UNIVERSITY OF ILLIIV- ^R ARY AT URL , .AMPAIGN ILL HIST. SURVEY HAND-BOOK OF CHARITIES SECRETAK J' ^ fifNOI BY Chicago Home for the Friendless 24 Hahnen.a n Hospital 2;^< ' C. Industrial School for Girls, Cath 173 Cook County h r pital.. Church Home for Orphans 191 Danish Children's Home 196 Deaconess' Orphan Asylum. Lake Bluff 198 111. Industrial School fo Girls 73 111. School or Agr. and Man Training 67 Masonic Orphans' Home 161 Newsboys' Home 95 St. Joseph's and other Cotholic Homes 177 St.Mary's Ind'tr'l Sch'l for Boys.Cath. . 18O St. Mary's Home for Children 186 St. Vincent's Infant Asylum, Cnh 183 Uhlich'sEv. Orphan Asylum... 198 232 111. E. Hospital tor Insane. Kankakee. 245 111. N. " " Elgin 2.'.0 111. Cen. " " Jiicks'nv'le 249 111. S. " " Anna 247 111. Hospital for Insane Criminals.. .. 249 111. Eye and Ear Infirmary 254 Light and Hope Hospital 2it> Marine Hospital, U S 25O Maurice Porter Memorial 92 Mercy Hospital, Catholic 176 Michael Reese Hospital, Hebrew 214 Presbyterian Hospital. Waifs' Mission and Training School... 168 Provident Hospiial. Colored Inl St. Elizabeth Hospital 182 St. Jo.-eph's Hospital 178 St. Luke's Hospital 184 .. 14(1 DAY NURSERIES O* CRECHES. Hull House Creclid 65 Margaret Etter Creche 94 St. James' Day Nursery, Episcopal ... 187 The Church of the Redeemer's Creche 2O6 University Creche 51 Unity School Creche. Unitarian 208 W.C.T.U.Bethesda and Talcott Creches 138 Workers' Creche 211 The Chicago Day Nursery Association 122 FRESH AIS CHARITIES. Daily News" Fresh Air Fund, ""Country Week" and Lincoln Park Sanitarium 107 Lake Geneva Holiday Home 91 Flower Mission 28 Convalescents' Home 188 HOMES FOR AGED. Altenheim, German 147 Church Home, Episcopal 189 Home of Mercy, Swedish Luth. 229 Little Sisters or the Poor, N., S. and W. Side Homes 176 Old People's Home.Prot 97 Cook County Infirmary 236 Home for the Friendless.. 24 HOMES FOR WOMEN. Florence Crittenden Anchorage 139 Home for Self-Supporting Women 62 Home for I he Friendless 24 Minnetonka 124 Temperance Hospital , Wesley Hospital. Meth 2OO Women's and Children's Hospital 29 Woman's Hospital 135 For Dispensaries, see I ist 6( > RELIEF AND LABOR. Chicago Relief and Aid Society 42 Danish Relief Society l.'.n Germ;i n Society 143 G A R. Relief Corps, etc l.V. Holland Relief Society 151 Illinois Industrial Association 82 Norwegian Relief and Aid Six-iet.\ 1">I School Children's Aid Society li>2 Soldier's Home in Chicago 16 n limi'ed homes: most i extent, alter TABLE OF CONTENTS CLASSIFIED GENERALCHARITIES 'PRIVATE). Bureau of Justice 15 Central Free Dispensary 18 C.Eiring Woman's Ketuge for Reform 19 Charity Hospital 21 C. Exchange for Woman's Work 22 C. Home for the Friendless 24 C. Flower Mission 28 C. Hospital for Women and Children. 29 C. Home for Incurables 32 C. Foundlings' Home 33 C. Orphan Asylum 35 C. Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum.. 39 C. Relief and Aid Society 42 Children's Home Society 49 Children's Aid Society 51 Citizens' League f-8 Friendly Aid Society 61 Home for Self-Supporting Women 62 Hull House 65 111. Conference of Charities and Cor- rection 13 111. School of Agricult're and Man.Train 67 III. Industrial School for Girls 73 111. Humane Society 78 111. Training School for Nurses 82 111. Industrial Association 83 Kindergarten Associations 85 Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association. .. 91 Maurice Porter Hospital 92 Margaret Etl er Creche 94 Newsboys' Home 9> Old People's Home 97 Protective Agency for Women and Children 9* Free Public Baths 1OO Provident Hospital and Training Sch'l IO1 School Children's Aid Socie.y 1O2 Soldiers' Home in Chicugu 16O The Armour Institute 105 The C. Daily News Fresh Air Fund 1O7 The Home for Crippled Children 112 Tne Civic Federation (Central Relief). 116 The Chicago Day Nursery Association 122 The Needlework Guild 123 The Working Woman's Home Ass'n.. 124 1 he Mary A. Ahrens Mission 171 Visiting Nurse Association 127 Waifs' Mission and Training School.. . ! 8 Washingtonian Home 129 W. Society for the Suppression of Vice 134 Woman's Hospital of Chicago 135 Woman's Christian Temperance Union 138 \oung Women's Home 141 COUNTY CHARITIES (PUBLIC). Relief Agent 231 Hospital 232 Insane Asylum 234 Infirmary 236 STATE CHARITIES (ILL. PUBLIC 1 . Ill State Board of Public Charities.... 238 111 Home lor Juvenile Fein. Offi nders 238 III. Eastern Hosp. for Ins., Kankakee 245 III. Northern Hospital for Insane. Flgin 25O 111. Cent. Hosp. for Ins., Jacksonville.. 249 Hi. Southern Hospital for Insane, Anna '-47 111. Hosp. for Insane Criminnls. Chester 252 III School for Deaf Mutes.Jacksonville 244 111. School for Blind, Jacksonville .... 242 111 School for Feeble Minded, Lincoln 24(1 III Soldiers and Sailors Orphans'Home 24<) III. Char. Kve and E:r Infirmary. 2">< III. Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. 156 SPECIAL CHARITIES. German Society of Chicago 143 German Old People's Home 147 German Hospital 150 l>anish Relief Society 150 Holland Relief Society 151 Norwegian Relief Society 151 St. Andiew's (Scotch) Society 152 St.George's (English) BenevolentAssn 153 Swiss Benevolent Society 154 G. A. R.and W.R.C.and Ladies G.A.R. 155 Soldiers' Home 160 Masonic Orphans' Home 161 CHURCH CHARITIES. PROTESTANT.- UNDENOMINATIONAL lf>2 Chicago Erring Woman's Refuge 19 Chicago Home for the Friendless 24 Kirkland Free Dispensary 167 Light and Hope Missionary Society. . . 2*6 Old Peoples' Home 97 Y. W. Christian Association 163 BAPTIST ... 172 Hospital 172 Mission Training School 172 CATHOLIC 173 Alexiuii brothers' Hospital 173 Chicago Indusi i ial School for Girls... 173 Sr.Mary's Industrial School for Boys. . 18O Guardian Angel Orphan Asylum 174 House of the Good S epherd 174 Little Sisters of the Poor. N., S. and W. S. Homes 176 Mercy Hospital 176 St. Hizabeth's Hospital 182 St. Joseph's Homes, Hospital, etc 177 St. Vincent's Infant asylum 1H3 Visitation and Aid Society 181 CONGREGATIONAL Workers' Creche 211 EPISCOPAL (PROTESTANT) 184 Church Homt s and Orphanage 189 Convalescents' linn < 188 St .lames' Day Nursery.. 187 St. Luke's Hospital, etc 184 LUTHERAN 193 Augustana Hospital 194 Danish Children's Home 196 Emergency Hospital 23O German Deaconesses' Home 1 66 Uhlich Ev.L. Orphan Asylum 193 Swedish Home of Mercy 23O METHODIST EPISCOPAL 197 Deaconesses' Home 197 Deaconesses' Orphanage. 198 Wesley Hospital 2KI Halsted Street Mission School, etc 199 Epworih House 201 PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL 203 UNIVERSALIST 206 Talcott Creche 206 UNITARIAN 3rd Church and Church of the Messiah 207 Unity Creche 208 All Souls Church School 210 C. Medical Mission, S. D. A. M. Miss. and Benev. Association 22O Light nd Hope Hospital 226 Salvation Army 219 HEBREW. United Hebrew Charities 212 Jewish Manual Training School 216 N. W. Charity Association 215 INTRODUCTION. This second edition of the Hand-book of Charities is issued under the auspices, and with the direct endorsement, of the Illinois Conference of Charities. The object is, as it was of our first edition, "to give such authoritative data as will enable a busi- ness man to form an intelligent opinion, as to the relative value and scope of the various charitable efforts of the City and State. " The book was intended as a Guide and Directory, and is so used. It is doing service as a book of reference in Public Libraries and Universities, and is an acknowledged aid to the benevolent public in determining quickly and wisely what charities ap- pealing to them are worthy of support. As the former issue of 5,000 copies is exhausted, and as the charitable situation has changed materially since 1891, a revision is made necessary. Some additional matter which affords a basis for comparison is also given. Thus, to aid in deter- mining the adequacy of the State School for Feeble Minded Children, it is reported that 700 applicants were refused admission, 41 being in our Poor-house associating with 327 children. Instead of marking steady progress all along the line, in comparing the present with the former edi- tion we note in some respects positive retrogression. The Helping Hand, "furnishing aid to such needy men as are able and willing to work," was discon- tinued; so too The Shelter, which aimed to help re- formed inebriates to a self-respecting position in so- 9 IO INTRODUCTION ciety; as also, for last summer, the Lake Geneva Holiday Home, which has remained closed even though 5,000 persons sought admission, when only 500 could in any case have been accommodated. This same disproportion, it may be remarked, pre- vailed between the work done and that which needed doing last winter with reference to all our charities, the County Agent's office included. Some were forced to suspend in sheer despair. The conclusion was borne in upon the minds of many that unless we are to do violence to the no- bler and tenderer instincts of humanity, we must make philanthropy more of a social factor in the community. But there are signs of the dawning of a better day. We note the marked increase in the benevo- lent work of our Police Department, of the labor organizations, and of the churches; the establish- ment by our Board of Education of special schools for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb, besides twenty Kindergartens; the founding by the State of a Home for Juvenile Female Offenders; the opening by the City Council of Free Public Baths; the broadening out of the work of the Daily News Fresh Air Fund by the projected establishment of a Children's Hos- pital; the reorganization of the Illinois Association for the giving of work to worthy ex-convicts; the greatly increased interest in Crippled Children; the tendency of thought in favor of cooperation and of union between different organizations doing a sim- ilar work, a notable instance in point being the union of the Children's Aid and Children's Home Socie- ties. It also augurs well that the sentiment is gain- INTRODUCTION II ing that work should whenever possible form the basis of relief, that a man is best helped when he is helped to help himself, this being more conducive to the building up of character, and the benefactor then becoming not a giver of alms but a friend. Considerable sums of money, more than $100,000, were paid out for relief in the form of wages, and for a few months last winter when 5,000 men and 2,000 women were given work, quite an impression was made on the community. However, the effort was short-lived, and left withal 1,000 able-bodied men in idleness, eating unearned bread at our Poor- house, and as many more at our Police Stations, besides the innumerable multitude at our back-doors. Work-houses, industrial colonies or other forms of municipal industries have never as yet been trans- planted to American soil. We listen to a man's cry for bread, but are deaf to his prayer for work to earn that bread. There was. however, a short but very successful philanthrophic undertaking last spring which stands out in strong relief against the dark background of that most pitiful phase of the present destitution caused by enforced idleness, possible alone in the centers of population. At an expense of $5 per cap- ita, 10 families, 12 orphans and 40 single men were rendered permanently self-supporting by being sent out to work on farms. The scale of such operations could be extended indefinitely; indeed, a similar work has been prosecuted in New York City for several decades, on a considerable scale, so that the trans- planted persons aggregate hundreds of thousands. 12 INTRODUCTION In this connection it should be noted that the table of Comparative Statistics of Police Departments, compiled from official data by the author, shows an increase of 20 per cent in arrests annually in Chi- cago, against a decrease of .06 per cent in New York. The poor increasingly flock to our cities. Supe- rior wisdom must divert these irrational tidal waves. Thus alone can it save our cities and at the same time save to society valuable factors in our social economy. Of skilled artisans there are none too many, and these very rarely are in need of relief. This is not true, however, of the many men and women without trades or professions, especially when, as is often the case, their physical condition, their tastes and training would all tend to make of them desirable additions to agricultural communities. Our hope is that by presenting such facts as are contained in this little volume improved methods will suggest themselves, and thus, as was the part- ing word of our former edition, this publication, though capable of improvement in the future, will have a strong tendency to protect the charitable public and to make the exercise of the philanthropic impulse safer, more intelligent and more universal somewhat commensurate with our present and pros- pective needs, and in keeping with the growth and development of this great metropolis and common- wealth. -JOHN VISHER, Secretary, Illinois Conference of Charities and Correction. Chicago, October ist , 1894. THE ILLINOIS CONFERENCE OF CHAR- ITIES AND CORRECTION. The Conference was organized May 26, 1891, at a meeting held at the Union League Club, Chicago, called by Harvey B. Hurd, at the instance of the presidents of several of the leading charities of Chi- cago. Representatives of fifty societies were present. The articles of organization adopted entitled each society doing charitable or correctional work to a representation by two duly accredited delegates, and make the presidents members ex-officio. ARTICLE II. "The purpose shall be the promotion of the com- mon interests of the charitable, correctional and philanthropic institutions of the State; to collect and disseminate information concerning their work; to hold conferences for the interchange of opinions and the comparison of methods; to engage in such work as can be best done only through joint effort, and adopt such measures as will tend to secure greater efficiency, co-operation and economy." ARTICLE VI. "It shall be the duty of the executive committee to make annually a list of the incorporated charita- ble and correctional institutions of the city of Chi- 13 14 ILLINOIS CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES cago and the State of Illinois which are members of this Conference and which in the judgment of the committee are entitled to public confidence. This shall be open to inspection may be added to and taken from or otherwise corrected by the Conference at any of its regular meetings. Certificates of mem- bership and confidence shall be granted to the afore- said organizations upon application. Such certifi- cates shall be signed by the President and Secretary of the executive committee. Upon request of any of said societies, certificates shall be issued to their solicitors. The form of all such certificates shall be prescribed by the executive committee." The first annual meeting was held at the Sherman House, May 26, 1892; the second, March u, 1893. The attendance at both was full and representative. An Executive Committee is selected at the annual meetings, for a term of one year. This committee, in accordance with the provisions o f the bove articles of organization, issues the Hand-book of Charities, and when called for, its sys- tem of Certificates of Confidence. OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. HARVEY B. HURD, President, 94 Washington Street, Room 28. JOHN VISHER, Secretary, 94 Washington Street, Room 28. CHARLES M. FAYE, Treasurer, 123 Fifth Ave., Office of the Daily News. RICHARD S. TUTHILL JOSEPH W. ERRANT C. H. S. MIXER MILTON GEORGE MRS. M. R. M. WALLACE MRS. Louis SCHRAM GENERAL CHARITIES. BUREAU OF JUSTICE. ROOMS 718-719, GARDEN CITY BLOCK, 55 FIFTH AVE. Objects: "To assist in securing legal protection against injustice for those who are unable to protect themselves; to take cognizance of the workings of existing laws and methods of procedure, and to suggest improvements; to propose new and better laws, and to make efforts toward securing their en- actment. " Receipts for 1893 from donations $5,200.62, from clients $697.37; expenditure $6,124.90. The Bureau in its annual reports recommends reforms such as making seduction an offense against the State, adoption of better measures for securing support from husbands for wives and children, super- vising mutual benefit societies, protecting the inno- cent and friendless in the police courts, returning an equitable share of payments on "time sales" if fore- closed, establishing a chattel mortgage loan bank, etc. The Bureau employs a solicitor a part of the time, has no religious affiliations or endowments, and owns no property. 