight weeks in advance.
Application for admission of patients should be made to the Superintendent, from whom blank forms of application may be obtained.
The payment of $5,000 in one sum provides a Free Bed in Perpetuity.
Contributions in Cash may be sent direct to the Treasurer, Mr. George Sherman, 54 Wall Street.
Donations of Clothing, Books, Games, etc., can be sent direct to the Home, or will be called for on notifying the Superintendent, Dr. Jones.
Thursday is regular visiting day when all will be gladly welcomed.
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Organized Oct. 19th, 1866.
Incorporated Dec. 14th, 1877.
ST. JOHN'S GUILD.
CHAS. A. LEALE. M.D., President.
WILLIAM BROOKFIELD, First Vice-President.
JAS. E. CHANDLER, Second Vice-President.
JOHN P. FAURE, Secretary.
W. L. STRONG, Treasurer.
C. ROCKLAND TYNG,
General Agent.
Office, 501 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK.
OBJECT .- " Its object is and shall be to relieve the sick children of the poor of the city of New York, without regard to creed, color or nationality. Maintains
THE FLOATING HOSPITAL,
on which, during the Summer months, 1,000 or more sick children and mothers are taken daily into the Lower Bay. provided with medical attendance, good food, salt-water baths, and sea-air; also
THE SEA-SIDE HOSPITAL
New Dorp, Staten Island, in which are received dangerously sick patients or those requiring lengthened treatment.
ALL BENEFITS
are absolutely free; no discrimination whatever is made.
ITS WORK
is in co-operation with the Health Department and Charitable Insti- tutions of every kind.
Supported Entirely by Voluntary Contributions. $250 will provide for one trip of the Floating Hospital. $100 will name a crib in the Sea-Side Hospital. Life membership, $50. Annual membership, $5.
xxi SAVE YOUR PENNIES!
ONE CENT A DAY IS $3.65 A YEAR. TWENTY-FIVE. CENTS A WEEK IS $18.00 A YEAR. ONE DOLLAR A WEEK IS $52.00 A YEAR.
Save for Clothing!
Save for Coal!
Save for a Home!
Save for a Holiday!
Save for an Accident!
Save for Old Age!
"A Penny Saved is Twopence Earned."
THE PENNY PROVIDENT FUND
of the CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY of the City of New York, will receive and deposit for safe keeping any amount from one cent up- ward. It aims to do what savings banks do not-invite savings of small sums less than one dollar. It has over one hundred and forty local offices or stamp stations, conveniently located for depositors. This fund is for older people as well as children. No one is too old or too young to save. The aim of this Penny Provident system is to inculcate habits of providence and thrift; to show how, by little savings. larger sums may easily be accumulated, and to teach in a very practical way the truth of the old saying: "Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves."
Deposits are receipted for by stamps attached to a stamp card, a system widely used in England and other countries. Make a beginning!
The Treasurer has given bond to the amount of $10,000 for the faithful performance of his duties, and as the deposits increase the bond will be increased, so that the deposits will always be secured. The Committee gives its services without compensation, and the entire deposits are in the State Trust Company, 50 Wall Street, New York City. Apply for information to MIss M. MESSEMER, Secretary and Cashier, 21 UNIVERSITY PLACE. Office Hours, 11 to 4. Saturdays, 9 to 12.
COMMITTEE OF THE FUND. OTTO T. BANNARD, Chairman and Treasurer. HON. ABRAM S. HEWITT, CHARLES C. BEAMAN,
HON. CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD, GEORGE E. DODGE,
ROBERT W. DE FOREST, WALTER JENNINGS.
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GLENN'S
Sulphur Soap
FOR A PURIFIER.
Irrefragable evidence exists which proves conclusively that it produces the equally sure beneficial effects with the most popular and reliable sulphur bath, whether artificial or gushing from the bosom of Mother Nature. Rheumatic ailments as well as eruptive com- plaints, Sores, Pimples and Abrasions of the Skin are speedily and entirely removed by GLENN'S SULPHUR SOAP.
