Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1892, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, OCTO! DISTRICT CHARITIES. Superintendent Warner's Report to the Commissioners. ; PLANS FOR FUTURE WORK. Progress Made Toward the Reorganization Favored by the Superintendent—What the 0 that he had no special confidence in the fair- | and scarlet fever. Board of Children’s Guardians Will Do— Consolidating Appropriations—The Munie- | terested expressed to him their dissatisfaction | best work. The only children refused admis- ipal Lodging House. >— ‘The second annual report of Mr. Amos G. Warner, the superintendent of charities. eub- mitted to the District Commissioners today. is © dvenment of considerable length, and dis- cusses in general and in detail the subject of | charities in the Distric ferring to the scope of the superintendent's powers, Mr Warner states that the work falling Under the supervision of the superintendent pends very larg cation of In the beginuiag. re- the it tions adop' Priation bills The placing of the provi af and dumb in another part of th ation bill at the I a of ¢ from unrle - ent, while the care of th: »printion ish as well as un Tue » For boy- of Jus Rulssioners wer dre its ve. the r the Department Dietriet Com- of supervi: over it a for » the be be be referred v aud bat fnote.tion dent of ebaritios mates for this superiot annual ¢ ort regardi ne new ¢ rtution Inatriet 1 revenues. The « ces Ue metitutic: e Departmen: the Interior, is 1 i therefore ite present is sozaewhat anomalous. For a number of year deen placed at ihe d for the relief the request of the ¢ ation+ regarding the appor or the temporary support of sons.” The superintendent reviews lation of the fi prevent cruelty to children and to animals in the District as laws ¢ able itaportance. BLIC SUBSIDIES To PRIVATE CUARITIES. Under this head the superintendent again dis cusses 4 question which « @ considera- bie portion of his first annual report. The experience of a year with the charities ed me fully than ever that the present manner nf xeeording them public «apport is unde bie. The appropriation for the severa tions bears ne rela ficiartes nor to which ts provided might have been thought, and iu crintenden duty amigned him the various inett ons fair and satisfactory toall concerned. But on reflection it will be seen that there ix no guide for him to follow a there has been for the Commis- mamitiees in past years, To for public money on the d that the institution “‘is doing support from private sourees. It deed was by ( charities, of estamating f- as an te or a priv ciation, or of e school, or a temperance asso- & society for the suppreseion or ciation of volunteer does good.” and yet it an ® rivate It is clear that after ed that an institution is “doing good” we mast also ascertain whether the good that ft is doing is of the sort that can be paid for with taxpavers’ money, and if so, what pro- ortion of the good done is of this character. ue frat step in proparing to grant public aid charities must then be to ascestain is proper should be done by means of public appropriations, and then to ascertain wi b cqual clearness just how much of this particular work is being done by the several institutions. No machinery for ascertaining these facts Basexisted in the District, nor was it in the power of the superimiendent of charities to €reste such machin For instance, the in- receive beneficiaries, each according to very fle rules of ite own enactment, and these r administered by matrons or committees having full power in the premives Each iuetitution is serving several interests. Often one of these is a denominational interest, and it is within the hnowlesige e superintendent that many ebiidren are adwitied or retained primarily for the purpose of securing thew education in tb Satth off a particular sock. More than this, the institutions serve general hum: interests which the taxpayers of the Di taxpayers, would hardiy care to serve. For instance, while I was at one of the institutions application was made for the admission of ao hittle girl from Vir- ula. ‘The one who applied on her be- Wasa missionary of a church supporting ‘the institation referred to. It was clear from his statements tint the girl was growing up under considera! le abuse and under conditions that made it probable that her life would be te ciearly what it jet, a8 wreebed. The lady in charge of the institution | asked me what should be done in « case of this eharveter and Icould only answer that as a pices of church work it was eminently proper that she should receive the child, while as a piece of public worl for by the taxpayers Eitbe Dierict was not ot all proper ta ediatt ber. At another institution it was found that more than half of the children had been re- coived directly from institutions in other states, some of them coming from as far away as Massachusetts. It was desirable undoubtedly for the chureb, which this institution serves, ed on general humanitarian grounds. thai fees children divtance, trained and cared for, but from the standpoint of the District taxpayers it was not ‘oper that they should be cl upon the Pictret revenue, Many other examples of Hike nature could be given. all ‘that much good may be done ot proper thats government appropriation na, would be | For instance, a eburch, | dinary cireum- | should be brought hero from « | | committees remarked in a disgusted way: “I am satisfied that whatever we do it will be | Wrong.” Nor