15 WORK OF THE BUREAU OF JUSTICE FROM ORGANIZATION UP TO JANUARY, 1894. CASES INVOLVING: 1888 1889 1890 1891 10 mo 1C92 1893 Total 811 573 881 227 183 175 340 153 75 161 1080 108 210 4663 205 435 3601 1118 4867 Chattel mortgage matters 45 fi 40 8 7 9 4 8 1 2 9 3 5 120 6 76 252 261 308 121 67 107 29 30 16 24 43 11 17 115 9 16 131 24 114 815 189 619 186 104 180 49 22 23 53 22 10 33 222 9 22 755 44 47 717 167 1118 174 135 158 48 46 22 88 27 18 44 219 38 61 819 37 79 587 98 825 147 139 183 43 52 61 90 20 22 37 284 39 66 880 49 45 624 145 1094 138 12i 213 50 26 50 81 33 13 28 231 12 40 1958 45 74 606 258 903 Landlord and tenant Threatened exemptions Pros, for cruel treatment Prosecution of crime . .. .... Prosecution of fraud Prosecutions by suits, etc Support of parents.. Pros, under ordinances Wrongs to women and girls Real property . Miscellaneous work Total 1164 328 133 $2475 318.61 2497 929 628 S9066 $14.43 $4048 271 30 24 299 26 271 '"is 12 10 14 3783 764 615 $7775 812.65 $2876 317 32 26 357 18 314 3 27 5 16 10 3523 666 526 $8204 S15.59 81673 303 20 34 333 24 287 16 1-1 6 30 4 4020 4881 19868 STATEMENT OF WAGES CLAIMS. Collected 642 $8852 $13.78 $1131 256 17 24 280 17 246 10 20 4 14 3 470 $6138 513.06 $260 272 12 22 291 Ib 263 9 9 3 15 7 3014 $42515 $14.69 Si 0008 1521 121 143 1785 1663 122 1785 1469 52 95 33 94 42 Average claim Other money claims RECORD OF COURT WORK. Civil suits 102 10 13 103 22 88 14 7 3 9 4 Civil suits prosecuted Criminal suits prosecuted Ci iminal suits defended Quasi-criminal prosecuted Quasi-criminal defended 1785 Of the 1785 cases the Bureau was successful in 1612; unsuccessful in 85; and 88 were withdrawn. Of the 3014 wages claims collected, 2315 were col- lected without suit. 10 BUREAU OF JUSTICE If CASES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE WORK OF THE BUREAU OF JUSTICE. With the help of the Bureau, K. prosecuted an officer who had without provocation shot him, and obtained his conviction. Many of the officers of the district made it thereafter their business to harass him, and cause his arrest. The Bureau appeared in court to protect. Mrs. S. borrowed $20 on household goods, giving a chattel mortgage. When she came to the Bureau she had already paid $17.50 in 6 months, and $14 were still claimed as due. She was absolutely pen- niless. A friend advanced a small loan, and with this settlement was made, preventing foreclosure, saving money to her. She has since paid back the loan. C. has abandoned his wife and children and con- tributes nothing to their support. The Bureau caused his arrest for abandonment and compelled him to contribute regularly to the support of his family. Mrs. P. sold a little stock of goods, through an agent. It was all she had in the world. After the sale the agent failed to turn over the money. The Bureau compelled him to pay her what is due her. J. C. STIRLING, President and Treasurer. H. B. CRAGIN, Vice-President. EDW. C. WENTWORTH, Secretary. JOSEPH W. ERRANT, Attorney. W. H. WINSI.OW A. L. SINGER M. M. MANGASARIAN CHAS. E, KREMER O. B. GREEN W. H. COLVIN C. R. CORBIX J. A. HUNT F J. LOESCH A. HEURTLEY C. H. HAM. CENTRAL FREE DISPENSARY OF CHICAGO. N. E. CORNER OF WOOD AND HARRISON Sts. Incorporated 1873. Objects: "The objects are to aid all persons who are sick and unable to pay for medical attendance; and to do this work efficiently at a very small cost and with no pecuniary profit." Total number of pat ients, 1 893 1 8, 444 Number of visits of patients to the Dispensary 33, 107 Number of visits to homes of patients 4,689 Number of prescriptions furnished 31, 152 Number of patients refused treatment 339 Cost of conducting the Dispensary during the past year, including annual rent of $330 $4,812.83 Average cost of each patient for attendance (18,444 patients), and medicine for current year 26 Cost of each visit (37,796 visits) 13 Cost of each prescription (31, 152) l 5 l /2 The Dispensary is open from i to 4 P. M. daily. The support is from investments, amounting to $25,000, and donations; there is no paid solicitor. There are no religious affiliations. Last year Cook County Commissioners appropriated $1,500 for at- tendance on the sick poor of the West Division. The expenditures were $4,692. No building is owned, Rush Medical College furnishing accommo- dations at a small rental. L. R. HALL, ESQ., President. EDWARD L. HOLMES, M. D., Secretary. THOS N. BOND, Treasurer. DR. PHILIP ADOLPHUS, M. D , Superintendent. 13 CHICAGO ERRING WOMAN'S REFUGE FOR REFORM. 5024 INDIANA AVE. Objects: "The relief, protection, care and refor- mation of such erring females as may voluntarily place themselves under its care, or may be so placed by their parents, guardians, or by any municipal corporation, or otherwise according to law." The 28th annual report shows 199 girls cared for during the year, a daily average of 86. Of these, 92 left, returning to friends; 13 are self-supporting, 10 went to other institutions, and four returned to their former life. Of the total number admitted, 71 were 1 6 years old or under, 50 were between 1 6 and 20, and 20 were over 20. During the year 24 in- fants were cared for, 16 being born in the Home; four of these were adopted, 4 died, and 6 were taken by the mothers, leaving 10 on hand in charge of their mothers. Of the girls in the Home at the end of the last fiscal year, 1892-93, one was admitted in 1883, one in '86, three in '88, four in '89, nine in '90, 22 in '91, and the remainder during 1892. The desire is to have them stay not less than one year. The receipts for the year ending Feb. i, 1894, were $12,487.51; expenditures, $12,667.12. The support is from rents, $8,967.13; city fines, $2,740; work by inmates, $788; donations, $2, 781 ; and board, $1,853. The society owns its own home, besides a block of stores southeast corner Indiana Ave. and 3ist St. and its former Home. It has no paid so- licitors. Its religious affiliations are Protestant, as 19 CHICAGO ERRING WOMAN'S REFUGE 2 1 its charter provides that the Board of Managers shall include not less than one member of each Prot- estant church in Chicago. MRS. L. B DOUD, President. MRS. E. O. F. ROLER, Treasurer. HELEN M. WOODS, Superintendent. MRS. E. J. WIGGING, Corresponding Secretary. MRS. C. G. SMITH, Recording Secretary. CHARITY HOSPITAL. 2407 DEARBORN St . Object: "To give medical and surgical care to destitute sick, free of charge. " The hospital is con- ducted in a rented three-story private residence. It can accommodate some twenty patients. It is in charge of a lady superintendent with assistants. The operations and prescriptions are made with the aid of the students of the Post Graduate College, who, after the manner of clinics, pay a fee for the privilege. These fees and voluntary contributions support the enterprise. CHICAGO EXCHANGE FOR WOMAN'S WORK. 130 WABASH AVE. Object: "To provide a depot for the reception and sale of any marketable article which a woman can make in her own home, or any valuable article which her necessities oblige her to dispose of, thereby assisting a needy woman to turn to personal profit whatever useful talent she may possess. To develop a spirit of healthy independence, to help women who are striving to help themselves. "The association is composed of ladies and gentle- men who subscribe .$5.00 a year. It is a philanthropy rather than a charity." THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1893 SHOWS: RECEIPTS. In Bank March i, 1893 i Membership subscriptions 3.994- 7 565 oo OUTLAY. Rent .. 9,209.98 3,733 93 Depositors' dues Sales of cake 92=;. oo Janitors 529.00 1,983 21 Sales of fruit 1,853.17 Paid depositors .. 22,067.52 . 50,635 92 Extra commission 2,336.09 Interest Receipts Lunch Room. . . . Miscellaneous 225.00 59,694.60 1,390.01 In Bank 720 . 02 Total 1 S92, 306. 68 Total outlay .. $92,306. 6g ASSETS. Cash on hand March i, 1894 $ 720.02 Bonds 5,000.00 Furniture, etc 2, 1 27. 57 The Exchange has thus paid $22,067.52 to its consignors, needy but self-supporting women, for work in its different departments. The only source of revenue is from the ten per EXCHANGE FOR WOMAN'S WORK 23 cent commission charged for the sale of goods, .the five dollar each from upwards of 100 annual sub- scribers, and the consignors' annual fee of one dollar. No solicitors are employed, no buildings are owned, and there are no religious affiliations. 1 MRS. JOHN B. LYON, President. MesdamesH. T. N. PICKERING, NEWTON LULL, A. COURTNEY CAMPBELL, Vice- Presidents. Miss KATE GERTS. Recording Secretary. MRS. CLINTON J. WARREN, Miss IDA M. MORRIS, and Miss IDA KING, Corresponding Secretaries. CHICAGO HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS. 1926 WABASH AVE. Kindergarten. Burr Mission. Object: "Founded in 1858 as a Protestant insti- tution to afford protection and employment or assist- ance to worthy destitute women and children until other homes and means of support can be secured to them." "It supplies shelter, food and clothing to worthy applicants irrespective of creed, color or nationality, helps women to obtain employment, cares for homeless children until their mothers pro- cure work and are enabled to provide for them, and receives women and children in transit through the city who by accident or emergency find themselves in need. " During the past twelve years its inmates have num- bered 25,000. During 1893 the number admitted was 1,291 women and 1,361 children, making a total of 2,652. Of those, 1,741 were Protestants, 811 Roman Catholics, 3 Greek Catholics, and 97 Jews. Homes were provided for 53 children; 67 were surrendered to the Home. The Home conducts within its walls a graded free school, endowed by Jonathan Burr, for children in the Home and scholars from without, which enrolled during the year 250 pupils, with an average daily attendance of 30. A Kindergarten School is provided for the smaller children in the Home. 24 26 CHICAGO) HOME; FOR THE FRIENDLESS BURR MISSION FREE CHAPEL (unsectarian), 23rd ST. AND WESTERN AVE. It was founded by Jonathan Burr in 1867, and is under the control of the Board of Managers of the Home for the Friendless. It employs a chaplain for religious services, maintains a Sunday school, a day school free to the poor children of the neigh- borhood, and a reading room for evening use of men and boys. It enrolled during 1891 105 pupils, 63 girls and 49 boys, with an average daily attend- ance of 58. The expenses for 1893 were: For the Home, $25,938.95; the Home school, $1,443.06; the Burr Mission, $3,863.16; total, $31,240.17. The receipts for 1893 were, from endowments $30,127.17, and do- nations, $1,188.76. No solicitors are employed. The Home owns its buildings and grounds; has received gifts and bequests from Jonathan Burr, George Smith, Henry Hobart Taylor and John Crerar, Mrs. Louisa Haddock, all of Chicago. Its officers are a president, vice-president, treas- urer and secretary, and a board of managers consist- ing of ladies from each Protestant and Hebrew de- nomination. MR. A. C. BARTLETT, President. MR. F. D. GRAY, Vice-President. Mr. W. C. NICHOLS, Treasurer. MRS. CHARLES GILBERT WHEELER, Recording Sec- retary. MRS. W. C. NICHOLS, Corresponding Secretary. Miss ALMA Z. REXFORD, Matron and Superin- tendent. CHICAGO HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS 27 AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE OF HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS. In 1892 a father left his motherless children at the Home, he being sick and compelled to seek the care of a hospital. He died, and so the orphans, aged eight and ten, after a year's stay in the Home, were placed out with a farni3r, who wrote the fol- lowing letter: "Sterling, North Dakota, July 29, 1894. "MR. JOHN VISHER. "My Dear Sir: The children selected and sent out by you, now three months ago, are both growing like weeds, are as happy as kings and queens, have good color, eat and sleep well, and are as chub- by as can be. Everything is novel to them. It to^k them a long time to learn to look away off to see anything, for you know Dakota is a land of magnif- icent distances. Paul rides his pony every chance he gets, and gives him his oats. Frances feeds some lambs out of a bottle and feels big, I tell you. Paul goes out with me after hay. He says he likes to tread it down. They like the sheep and lambs. Each has one which they call their own. So you see they are adapting themselves to their new life very readily. They are a good deal of company, and we like to see them run and play and enjoy themselves; but I tell you it kept my wife humming for a good while to get them clothes made, as we had nothing in their line on hand. She has them now all fixed up nice and clean. It would do you good to see them. Frances is quite a help about the house, and they both save us a good many steps. Very truly, H. S. " CHICAGO FLOWER MISSION. ATHENAEUM BUILDING. Object: To distribute bouquets and flowers among the sick in hospitals and elsewhere. The Flower Mission began its work in 1874 in Unity Church parlors; ever since it has enjoyed the free hospitality of the Athenaeum, its work being conducted on undenominational and purely philan- thropic lines. Branch societies are organized in the suburban towns, and from these and the country at large baskets and boxes of flowers are sent to it, and every Wednesday morning made up into bou- quets by the ladies of the Mission. During the season of last year, from the middle of May to the middle of October, 16,568 bouquets, 161 boxes and 89 baskets of flowers were distributed, principally among the hospitals of the city. The entire ex- pense of this work was $80.15, tne express compa- nies carrying free of charge. The Carriage Fund. This is a special feature, devoted to the giving of rides to convalescents at hospitals. The average annual expenditure for this is $70, for which 345 persons are given a drive through the parks in phaetons. The Mission de- pends on voluntary donations, has no solicitors or other paid officers or endowments. Mrs. Robert B. Duvall, President; Miss Harriet Porter, Secretary; Miss Anna Newell, Treasurer. 28 CHICAGO HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN. CORNER ADAMS AND PAULINA STS. Dispensary. School for Nurses. Clinics. "The objects of the corporation shall be to pro- vide (i) medical and surgical aid, by women phy- sicians, for women and children; (2) to assist wom- en physicians by clinical and other instruction in a more thorough preparation for the practice of their profession; (3) to train nurses for the better care of the sick and wounded. " Classes of cases admitted are women for confine- ment, women and children for operations, women and children with any disease not contagious or in- curable. The following is the record of patients treated during the two years ending March i, 1893: Number of patients in the house March 1, 1891... 