conducted by the Charity Organization Society in New York, June 18 to July 28 (six weeks), is to give an introduction to social conditions in New York city, and to the methods undertaken to improve them. In addition to speakers well known for their long experience here, others from Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Buffalo will take part, to emphasize certain phases of thought and effort, and to show how the problems elsewhere affect and are affected by those in the metropolis. The care and treatment of needy families in their homes will be the leading topic of the course, with an introduction by Prof. Francis G. Peabody, of Harvard University. During the first week the school will be in charge of Dr. Jeffrey R. Brackett, of Baltimore, president of the charities commissioners of that city. Each student will be assigned to special study of some particular portion of the social field, with the remedies available for its bad conditions. Visits will be made to some of the societies and institutions, such as the United Hebrew Charities, the Catholic Protectory, the city institutions on Blackwell's and Randall's islands. The registrations to date include graduate students from Harvard, Brown, Wellesly, Smith, Vassar, Iowa, and Stanford universities, with practical workers from the Associated Charities of Boston, the Charity Organization societies of New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, the Children's Home and Aid So ciety of Chicago, and the George Junior Republic. It can not be expected that the short period of six weeks during which the school is in session will be sufficient to train new workers to be fitted for charitable work. This must come with practice and experience. It is the purpose of the school to serve as a helpful introduction to such work, and persons who expect to enter social and charitable work whether in paid positions or as volunteer members of committees and boards of direction. A registration fee of ten dollars. for the course is received, which may be remitted in certain instances by scholarships. ** The meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Correction at Topeka last week was significant, more particularly in its social influ ence. As a result indirectly of the presence of the conference, state conferences were organized in both Kansas and Missouri, and promise to exert a helpful influence upon the charitable work of those states. The somewhat remote location of the conference this year doubtless. prevented many of those who usually are present from attending. Still, a number came from the eastern seaboard, including nine or ten from the state of New York, and the conference welcomed many new faces from the west and far west. The next meeting will be held at Washington, D. C., with Mr. John M. Glenn, of Baltimore, as president. ** * A legal decision has been handed. down by Judge Gildersleeve of the Supreme Court which is likely to have important consequences in future. The case is that of Miss Helen D. Ward against the St. Vincent's Hospital to recover $30,000 damages for injuries received while the patient was a private a private paying patient. The operation done on her was completely successful; but before she had recovered from the influence of the ether, the nurse burned her leg with the hot water bag, and did not report the matter for several days, thinking she could take care of it herself. It is alleged in consequence of this injury that Miss Ward was compelled to undergo an operation to save the leg from amputation. In the original trial a verdict was rendered for the defendant on the ground that the hospital being a charitable institution was not liable for the negligence of its employees. On appeal a new trial was ordered and a verdict of $10,000 damages awarded to the plaintiff. Mr. William Foster, president of the Associated Charities of Newburgh,epitomized the spirit of charity work recently in the following remark: "We are working not so much to save money as to prevent pauperism." The experiment of giving free lectures as a part of the public system of education has been during the last year remarkably successful. Dr. Leipziger said in an address recently that the lecture course "has given to poor people larger visions. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment has appropriated $4,000 to erect two booths for dispensing sterilized milk, one in Central Park and the other in Tompkins Park. The booths are to be fifteen feet high, thirty feet long, and fourteen feet wide, and to have tiled wainscoting and cement floors, so that they can be washed out daily. Appliances are to be provided for the cooling and proper preservation of the milk. It is expected that by the time the warm weather comes Mr. Straus will have milk booths in The People's University Extension Society is making an effort to retain its women physicians throughout the summer. It thinks that the services of physicians are perhaps more needed during the summer than at any other season of the year. One of the physicians found in a certain district which she visited a condition that is probably duplicated in many others. Here, she says, the chief authority of the operation in nearly all the city parks quarter on children's ailments was a and on the recreation piers. ** The May Grand Jury paid a visit on May 23 to the institutions of the Corrections and Charities departments, accompanied by Commissioners Keller and Lantry and other officials. They declared themselves to be agreeably surprised at the good condition and service they noted, agreeing, however, most heartily with Commissioner Keller's condemnation of the Harlem Dispensary and Hospital. While they were on Blackwell's Island, a number of committed persons were being discharged from the steamer, Thomas S. Brennan. One man sank from exhaustion, and it was found that he was a self-committed man, having given himself up as a vagrant, and had been committed to the work woman who proudly explained her right to the office with the statement, "Sure, mum, haven't I hed thirteen children, and buried ivery wan of thim excipt that boy there?" ** * The Tenement-House Commission, after having worked for some time as a whole, visiting different types of tenement houses, bad and. good, in the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, has now divided itself into sub-committees as follows: I. A committee on tenementhouse construction-under which are included all questions of sanitation, protection against fire, light and air, baths and water-closet arrangements, percentage of lot to be occupied, and other questions. 6 CHARITIES. RHODES, FREDERICK. See Hilford, Fred'k. ROBINSON, J. T. See Wilson, John. ROGERS, HERBERT. See Bennett, Thos. M. RUSSELL, ALLA M.; alias Dawson, Rossin, a former teacher of music in the Brooklyn public schools; at one time she asked for relief in behalf of her pupils, but is now soliciting help for herself and for her mother is plausible and voluble; is middle-aged and stout. RUSSELL, WM. See Morgan, Wm. 1 SMITH, MISS ANNIE R., 512 Quincy street, SMITH, MARY IDA. See Mayers, Anna. SMITH, RANDOLPH W. and NINA; refined appearance; man a journalist; persistent beggars. STARIN, ROY. See Baron, Edward. STAUBLI, FRANK, waiter; begging-letter writer. STEIN, CLARA. See Dels. of his discharge because of loss of sight through accident in the laboratory in which he was employed. STURM, HENRY GEORGE and ANN G.; man begs, taking one or two of his children with him to excite sympathy; chronic case; woman untruthful and shares the man's life; pretend Protestantism or Roman Catholicism to suit their purpose. TAYLOR, J., JAS., or WM. See Wilson. TEEDS, MRS. MARTHA A.; carries begging letters on her behalf, purporting to come from the following persons: H. A. Grey, M. D., Mrs. Sarah Jane Hull, Mrs. A. A. Palmer, Mrs. M. A. Russell, Mrs. H. H. Wilson, a city pastor visiting the poor." TEN EYCK, WALTER PHELPS. See Finlay, Wm. Edgar. 1 New name on this list. THOMPSON, MRS. See Prentiss, R. L. THOMPSON, WM. and JESSIE; alias Brown, Johnson, Scott, Shepherd, Wilson; wife begs usually at night with a baby in her arms; claims that her husband is sick and that she has three children. THORNTON, EDGAR CHARLES. See Morgan, John. TISCHLER, WALTER; alias George Anders; is or pretends to be a waiter; is about 35 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches in height, well proportioned, has a blonde mustache; tells story of loss of wife. VANDERHOOF, EDWARD A. and MARY L. PALMER (Gordon), his wife; persons of refinement; man intemperate; woman persistent and ingenious begging-letter writer. VAN RENSSELAER, BEEKMAN. See Finlay, W. Edgar. WADGE, EDWIN HARVEY; alias Archer, Davidson, Gray; age 61; pretends to be a Major of the English Army, 53d regiment, the Shropshires, in India; on the retired list, in receipt of pension which he assigns to his wife, who is in England, but begs for temporary loan; is a fraud and denounced by English societies. WAGNER-LUDLOFF, PAUL T.; alias Burger, Kelley, Ludloff, Ludlow, Moeller, Normann, Schnell, Winter; wife, Clementina, signs herself C. Ludlow, C. Ludloff, C. Moeller, C. Schnell; claims sometimes to be single, at other times to have a child sick with pneumonia; persistent beggingletter writer; gives false addresses. WALDECK, CAPTAIN WM. A. H., and AMELIA THERESA MARIA COUSINS, his wife. Man was in the Dutch army and claims to have been honorably discharged; then was officer in the United States