were the results more satisfacto | to the institutions themselves. Those interested | in a given institution, seeing no specific reason why euch large amounts should be given to | | other institutions (whose work and methods | they possibly failed to correctly apprehend ) and | little to themselves, to sF ing that in nowise contributed to informing | the committees as to the merite of the given case. | ‘The recommendations of the superintendent f charities, while adopted in the main, could | notbe followed with @xactness, because bis knowledge of the subject was complete enough, | ness of his own recommendations. Representa- | | tives of almost every one of the institutions in- | with euch a method of asking for public su | pert. As one of the gentlemen remarked, “It | puts me in the attitude of a beggar, and I do| not have to beg.” In order to determine what | amount should be given to each institution | the public treasury it is obvious that some method must be used of obtaining an accurate estimate of the purely public eervice which that tion renders. It is proper for the public | make specific payment for | specific work, but it is hot proper to hand around appropriations on the general | theory that the institutions receiving them are doing something that in some way is useful. n the latter :nethod is tried all sorts of ex- | 2 ‘ht into the dis- the “recognizing” of a given | or a given denomination or some | othor influential class in the community. | it was, therefore, with a good deal of satis- fuction that I witnessed the passage of the act to create a board of ehildren’s guardians for the District and fto establieh a municipal lodg- | | ing house for the care of the homeless poor. in ts I think that the new machinery provided for will enable us to in- troduce the prineiple of specific payment for specific work and therefore to put the sub- dlaizing of private institutions on = business basis, DISTRICT CHARITIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR. A table is given which summarizes the finan- erations of the institutions whose work I by the superintendent of charities. ns take ceive from e: 970.57, | 24605.08 and from all other | . including subseriptions, dona- | but not ineluding lonn: Few of them have to pay rent, as | 40 was expended for this pur res for salaries amounted to For all other items of maiate ¥ repairs, $104,243.17. | pur- | For interest | debts, 24.061 For the payment of the pal of deivts, $5,185.17. The per cent of income less balances, earnings and ributed from the publie reven ion of 3.3 per cent from the | togeth from earnings MEDICAL CHARITIES. forring to medical charities the report gives the expenditures of ten American cities for the purpose of supporting medical charities. | Tho per capita e jiture of Washington is shown by these fi; to be twice the avers i ien cities, and some 20 cents per brad city investigat want expended for medi- ‘as prob city, but ° eoneit, shole syatem of modi- District. Medical charities istinet pay fo ed to do so. in the city of New York, servir seame class, one was’ very largely ¥ the pay of those benefited, while ng as a dead weight upon the t public. Those acquainted with the e of medical charities are distinctly of that good resulta come to the latter are required to pay for so far as their means permit.” | The explanation of laxnees of medical charé- | ties in the + of investigating the appli- | go to them results, ihe report says, | from the competitive | . stitutions. Th is a tendeney to measure the value of an insti- tution by the gross amount of work and to Suuge the importance of the men connected | ith it by a similar measure. j ‘The English experience in these matters is very instructive. The Medical Times has said that the amount of gratuitous work done by the profesrion in no way raises it in public estima- | known that it is not of charity, but from the po: | that is gained by being attached to a hospital | stuff and the hope of a good practice accruing therefrom. The British Mec Journal “Hospitals compete with each other as to the number of patients without regard to the | fitness of the cases or the — position of the applicant.” In the Chil- | kren’s jon, where the all’ applicants to the “Charity Organizatioa Society” and where no patients were excluded when the parents were making 30 hillingy a week, chere was found an abuse rate of 57 per cent. In the don Hospital when an inspector was ap- jointed for the outdoor patients there was a | eduction in twelve months of 7,811 patients, | which brought about a caving of some $7,000 in one year to the charity. At this hospital the ~¢ rate was about 50 per cent. One of the sritish writers on the subject complained that physicians practicing among the wealthy classes tecommended these people to always send their servants to dispensaries for treatment. When I spoke of this to a Washington physician his comment was: “That is my course invaria- * Further conversation with him devel- the fact that he thought it unadvisable to other physician enter the houses of patients to treat the servants and did not care to treat the latter himself, but to find dis- | pensaries in the city. An attempt was made at twe different dispensaries in Washington to preseribe for the superintendent of charities when he calied on business, although he made ‘no attempt to appear especially unwell or impe- | cunions, MIGHT BE LARGELY REDUCED. There ars doubtless many reasons which | make it necossury that Weshington