exceptional. Nearly every one who writes or speaks on the subject looks at it from a professional point of view, and not from the point of view of the general public or that of the average wage-earner. Such a person, I maintain, can not afford to pay the prices which a first-class physician or surgeon charges. It is the very exorbitance of such charges which makes the dispensary necessary, where the average wage-earner, who needs his health and strength and soundness of limb as much as or more than any one else, can go and receive first-class treatment, either gratuitously, or, if he can afford it, for a comparatively small fee. If I were holding a brief for poor and incompetent physicians I might have something to say against dispensaries; but, as the brief which I hold is for the mass of the people, I am strongly in favor of dispensaries. With reference to our own clinic, I may say that, associated as it so intimately is with our Parish House work, we have every opportunity to prevent an abuse of medical charity. Believe me, very truly yours, First New York State Conference of Charities and Correction, Senate Chamber, Albany, Wednesday afternoon, November 21, 1900. 3 00 P. M.-General business of the conference. 3.30 P. M.-Report of the committee, by the chairman. Subject: "The Progress of Charity." 3.50 P. M.-Paper by Mr James B. Reynolds, of New York city, on The need and value of Settlement work." 4.10 P. M.-Discussion opened by Mr. J. Graham Phelps Stokes, of New York city. 4.20 P. M.-General discussion. Speakers limited to five minutes. 4.40 P. M.-Paper by Mr. Edward T. Devine, secretary New York Charity Organization Society, on "The breaking up of families." 5.00 P. M.- - Discussion opened by Mr. Edmond J. Butler, of New York city. 5 10 P. M.-General discussion. Speakers limited to five minutes. 5.40 P. M.-Miscellaneous business. THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 29. In the week ending September 29, there was a total of 210 calls at the joint application bureau of the Charity Organization Society and the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor and twenty-seven homeless persons were taken in charge. Ninety-three new families were recorded in registration bureau. At the woodyard there were during the week 144 men as against III for the previous week. Twenty-one days work were given women at the Industrial Building. In the month just ended, there was a total of 878 calls at the above bureau and 725 calls at the inquiry desk in the central office of the Charity Organization Society. The calls made at this desk are from those desiring information concerning homes for the aged, hospitals for the sick, and other charitable activities within the city, and are not included in the number calling at the joint application bureau. In addition to the number calling at the inquiry desk, about 153 inquiries were received and answered by letter, relative to employment and the above. mentioned institutions. Of those applying at the joint bureau, 76 were new with homes, 56 were re-applicants without homes. One hundred and five new applications were received from homeless persons, the most of which were men. Of homeless persons reapplying there were 37. ** At the physician's office for outdoor poor, in the Department of Public Charities, 301 persons were examined in the week ending September 29. Of this number 135 were sent to City Hospital; 46 to Metropolitan Hospital; 55 to the of out-door poor; 64 to Bellevue Hospital; and 7 to their homes. * * * Superintendent Blair of the outdoor poor department sent quite a variety of candidates last week to the Almshouse at Flatbush for the consideration of the superintendent of state and alien poor. The fol lowing are among the most interesting: (a) Two soldiers in uniform, who had recently arrived on a transport from Cuba. Both had been robbed. (b) A little boy, whose mother intended him to go to Providence, but who had boarded the wrong train and came to New York. (c) A Roumanian land owner whose presence was explained by a desire to know the homestead law in the west. (d) A young converted Hebrew with credentials from a Scotch mission in Constantinople. (e) A physician with long hair and a sallow complexion, from Calcutta. His principal effects are described as a cane and a desire to practice medicine. (f) A railway conductor from Venezuela, suffering from malaria. (g) Two runaway girls from Philadelphia. One claimed to be the daughter of an Episcopalian police man. Of these, some were sent home; some are waiting for funds and others may have to be deported by the state board of charities owing to the fact that they came in from Canada, and in such cases the United States emigration authorities can not return them to their original homes. The annual meetings of many of Dispensary; 4 to the superintendent the larger charitable societies are would beg in the evening, claiming HENRY ARDEN, that the yard was closed. * * The Educational Alliance, Jeffer son street and East Broadway, an institution for the moral and intel JAPANESE ART OBJECTS, NOVELTIES IN SILKS FOR LADIES' USE, 38 WEST 22D STREET. FORMERLY OF THE THE PARK AVENUE Charity Organization No. 516 WEST 28TH STREET. Orders for Family Washing are received by Telephone, by mail, or by personal call at the Laundry, at the Central Ofice, 103 East 22d St, or at any District Office of the Society. Prices are reasonable. The work is utilized, under competent supervision, to train women to become expert laundresses, and to provide employment where relief would otherwise be needed. ADDRESS TELEPHONE: 804 18TH STREET. C. O. S. LAUNDRY, 516 WEST 28TH STREET. Kindling Wood Customers of the Charity Organization Society's Woodyard are requested to order their supply of Wood if possible at the present time. The Yard is overstocked, thus limiting the opportunity to give employment, at a time when there is much greater need for it than during the earlier summer months. The Wood is hand-cut and is sold at regular market prices. Satisfaction is guaranteed. Order by telephone, 804 18th Street, or by mail, 516 West 28th Street, or by call at Central Office of the Society, 105 East 22d Street. New Patronage is solicited. The Official Organ of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York. VOL. V. CONTENTS. The Week Ending October 6 A City Block in 1896... GAYLORD I. WHITE. War Against Consumption.. Paris Exposition Awards HARTLEY HOUSE.. OCTOBER 13, 1900. I 2 6 8 9 13 18 The Tenement-House Commission. A Children's Court..... The Squirrel Inn 19 No. 20. and 178 applicants who had been previously known. There have been employed, during the week, in the laundries of the bureau, 75 women, 6 of whom were given such employment for the first time. In the workrooms for women 73 were given employment. Of this number 57 had been employed before. The number of men given work at the woodyard was 53. These men, excepting 9, had received previously similar employment at the yard. There were 110 applications received at the Central Office. Of these applicants, 12 were single men, 15 single women, 42 married, 19 widows, II widowers, and II deserted. Some three or four of these applicants are persons of considerable cultivation, who had been in much better circumstances. ** * The Children's Aid Society will send a party of about fifteen children to Missouri next Tuesday. * * * In the week beginning October 1, a total of 263 persons was examined at the physician's office for outdoor poor in the Department of Public Charities. Of this number 134 went to the City Hospital, 31 to the Metropolitan Hospital, 44 to the |