Invaluable in Contagious Diseases.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS GENE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Preface
xxxiii., xxxiv.
Addenda et Errata
. . xxiv.
List of Advertisements .
Xxx., xxxi.
Organized Charity (What is it)
. XXXV.
Maps xxxviii., xxxix.
Objects, Methods, Officers and Offices of the Charity Organization Society .
1
Public Officials having cognizance of matters pertaining to the care or welfare of the Poor .
9
Police Department .
9
Police Stations
9
Civil Courts
11
Criminal Courts
11
Foreign Consuls
13
Ferries to City Islands
14
Department of Public Charities and Correction
15
Health Department
21
Board of Education
22
COLLEGES and SCHOOLS under its charge
22
Classified List of Charities :
CLASS I .- Government or Official Aid.
DIVISION 1 .- City and County . 2 .- State
·
·
27
16
3
3 .- National,
32
8
3
·
Number of Societies in each Division.
Cross References to full description in
other Divisions.
·
15
4
28 6
NOTE .- The two right-hand columns show the number of organi- zations doing the work indicated by the title of the Division. The middle column numbers those societies which are specially founded for such work, and the extreme right-hand column gives the number of other societies which also do the same as incidental or additional to their more distinct work.
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PAGE. NO.
REF.
CLASS II .- Temporary Relief of Distress.
DIV. 1 .- Industrial Employment 2 .- Food, Clothing and General Re- lief .
35
11
44
41
26 29
3 .- Fuel .
55
2
7
4 .- Shelter and Lodging . .
56
3
22
5 .- Transportation
59
8
6 .- Industrial and Educational Schools and Kindergartens for Children
59
12
45
7 .- Temporary Homes for Children
69
2
13
8 .- Temporary Homes for Women and Children
71
2
8
9 .- Temporary Homes for Adults only 10 .- Summer Homes for Children only
73
2
9
74
2
4
" 11 .- Summer Homes and Fresh-Air Charities for Women and Chil- dren
75
7
14
78
13
14
82
1
83
.217
CLASS III .- Relief of Special Kinds and for Special Classes.
DIv. 1 .- Legal Aid and Advice (Pensions, Claims, Sanitary etc.) .
83
13
7
86
2
3
87
4
4 .- Various Classes, Callings Professions · 5 .- Burials
88
22
26
95
3
10
6 .- Aid for Sick, other than Medi- cal . ·
96
7
11
7 .- Loans
101
1
3
·
8 .- Sea and Country Excursions 101
3
9
51
73
.
" 12 .- Day Nurseries
13 .- For National Calamities .
2 .- Sick and Disabled Soldiers and
Sailors 3 .- Soldiers' and Sailors' Widows and Orphans .
or
.
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X
PAGE.
NO.
REF.
CLASS IV .- Foreigners' Relief.
DIv. 1 .- General Relief
104
26
14
CLASS V .- Permanent Relief of Distress (other than Sick and Defective).
DIV. 1 .- Homes for Children only .
113
44
10
2 .- Homes for Adults only ·
129
21
17
3 .- Improved Tenements and Homes 138
2
1
4 .- Private Pensions ·
138
. .
. .
67
47
CLASS VI .- Medical and Surgical Relief.
DIv. 1 .- General Hospitals
140
18
17
2 .- Special and Convalescent Hospi- tals
150
17
18
3 .- General Dispensaries ·
158
18
28
4 .- Special Dispensaries
165
4
15
5 .- Women's, Children's and Lying- in Hospitals
168
12
13
6 .- Women's and Children's Dispen- saries, including Lying-in Charities
174
6
11
7 .- Visiting and Relieving Sick Poor at their own Homes
176
3
29
8 .- Training and Furnishing Nurses
179
5
19
9 .- Excursions for Sick Children .
181
2
5
10 .- Incurables
182
2
11
" 11 .- Medical Colleges, Schools and Societies
184
14
13
12 .- Ambulances .
·
.
190
..
101
189
CLASS VII .- Relief for the Defective and Afflicted (the Blind. Deaf-Mutes, Insane, Crippled etc.).