should have | large public expenditures for medical charities, |Jarger, perbaps, in proportion to the popula- | tion than some other cities. We are without | the great endowments, which, in Philadelphia, have freed the city from the necessity of pro- ducing any other hospital than that connected | with the alms house. But after all allowances }are made Icannot but think that if business- | Like principles were adopted in providing for the indigent sick of Washington the expendi- tures in their behalf might be very largely re- duced. In Buffalo, where the population is [about the same size as Washington, the per capita expenditure for medical charities is only | 26 cents, @ little more than one-third our own. In that city admissions to the hospitals are ob- tained only from the poor law officers or the health department and the agent of the latter department goes through the hospital wards weekly or semi-monthiy to see what patients | paid for by the public can be properly dis- | charged, or, if chronic cases, can properly be remanded to the alms house of infirmary. | eity of Buffalo or the county pays a certain rate | per week for the care of the patients it sends to the various hospitals. | In Wachington there is no public official hav- | ing authority to suggest any similar arrange- ments or, in fact, any comprehensive change in our system of medical charities. The only bodies having authority in the premises arc the | congressional committees on appropriations, | and as long as they see fit to scatter the appro- | priations ‘or medical charities in the District of ‘lumbia through various bills and pay them | from various funds they lone can alter the | condition of affairs here ted. | Another unfortunate connected | mith the dlaorg of our medical charities is that it is not to operate @ h cesaag aclaael Sor oeeces eolmarctocter? ‘THE HOSPITALS. ‘The report then discusses the reports of the Various hospitals. It notes the falling off in | the net cost per patient at the Columbia Hos- | pital | cording Suton tanamtmabaret ianiote: ‘The present annual cost the superintendent does not regard as excessive. ‘‘It is proper,” | the report says, “in an institution like. the Co- Jumbia Hospital, where it is desirable that the place worki | such as consumption. The tendency of some | dice institutic ith nlightened | year ae ae ead |T'RF. ‘Macfarland.” Tt'was ‘not intended oF | says that the justi | the proportion of attendants is especially large | and becoming somewhat acquainted with the during the year, n rather high rate of i but not than is common in the hospi for the young. It resulted in part from re- ceiving children having certainly fatal diseases, hospitals to avoid recei such cases it one not to be commended, as a hospital should be a comfortable place for the poor to die in as wel! as to be cured in. Therefore a high denth rate resulting from a willingness to receive patients when the prognosis is death should in nowise ublic. Another cause contributing to the Biel mortality cannot be ‘eo satisfactorily ex: plained. This is the in the institu tion of contagious diseases, such as diphtheria While the hospital has good facilities for isolating this class of cases, yet their is always « hindrauce to the sion during the year were such as came at times | when the presence of contngious diseases made | it unsafe to receive them. The experience of this institution adds another to the many proofs that have already accumulated of the grea eed that there is for a contagious disease how tal in the District. I recommend the usual appropriation of $10,000 for the Children’s Hospital.” Of the National Homeopathic Hospital Asso- ciation the report says: “The improvements for | which an appropriation was sacked at tho last session of Congress were made, although public id was not granted, as requested. ‘These give the hospitals much better facilities, especially for suzgical work and for accommodating the | pupil nurses resident in the institution. 1} recommend an appropriation of $7,000 for maintenance.” Of the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital the report says that in some of its ts the work of this department is closely snalogous to that which in other cities is per- formed by the police department, or at least which is attended to at the police station! and here the police department concurs wit the superintendent in saying that the service rendered by the hospital is absolutely indis- pensable. One item that has added considerably to the cost of operating the institution, and that will be a constant charge upon its revenues here- after, is the” maintenance of an emergency ambulance, prepared to go at a moments notice to the scene of any accident. This am- nee is equipped with all the necessary #ur- gical appliauces and a competent surgeon goos with it ou each trip. This ambulance is at the member of the police force and sup- plemenis in « very satisfactory way the ambu- lance service provided by the metropolitan ibalataet anscagh othe expenditures _in- to the economical operation of the hos- pital as it now stands indicates that it cannot be managed on the public subvention of less than $10,090 a year. Beside tie expenses of operation the hospital also has some expenses counected with its in- debtednoss. ‘The sum of #15,000 has Leen boi ed at interest. It seems to the in- | tendent expedient that this interest charge should remain a permanent draft upon the 1 sources of the tion, but inasmuch as the | District