volunteer army in the war with Spain; now claims to have applied for a position in the Venezuela army; woman formerly well spoken of in London, Ontario; the woman is apparently the more active partner; calls on Episcopal clergymen especially; makes a favorable impression; borrows money which is never repaid. WARD, JAS. See Morgan, Wm. 2 WATSON, JOSEPH EDWARD; shows a letter WIEGEL, WM. H. (or WEIGEL); writes begging letters from Baltimore; is a United States soldier pensioner; signs himself "Late Col. and A. A. Gen'l U. S. A."; 2 New name on this list. married uses pious phrases; has two daughters, and a son in the navy; writes an excellent hand. WILLIAMS, ANN. See Mayers. WILLIAMS, HENRY and MARTHA; man sells microscopes and soap ostensibly; family appear to be supported by beggary; have a respectable appearance and comfortable lodgings. WILLIAMS, JOHN W. See Finlay, Wm. Edgar. WILSON, MRS. WM. See Thompson, Wm. Englishman; tells story of wealthy brother in England; asks aid to tide over unexpected lack of funds; of gentlemanly address. One of the agents of the Charity Organization Society reports a peculiar variety of swindle, which he thinks is quite extensively practised. It proceeds on the following lines: Certain tailor shops in the city have as agents lodging-house sharps whose business it is to approach unfortunate men and boys who have pawned everything except the clothes on their backs, and who stand in further need of money, with the proposition that if they go to a shop and leave their garments-nominally for repairs, they will be accommodated temporarily with other garments and a loan. As these shops have no license to loan on goods, the arrangement must be called a "trade," with the understanding that the borrower can redeem his garments on repayment of the loan plus repair charge. If, as is unlikely, the borrower does wish to recover his garments, he finds them made unwearable, and is told that they must be repaired; or he is told that it was a purchase, that they are not pawnbrokers. All of which means that the man.has lost his garments without compensation. He The Robert Clark Company of Cincinnati has issued General Roeliff Brinkerhoff's "Recollections of a Lifetime." In 1878 General Brinkerhoff was elected a member of the Board of State Charities of Ohio, and is now serving his eighth term. As a philanthropist there are but few men more widely known. has visited and inspected the charitable and correctional institutions in nearly every state in the Union, in the Dominion of Canada, in the Republic of Mexico, and in the countries of western Europe. The last few chapters of the book are largely devoted to discussions of the philanthropic and correctional institutions and methods of the countries he has visited. Classified Advertisements. Advertisements under this head, two lines or more without display, 5 cents a line. THE HE CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY renews its appeal for the following cases: For a monthly pension of $12.00 towards the support of a woman and her two children. As she is a worthy woman and very industrious when her health permits her to work, it is desirable to keep the family together: For a pension of $6.00 a month to supplement the little that a couple, both over 70 years old, can earn towards their support. They have no children and no relatives able to help them. but they are respectable people, and the inan has until recently earned good wages. The wife is crippled by rheumatism: For $175.00 to keep a consumptive man in the country place where he has been boarding for a year, and has improved somewhat. His wife is having a hard struggle to support herself and two children in the city, but she has succeeded in doing so. Contributions for any of the above cases sent to the Charity Organization Society, 105 East 22d Street, will be duly and publicly acknowledged. The society acknowledges the following additional contributions for the above purposes: James E. Boyd and J. B. J." $10.00 each. The society also acknowledges the following contributions in response to its recent appeals for funds with which to pay rent for a few months for a widow with six children; for a pension to enable an unmarried daughter to provide a home for her widowed mother; to pay the rent of an aged couple, the man 80 and the woman 70: "C. M. H., $20.00; E. F. C. P.," "Cash," John S. Ellis, A. M. S.," "A "E. B. C.," $10 00 each; Mrs. A. O. Brooks, Mrs. G F. Vietor, "G. W. W." E. A. P.," and "L. H.," $5.00 each; R. A. Harrat, $3.00; "H. C." and "V. S. K.," $2.00 each; "A King's Daughter," Cash," John C. Giffing," Somerville and wife, "A. B." "C. E.," and " W. S. I., Jr.," $1.00 each. Sufficient money has now been received for these cases. |