DIV. 1 .- Temporary Aid . .
2 .- Asylums for Children ·
. 192
3 .- Asylums for Adults .
·
191
2
2
3
7
194 3
11
.
7
5 .- Providing Homes in Country .
139
12
.
10
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PAGE.
NO.
REF.
Drv. 4 .- Private Homes for Nervous Per-
sons
5 .- Instruction
.
·
· 196
1
4
.
16
24
CLASS VIII .- Reformatory.
DIv. 1 .- Reformatories for Men
· 198
3
..
2 .- Reformatories for Women ·
199
8
7
" 3 .- Reformatories for Children .
202
5
2
16
9
CLASS IX .- Religious and Moral.
DIv. 1 .- Missions to the Destitute .
206
20
9
2 .- Missions to Special Classes
213
21
11
3 .- Religious Orders, Sisterhoods and Deaconesses . 222
8
31
49
51
CLASS] X. - Miscellaneous.
Drv. 1 .- Provident and Savings Schemes 2 .- Literature and Art, including Libraries, Reading-Rooms, Museums etc.
228
22
35
236
8
24
211
24
35
254
40
23
6 .- Boarding-Houses, City and Coun- try
268
5
7
7 .- Humane
269
3
3
8 .- Savings Banks
270
26
..
9 .- Church, Missionary, Publica-
tion and Tract Societies 271
54
15
183
146
CLASS XI .- Mutual and Provident Societies. Dry. 1 .- Beneficial Societies, : ·
286| 78 1
1
4
227
3 .- Cheap Meals, Lodgings and Baths 4 .- Education and Special Training 5 .- Social Improvement, including Boys' and Young Men's Clubs
195
7
..
·
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PAGE.
NO.
REF.
Cost of Funerals
300
List of Churches and Religious Con- gregations (including Missions), with their Charitable and Beneficent Socie- ties:
301
Baptist
302
51
Congregational
310
11
Disciples
312
8
Evangelical
312
6
Friends
313
2
Hebrew
314
50
Lutheran
319
23
Methodist Episcopal
322
70
Methodist, African .
331
6
Presbyterian
332
75
Presbyterian, Reformed
345
6
Presbyterian, United
346
6
Protestant Episcopal
346
103
Reformed
382 390
85
Undenominational
398
27
Unitarian
402
3
Universalist
403
3
Miscellaneous
403
28
590
National Conference of Charities and Correction
407
Charity Organization Societies of other places
·
408
Foreign Charity Organization Societies Appendix . ·
411
General Index .
·
·
·
.
431
32
Roman Catholic
.
.
422
See the Recapitulation of the above, on next page.
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RECAPITULATION
OF THE BENEVOLENT RESOURCES OF
NEW YORK CITY.
NO.
Class I .- Public Charities . 28
II .- For Temporary Relief .
83
III .- For Special Relief
.
51
IV .- For Foreigners' Relief
26
V .- For Permanent Relief
67
VI .- For Medical Relief
. 101
" VII .- For Defectives
16
" VIII .- For Reformation .
.
16
" IX .- Missions, Orders etc.
49
X .- Miscellaneous
183
XI .- Mutual
78
.
Churches and Congregations
.
590
Total
·
.
.
.
.
12:8
·
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ADDENDA ET ERRATA.
Church Hospital and Dispensary of the Protestant Episcopal Church (org. and incorp. 1892). To concentrate and centralize church medical work upon the most modern scientific medical principles ; to provide a visiting staff and to give special care to the worthy poor who shrink from receiving medical aid at a public clinic. Edward A. Quin- tard, Pres .; Richard Kalish, Sec'y, 50 West 36th St .; Thomas L. James, Treas., 32 East 42d St.
East Side House Kindergarten (org. 1892), foot of East 76th St., East River. Open daily from 9 to 12 A.M. (see also Class X., Div. 5, page 258).
New England Kitchen (org. 1891), 341 Hudson St. To supply the working classes with well-cooked and nutritious food at moderate prices.