has putributed more than | unjust that the debt should be paid nent unless the District gov ss the title to the propert: 8 of suck done so much to make ¢ title of the property transferred to the Dis- recommends the followi: ral Dixpe for the next 210,000; ior ps ovided that the titl he corporation shall be vested in the tin trust for the purpose of the hospi As to the Freedman’s Hos; Distr 1, the rep: institution [ : might very prope provide, as iz as done in years past, and, the | superintendent +#hould thi tha? th i e returned to civil bul, from which it was taken at the last’ seasion of Congress. If tho institution is to remain chargeable to the Dist nues its manage- ment should apparently be made a part of the District government. In accordanee with Dr. Purvis’ statement of the needs of Freedman’s Hes ital he recom- mends the appropriation of the foliowing sums for the fixezl year: For maintenance, $54,525; for erecting a coal house, $400; for erecting a new brick ward, $30,000. Discussing the out-patient work of the pensaries Mr. Warner observes: “It has already been indicated that the volume of work done by a dispensary forms no just criterion of its publi value, but hington we have no invest ¢ appealed to to inquire nts for medical relief. I had hoped that an arrangement might be made by which the work of the physicians to the poor could be consolidated with that of the dispensa- ries. “The results I had hoped would be to save a good deal of duplicate work, and to give the man- agement of the dispensaries an opportunity to | find out more about those who applied to 1 for treatment than is now porible. The Cen- tral Dispensary offered to provide an additional | resident physician, who, in return for the priv- | ilege of residing at the dispentary, should do the work of two physicians of the poor in the adjacent districts. “Ihe additional cost to the dispensary of sucha course would ouly have been about $300 a year, and a suitable ma offered himself for the work. ‘This would have sulted in the raving to the District of #660 per year, and had similar arrangements with other institutions been made the saving might have been proportionately large. But the op- position of the health officer and the delay of the Commissioners in deciding the matter per- mitted the opportunity to pass by and the ex- periment was not trie In this connection the report gives statistical information as to the work doue by the Cen- tral Dispensary, the Eastern Dispensary, the Lenman Homeopathic Dispensary and Emer- xency Hospital and the Women’s Dispensary A ‘statement is given of the apportionm during the past year of the fund for the relief of the poor, and he recommends the same ap- propriation-$14,000—for the next year. A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE HOSPITAL. “In my last report,” Mr. Warner says, “I said that the next important addition that should be made to the system of medical charities in the District was a hospital for the treatment of contagious diseases. During the first © of the Fifty-recond Congress there was ofticially | referred to me a proposed item for the sundry civil bill which appropriated €31,000 for the | Daisy Chain Hospital in the District of Colum- | bia, and my hearty approval was given to the insertion of this item. It was approved by the Senate, but thrown out in conference. In | preparing this present report J asked the Com- | missioners if they wished me to estimate for a contagious disease hospital. or if they thought this a matter thet should be left to the health officer. They decided that it was a matter in which the health officer should take the initin- tive, and my responsibility in the premises is therefore at an end. In some way or other, and that soon, such an institution should be provided for. (CHILD-SAVING WORK IN THE DISTRICT. ‘The superintendent discusses at some length the work of child saving, referring to a census taken in midsummer showing the number of dependent children in institutions to be 611, and that more than a hundred persons were en gaged in caring for them. “To some.” the superintendent says, “it might seem that more than a hundred workers for taking care of about six hundred children was alarge number. It will be noticed that gor in those institutions which care for very young children, and it is weil known to those ac- quainted with such matters that the ratio of attendants to beneficiaries must necessarily be large in these cases. In visiting the institutions sonnel of the house staff I have been struck ¥ the large service that is f for small pay. Both on the partof those who re- ceive salaries qt those who do not there is a great measure of personal self sacrifice." The appropria requently rendered ‘The report gives then in some count of the work of various institutions, | give fo | m: 1 and are not averse to having | exi | Aid Society, whei luding the Parubs the = ’ A . BER 3. 