50 " admitted 945 " treated in the dispensary 4,123 " visited at their homes 1,19(5 Total 6,314 CLASSIFICATION OF CASES IN THE HOUSE. Gynaecological 317 Obstetrical 105 Medical, adults 279 Medical, children 129 Surgical, adults (>2 Surgical, children 29 Diseases of the eye and ear 24 Total 945 29 CHICAGO HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN 3! Of the 317 patients treated in the gynaecological department 228 left the hospital well, 62 were improved, 18 were unimproved and 9 died. Of the 279 patients treated in the Medical Depart- ment 170 recovered, 52 were improved, 27 were discharged in the same condition, and thirty died. Three adult surgical cases were unimproved, and 56 were discharged well or improved. In the surgical department for children 3 died, 26 were discharged well or improved. THE SCHOOL FOR NURSES. The following are the statistics of the School for Nurses from March i, 1891, to March i, 1893: Number of nurses in house March 1, 1891 16 Entered school since that time 30 Graduated 19 Finished their course " 14 Nurses in house March 1, 1893 I'l Applications to enter the school 2(j The Dispensary. Connected with the Hospital is a free Dispensary, which is open every day in the week, except Sunday, from i to 3 o'clock P. M. This is under the care of the Dispensary physicians, each in turn devoting one afternoon a week to the worthy poor. A small charge is made for medicines. Clinics. The hospital also has classes for women physicians, giving them hospital experience and practical object lessons in surgery and medicines. Since the opening, the hospital has treated more than 20,000 patients, and it graduates yearly a c'as ; of 20 nurses who take a two years' "course of tiaiu- ing." 32 CHICAGO HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN RECEIPTS FROM MARCH, 1892, TO MARCH, 1893. Cash oil hand March, 1892 $ 1 <)<).<><) from private patients 4,!)lS8.()o ward patients 3,1)27.54 clinic tickets 1x5.00 nurses' services 9 Disbursements f 10,049. 05 BOARD OF MANAGERS. MRS. OTTO H. MATZ, President. MRS. MC-GREGOR ADAMS and MRS. I. N. CAMP. Vice- Presidents. MRS. HENRY WILKINSON, Treasurer. MRS. GEORGE OBERNE, Secretary. MRS. J. C. HILTON. DR. MARY HARRIS THOMPSON, Central Music Hall, Gynoecologist and Head Physician and Surgeon. CHICAGO HOME FOR INCURABLES. ELLIS AVE. , COR. 56 St. Object: "To furnish the incurable sick a home." The Home accommodates 130 persons its maximum capacity males as well as females. It is supported entirely by endowments. It owns spacious buildings and grounds; has no solicitors and no religious affil- iations. H. N. Higinbotham, President; Byron L. Smith, Treasurer. CHICAGO FOUNDLINGS' HOME. 114 S. Woou ST. Objects: To care for mothers and babies free of charge. During the year 1893, 505 different inmates were cared for, of which number 258 were infants. 196 were accompanied by the mothers, who are allowed to remain until the adoption of their children, or until places are provided where they can work with them. None are admitted for a less time than five weeks. Mortality of infants, 14 per cent. Adoptions, 34 in number. Total number of infants admitted since the beginning of the work in Jan. 1871, 5,891. -Mothers, 2,373. Total number of adoptions, 1,379. The Home is sustained by voluntary contributions. It employs no solicitor. It owns its buildings free from incumbrance. Amount expended during 1893, $5,497.68. The religious affiliations of the Home are Protestant, but it does not affiliate with any particular one of its sects. There is no Board of Managers. Dr. George E. Shipman was its founder, and until the time of his death, Jan. 19, 1893, its superintendent. Sub- sequently his wife was elected superintendent, and his daughter secretary. Visiting day, Tuesday of each week. Hours from u A. M. to 4 P. M. MRS. FANNIE E. SHIPMAN, Superintendent. Miss FRANCIS C. SHIPMAN, Secretary. 33 CHICAGO ORPHAN ASYLUM. 2228 MICHIGAN AVE. [Incorporated in 1849.] Objects: "The protecting, relieving, educating of, and providing means of support and maintenance for orphan and destitute children. " The founding of this asylum, the oldest in the city, dates from the cholera epidemic in 1849, when many little children were bereft, of care and support through the death of their parents. During these forty-five years it has furnished protection and training to more than 5,000 children. December i, 1892, the asylum had 218 children. During the year 421 have applied for admittance; of this number, 229 were received (of boys, 139; girls, 90). During the same period 217 have been dismissed, leaving at the present time 230 inmates. The average for the year has been the largest it has ever had, viz., 227. Catholics, 92; Protestants, 302; Jews, 26. The ages of the applicants were: Under two years, 74; between two and seven years, 190; between seven and twelve years, 154; over twelve years, 3. Of the children admitted, 71 have been deserted by fathers, 6 deserted by mothers, 5 deserted by both parents; 8 have insane mothers, n are orphans, and 115 half-orphans. Of the children dismissed, 19 were taken by parents or friends, n were adopted into homes, i sent to the Industrial School of the Home for the Friendless, and 9 died. There are now 124 children in attendance at the Moseley School, and 94 have been enrolled during 35 36 CHICAGO ORPHAN ASYLUM the year in the home school, or kindergarten a primary grade the average attendance being 49. The support is from investments, board and do- nations solicited by the trustees through circular letters, dispensing with paid solicitors. The receipts during 1893 were: $722.48 from do- nations, $8,534.06 from board, $4.000 from bequests, and $14,473.29 from investments, and $7,500 from loans paid in. The disbursements were $21,050 in loans and investments, and $22,679.82 in current expenses. The report says: "Many very pleasing and touch- ing incidents have transpired during the year, one in particular, where two sisters, adopted by differ- ent parties when they were very young, their homes widely separated, and both now married, met here (by appointment) for the first time after this long lapse of years. These reunions have been of peculiar interest to the Board of Ladies, knowing all the parties as they did so well, and the uniform testi- mony to kindly care has been very gratifying." AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE. Many years ago a puny waif, a foundling, drifted into the Home. He was small, sickly and crippled had to submit to three severe operations, but was brave and cheerful and grew well and strong. When of age a friend of the asylum offered to pay his tu- ition through the Manual Training School. He finished the course, and within two years after grad- uation, was earning $90 a month. 38 CHICAGO ORPHAN ASYLUM NORMAN WILLIAMS, President, Board of Trustees. JOHN M. CLARK, Vice-President. FREDERICK B. TUTTLE, Secretary. WILLIAM D. PRESTON, Treasurer. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. WILLIAM A. FULLER, MYRON L. PEARCE, D. W. IRWIN, CARYL YOUNG, J. J. GLESSNER, BYRON L. SMITH, CHAS. L. HUTCHINSON, A. A. SPRAGUE, CHAS. F. GREY, A. C. BARTLETT, MARTIN A. RYERSON. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. MRS. NORMAN T. GASSETTE, President. MRS. GEORGE W. DARROW, Vice-President. MRS. JAMES A. BURHANS, Recording Secretary. Miss SARAH M. HORTON, Corresponding Secretary. MRS. JOHN B. SKINNER, Treasurer. Miss C. M. SHAW, Matron. Chicago Mechanics' Institute. 139 E. Madison Street. The institute was founded in 1843. The annual average of pupils is 78. They are the children of indigent mechanics, or orphans, the purpose being to make of them thorough master mechanics, skilled in all forms of technical training. The cost is about $1,000; the support is from the income of the estate of Azel Peck leased real estate valued at $45,000. GEO. C. PRUSSING, President. JOHN WILKINSON, ist Vice-President. J. W. HOSMER, 2d Vice-President. AMOS GRANNIS, Treasurer. JOSEPH SILVERS, Librarian and Secretary. CHICAGO NURSERY AND HALF-ORPHAN ASYLUM. 855 N. HALSTED. [Incorporated 1860.] "Its object shall be the care and maintenance of the children of poor women, for the purpose of en- abling them to find employment; also the care and maintenance of such children as are deprived by death, or other cause, of either parent. Girls are admitted under 12 years, boys under TI years. Girls are dismissed at 14 years, boys at 12 years of age." At its first organization the institution was a day nursery, charging 5 cents for the care, by day, of chil- dren whose mothers went out to work Active membership in the society is open to any person contributing to its funds, regardless of de- nominational connections. The Board of Managers, elected annually by the members, consists of not less than nine ladies. The 33rd annual report (1893) shows: Average number of children. Average number of inmates.. Children died Average number in Nursery . Average number in School . . . Children left Asylum Articles cut out Articles sewed Stockings darned by class. .. Work by class im 135 143 H 32 107 142 5-732 5.752 3,626 3,368 6 49 116 139 2.299 7,666 4-943 6,615 1892 1 68 174 19 54 116 161 2,002 16,523 5,223 5,092 1-9 192 9 72 135 159 2.914 7, on 6,125 6,750 Cash donations .. Board of inmates Investments.. . THE RECEIPTS WERE: $5,823 2,678 9,149 5.823 4,678 7,599 4,409 4,501 9,492 4400 4501 9,492 Total 819,650 818,091 918,403 818,152 39 NURSERY AND HALF-ORPHAN ASYLUM 4! Securities held Si 38, 675 Furnishing funds 8,000 Bed endowment fund 4,300 The buildings are owned; there are no solicitors employed. AN ILLUSTRAT1VK CASE. Maggie P. was placed in the asylum at the age of ten by her mother, a poor widow, who paid Si.oo a week towards her maintenance. When the child was fourteen, her mother, still unable to assume the charge, requested the Board to place her into a private home where, in exchange for her services, she is attending school, with a view to fitting herself for a teacher and becoming the support, not only of her- self, but also of her mother in her old age. MRS. WM. C. Gounv, President. MRS. ABIJAH KE\T, First Vice-President. MRS. H. J. BERRY, Second Vice-President. MRS. FRANKLIN H. BECKWITH, Secretary. Miss E. F. STILLWELL, Assistant Secretary. Miss S. E. HURLBUT, Treasurer. Miss E. M. FULLER, Matron. CHICAGO RELIEF AND AID SOCIETY. 51-53 LASALLE STREET. [Incorporated by special charter 1857.] Endowed Charities. Relief Department. Branch Offices North, South, West Sides. Wood Yards North and South Sides. Objects: Charter Sec. 2. The objects of this corporation shall be strictly of an eleemosynary na- ture; they shall be to provide a permanent, efficient, and practical mode of administering and distribut- ing the private charities of the city of Chicago; to examine and establish the necessary means for ob- taining full and reliable information of the condi- tion and wants of the poor of said city, and putting into practical and efficient operation the best sys- tem of relieving and preventing want and pauper- ism therein. Constitution /. In carrying out the objects of this society as indicated in the act of incorporation, it shall be the end aimed at, not only to afford tem- porary relief to the destitute, but also by rendering timely counsel and assistance to deserving but in- digent persons, to place them above the necessity of aid; and without positively limiting itself to any one class in the distribution of its charities, the society shall discriminate in favor of those in whom habits of temperance, industry and thrift, give promise of permanent benefit from the aid furnished, and shall not embrace in the sphere of its operations such as are the proper subjects for the poor-house, or for the action of the county officers. CHICAGO RELIEF AND AIL) SOCIETY. 43 44 RELIEF AND AID SOCIETY Endowed Charities. In answer to a call signed by Wirt Dexter, presi- dent of the "Christian Union," J. L. Reynolds, pres- ident of the "Citizens' Relief," and Dwight L. Moody, president of the Y. M. C. A., a meeting was held Nov. n, 1867, and a consolidation effected of these societies and the Chicago Relief and Aid, the organization of the latter antedating the others, and the objects being similar. At the time of the great Chicago fire in 1871, the Relief and Aid Society, by common consent as well as by formal action of the Common Council, was entrusted with the disbursement of the relief funds and food and clothing which poured in from all parts of our country and the civilized world more than $7,000,000. As a large part of the great dis- tress could be relieved only through asylums and hospitals, and as these also were either destroyed or impoverished by the fire, or inadequate for meet- ing the extraordinary demands suddenly made on them, the management of the Relief and Aid Society appropriated $432,900 to the following institutions: Chicago Nursery & Half Or- phan Asylum $25,000 30,000 28,000 10,000 40.000 lti.500 15000 18.001) 30,000 12,000 30,000 Deaconess' Hospital 25,000 10,000 25,000 25,000 20,000 8,000 15,000 50,000 S432,9X) Chicago Foundlings' Home.. Eye and Ear Infirmary Women's and Children's Hos pital ... . St. Joseph's Hospital St. Luke's Hospital Chicago Protestant Orphan Asy- lum Uhlich Orphan Asylum Western Seamen's Friend Society .... Mercy Hospital House of the Good Shepherd.. Scammon Hospital Alexian Bros.' Hospital St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum. . . Newsboys' & Bootblacks' Home Home for the Friendless. .. Western Seamen's Bethel . . . The Old People's Home Total . . The understanding was that in consideration of the aid thus bestowed they would co-operate with the Relief and Aid Society in the work of caring RELIEF AND AID SOCIETY 45 for the city's poor, and make no discrimination on account of race, nationality, or religious belief. This agreement thus to co-operate was formulated into a definite contract in perpetuity with regard tc the following: HOSPITALS, ETC. NAMES. Total current expenses first few months after fire. Amounts for which it ob- tained beds. c* I^ Su." s*s oU< Persons cared for '93, sent by C.R. & A.soc. $18,200 25,000 20,000 15,000 40,000 28,000 30,000 25,000 30,400 18 25 20 15 40 28 30 25 1 12 23 10 18 95 653 Eye and Ear Infirmary 1,76075 1,32600 15,742 34 2,37399 2,306 80 54285 Hahnemann, or Scammon Hospital St. Joseph's Hospital . S24.051 73 $231,600 The cases helped by these charities are registered at the central office of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society. Branch Offices North, South and West Sides. Upon the union of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society with the Charity Organization Society in 1887, the branch offices and wood yard of the C. O. S. were to be assumed by the former, together with its general work. These branch offices are continued during the winter, the objects conserved being mainly to facilitate consultation and intercommuni- cation among the benevolent public and reference to suitable channels for relief. 46 RELIEF AND AID SOCIETY The C. R. & A. S. Wood Yards. North Side, Roberts and East Superior Streets, One Block South of Chicago Avenue Bridge. Telephone North 415. South Side, Armour Ave. and 34th St. Object: "To furnish temporary employment in an emergency to able-bodied men as a labor test." The method pursued is for the Society to pur- chase wood and kindling in large quantities and set able-bodied men, as above described, saw- ing and splitting it, and then delivering it at market prices to customers all over the city. Single men on the performance of a given stint receive tickets good for a meal or lodging at restaurants and lodg- ing houses in the city; married men receive an equivalent in cash. The number of men thus aided is given as follows: 1891 1394 Number of men given work at wood yard 872 4,831 Number of tickets for meals and lodgings given in payment for work 6,337 21,210 Cash paid for work to men with families 84 19 $7,460 Number of men furnished with other employment Number of tickets for meals and lodgings given to invalid men or emergency cases issued from central office. 