St. Chrysostom's Nursery, 244 West 38th St., is not a Day Nursery, but is a TEMPORARY HOME and boarding- house for well children from 2 to 10 years of age, without regard to creed (see Class II., Div. 12). Apply for admis- sion to Rev. W. Everett Johnson, 550 Seventh Ave., from 10 A.M. to 12 M. daily, except Monday.
St. Patrick's Day Nursery, Mott St., is closed.
St. Thomas' Day Nursery is at 227 East 59th St., and not at 431 East 57th St., as in Class II., Div. 12.
Society of Italian Missionaries (CONGREGAZIONE MIS- SIONARI ITALIANI). For the religious and temporal welfare of Italian emigrants. Rev. F. Morelli, 115 Baxter St., in charge.
The Western Dispensary (incorp. 1868), formerly at 38th St. and Seventh Ave., has been removed to the cot- tage connected with the Hahnemann Hospital, and though the work is temporarily discontinued, an early resumption is anticipated. Egbert Guernsey, M.D., Pres .; Robert W. Gilbert, Sec'y, 35 Wall St .; Wm. H. Wiley, Treas.
LIST OF ADVERTISEMENTS.
IN THE PREFATORY PAGES.
American Female Guardian Society.
Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.
Asylum for Half-Orphans.
Five Points House of Industry.
Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.
Home for Incurables.
Home Hotel Association.
Montefiore Home.
New York Bible and Fruit Mission.
New York Christian Home for Intemperate Men.
New York City Mission and Tract Society.
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
New York Port Society.
New York Society for Suppression of Vice. Orphan Asylum Society. Park Avenue Laundry.
Penny Provident Fund. Roosevelt Hospital. St. John's Guild. Sheltering Arms.
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Soc. for Relief of Destitute Children of Seamen. State Charities Aid Association. United Hebrew Charities. Woman's Hospital. Wood-Yard of Charity Organization Society. Young Men's Christian Association.
OPPOSITE PAGES 14 AND 15.
New York Foundling Hospital. New York Magdalen Benevolent Society. New York Protestant City Mission Society.
IN THE FINAL PAGES.
A. M. Dolph Co.
Devoe, F. W. & Co. Fisk (Harvey) & Sons. Gillis & Geoghegan.
Huyler's. Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co. Office Specialty Co. Otis Bros. Stettiner, Lambert & Co. United States Savings Bank. Ward & Olyphant.
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PREFACE.
THIS Directory has been compiled for the use of socie- ties, churches and individuals, working, either directly or by agents or representatives, among the poor of New York City, and for those who are solicited to give to the Chari- ties of the City. It is also valuable to all interested in the charitable resources of New York City, as it shows where relief can be had and where contributions to any special charitable work in the City may be sent.
The contents have been carefully classified, and arranged so as to show at a glance all the resources which the City affords for each or any phase of distress or need.
The labor of analyzing the varied work of more than three hundred charitable and five hundred congregational agencies can only be appreciated by those who have at- tempted it, and they will not be surprised at any errors or omissions which they may find. The information has often to be elicited from indifferent or unintelligent officials. It is, however, as correct and complete as great care and labor could make it.
The Society begs consideration for mistakes and omis- sions, and requests information of any that may be found, so that they may be corrected in the next edition. It also asks that all benevolent agencies named in this volume will enter the CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY upon their list of exchanges, and send to it early copies of their Annual Reports and of all information and publications issued by them.
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. It should be further stated that the fact that a Society or Institution is named in this volume must not be taken to mean that the CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY indorses either its good faith or its usefulness, as some of these have necessarily been included of whose utility and wise man- agement grave doubts are entertained by some persons. This Directory omits those which have been unfavorably reported upon by the New York State Board of Charities, and others which are known to be unworthy of support- in short, all which are inserted in the cautionary list printed in the Monthly Bulletin of the Society, now the Supplement to the CHARITIES REVIEW. The omission of any society from this volume does not, however, necessarily discredit such society, as it may have been organized since the ma- terial for the book was put into the printer's hands. Con- tributors and members may obtain more particular infor- mation concerning Societies and Institutions by applying to the State Board of Charities, or to this Society.