1892—TEN PAGES. THE BOARD OF CHILDREN’S GUARDIANS. After quoting the law creating the board of children’s guardians the report continues. Pursuant to this act the judges of the two courte named on the 16h of September, 1892, appointed as members of this board for the term of three years Jos. J. ‘lington, Crosby 8. Noyes and Mies Harriet for the term oftwo years B. Pickman Mann, Simon Wolf and Mrs. L. 8. Doolittle; for the term of one Albert A. Wilson, Geo. W. Moore and Mrs. indeed possible that this board should begin That it shouda organise nad be ready fo proceed tl 01 ly to with its duties after the coming session of Con- gress. The memoranda furnished the Commis- sioners and the report of the House committee on the bill while pending serve to indicate s little more fally than the act itself the special duties and rosponsibilities that will devolve upon the new board. It will hereafter be unnecessary that the Dis- trict should be asked to contribute to the sup- Port of any dependent child unless that child is the legal ward of the board of guardians. There le means for the temporary care of the children of the poor. After organizing and inting ite agents it will be the duty of the rd to investigate and pass upon the case of every child, whether at present in an institution or nbt, which it is thought desirable that the District should support. If the court appealed to makes the child Sepeodent then the board of guardians can place it to board in any private institution, in any private family or give it in adoption to foster parents if opportunity offers. The way in which a private institution can secure public money will be to bring the cases of tho children in its care before the board of guardians, and if the children are adjudged de- pendent then public money will be available to pay for their care xo long as they are in the in- stitution. It will be seen that if the institution then wishes to serve denominational or general humanitavian interests it can do so, but at its own cost and not at the cost of the taxpayers of the District. It is further hoped that the over-crowded condition of the institutions for childten may be relieved in consequence of (1), expert and thorough investigation of all cases, (2), of the gradual introduction of the placing-out systom, ‘The introduction of this system in the District is somewhat experimental, but in so far as it can be introduced it ia undoubtedly much bet- ter and much eheay n_ institution care. ‘The board of guardians will have authority to [oeore out any child for the support of which the istrict is contributing. Another possible benefit to be derived from the operation of the new board is the mitigation of the pressure upon the reform schools, Many children are sent to these schools whom it is not y to retain in the institution for any ble period, and by the new legislation the trustees of a reform school can give such cond I liberation under the guard- of the board of guardians. As considerable time will be necessary for the investigation of the cases of the 600 or more children now in subsidized private institutions, it is necessary thet the board of guardians should be at work some time before the new iscal arrangements for these institutions go into efiect. I shall therefore ask that tho money for the administrative expenses for the board be mad iately available upon the pessage of appropriation bill. ‘This will mouths in which to investigate cages before the institutions will have used up the money appropriated to their use for the cur- rent fiseal year. tell exactly what the ox- itures for the care of dependent children will be under the new order of things. No sure should be adopted that would cripple stitutions or fail to provide in the lest possible manner for the properly de- pendent children of the District.” Much will doubtless depend on the methods of admini tration adopted by the board when it shall be organized, With the Pennsylvania Children’s e the children are boarded ont, the cost is #138 per year per child, divided as Administrative expenses, 22.66; hoarding, €96.21; clothing. €14.89; medicines $4.92 e children’s viritor ef the Philadelphia bureau of charities,who has authority to board out thore in his charge, has charge of about 363 | children ina year. He pays $1.54 a week for | the board of those that are placed in institu- tions and $2 per week for those who are placed with the Children’s Aid Society. Great economies may be expected from tho new board of guardians, but in order to prevent injustice to institutions heretofore receiving beidies, or possible hardship to the children, T have estimated for an amount about the same as fog the current year for this work of provid- ing Mr dopendent children. ‘The eetimaton are based on the census of children already de- scribed, and on comparisons made with similnr work in other cities. I recommend that the following amounts be eppropriated for the use of the bourd of chil- dren's guardians for the fiseal year ending June 80, 1894, or so much of the several amounts may be necessary: For administrative expenses, including rnlaries of agents, expenses in placing and visiting children and all office and sundry expenses, $6,000; this to be immediately avail- able. For the care of feeble-minded children, $6,000, provided that the authority for placing these children heretofore give to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb be trans- ferred to the board of children’s guardians, For the care of children under three years of white and colored, $15,550. For the board and eare of all children over three years of age, $28,000. For the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from pl lace, $3,500. In all, $59,000. ‘This is $50 less than’ the amount appropriated for similar purposes during the current year, but, in my opinion, under the new condition of aifaire, will be ample for the work required. Hereafter it is possible that larger savings may result, and at any rate the tendency to swel this item of the annual appropriation bill will, I trust, be