1,142 2,396 152 1,608 The receipts from the sales of the wood yards' product were $19,856.77. Total expenditures on account of the wood yards, $28,742.69, showing a balance of disbursement of $8,885.92 above receipts. 4 8 RELIEF AND AID SOC1ETT/ Receipts and Expenditures by Superindentent. 1891 1894 $10,701 $43 326. 69 Merchandise .... 2,149 10,086.58 302 8240 Surgical appliances 31 70.21 Interments 740 661 04 Transportation R. R 454 881 20 Payroll 6,513 15,371.85 11,486 28,742 69 Total... $34.593 $104.17820 Aged, sick or infirm men with families aided . .... 1891 1,115 2,430 675 970 875 380 765 7,210 1894 1,946 4.395 2,960 1,807 1,371 305 463 13,247 Aged, sick or infirm widows with families Deserted women with families Aged, sick or infirm single men Tola 1 Number of persons in families aided j Adults. .... 3,75( 12,87 15,62. ) 14,170 > 29,595 ) 43,765 1 Children .. Total Number of families receiving aid once, 4,858; twice, 1,762; thrice, 946; four times, 287; five times, 117; six times or oftener, 47. The support is from donations and investments. The average annual receipts and disbursements are from 530,000 to $40,000. It owns some endowments; has no religious affiliations; makes no discrimina- tion on account of race, creed or nationality; it employs no solicitors. Its central office is in the Re- lief Block, 51-53 La Salle Street, which is the prop- erty of the Society and where it has more than 50,000 records of applicants. The Mayor is ex-officio a member of the Board. HENRY W. KING, President. ER.VEST A. HAMILL, Treasurer. WILLIAM H HUIJBARD, Secretary. /EXECUTIVE COMMIT'IEE. T. W. HARVEY, Chairman, A. A. SPRAGUE, C H. S. MIXER, J. J. GLESSNER, JOHN MCLAREN. , C G. TRUSDELL, Gen. Supt. CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY. National Headquarters. 167 DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO, ROOM 707 Chartered 188513 The American Educational Aid Association A national organization, with sixteen state aux- iliaries as follows: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Mis- souri, Indiana, Wisconsin, California, Tennessee, Ohio ; Michigan, Colorado, S. Dakota, N. Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, New Jersey. Objects: "To provide approved family homes for homeless and dependent children. " The Society has a General Superintendent and each State has a State Superintendent and several District Superintendents. A prominent feature of the work of this Society is the Local Boards. There are more than 1,000 of these Boards in the State of Iowa alone. These Boards (i) seek homeless children, (2) homes in which to place them, (3) supervise them in their homes to guard against abuse, (4) receive money, which is directly remitted to the treasurer of the State organization. The Children's Home Society for Illinois placed in homes up to June ist, 1894, 1,969 chil- dren, replacing in all cases of necessity. During last year 227 children were placed. The total number of children placed through its various state auxil- iaries is 4,046. 49 CHILDREN S HOME SOCIETY The Society has an organ of 40 pages in magazine form, the Children's Home Finder, the General Superintendent being Editor-in-Chief. The monthly circulation averages 17,000. There is a temporary home for the use of Illinois children at Englewood, the Englewood Infant Nursery, 6516 Perry Ave. , also a temporary home with four acres of land at Au- rora, 111. The Society congratulates itself upon the union of its work in Illinois with that of the Children's Aid Society. It is believed that the child saving work in Illinois will be carried on with greatly increased efficiency because of this union. Hereafter the work of placing children in the State of Illinois will be done by the Children's Aid Society (see Dage 52), the Illinois State Auxiliary of the Children . Home Society, and ths latter Society will devote u_elf exclusively to its distinctively na- tional functions. Thus in Illinois as elsewhere the state work is done by the State Auxiliary. Contributions and bequests for national work should be sent to Edward F. Lawrence, resident director, First National Bank, Chicago, 111. JOHN WOODBRIDGE, President. REV. THOS. GALT, Secretary. EDWARD F. LAWRENCE, Treasurer. REY. JACOB HARTMAN, Financial Secretary. REV. GEO. K. HOOVER, General Superintendent. MRS. M. V. B.VAN ARSDALE, Ass't. Gen. Supt. FRANK M. GREGG, D. D., National Organizer. CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY. 167 DEARBORN ST., ROOM 712. (State Auxiliary of the Children's Home Society.) University Creche, 4655 Gross Ave. Englewood Infant Nursery, 6516 Perry Ave. Aurora Home, Aurora, 111. Gushing Free Kindergarten, Cor. Paulina and Cornelia Sts. Objects: The Children's Aid Society was char- tered in July, 1890, "to improve the condition of poor and destitute children." It is working to help the children of the state of Illinois, socially, intel- lectually and morally. 1. It finds homes for homeless, dependent chil- dren, the children of misfortune the victims of the desertion of one or both parents, those whose par- ents have become financially embarrassed so that they can no longer support their children, and those who are half-orphans or who have lost both parents by placing them in family homes to be cared for and trained by loving hands, and adopted as the children and heirs of the adoptive parents. 2. It takes the unmarried mother, the deserted wife, or the widow, who has a child, and finds house- work for her in private families, where she can earn the support of both, remaining herself a worthy member of society and training her little one to live an honorable life. It is a rule of the society never to separate a mother and her child unless it is abso- lutely necessary. 3. It trains the children iu the poor and needy districts by establishing kindergartens. 51 52 CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY 4. It organizes the boys and girls of ten to six- teen years into clubs, furnishing them the best of juvenile reading and the children's magazines, and opening to them the world of parliamentary regu- lation, of military control, of quiet indoor games, or, through talks, of the many wonders all about them, teaches the members to be gentlemen and gentlewomen. 5. It establishes creches to furnish at a nominal price care during the day for the little children of "working mothers who would otherwise have to stay at home, go encumbered to their work, or leave their babies to be looked after at home by older children. 6. It investigates all cases of need or neglect re- ported to it, and refers to the proper societies such cases as do not come within its sphere of work. 7. The society has in contemplation a Maternity Hospital, in connection with which there shall be departments for scientific training for girls and young mothers, in domestic work, and for the tem- porary care of destitute and homeless children. The union of the Children's Home Society with that of the Children's Aid Society was consummated October 8th, 1894. The work formerly done by the two Societies for Illinois, will hereafter be carried on by the Chil- dren's Aid Society. All donations for the Illinois work should be sent to the Treasurer of the Chil- dren's Aid Society (see page 50). REPORT OF WORK FROM APRIL l6, 1893, TO APRIL 19, 1894. Number of orphan children placed in perma- nent homes 72 CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY 53 Number of half orphan children placed with their mothers 163 Number of mothers placed in families ... 163 Number of replaced orphan children 16 Number of children replaced with their mothers. . ^ Number of mothers replaced 66 Number of mothers returned to friends 23 Total of all placed during the year 569 Of the children placed in permanent homes, in- cluding the sixteen replaced, there were: Boys 38 Girls 50 The children are located as follows: Boys on farms 18 Girls on farms 10 Children in professional men's families 4 Children in families of merchants, mechanics, deaf and dumb asylum, etc 53 Number of mothers who have died i Number of children who have died 3 Total number of deaths 4 FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 19,1894. Since the last report there has been re- ceived $6, 379. 39 Bills paid according to vouchers audited by the committee 5,716.64 Leaving a cash balance of $655. 75 The sum of $235.50 was received -for the library work, of which $191.76 has been expended. Contributions for the kindergarten, $528.23. CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY 55 HARVEY B. HURD, President. WM. DEERING, HON. T. C. MACMILLAN, JOHN W. TINDALL, Vice-Presidents. D. J. HARRIS, Treasurer. H. H. C. MILLER, Attorney. REV. GEORGE K. HOOVER General Superintendent. MRS. GLEN WOOD, Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. HARVEY B. HURD, ex-officio. HON. T. C. MACMILLAN, JOHN W. TINDALL, PROF. S. R. SMITH, MRS. HENRY P. NEWMAN, JOHN A. COLE, MRS. CATHERINE WAUGH McCuLLOCH. ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. "CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY. Dear Friends: "I have been so blessed in the charge you intrusted to me that I must write again and tell you about our dear little Lena. "She is now seventeen months old. She does not yet walk, for the reason that she has had measles and was for several months quite ill. She is well now, and although a tiny midget, yet she is large enough to hold us all in thrall. She talks some, and this morning at the table asked for a second dish of oatmeal, which she enjoys very much. "I will tell you truly that we love her just as dearly as we did our own. If we were to lose her now, our hearts would be sore indeed. "I pray daily that she may grow up into a pure, noble woman. I also pray for strength to enable me to bring her up in the way she should go. "Now thanking you for your kindness, I close. "Sincerely yours, "March, 1894. E. C. W." 56 CHILDREN'S AID SOCIEfV DEAR FRIENDS : We arrived home at eleven o clock p. M. Baby slept well until five o'clock in the morning, then she began to cry and kept it up almost constantly for two weeks. My husband, and brother and his wife, who were visitors, helped in the care of the new baby. The four of us walked the floor and did everything love could dictate to soothe and comfort her, but she would not be comforted. We sent for the doctor. He smiled and said, "It's her stomach." A change of food, with a little lime water, did the business and now she is the sweetest little cherub you could wish to see. We are per- fectly charmed with her. I feel I owe you an apology for the way I received you at P. I was feeling quite ill and the strain on my nerves was too much for me. The sight of the little helpless babe, and the memory of my five little ones who had been taken from my home, one after another, to the home above broke my spirit quite down and I could say nothing. All I could do was to let the tears flow and relieve my hungry, aching heart. I want her exact age, for children like to have birthdays. As we love the precious girlie and wish to save her any annoyance in future that may be avoided, we wish to avoid publicity, and so I request you to send my letters in a common envelope. When any one asks us where we found our baby, we say, "God gave her to us, ''and we feel that he did. Yours truly, February, 1894. M. J. G. CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY 57 Our little Lula has become quite an interesting girl. She is quite a favorite with all the little girls. She goes to Sunday-school. We have not started her to school yet. She can read well for one of her age. She has read the first reader through several times. She is quite hearty and always ready for a romp with papa when I come home at night. I hope all the little girls you find homes for will be Lulas to some one as ours is to us. Yours truly, . Willie is in splendid health. He has grown. He can take the harness off a horse, but is not large enough to put it on. We have sold this place on account of it not being convenient for Willie to go to school. When we get a house with room enough I would love to have a nice little girl. Willie loves to be out with his papa. Your friend S. Bennett, 111. We still have the boy, Ira, and love him as though he were our own. He is a very good boy, we think. Since we have had him (three years) he has never been absent or tardy one day from school, and has only missed Sunday school once. He likes both and is very quick in learn- ing. We wish you success in your work, for I think it is the noblest work that is being done. B . These two letters are from the foster-mothers of twin baby boys: A r, 111. We call the little boy Glenn. He is doing well, growing, and is a very healthy child; has a good disposition, and is a very bright boy. He loves to go to Sabbath-school, and goes in the class with the other little children. We could not help loving such a boy, for he is just what we want. H n, 111. We love him more, if possible, than ever. He has grown to be such a fine child weighs forty-two pounds and so healthy. We could not love our own better. I must tell you we got ac- quainted with Mr. and Mrs. B of A r, 111., the family that have the twin to our boy. They are very fine people. The boys had a great time. CITIZENS' LEAGUE OF CHICAGO FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SALE OF LIQUOR TO MINORS. OFFICE, 113 ADAMS ST., ROOM 45. Object: "To secure, by all proper means, the enforcement of all laws and ordinances for the pre- vention of the sale of liquors to minors and drunk- ards, and also the enforcement of all laws and ordinances to prevent minors from playing at games of chance or other games in saloons in the city of Chicago." THE l6TH ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1893 SHOWS: No. of Saloon K'p's Prosecuted 701 Number of Charges 1103 Selling to Minors 516 Keeping Disorderly Houses... 39 Selling to Drunkards 548 Amount of Fines and Costs Imposed $10,753 Held to Criminal Court 106 Precedendos issued in Criminal Court... fi5 Appealed to yuasi Criminal Court 101 Continued during year i49 Continued until January, 1894.. 21 Number Fined by Justice 404 No. Fined in Criminal Court.. 55 No. of Witnesses Subpoenaed.. 2099 Bonds Forfeited 14 Nolle Prosequied and Dismissed 179 Summary of work done since organization (1878) to 1899. 1878 1879 1892 1893 Total No. of Charges against Saloon Keepers... Held to the Grand Jury 241 81 166 90 1592 158 1103 103 1H442 1884 Fined by Justices 88 85 581 434 10546 Receipts for 1893, $6,420.04; disbursements, $6,117.52. The Society employs a general agent and two assistants. The agents are vested with police powers, but are not on the department's pay roll, nor does the Society receive benefits of fines, these going to the school fund. Its support is entirely from voluntary donations. 