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Office of

GENERAL EMPLOYMENT

AND INFORMATION

246 Fifth Avenue

Miss Wild will supply the best of servants only; giving her personal attention to the investigation of references: housekeepers, governesses; shoppers and chaperons also supplied; houses opened and closed, autumn and spring.

New York Medical College and Hospital for Women,

19 WEST 101st STREET,

Between Central Park West and Manhattan Avenue,

MAINTAINS:

(1.)--The only college in the State exclusively for the education of women in medicine. Dr. M. BELLE BROWN, Dean.

(2.)-A hospital (medical and surgical) for women and children. Patients charged according to ability to pay, or free if necessary; supported by board of patients and voluntary contributions.

(3.) Dispensary for women and children; open from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Women physicians only in attendance.

(4.)-Obstetrical out department; staff of 20 women physicians attend the needy poor women in their own homes during confinement. Cards for free attendance may be obtained from the resident physician.

Mary Knox Robinson, President.

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ADVERTISEMENTS

FOR THE ELEVENTH EDITION
OF THE......

New York Charities Directory

which will be published in November, received at the following rates:

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This volume is in constant use by charitable societies and individuals who are desirous of helping others in the best way. Special terms are made to Charitable Institutions.

Published by

THE CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY

of the City of New York

UNITED CHARITIES BUILDING

105 EAST 22d STREET

DONATIONS OF

OLD CLOTHES, NEW UNDERWEAR,

AND RAGS TO BE WASHED AND DYED FOR
RUGS AND CARPETS

are desired by

The Workrooms

for Unskilled Women

of the

CHARITY ORGANIZATION

SOCIETY.

516 West 28th Street.

Old garments and rags are used to supply work for those who would otherwise need relief, and the work is made a means of training for self-support.

The Charity Organization Society will send for packages. Address, 105 East 22d Street Telephone, 380 18th Street.

AUNDRY.....

LAUN

FORMERLY

OF THE

THE PARK AVENUE
LAUNDRY.

Charity Organization
Society,

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 Office, 105 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

C. O. S. LAUNDRY,

516 WEST 28TH STREET.

TELEPHONE: 804 18TH STREET.

Kindling Wood
For Sale.

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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.

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The Official Organ of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.

VOL. V.

CONTENTS.

The Juvenile Court of Chicago...

OCTOBER 6, 1900.

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No. 19.

records have not been as perfect as could be desired and some serious mistakes have occurred. These faults have been recognized and are being corrected.

From the first annual report of the chief probation officer, Mr. T. D. Hurley, dated June 30, 1955, but not yet in print, we learn that there are six probation officers at the call of the court, who are paid from private funds. One colored woman takes the cases of the colored children, and handles them weil too. In addition to these, twenty-one truant officers of the Board of Education have been commissioned, though they handle only cases involving truancy. Sixteen police officers from the various. precincts also act, while thirty-six other persons have been chosen for individual cases. Besides these fourteen agents of various societies have assisted in the work.

The efficiency of these officers has naturally varied. naturally varied. How efficient anyone could be with 200 boys paroled to him as is the case in one instance-may be imagined. Monthly reports of each paroled child are now required. Of 1,095 children paroled during the year only 203 have been. returned to the court, and of 256 boys released from the John Worthy School, but thirty-three have been remanded. The city is divided into

eleven parole districts, and Mr. Hurley desires as soon as possible to have a head officer for each of these who shall be responsible for the work in his district. It is hoped that the coming session of the legislature will make appropriations for the probation officers who now receive no compensation from the public and in many cases pay their own expenses. It is likewise hoped that when this appropriation is made the politicians may not get control of it.

One defect in the law was soon discovered. At first some eighteen boys were sent to the State Reformatory at Pontiac under a clause in section 9 of the law. The courts have held however that this institution is in effect a prison and requires an indictment by grand jury. As a result lawyers soon managed to get sixteen of these boys released. Cases fit for this institution are now held directly to the grand jury and the obnoxious clause will probably be stricken out this winter. Thirtyseven were thus held to the grand jury.

The children before the court last year may be classified as follows. Dependent children:

Boys, under 6 years of age, 86

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Mr. Hurley says that delinquency among the children nearly always begins with truancy. In this matter of truancy the court cooperating with the compulsory education department of the board of education, has brought about some good results which will be strengthened when the parental school is opened. He also complains of the junk dealers who entice the boys to steal lead, brass, etc., and speaks in strong language of the effect of the practice of sending children into saloons, etc., to sell flowers, gum and papers.

Mr. W. O. La Monte in a paper read before a recent meeting of the Cook County Child-Saving Conference urged several changes in the law as it now stands.

1. Strike out the clause authoriz

ing the court to commit the Pontiac Reformatory.

2. Give the court power to compel parents to support, to the extent of their ability, their children who may be sent to industrial schools or boarded out, etc.

3. Make more specific the duties and powers of probation officers. 4. Make clearer provision for the treatment of the societies receiving children from the court.

5. Give the court power to commit to any public institution such as the county hospital, the state school for the deaf and dumb, feebleminded, etc.

One excellent feature of the children's law is the provision enabling societies duly accredited to receive children directly from the courts and also expressly providing that legal

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