checked. CARING FOR THE HOMELESS. Next are discussed the various institutions for the homeless poor. An appropriation of $2,500 is recommended for the temporary home forex-Union soldiersand sailors, although the superintendent thinks this institution should be under the board of governors of the National Soldiers’ Home. For the Women’s Christian Association he suggests the usual_ap- propriation of £4,000. Referring to the Hope .d Help Mission the superintendent thinks it wise that the public support should be given on the prineiple of specific payment for specific work. He thinks it likewise inadvisable to make a specific appropriation for tho National Temperance Home. dpeaking of the action of the management of the Washington Night Lodg- ing House in turning over the building and appliances to the Commissioners for the use of the new municipal lodging house Mr. Warner says: “This act of generosity on their pert at ‘once freed the new enterprire from the neces- sity of paying rent during its experimental year, and aleo placed at Gisposal of the commisrioners for other use the $400 designed for the night lodging house. It ia certainly @ refreshing experience, after dealing with many organizations which are unwilling or un- able to co-operate ‘atisfactorily with others for the best good of the work in which all are in- terested, to find here an association which is willing to yield up its property without com- pensation. to suapend ite operations for a year mu order that a new public institution may have AND woop ranp. fair trial.” MUNICIPAL Loparxa novs! The opening of this new institution, for which $8,000 was acked and €4,000 obtained at the last session of Congress, has been postponed until Inte in the autumn in order that the amount available might be udequate to the work in hand for (ge time during which it is operated. At thisTime no cuperintendent bas been appointed, but inquiries have been made in Washington and in other cities for some one of intelligence and experience who ean go for- ward with the work vigorously and develop it along right lines. It is not doubted that such Betson can be found. "There is coming to be a large class of men of vigor and intelligence and @ducation who take up philanthropic work from higher motives than the mere drawing of | vigorously ton onceral mig | nor heard of @ 4 salary, and it is hoped that some one of this saceebesenter , Aa already indicated, it is hoped that the new institution will result ‘in emptying the station houses of lodgers; that, by pro a work test, it will help to rid the ‘elty of Somes, st that it will give cleanly and Kenetable strangers really destitute estly out of work in the city. As there may be some classes of cases for which such an institution cannot properly provide, and which it may seem send to some of the private tions already existing, it is recommended that a fund i i a se ] i E : aety Hl # & i The problem of allotting or not allotting sum of $1,000 to the associated ‘the fund at the disposal of the for the relief of the poor was Seaeerrenn the | i tacoma ancllownnse | ag your and | Botte crippled rough not the unex ithdrawal of its income amoun' one quarter, €250, was given. farough is pose department, Me. Were . Warner Sor roms the aie oes ceca at e avery necessitous class, and where no gate A pomblys seoful mothe of citing the poe va methed of ai poor. The police departments of nearly al cities re- ceive more or less from public or privat sources for such purposes. But he never knew department that could properly be made the almoner of any consider- able sum. | Giving relief is not the policeman's specialty and he ought not be to under- take very much work of this kind. NEED OF MORE EFPECTIVE CHARITY ORGANIZATION “This city,” he continues, “is unfortunate in that it has no central private organization which has secured the confidence of the great majority of the charitable public of the city. Good work cannot be done without such centralized force which insures the tion of the public and private le agencies, one with another, which acts as @ bureau of information to all charitably in- terested in the wipers vires egg | house of charities to prevent duplicate and the overlapping of relief. “It was erroneously supposed by some that the superintendent of charities when appointed would act as such a centralizing influence. But this work of effectively ing the public and private charities of the city is beyond the Power of any public official. Tt has 4 and no doubt will hereafter be, the duty of the superintendent of charities “to offend many people, an agency which is to organize the charities of the city must have the friendship and co- operation of all. A society with a guaranteed income of $4,000 a year for administration ee poses and the hearty support of our it most intelligent citizens would do more for the charities of the District, and conse- quently for the District poor, than any public oficial that could be appointed or than any appropriation that Congress could possibly THE SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE. Respecting the superintendent's office Mr. Warner has some remarks to make. He s. ‘The timitation which obliged tho President to appoint some one for this office from outside tho District is source of irritation to many, and in view of the other limitations imposed by the act creating his office should possibly be re- pealed. The history of the organization of the state boards of charities elsewhere shows that such