58 CITIZENS' LEAGUE 59 The Society states that it is unable with its pres- ent force to cover the entire city properly. This would requite one man to every police station, or twelve additional agents, an increased expense of 10,000 a year. This would secure the effectual enforcement of the law against the sale of liquors to minors and drunkards. AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE. "Mrs. Mary A., residing at , mother of four children, aged 16, 13, n and 8, came to the office of the 'Citizens' League,' and gave the history of the misery and ruin surrounding their home, caused by the sale of intoxicating liquors to her husband and her children. This case was investigated by the League's agents, and was found to be pitiful indeed. The husband was a habitual drunkard, spending all his money for intoxicating liquor, until the once happy home became one of misery and want. "He would compel his children to go to the different saloons and buy intoxicating liquors for him when he was not in a condition to go himself. And upon refusal of the children to obey his commands, they were severely punished by him. The father was arrested, tried, and was sent to the Bridewell, and four saloon keepers were fined for selling liquor to the children, each $25.00 and cost, and one was held in addition to the Criminal Court in bonds of $200.00." I. P. RUMSEY, President.! JAMES W. JANNEY, First Vice-President. A. L. COE, Treasurer. H. J. HAY WARD, General Agent. LIST OF FREE DISPENSARIES. Alexian Brothers' Hospital, 539 N. Market Street. Chicago Polyclinic, 174 E. Chicago Ave. German Hospital and Dispensary, 754 Larrabee Street. Open from 10 A. M. to 12 M. North Star Dispensary, 192 Superior Street. Bennett Free Dispensary, Ada and Fulton Streets. Central Free Dispensary, Harrison and Wood Streets. Open from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Homeopathic Hospital Free Dispensary, Wood and York Streets. Women and Children's Hospital Dispensary, Adams and Paulina Streets. 111. Char. Eye and Ear Dispensary, 121 S. Peori a Street- Open from 2 to 3 P. M. Kirkland Free Dispensary, 111 S. Halsted Street- Lincoln Street Dispensary, 333 S. Lincoln Street. Open from 2 to 4 P. M. W. C. T. U. Free Dispensary, 870 W. Madison Street. West Side Free Dispensary, Harrison and Honore Sts. Open from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Chicago Public Dispensary, 819 W. Harrison Street. Armour Mission Dispensary, 33rd Street and Armour Ave. Open from 9 to 11 A. M. Michael Reese Hospital Dispensary, Groveland Ave. and 29th Street. Open from 9 A. M. to 12 M. Charity Hospital Free Dispensary, 2407 Dearborn Street- Open from 8 A. M. to 4 p. M. South Side Free Dispensary, 2435 Dearborn Street. Open from 1 to 3 p. M. St. Luke Free Dispensary, 1434 Indiana Ave. Open from 1 to 2:30 p. M. Hahnemann Hospital Dispensary, 2813 Groveland Ave. The Willie Hipp Free Dispensary for poor children. 4453 State, cor. 55th Street. Open from 3 to 4 p. M. Columbia Char. Dispensary and Hospital, 3823 LaSalle. Woman's Hospital Dispensary, Rhodes Ave. and 32nd St. The Minnetonka Free Dispensary, 414 W. Madison. The Hull House Free Dispensary, 247 W. Polk Street. Open from 3 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. M. Physio-Medical College Dispensary, 519 Milwaukee Ave. 60 FRIENDLY AID SOCIETY. 3961 DREXEL BOULEVARD. Object: "The object of this society shall be char- itable work, such work to be decided upon by the vote of the majority of the members present. It shall be non-sectarian and consist of members who shall contribute annually to its funds." There are at present no members, all living in the neighborhood. The work undertaken last winter was to contribute $609.12 towards the building fund of the Destitute Crippled Children's Home, and later the opening and maintenance of an emergency sewing room at 197 Oakwood Boulevard. The receipts were, from membership fees $139; from bazar $656.95; from donations $326.38; from minstrels $591.25. Total, $1,713.58. Disbursements to Crippled Children's Home $609. 12, for emergency rooms and incidentals $397.90. Balance in hand, $706.65. No solicitors or other salaried agents are em- ployed. The nature of the work undertaken is de- termined by the membership as the various causes present themselves. MRS. TELFORD BURNHAM, President. MRS. JONAS HUTCHINSON, First Vice-President. MRS. A. G. CONE, Second Vice-President. MRS. L. D. CONDEE, Treasurer. MRS. JOHN D. BANGS, Secretary. MRS. JOHN MORSE, Assistant Secretary. til HOME FOR SELF-SUPPORTING WOMEN. 275 INDIANA STREET. Provident Laundry. Employment Bureau. Object: "To establish and render self-supporting a lodging and boarding house where working women and girls with small means can find a comfortable and respectable home at a moderate price." The Home was organized in 1887. During 1894 there were 250 girls admitted, and almost as many turned away for want of accommodations. It admits women engaged in all kinds of work and has no re- ligious tests, affiliating with no religious bodies. A small price, $2.50 a week, is charged for board and lodging. The Home is self-supporting. The build- ing is owned; there are no endowments. Receipts from board and lodging, 1893-94, $8,097. Total, $10,377. Disbursements, $9,429.35. MRS. JOHN KEY, President. MRS. M'cMuRRAY, First Vice-President. MRS. C. H. HAMILL, Second Vice-President. MRS. JOHN HANNAH, Third Vice-President. MRS. ROBERT HUNT, Treasurer. MRS. WALLACE KIRK, Corresponding Secretary. MRS. RUGBY, Matron. 62 HOMK FOK SELF-SUPPORTING WOMEN, 64 HOME FOR SELF-SUPPORTING WOMEN Provident Laundry. 275 Indiana St. Established in 1889. Object: "To provide a channel of work for able-bodied women out of employment and desirous to become self-supporting; to maintain a training school where superior work is taught, and an Em- ployment Bureau where permanent situations are secured for those desiring them." The Laundry is conducted in the rear of the Home, overtaxing its accommodations. An average of 25 women find employment daily. The weekly receipts average $250. A large number of these women, the committee's report says, become proficient enough to take permanent positions in families. An Employment Bureau is connected with the laundry, giving to needy women sent by various charitable organizations employment, mostly in pri- vate families. This averages from 60 to 80 days' work a month. During 1893-4 tne receipts were $12,- 817.14; $9,073.54 were paid in wages; running ex- penses $1,786.67; balance of profit, $2,000, which was given to the Home to cancel its indebtedness. MRS. J. B. LYON, President. MRS. R. R. CAMPBELL, Treasurer. MRS. M. McCARiHY, Superintendent. Miss J. L. KING, Corresponding Secretary. HULL HOUSE. 335 S. HALSTKD STREET. The Kindergarten, 335 S. Halsted Street. The Day Nursery, 221 Ewing Street. The Diet Kitchen, 240 W. Polk Street. The Public Dispensary, 247 W. Polk Street. Hull House is a "social settlement." Its twenty residents are interested in promoting whatever social or educational movements promise to contribute to the welfare of the neighborhood. It conducts, under the superintendence of resi- dents, clubs and classes having a weekly member- ship of more than 2,000 persons. It has these distinctively charitable departments: The Kindergarten and Day Nursery provide for the care of children while the mothers are at work, the creche averages about 30 children each day. The average attendance at the Kindergarten is 25. The Diet Kitchen in connection with the Coffee House prepares, in a scientific manner, foods and broths for invalids, and supplies them at a nominal charge or cost price to any one present- ing a certificate from a district nurse or a physician. Foods are also sold by the quart or pound to fam- ilies for home consumption. Coffee, soups and stews are delivered daily at noon to neighboring factories. The Public Dispensary was opened in October, 1893, for the purpose of affording professional ser- vice at small expense, together with instruction on matters of hygiene and the prevention of disease. Over 2.000 patients have been treated, the resi- dents investigating the cases applying. The Dis- pensary is open daily from 3 to 4 and 7 to 8 P. M. 65 66 HULL HOUSE It is supported by the Dearborn Seminary Alumni Association. There is no formal organization of these depart- ments of work; they are supported by monthly con- tributions, from private individuals. No paid solic- itors are employed, nor are there endowments. There are no religious affiliations. Miss JANE ADDAMS. SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS IN CHICAGO. (In their Historic Order.) Hull House, 335 So. Halsted St. Northwestern University Settlement, 26 Rice Street. Maxwell Street Settlement, 145 Maxwell St. University of Chicago Settlement, 4655 Gross Ave. Epworth House, (page 201), 229 21- So. Hal- sted St. Chicago Commons, 24 Union St. ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND MANUAL TRAINING FOR BOYS. GLENWOOD, ILL. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, ROOMS 27-8, 113 ADAMS ST. , COR. CLARK. Objects: "To provide a home and proper train- ing for destitute and wayward boys who may be committed to its charge." The school was opened first at Norwood Park, June 30, 1887, and removed to its present site at Glenwood, June 12, 1890. It was regularly incor- porated under the State Industrial School law, Feb. 14, 1887. Its seventh annual report shows as follows: Number of boys registered since organization of Home ij3O2 Number of boys placed out since organization of Home. l ,o&7 Number of boys in the Home May ist, 1893.. 203 Number of boys received in the Home during the year 248 Number of boys returned during the year, pre- viously placed in private homes 16 Number of boys placed in homes or restored to friends during the year 232 Number of boys cared for during the year. . .'. 467 Number of boys in the Home May ist, 1894.. 235 Number of boys in Kindergarten 16, in Primary 43, in ist grade 21, in 2nd 65, in 3rd 1 1 2, in 4th 85, in 5th 76, in 6th 36, in 7th 13. Total in school for the year 467 07 68 SCHOOL OK AGRICULTURE AND MANUAL TRAINING From May ist, 1893, to May ist, 1894, 223 boys left the school, 160 going back to their friends, and 63 being indentured into country homes; 16 were readmitted. Of the 235 in Ihe school, May ist, 1894, 5 were in 4 years, 9 three years, 22 two years, 56 one year, 143 less than one year. The ages of the boys were: 48 from 6 to 10; 101 from 10 to 12; 62 from 12 to 14; 24 from 14 to 16. No death oc- curred; 1 8 nationalities were represented. The boys are taught various trades and agriculture, raising farm products to a value of $4,555.86. The treasurer's report is as follows: Cash on hand at last Annual Meeting. . ..$22,353.15 For the Building Fund 5,500.00 From Friday Club Endowment Fund.... 7,000.00 From General Donations 7,005.19 From Boarders 4,422.92 From Cook County 12, ooo. oo From Other Counties 919.34 From Board of Stock 287.70 From Interest on Deposits 188.21 From World's Fair for Boys' Services. .. 441.70 From Miscellaneous Sources 525.08 Total Receipts $60,643. 29 Expended for Bld'g Fund, 1894527,574.88 Expended for General Expenses this year 24,264.01 $51,838.89 Total Cash on Hand $8,804. 4 Building Fund Balance $ 828.33 Friday Club Endowment Fund. . 7,000. oo 7,828.33 Balance to Credit of General Fund.. .$976.07 7O SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND MANUAL TRAINING LIABILITIES. Owing for Salaries and Wages.. .$4,881.37 Owing for Supplies and General Expense 3, 462. 66 Owing for Building Fund, Charity Ball 5, ooo. oo $13,344.03 Leaving net indebtedness May i, 1894: $10,790.80 Net Indebtedness May J, 1893, was $10,857.28 Net Indebtedness May i, 1894, is $10,790.80 A decrease for the year of $66.48 Per capita cost for each boy is yearly $103.00 The Society is without sectarian affiliation; has an endowment of $7,000 for its manual training depart- ment. The management is vested in a Board of nine men. It also has an auxiliary committee of 25 ladies. DIRECTORS. JOHN T. CHUMASERO, President. EDWARD B. BUTLER, Vice-President. WM. R. PAGE, Attorney. FREDERICK T. HASKELL, Treasurer, 720 The Rookery. OSCAR L. DUDLEY, Secretary and General Manager, 113 Adams St. MRS. URSULA L. HARRISON, Superintendent. MILTON GEORGE, ANDREW CRAWFORD, A. N. WATERMAN, FRANK FOLLANSBEE, GEORGE E. ADAMS. AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE. The following letter is written by two of the five brothers whose pictures are on the opposite page, and who were placed by the school in family homes in Iowa. 72 SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND MANUAL TRAINING DKAR MR. DUDLEY : Well do we remember that awful cold day in January, 1887, when you came to our place and took us all away, and had us taken to court, and how you took us out to the school at Norwood Park. Mother had died about a year before, leaving us with our three little broth- ers, Walter, Arthur and Lotha, with no one to care for us, and our father, who was drinking, was so poor he could do no work, and we thought we would all starve or freeze to death, and I think now we would if you had not come for us and put us in your nice school at Norwood Park. We thought about the year we spent in the school, and how comfortable you made us, and how the teachers worked to make us happy. We can never forget you and Mrs. Harrison for all you did for us, and how bad we felt to be separated when you sent one of us away to a new home. But when we found you hid homes for all five of us near together here in this county, we were all happy again, and will always remember you and the school in our prayers. Now, Mr. Dudley, we want to tell you something about our home out here in Iowa. Frank was here five years the i2th of last December, and I will be here five years the 27th of this month. We two have always lived with Mr. Lessing, where you placed us, and have had a splendid home, and now we are getting to be young men and Mr. Lessing is going to help us in business. Walter, Arthur and Lotha all have good homes, and are doing nicely. We see them often and are so thankful that you took so much interest to have us all located so near to- gether. You have only been here to see us once, but you have sent Mr. West now three times; so we hope you will come to see us this summer. We cannot say enough in praise of the school that did so much for us and so many of the other poor boys. There are about thirty boys from the school in this county, and they all would like to see you. "Respectfully yours, EDDIE E. "March 7, 1894. FRANK E." ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. SOUTH EVANSTON. OFFICE, ROOM 413, 70 STATE ST. Object: "The care and training of dependent girls." Number in Home October i, 1894 146 Received into Home during the year 125 Total cared for 271 Children committed 258 Boarders 13 Total 271 Children committed (by Cook County, 179; by 9 other counties, 26); boarders 13; charity 6; total, 271. The ages of the children were: 49 above 12, 23 between 10 and 12, 40 under 10, 7 under 5, and one was 3^ years old. The Committee on Home and Indenture report: 1891 1S92 IS!)!} 1S94 Applications 27(5 IIS 250 Placed in homes 39 83 52 54 Upturned to friend* 27 23 15 35 Returned to school 10 5 12 Discharged 1 11 35 Sewing Room and Laundry. Work done last year consisted of the making and repairing of bed, table and other household linen, and the wearing apparel of over 100 girls, and the laundrying of 80,000 pieces. Report of the Secretary from October 14, 1891, to October u, 1894: 73 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. Cook County 1891 $10,000 1892 $14,339.67 1898 $11,333.19 1894 $10,999.92 3.240 3,177.43 1,819.25 1,891 .00 30 oo 13.00 75.00 760.27 i68.5o Donations 1.255 1,024.42 352.33 1,567.20 60.76 92.00 47.53 29.05 Dues 3.00 2.OO 666.67 Total $14,925 819,342.08 $15,025.49 $14,458.12 There are no religious affiliations and no endow- ments. No solicitors are employed. The buildings, valued at $50,000, are owned, besides 40 acres of land at Park Ridge, valued at $40,000. The directory took active steps to secure the es- tablishment of a State Reform School for Girls. MRS. M. R. M. WALLACE, President, 3817 Mich- igan Ave. MRS. J. S. CONGER, Vice-President, 426 Jackson Boulevard. MRS. M. I. SANDES, Room 413, 70 State St. MRS. C. C. HUGHES, Corresponding Secretary, Room 35, 185 Dearborn St. Miss CLARA HUNT, Treasurer, 2241 Calumet Ave. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES. MRS. M. R. M. WALLACE, Chairman. MRS. J. S. CONGER, Miss CLARA HUNT, MRS. M. C. VANBENSCHOTEN, MRS. M. I. SANDES, MRS. D. W. RICHARDSON. AN ILLUSTRATIVE CASE. SOUTH EVANSTON, Oct. 5, 1894 DEAR MOTHER: I have not written to you for a long time, so it will be a surprise to hear from me. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 77 The last letter I received from you was so short that I could hardly believe that you wrote it. Well, mother, winter is very near, and I will be glad, for I enjoy it more than I do summer. I think you were informed in your letter from Jessie that she had entered public school in Sep- tember. She is getting along very nicely. She is in sixth grade. I can hardly call her little, for her birthday is coming around next month, and it seems as though she is as old as I am (although she is not). How is little Arthur getting along? Has he started school yet? If I am not very careful and stud)' a little harder, Jessie and Arthur will get ahead of me. I still work in the bakery, and I like it just as well as ever. Some day, if I ever help you keep house, I will know how to bake bread and do a great many other things that will help you. Mother, don't forget that we are both getting to be large girls, so by the time we get home, we can almost take care of you. With love to all from Jessie and myself, I am your loving daughter, Mary C. Love to Katie and Grandma. P. S. Jessie is at school while I am writing this. If you are not too tired, please write us a long letter. Mary. THE ILLINOIS HUMANE SOCIETY. 560 Wabash Avenue. (Telephone "Harrison" 384.) Chartered by the Legislature as the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, March 25th, 1869. Prevention of cruelty to children was joined to its work and its name changed to The Illinois Humane Society, July 5th, 1877. Its objects are to secure the enactment and enforce- ment of laws for the prevention of cruelty to Animals and Children, to induce effective action toward the same throughout this State, and by a system of humane education to promote a humane public sen- timent. The spirit and office of the organization is to ed- ucate rather than to punish. The Society is supported chiefly by voluntary con- tributions; but the Legislature of 1885 authorized the payment of all fines paid in money, imposed through its agency, into its treasury. The Society is called on continually for a multi- tude of services outside its legitimate sphere, and is active in giving aid, either material or advisory, to all applicants. SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 3OTH, 1894. Complaints received and investigated 3>i95 Children rescued and condition remedied 375 Children sent to Charitable Institutions 346 Persons prosecuted for cruelty to children 41 Persons prosecuted for cruelty to animals 53 Horses ordered laid up as unfit for service.. .. 273 78 ILLINOIS HUMANE SOCIETY. THE ILLINOIS HUMANE SOCIETY Disabled animals removed by ambulance , 154 Teamsters and others reprimanded 680 Abandoned and incurable animals killed. 319 The Society has erected forty-three Street Foun- tains throughout the city for the supply of drinking water to persons and animals. Complaints when received are promptly examined, whether forwarded anonymously or not; but it is re- quested for obvious reasons that the names of the complainants should be signed to them. The name of the sender is never divulged if requested to be kept secret. The Society owns its building, at 560 Wabash Ave. Contributions may be sent to the President or Treasurer or to any member of the Board of Directors. ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. Two women, Mamie and Lillie , were arrested for cruelty to a dog. The facts appeared that these women had decoyed the dog into their house, swathed its tail in cotton cloth, saturated the whole body with kerosene oil, taken it to the street and then set fire to it. The dog was so fatally injured that it had to be killed. Parties fined, each, $100 and costs. G. W. , an old offender, was arrested for working mules unfit for work upon the drainage canal and fined $200 and costs by Justice Everett on August 1 6th, 1894. A boy, about 20 years old, was found mutilating dogs by cutting off their ears, apparently as an ex- periment in vivisection. He was fined Sioand costs. Ten dollars and costs was the fine imposed on each of three men for working horses in the brick yards with sore shoulders. W. A. - - and Edwin E. - were prosecuted and THE ILLINOIS HUMANE SOCIETY 8l sentenced to fifteen years each for criminal assault upon their fourteen year old daughters. We placed the girls in an Institution, where they will receive proper training and care. Complaint was made of the abuse of a girl, five years old, by her father and step-mother, by shutting her up in a closet in the basement of their house, and otherwise abusing her. The man, being willing(or so claiming) to do the best for the welfare of the child, was sent by us to the Chicago Industrial School to make arrangements for the child's admis- sion. Two days afterward, the father desired to place the girl with a private family, to which we consented. When we sought afterward to examine the conditions existing, we learned that the father had taken the girl away to Michigan. We then swore out warrants for the man, his wife and mother-in- law for cruelty to the fchild, and all three were held to the Criminal Court' in $800 bonds each, and the child was returned to the School. The father then asked that the child be placed in custody of this Society; consenting to her adoption by an uncle in Milwaukee, to whom she was committed upon which and the conveyance of the father's interest in a small property left by the child's mother at the time of her death, we deemed it best to nol. pros, the case, and the Judge so ordered. JOHN G. SHORTAI.L, President. GEORGE SCHNEIDER, Treasurer. BELDEN F. CULVER, Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. JOHN G. SHORTALL, FERD. W. PECK, JOHN C. DORE, HENRY N. HART, *DAVIL> SWING, THOMAS E. HILL, WM. PENN NIXON, JOHN T. DALE, GEORGE SCHNEIDER, ILLINOIS TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. Objects: "To train nurses and to furnish them to the sick and wounded. " The School was organized in 1880. Its I2th an- nual report shows the total number graduated since its organization as being 259. A superintendent with two assistants, a night superintendent, and 124 pu- pils were in attendance at the time of last report. During 1892-93, 46 were graduated after a two years' course, receiving diplomas arid $100 each in money. The Bureau of Registration contains 119 names of graduates who are sent out to do private nursing; the calls for such nurses were 1138 during last year. The fee is $5 for registering. The School supplies the nurses for the Cook County and the Presbyterian Hospitals, and received last year from the former $13,587.33 and from the latter $12,129. 36; other receipts were, from annual membership dues, $960; interest, $750; total re- ceipts, $87,518.72. This included a bequest of $50,000 from John Crerar. Expenditures: for hospital ex : penses, $43,309; for household expenses, $18,717.58, etc.; mortgage loan, $55,000; balance on hand, Oct. i, '92, $4,494.82. No solicitors are employed. The house is owned. MRS. T. M. FLOWER, President. ) J MRS. Oi9 J 6 Boys' suits i , 297 Mittens (special fund) pairs 48 Dress goods and skirtings, yards 3>7 Linings for same, yards 609 Gingham for aprons, yards 783 102 SCHOOL CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY 103 All of the dresses, skirts and aprons were made either at the Women's Emergency Rooms or by ladies' societies, free of charge. The cash receipts of the Society for the year were $7,570.46, the disbursements the same. As no sal- aries are paid, the running expenses have been, not counting printing and postage, $43.55. The Board of Education assists the Society. It authorized the Thanksgiving collection from the public schools, which gives it its largest revenues, $3,736.58. It furnishes a distributing room, with heat and janitor service, and since November has delivered all the clothing that the Society has sent to the schools. Besides the clothing purchased by the Society, large quantities have been donated by individuals, societies, and merchants from other cities as well as our own; 400 garments having been contributed by one society. The Society has set "Charity Globes" in many places of business, similar to those of "The Daily News Fresh Air Fund." At Christmas the West End Woman's club raised $185.00, with which it purchased shoes and stockings for the Polk St. school. It has also expended $150.00 for shoes and stockings and $50 for under- wear and boys' suits for the Brainard, Goodrich, Tilden, Foster and Walsh schools; and lastly, it has given employment, in making clothes (for school children, to fifty-three destitute women in their own homes at $2.00 per week. The money thus spent in material and wages amounts to $700.00, making a total of $1,085.00 104 SCHOOL CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY EMMA COUSEN DAINTY, Chairman. MRS. A. F. VOLLMER, Treasurer. Miss GRACE TEMPLE, Secretary. Miss GEORGIA A. BACON, Recorder. MRS. HELENF. STANTON, Chairman Purchasing Committee. MRS. SARAH V. FOOTE, Chairman Investigating Committee. MRS. CORNELIA D. HEILE, Chairman Publication Committee. THE ARMOUR INSTITUTE. COR. 33RD. ST. AND ARMOUR AVE. Mission. Kindergarten. Dispensary. These charities are connected with the Armour Institute. The principal feature of the Armour Mission is a large Sunday School, with an enroll- ment of 2,200, and an average attendance for the year 1893, of 1,656 scholars. It emphasizes the care and training of children and youth. A special service for children is held each Sunday morning. There is a young men's association, the Saturday Night Club organized for literary and social pur- poses, and a similar young woman's club. Mothers' Meetings are held regularly for the improvement of the home life. The Armour Battalion is composed of three companies of boys, numbering 150, which gives a military drill and aims to build up habits of sobriety and purity. A girl's corps has two com- panies of 70, with a drill and physical and moral culture. All the privileges of the mission are free. REV. DUNCAN C. MII.NER is its Pastor. The Kindergarten accommodates about 150 pupils froin 3 to 6 years, and has a superintendent and ten teachers. It is free and open daily from 9. A. M. to 12 M., excepting Saturdays and Sundays. The Dispensary is open daily except Sundays, from 9 to n A. M., to all who are unable to pay for medicines or medical advice. An average of about 6c patients are treated daily, free of charge. Dur- 105 106 THE ARMOUR INSTITUTE ing the year ending May ist, 1894, 13,707 persons received treatment, at a cost of about $2,000; 162 cases were treated at their homes. The Institute is erected on a site adjoining the Mission, at an expense of $250,000. It is a Tech- nological School, with departmeats for Academic / training and also for instruction in dress-making, cooking and domestic science. All who are able are expected to pay tuition. Special arrangements are made for qualified students unable to pay, as it is not a free school. The investments in property and equipment of the buildings of the Armour Institute, Mission, and "Flats" aggregate more than $1.500,000. The in- come from the 213 department buildings is devoted to and supports the entire enterprise. Mr. Joseph F. Armour made a bequest of $100,000 for a building devoted to the training and care of children. His brother, Philip D. Armour, has increased this with donations of his own. The Mission has been duly incorporated and the property deeded in trust to a Board of Directors consisting of: PHILIP D. ARMOUR, WILLIAM J. CAMPBELL, [ JOHN C. BLACK, J. O. ARMOUR, P. D. ARMOUR, JR. REV. FRANK W.GUNSAULUS,D. D., President of the Armour Institute. THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS FRESH-AIR FUND. 123 FIFTH AVE. INCORPORATED JAN. 3, 1894. Sanitarium for Sick Babies in Lincoln Park. "The Country Week" work of the Fresh-Air Fund was suspended during the season of 1894, because of the prevalence of smallpox in the Chicago dis- tricts from which thousands of "Country Weekers" have been selected during former seasons. This fea- ture of fresh -air mercy will be resumed during the summer of 1895. The Daily News Sanitarium for sick babies closed for the 1894 season on Saturday, Sept. 29, with the greatest record in the history of fresh-air work in this country, showing the eighth season of the Fund very much the most successful since its inauguration. During the ninety-five days making up the sixteen weeks (less July 4), from Monday, June n, to Sat- urday, Sept. 29, there came to the Sanitarium 10,560 sick babies, 14,179 mothers, 37,635 children and 59>995 visitors, a grand total of 122,369 persons, making the daily average of 1,288. During 1893, when the World's Fair dominated Chicago, the attendance for the corresponding sixteen weeks was: Sick babies, 8,958; mothers, 11,530; children, 24,364; visitors, 106,175, a grand total of 131,037 daily average, 1,573. I* will De seen that while the World's Fair season brought 46,180 more visit- ors than during the 1894 season, the record for 1894 shows an increase of 17,522 babies, mothers and 107 I08 CHICAGO DAILY NEWS FRESH-AIR FUND children over 1893, and represents the enormous growth of the work of mercy in one year. Of the 10,560 babies cared for during the 1894 season, 2,340 were serious cases given full hospital treatment, of which detailed histories are recorded in the house physicians' journal. No record was kept of transient treatment administered in the ham- mock court and pavilion. The death list for 1894 numbers nineteen, four babies having died in the Sanitarium and fifteen at their homes after having been treated one or more times. The law requires that the physician last treating a patient must give the death certificate, and so it Happened that in a majority of the fifteen deaths above noted the pa- tients were brought to the Sanitarium in a dying condition after the family physician had exhausted his resources, and expired after having been cared for only one clay. Outside of medical treatment and nursing, the Daily News Fresh-Air Fund gave food and clothing to many thousands of helpless mothers and children and fitted out for school something over i6oboys and girls who would otherwise have been unable to go. The Daily News Sanitarium in Lincoln Park is the largest structure of its class in the world, being 100 feet in width and 200 feet deep, built on a sys- tem of piles over the lake. The cost of building, and equipment for the first season's work, was about $13,000. At the time of preparing this report the financial statement for 1894 i s not ready, but the public contribution will approximate $10,000, while the Daily News will be called upon to pay about IIO CHICAGO DAILY NEWS FRESH- AIR FUND $2,500 for printing, postage, clerical help and other expenses of administration. No funds contributed by the public are used to pay for any part of the administration of the Fresh-Air Fund. This charity is supported by the voluntary contribution of the people, very largely through "The Children's Charity Globes," which are familiar to Chicago residents, more than 500 of these globes being placed in bus iness houses. At the Sanitarium everything is absolutely free. Mrs. Mary Gross Canfield is the matron. There are no endowments, no religious affiliations, and no so- licitors are employed. Any person soliciting money or goods, or favors of any sort, in the name of the Daily News Fresh-Air Fund is a fraud and should be turned over to the police. No officer receives compensation for his services out of the "Fund." The board of counsel and audit is made up of Gen. Joseph Stockton, Henry Greenebaum and J. H. McVicker. The administration of the Daily News Fresh Air Fund is vested in the following Board of Directors: VICTOR F. LAWSON, President. CHARLES M. FAYE, Secretary and General Man- ager. H. M. DEWEY, Treasurer. THE CHICAGO RED CROSS SOCIETY. INCORPORATED, AUG. 22, 1894. Free Hospital for Babies and Mothers. Object: The Chicago Red Cross Society was formed for the purpose of building a hospital for babies and their mothers, to supplement the summer work of the Daily News Sanitarium in Lincoln Park. A large site worth $60,000 has been secured conditionally by the president, and $60,000 addi- tional will be subscribed for the building, which will be located in the west division of the city. It is confidently expected that the hospital will be ready for occupancy Nov. i, 1895. There are no religious affiliations. The hospital will be absolutely free of all charge to its patients. The officers are as follows, the first five con- stituting the board of managers for the first year: CHARLES M. FAYE, President. ALBERT G. BEAUNISNE, Vice-President. WILHELMINA WERNER, Secretary. JAMES LANGLAND, Treasurer. MARY GROSS CANFIELD, Matron. Louis L. GREGORY, Chief of Medical Staff. Ill THE HOME OF DESTITUTE CRIPPLED CHILDREN. SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF PARK AVE. AND PAULINA ST. , 46 PARK AVE. Objects: i. To provide a home for destitute crip- pled children and secure for them the comforts of life. 2. To restore the use of limb, correct deformity, and ameliorate the sufferings of the incurable in as far as it can ba done by the skill and wisdom of the most able orthopedic surgeons and physicians. 