By order of the Executive Committee,
SAMUEL MACAULEY JACKSON, Chairman of Publication Committee.
CHAS. D. KELLOGG, General Secretary.
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ORGANIZED CHARITY.
The question is often asked-" What is Organized Charity ?" and "How does it differ from any 'organiza- tion ' for administering charitable relief ?" These inqui- ries may be best answered by stating what this Society is and does.
The CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY of the City of New York was formed in the year 1882 at the suggestion of the STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES, for the purpose of offering to the charitable activities of the metropolis- civic, chartered and individual-the benefits which are found to result from associated and concurrent action - in other departments of social as well as in business life. The evils resulting from the lack of co-operation in chari- table administration are apparent in every large commu- nity, in the steady increase of pauperism in a ratio far greater than the increase of population. The larger part of the relief amply provided for the shrinking, struggling, deserving poor is captured by the shameless, persistent mendicant. Charitable relief, thus injudiciously applied, does much positive harm in alluring the poor into idleness, improvidence and vice.
The poor may be fed and clothed, while their moral na- tures are overlooked and no effort is made to inculcate those self-reliant habits and noble ambitions upon which the wholesomeness and happiness of their lives depend. These evils, which all thoughtful benevolent workers now realize, show the urgent need of some organized movement for their cure ; and this Society offers itself as the medium of intercommunication between all the various charitable agen- cies of the City to accomplish this result. Its tender of ser- vice has been accepted by the City Department for ad- ministering the public poor relief, and by nearly all of the leading religious and relief societies.
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The Society is based on two germinal principles :-
First, its work is entirely dissociated from all questions of creed, politics or nationality ;
Second, it does not directly administer alms from its own funds in any form.
Thus it covers a platform as broad as humanity, upon which Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants may all combine. And, while all proselytism is strictly forbidden, it is the rule that all cases shall be put as speedily as pos- sible under the care of their nearest religious affiliations, because not only thus will they be brought directly under the purest and highest influences, but the obligation to see that their material wants are provided for will be most speedily recognized.
Nor does this Society in any way hinder or conflict with any relief-giving agency, but is the helpmeet, protector and servant of all. It aims at nothing less than the moral and social elevation of the poor by bringing into closer and more friendly contact the prosperous and the depressed, the re- fined and the degraded, by a thorough system of personal visitation. To effect this it has in large part covered the City (and as rapidly as practicable will cover the entire City) with a network of district committees, or branches, with district offices so located that all benevolent persons may have a near resort to which they can send every unknown applicant for relief; and all sufferers may find an agency at hand pledged to examine tenderly and wisely their needs, to select and secure the proper material remedy, and to supply as far as possible that friendly oversight and con- tinued care which are a thousandfold better than alms.
These district committees are composed of men and women fitted by natural instincts, by experience if possible, and by judgment and tact, for their responsible work. Being prevented from administering alms, they will have power and opportunity, untrammelled by the greed and duplicity they would else encounter, to carry into depressed and de- graded homes the best social and moral influences, and the rich and subtle forces of friendship.
Being disconnected, also, from any relief fund, they can impartially select the regimen which will not merely treat the effect, but tend to remove the cause of the pov- erty and graduate the beneficiary into a condition of inde- pendence and self-support. A remedy exists in this City for nearly every evil to which flesh is heir, but how few,
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even among benevolent officials themselves, know to whom to send the poor applicants who do not come within the conditions of their own relief ! This Society, through its district offices, is a reservoir of practical knowledge, a cen- tre of resource, so that such uninstructed, inefficient work shall be without excuse. It brings the want and its remedy together, and should a special form of suffering and want be developed, it can devise a special relief with- out infringing its rules and without casting any applicant aside. It can assist and supplement every existing charity and promote the effectiveness and economy of each. Each District Office hasits trained and paid agents, whose whole time is given to the duties of the office.
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