bouies have frequently gone outside the state to get a man for the work, because one of larger experience could be found by this method. It is on the eame princip'e that charity organization societies frequently call a man from a distance to act as general secretary; on the same principle that churches summon pastors from a distance, or that boards of school trustees get the mostcompetent superintendent. they can hear of, whether he bea resident of their particular city or not. “But in view of the rapidity with which this department has recently grown and of the fact thet by many the superintendency of charities was looked upon as a temporary expedient for getting a negiccted department into better a ministrative shape, it would seem that it might be the wisest course not to tinker with the office, but to abolish it, and to establish some- thing more nearly like that which is found in the several states, namely, a district board of charities and corrections. At the proper time a bill having this object in view will be pre- sented to the Commissioners and through thom to Congress, Such a board should have full Powers of investigation and report regardi Sil” charitable and correctional institutions in the District which are in anywive connected with the government or with gov- ernment appropriations. It should possibly contain representatives of the boards of man- agement of the Washington Asylum, of the jail, of the reform school for boys, the reform school for girls, the board of children's guard- ians ard the municipal lodging house. It should especially have power to mquire into and to further organize the system of medical chari- ties in the District, meaning by this all those that serve the District puor and receive public money. Such a bogrd should further heve an expert secretary, at a salary not less than that now paid the superintendent of charitics.” A NATIONAL BUREAU OF CHARITIES ARE coR- RECTIONS. Another matter in which Congress shonld be interested at the earHest possible day is the estab- lishment of a national bureau of charities and corrections, an office something like that whieh now deals with matters of education. A large number of the states already have state boards of charity, and a central bureau could do much to facilitate, improve their work, to introduce better methods and to facilitate their mutual acguaintance. ft is to be hoped that this matter will be brought prominently forward at the national conference of charities and corrections to be held in connection with the world’s Columbian exposition “It will be seen,” Mr. Warner eays in closing his report, “that the cstimates for the next year are for about the seme in.amount as those provided for the current year—leaving “out of view those items which appear in this bill or this part of the bill for the first time. It has seemed that reorganization rather than growth by means of more money was what our charities needed at the present time. While the amount remains the same the number of separate items estimated for is reduced from — seven to eleven. us ess-like organization of the department, and will enable hurried committees to under- stand its needs more readily and more full Heretofore the work on this section of the aj propriation bill has resembled that which would in pro- viding for other departments of the city gov- porate in the bill an indefinite be 80 presented that this section need cause no be necessary if it was sought ernment to ine number of special contracts with private ties. It is hoped that hereafter matters wi more vexation and despair to the congressional committees than that which falls to lot in considering other parts of the District appro- priation bill.” ae DEATH OF RENAN, ‘The Author of the Famous “Life of Christ” Passes Away at the Age of Seventy-two. ogist and author, died in Paris yesterday. Joseph Ernest Renan was born in the little town of Tregnier, in the Department of Cotes du Nord, Brittany, France, on February 27, 1820, His father, a sailor, died, leaving him an infant. He remained at school until his fif- teenth year, surrounded by most profound re- ligious influences, He was sent to a Parisian Catholic seminary in the hope of making him a priest. At the end of his three years at the Little'Semittary he was still bent on being a priest. Ho went to the Grand Seminary of St Sulpice, where four more years of training awaited him. Here he studied modern philoso- phy and science, and showed uncom; wotion to reason. On the 6th . 1845, he quitted St. Sulpice, leaving behind him ‘the faith which he once hoped to teach. pocally in Hebrew, Syriac end Arable; avd st 06; lebrew, an a1 the age of twenty-four he was awarded. the academic prize for a treatise on the Semitic , the emperor refused, in re- sponse to popular clamor against the skeptic, Se rallty the Sppatnstanh, Go teat he atest take the chair until after the fall of the govern- ment in November, 1870, In 1878 he became a member of the French Academy. juropean reputation dates publication of his “Life of Jesus” in which a discerning critic has called “one events of the century,” and with it the work of i Z H if fies" i i ! ry i ! | z EF 5 | i F f j i i ! 4 if £ 7 | i i HI I | i : i I F i § f i i pas ‘This is in the line of Joseph Erncat‘Renan,the'distinguished philol- Hl MALT HOPIME. TIGER HEAD BRAND. Esrastssuzn 1774. WEALT EXTRACT OF THE 19TH CENTURY. Coxqvers Ixsousta. Cones Dyspepsia. Assists Dicestios. 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