3. To cultivate and improve the mental capacity by practical and judicious education. 4. To develop by careful training any talent for handicraft that may give a purpose in life and ren- der the inmates at least partially self-supporting. The property of the Home consists of a large two-story basement brick house with two-story barn, erected on a lot 120 x 130 feet, on the south east corner of Park Avenue and Paulina Street. There are also fourteen building lots for the country home at Ellsworth Park, 9 miles from the City Hall. ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. A girl 13 years old received some injury while working for a family and was removed to Cook County Hospital, where her right limb was amputated. As she could not remain at the hospital and had no friends, she was received into the Home, sent to school, an artificial limb procured, and afterwards provided with a good home in a private family. A little boy 2 years old was hydrocephalic, and so greatly reduced by abscesses and chronic diarrhoea, 112 114 THE IIOME FOR DESTITUTE CRIPPLED CHILDREN as to be pronounced incurable at the Home for the Friendless, where he had been cared for. Under medical and constitutional treatment he became a fine, healthy and attractive boy, and has been taken into a family of most excellent people. Eddie, a seven-year-old boy; paralytic club-foot of left side. Operated upon, cured and discharged. Arthur, a six-year-old boy with Dorsal Pott's disease of the spine. Admitted January ist, 1894. Provided with a spinal brace and his condition greatly improved. Hugo,a three-year-old boy, was in a rachetic condi- tion and so weak and emaciated he could not stand alone. After six months of treatment he was re- turned to his parents a perfectly healthy child. The work is without sectarian affiliations. In the admission of children there is no discrimination on account of race, color, creed, or nationality. Im- beciles, epileptics, and children with contagious dis- eases are ineligible. Boys over 12 years of age and girls over 15 cannot be admitted except by special permission The Home is supported by the contributions of the benevolent. During the four years of the existence of the Home, 82 children have been cared for, 45 returned to friends or placed in private homes. The present capacity is between 40 and 50, and two hundred ap- plications have been filed. OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. MRS. GEORGE SHERWOOD, President. HORACE G. TEELE, First Vice-President. THE HOME FOR DESTITUTE CRIPPLED CHILDREN MRS. A. V. H. WAKEMAN, Second Vice-President. MRS. E. A. DELANO, Recording Secretary. MRS. C. W. EARLE, Corresponding Secretary. JAS. S. HUBBARD, Treasurer. MRS. JNO. N. STAPLES, MRS. JOHN SPRY, MRS. J. H. BEERS, MRS. A. W. HOLMES. ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS. DR. JOHN RIDLOW, Medical Director. DR. A. E. HOADLEY, DR. A. B. HOSMER, DR. WALLACE BLANCHARD, DR. F. S. COOLEDGE. REV. I. PRINCE, M. D., Supt. THE CIVIC FEDERATION OF CHICAGO. Incorporated Feb. 3, 1894. Object: "Anon-partisan, non-sectarian association, inviting the co-operation of all the forces that are now laboring to advance the municipal, philan- thropic, industrial and moral interests of Chicago. " CENTRAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION. 51-53 La Salle St. Objects: "The purposes of the Association as for- mulated at its organization at The Auditorium Hotel December 12, 1893, were to raise funds to meet the then existing emergency; to disburse them as far as practicable through existing public and charitable agencies; to ascertain the need of the unemployed, and to secure co-operation in extending the needed relief." The immediate occasion was the presence in the city at the close of the World's Fair of thousands of unemployed men, many hundreds of whom were without food or lodging and crowded at night into the corridors of the City Hall and into the various police stations. In the early fall a Citizens' Com- mittee, appointed by the mayor, later the Confer- ence of Charities and then the Civic Federation, attempted to arouse the public conscience to the ex- treme emergency there was upon the community, and the need of prompt action in the way of relief. The leaders of these and several other organizations met at the time and place above named, organized the Central Relief Association and authorized Mr. T. W. Harvey, the chairman of the meeting, to select 110 THE CIVIC FEDERATION 117 50 representative men for the purposes above set forth. Executive officers and sub-committees rep- resenting the various industries were duly elected. The work of the Association has been conducted along the following lines: The Registration Department prepared a list by name and street number of 23,877 families apply- ing for relief to the charitable organizations of the city. Its information is at the service of any one showing a legitimate interest in any given case. Its cost June 20, 1894, had been $4,313. 58. The District Department organized the city, in part, into districts for local visitation and relief. Each neighborhood with its churches was invited to look after the cases of destitution within its boun- daries and assume the distribution of the needed aid. The Reference Department received applicants for aid of whatever description and directed them to the proper channels for relief ; as it was the policy of the Association to have the needed aid given, when possible, through already existing charities, to whose reports reference is made for information concerning this indirect work. The Transportation Department secured free and reduced R.R. transportation. More than 500 persons were thus aided at a saving to the applicants of some $5,000. The Supplies Department purchased to the value of $14,945-33 provisions, flour, coal, etc., for the use of the kitchens and for free distribution through Il8 THE CIVIC FEDERATION the supply stations of the various districts, and 14,074 articles of clothing, costing $6,324.71. The Meals and Lodgings Department, in pay- ment for work done, and upon the presentation of the Associations' tickets, gave 462,084 meals at its three kitchens and 232,066 lodgings at twenty-one down-town lodging houses. The Employment Department gave men work at sweeping the streets. Each single man was allowed regularly three hours a day and paid at the rate of j 10 cents an hour, but in tickets redeemable in meals and lodgings or in clothing, if for an extra hour's overtime. Married men were given more work, and their tickets were good for provisions. 4,500 men, of whom some 1,000 were married, were thus em ployed for an average of about two months at a cost of $81,442.83, or an average of $18.00 each. This Bureau also for a few weeks upon the clos- ing of the street work sent out to farms 10 families, 12 orphans, and 40 single men, at an expense to the Association of $346.70, less than $5.00 per capita. One family was sent to central Illinois, to work on a farm; a week later a call came from a neigh- boring farmer for the wife's sister, a widow with two children, and a few weeks after this the aged parents, with an unmarried son, were offered by the first farmer a cottage with several acres of land at a nominal rental, transplanting thus the whole tribe from poverty to plenty. THE CIVIC FEDERATION lie) CHICAGO WOMAN'S CLUB EMERGENCY ASSOCIATION. Object: "To give employment to women." Nine sewing rooms were started in various parts of the city, in which needy women and girls were paid 50 cents per day for seven hours' work and given a nourishing luncheon at noon. Total number given sewing to do was 1,478. In connection with the New Era sewing rooms and that of the Friendly Aid Society, immediate relief committees were formed, assisting 300 families. There were sent from the Women's Club rooms, for temporary or permanent places, 132 women; to industrial homes 28. From the Household Econom- ics Association, there were sent to places 195 women. This work was done at an expense of about $19,000.00, $4,250.00 of which was from funds of Central Relief Association; balance was contributed direct to the Women's Clubs. The names and ad- dresses of all these persons were sent to the Central Relief office, where they are on file. Thousands of garments were made in these sewing rooms for the School Children's Aid Society and for various charitable institutions and hospitals through- out the city. Bed quilts, sheets, pillowcases, babies' wardrobes, etc., were made and distributed to poor women. FINANCIAL STATFMENT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CENTRAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION. Received: Cash contributions $135,268.43 I2O THE CIVIC FEDERATION Expended: For labor department, lodging and feed- ing $46,488.90 For labor department, clothing, tools, etc 12, 548. 79 For labor department in yth, 8th and igth wards 22,405 14 APPROPRIATIONS TO OTHER RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS. School Children's Aid Society $ 500.00 United Hebrew Charities 100.00 Women's Clubs Emergency Association. . 4,250.00 G erman Society i , ooo. oo Chicago Relief and Aid Society 15,100 oo Visiting Nurse's Association 15,00 Total $20,965.00 Cash disbursed at central office to de- serving families requiring immediate relief, including railroad fares from Chicago to points where they would be self-supporting 2, 933.85 Supplies and storage department 14,945.33 Medical department 984. 7 1 Cash to district organizations 2,915.94 Registration department 4,3 I 3-5^ Employment bureau 346. 70 Finance Committee's expenses i,79- 32 Central office rent, salaries and incidental expenses 3, 398. 44 Total $133,325.70 Balance in Treasurer's hands June 20/94 $1,942.64 Received and expended to date, Nov. 20, '94 135,268.34 THE CIVIC FEDERATION 121 T. W. HARVEY, Chairman Central Relief Com- mittee. C. H. S. MIXER, Vice-Chairman and Secretary. LYMAN j. GAGE, Treasurer. ANDREW McLEiSH, Auditor. OFFICERS OF THE CIVIC FEDERATION. LYMAN J. GAGE, President. BERTHA HONORE PALMER, First Vice-President. JOHN J. MCGRATH, Second Vice-President. RALPH M. EASLEY, Secretary. EDWARD S. DREYER, Treasurer. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. LYMAN J. GAGE, JOHN J. MCGRATH, EDWARD S. DREYER, BERTHA HONORE PALMER, RALPH M. EASLEY, T. W. HARVEY, FRANKLIN MACVEAGH, ADA C. SWEET, E. B. BUTLER, L. C. COLLINS, JR., JAMES J. LINEHAN, M. J. CARROL, JANE ADDAMS, GEORGE E. ADAMS, SARAH HACKETT STEVENSON. THE CHICAGO DAY NURSERY ASSOCIA- TION. Objects: To establish Day Nurseries in desti- tute localities. To maintain a Training School for Creche Nurses. To open a register and Central Bureau to further the interests and secure support for the Day Nurseries of Chicago. The Board of Directors are selected from the various day nurseries of Chicago. Among the pro- moters are prominent AMALIE HOFER, Editor Kindergarten Magazine, 1207 The Temple, W. C. T. U. MRS. CHAS. H. KINGMAN, Vice-President Margaret Etter Creche. MRS. C. C. CHAPEN. REV. N. B. W. GALWEY, Olivet Memorial Church. REV. J. N. STRONG, Room 712, 167 Dearborn Street, to whom letters of inquiry can be addressed. 122 THE NEEDLEWORK GUILD OF AMERICA. Object: "The object of the Guild is to furnish new, plain, suitable garments to meet the great need of our Hospitals, Homes, and other Charities." Men, women and children may become members. Rules: All members must contribute annually two or more new articles of useful clothing. Any member obtaining contributions from ten or more persons (or the equivalent, twenty-two gar- ments) becomes a Director; not less is required of each Officer. CHICAGO BRANCH. In Chicago there are seventy-three sections or- ganized, including at least 3,500 women. Last year it distributed 5,734 garments through the hospitals and other charitable institutions of the city. Officers of the Chicago Branch, not including the 72 presidents of sections: MRS. POTTER PALMER, Honorary President. MRS. CHARLES D. HAMIL, President, 2126 Prairie Avenue. MRS. NORMAN T. CASSETTE, 90 Twenty-first St. MRS. GWYNN GARNETT, Treasurer, 3604 Grand Boulevard. 123 THE WORKING WOMAN'S HOME ASSO- CIATION. 21 SOUTH PEORIA ST. The Minnetonka Home, 21 S. Peoria St. The Minnetonka Free Dispensary, 4i4 W Madison St. The Minnetonka Free Fresh Air Cottage, Lake Bluff, 111. The Minnetonka Home, 21 S. Peoria St. Incor- porated and established April, 1890. Object: "To maintain a lodging and boarding house where working-women can find a comfortable and respectable home at a moderate price." Its aim is to givep rotection to women, strangers in the city, and to help those willing to help themselves to live comfortably. It assists a large number to find employment free of charge, and tries by counsel and using every influence to help those under its care. The Association added to the building it occupies last year and furnished the whole with sanitary ap- pliances and steam heat, and with a special boiler to supply its bath-rooms with an abundance of warm water. The Home can accommodate about 40 persons. During last year it received and cared for between 800 and 900 Any respectable applicant is made welcome. Those without any funds are tern porarily cared for and assisted to find employ- ment. The Association received from Board 3, 042. 74, from donations, including membership fees, $519.84. 124 J26 THE WORKING WOMAN'S HOME ASSOCIATION The household expenses were $3,554.34, leaving a balance of $8.23 in the treasury The Minnetonka Free Dispensary, 414 W. Mad- ison St., has been established since May, 1893. During the first year of its existence hundreds re- ceived medical care at the dispensary or were visited at their homes. Nearly 600 were vaccinated and 17 surgical cases were successfully treated. MRS. LUELLA DAY-UNDERHILL, Day Superintendent. The Minnetonka Fresh Air Cottage, Lake Bluff. The plan of sending women, weary with a year's toil, out for a week's outing was tried last year. A cottage was rented and over 100 girls sent out. This year a tract of 200 feet frontage was purchased at Lake Bluff, and a cottage built capable of ac- commodating about 60 girls at a time. Any work- ing girl in Chicago is made a welcome visitor and receives the free use of room, with dining-room and kitchen fully furnished. They also have the privi- leges of bathing-houses, hammocks, reading matter, and other arrangements made for their comfort and pleasure. Each girl must buy and cook her own food and observe the rules governing the cottage, for mutual advantage and protection. Applications for rooms should be made to the Association at 21 S. Peoria St. A. CHAISER, President. GEORGE P. BAY, Treasurer. MRS. R. A. EMMONS, Secretary. FRANK E. BROWN, Auditor. LAURA G. F'IXEN, Business Manager. VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION. ROOM 1116 MASONIC TEMPLE. Object: "To furnish skilled attendance to the sick poor; to promote cleanliness and to teach proper care of the sick. " This association was incorporated in November, 1890. It employs nine trained nurses, wearing special costumes. During the year from December, 1892, to December, 1893, the report shows, the association cared for 2,579 different patients and made 16,580 visits. The visits are limited to 40 minutes' duration. They are made not only to the very poor, but to those living on incomes which do not enable them to employ a paid nurse. The nurses often assist physicians in surgical cases, of which there were 211 last year. The ma- ternity cases numbered 615. There were 115 cases of infectious fevers; 172 patients were sent to hos- pitals; 65 per cent of the patients were given emer- gency relief, food, medicine, clothing, etc.; others were referred to relief societies. The Association has no religious affiliations; employs no solicitor; owns no property; has no endowments. Its receipts for 1893 were $13,141.06. Its dis- bursements were $10,153.16 Its support is from voluntary contribution. ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. The following are four of eleven cases aided in one day, by one of the nine nurses. Third case Italian boy with burnt leg. Limb dressed. 128 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION Fifth case Baby with bronchitis. Mother in- structed about giving bath and oil rub and prepar- ing pneumonia jacket. Note sent to free doctor to attend case, order given to have necessary prescrip- tion filled. Sixth case Jewish woman, just confined. Tem- perature and pulse taken and recorded, douche given by doctor's written orders, half bath and alcohol rub, hair combed, bed made, cup of cocoa pre- pared, baby washed and dressed, room swept and tidied. (Sheets, pillowslips and infant's outfit loaned at this place.) Tenth case Boy, with hip disease. Wound dressed. MRS. E. C. DUDLEY, President. MRS. JAMES L. HOUGHTELING, First Vice- President. Mtss CORNELIA B. McAvov, Second Vice-Presi- dent. MRS. HERMON BUTLER, Secretary. MRS. WILLIAM P. CONGER, Treasurer. WASHINGTONIAN HOME. 566 TO 572 W. MADISON ST. INCORPORATED FEB. ,1867. Object: "The care, cure and reclamation of ine- briates. " The average length of stay in the Home is from four to eight weeks, the charge for board and care being from $10 to $15 per week for the first week and from $5 to $10 per week thereafter. Over 10,500 patients have received the benefits of the institution since its organization. Many of these are now in prominent situations in business and professional life. The treatment is medical and moral pathological, ha ing, it is believed, no ill effects. It is based on thirty-one years of experi- ence. Residents of Cook County who are not able to pay are treated free of charge to the extent of the capac- ity and means of the Association. The Martha Washington Home, N. E. Corner Western and Graceland Aves., is the female de- partment of the Washingtonian Home Association, and under the same management. The number of inmates in the two Homes during 1893 was 1626. Receipts $33,590.78: expenditures $35' 783- 37- The support is from pay patients and investments. No solicitors are employed. ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. The second patient, admitted December 24, 1863, was an editor, and considered one of the worst drunkards in the State in which he lived. He had sacrificed everything he had upon the altar of Bacchus. WASHINGTONIAN HOME 131 He was in the Home for nearly three months, when he returned with a "record" marked good on the books, and immediately engaged in publishing a sprightly- paper and has continued in this business up to the present time. During these years he has represented his State in its legislature, occupied the position of judge for a number of years, was a Grand Representative of the I. O. O. F. from his State, at the head of a State temperance organization, and is still publishing his paper, and has all along these years been active in the cause of total abstinence, and true to his pledge. In August, 1867, a gentleman aged 42, married, and a portrait painter, was admitted into the Home, and discharged March, 1868. He was in a very debilitated condition, but very much interested in his reformation. His family was separated from him through his dissipation, and it was a source of the deepest regret. He was an excellent artist and de- voted his time up to his death faithfully to his call- ing. True to his pledge to the last, he died in 1889. In one of our largest railroad offices in this city two railroad men met. The one controlled the men in the office in which they were, the other in a sim- ilar office East. The foreman from abroad said in their conversation, "Do you have any trouble with reformed men?" The reply was, "No, sir, I will not have them around me. " Now, the facts were that there were three graduates and four inmates working in that office at that time, who heard the conversation. The)' consulted together, and the WASHINGTONIAN HOME 133 next day told him that they did not wish to sail un- der false colors, and had come to inform him that they were reformed men, and all had been or were now connected with the Washingtonian Home. "Boys," said he, "is it possible?" "Yes," they re- plied, "it is true." "Go back to your work," he said, "and keep sober. I do not want any better men. " EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. C. H. CASE, President. T. M. CONPROPST, H. H. ALDRICH, MRS. GEO. SHERWOOD, GEO. F. SEARS, MRS. BRICE A. MILLER, M. B. LOOMIS. E. W. KOHLSAAT, Treasurer. T. E. SOMERVILLE, Superintendent. Miss M. F. FELT, Matron Martha Washington Home; Telephone, Lake View 181. WESTERN SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRES- SION OF VICE. THE CHICAGO BRANCH, Y. M. C. ASSOCIATION BLDG. , H. D. PENFIELD'S OFFICE. Object: "To put forth special, efforts to suppress the sale and circulation of obscene literature, illus- trations, advertisements and articles for indecent and immoral uses. " The Society publishes the following summary of its work: Persons punished during last year, 25; altogether 320; fines imposed, $2,700. Photographs destroyed, 980. The Society has branch offices in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, and Lincoln, Nebraska. It affiliates with the New York Society of which Anthony Comstock is Secretary . These branches are in charge of Secretaries, who receive no salaries, and give only a part of their time to the work. Only two salaried agents are employed for the whole field to which its report refers. The Society owns no buildings, has no endow- ments, and no religious affiliations. It employs no solicitors; is supported by subscriptions; the member- ship fee is $5. Receipts and disbursements for 1893 were $5,557-93- H. D. PENFIELD, President. HENRY W. KING, Vice-President. E. G. KEITH, Treasurer, Met. Nat. Bank. A. T. HEMINGWAY, Secretary. R. W. MCAFEE, Ag't, Drawer D 6, St. Louis, Mo. 134 WOMAN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO. COR. RHODES AVE. AND 32ND ST. Dispensary. Training School for Nurses. Objects: "The treatment of the diseases and ac- cidents peculiar to women; the clinical instruction of students of medicine, and the practical training of nurses. " The Hospital, during 1891, according to the twenty-first annual report, received and treated 290 persons, having 146 surgical operations. Number admitted at full rates 227 Number admitted at special half rates or less. 29 Number admitted free 34 Number of day services at full rates. 8511 Number of day services special half rates or less 1631 Number of day services free 2 47^ The Dispensary gave 480 treatments to 84 persons. The Training School for Nurses has a class of 22 young women, and a course of two years. Outside demands for trained nurses are also supplied. The receipts from this source were $2,773.50; from p'ay- patients, $18,364.51. Total, $23,184.26, disburse- ments the same. The Hospital has no religious affiliations. Donors are asked to send their gifts without wait- ing for a personal appeal and thus save the expense of solicitors. ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. Ovariotomy resulted in the case of two very desti- tute widows in restoration to health and ability to resume life's duties. 135 WOMAN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO. i 3 6 WOMAN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO 137 A deserted woman was taken into the Hospital four weeks during confinement. An invalid young lady was restored to health. A widow with eight children to support became unable to work. She was operated on, staying six weeks, and is now at work and no longer dependent on her two little boys. MRS. JOHN B. LYON, President. MRS. JOHN L. CORTHELL, Vice-President. MRS. MELVIN J. NEAHR, Secretary. MRS. V. D. PERKINS, Treasurer. Executive Committee. MRS. D. F. CRILLY, Chairman. MRS. W. G. CALDWELL, MRS. H. E. SCHOLI.E, MRS. J.R. MANN, Miss A. D. STONE. THE NATIONAL ANTI-GAMBLING ASSO- CIATION Object: To employ all proper means for the sup- pression of gambling. Organized, Sept., 1894. REV. WM. G. CLARKC, President, 54 Campbell Park. Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD, Vice-President. EDWIN F. GOFF, Secretary. I. P. RUMSEY, Treasurer. WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. Bethesda Day Nursery, 4o6 S. Clark St. Kindergarten, 4o6 S. Clark St. Hope Dispensary, 242 W. Indiana St. Florence Crittenden Anchorage for Girls,i25 Plymouth Place. Talcott Day Nursery, 125 S. Sangamon St. Kindergarten, 125 S. Sangamon St. Object: "To promote the cause of temperance, purity and righteousness, not only by the education of public sentiment through public lectures and the distribution of temperance reading, but by direct personal work among the ignorant and unfortunate. For this purpose it has established several missions and charities in the heart of the worst districts of the city. " The Bethesda Day Nursery occupies the upper floor of the three-story building in which the work of the Bethesda Mission is conducted. The nursery cares for from 25 to 40 children daily while their mothers are out at work. When able to pay,a charge of from five to ten cents is made. The Bethesda Free Kindergarten is held on the lower floor, from 9 A. M. to 12 M. The average at- tendance is 40. The receipts and disbursements of the Bethesda Mission are about $4,500 annually. Hope Mission Free Dispensary, 242 W.Indiana St The receipts and disbursements are about $1,200 yearly for this mission. 138 Florence Crittenden Anchorage for Girls. 125 PLYMOUTH PLACE. Object: "To care for unfortunate girls who have been led astray, and to protect the innocent and friendless from being led into the haunts of sin of a great city. " During the past year 800 vere admitted to the Home, 500 were placed in various positions, 75 in- nocent girls were sent home, 3 were married, and 100 young mothers and babes were cared for. So.iie of these were sent to hospitals, and when able were found situations with their babes. No charge is made for board or other benefits. The receipts and disbursements of the Home are about $2,200 annually. Talcott Mission, 125 S. Sangamon St. A Day Nursery is conducted by this Mission, open from 6 A. M. to 7 P. M., for the children of poor working mothers. Free Kindergarten instruction is given from 9 A. M. to 12 M. An Industrial School is held every Saturday after- noon, and in the evening meetings for the parents of the neighborhood, who are often visited and helped, placing the sick in hospitals and striving to reclaim the debased. The past year the Home has accommodated an average of 33 children daily. Older children are often placed in industrial schools through the courts. Last year the Mission gave 13,841 meals. The re- ceipts and disbursements were about $2,600. Besides these regular missions, the Chicago Ccn- 139 140 WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION tral W. C. T. U. carries on several departments of work. The Flower Mission Department sends flowers to the hospitals every week. The entire cost of the several missions carried on by the Chicago Central Woman's Christian Tem- perance Union is about $10,800 annually. The affiliations of all the W. C. T. U. Missions are Protestant. There are no endowments and no paid solicitors. The work is supported by free con- tributions from friends of the poor. The officers of the Central W. C. T. U. are: MRS. MATILDA B. CARSE, President. MRS. MARGARET HOWELL, Vice-President. MRS. MINNIE B. HORNING, Cor. Secretary. MRS. F. L. FAKE, Rec. Secretary. MRS. ROBERT L. GREENLEE, Treasurer. TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL. 1619 DIVERSEY AVENUE. Object: "To demonstrate the successful treatment of disease without alcohol. " The Hospital was incorporated in 1884. During 1891 the number of patients taken in and treated was 123. There are conducted in connection with the Hospital and on the same principles: A Dispensary, treating 365 patients during 1891. The Clara Barton Training School for Nurses. The Medical College Association. There are no buildings owned, and no solicitors employed. The receipts for nine months of 1891 were $8,587: dis- bursements, $8,003. The support is from pay-pa- tients, donations and endowments. MRS. M. E. KLINE, President. MRS. C. E. BIGELOW, Treasurer. MRS. SARAH M. HORNBY, Matron. YOUNG WOMEN'S HOME. 4328 GREENWOOD AVENUE. This Home was opened the 1 5th of January, 1894, the object being to protect and care for some por- tion of the large number of young women who at that time had lost their positions as clerks, book- keepers, stenographers, etc., through the financial cloud which had fallen so heavily upon many of our business houses. The Home is free to respectable young women who are without employment, money, or friends in the city. Up to date, Oct. ist, 1894, one hundred and six different persons have availed themselves of the shelter and comfort here afforded. These have en- tered and left as their needs required. No servants are hired, each member of the family bearing her share in household duties and the care of the home. There is also a department opened in which home- less young women and girls employed on salaries of $5.00 per week and under may be supplied with all the benefits of the Home (including use of laundry), for such amount as they can afford, leav- ing them a portion of their small earnings, in every case, for other needful uses. The financial accounts of the Home stand as follows: From January i5th, 1894, to October ist: Receipts Cash Donations $496. 85 Receipts for Board and Lodging $10.50 Expenditures, $503.64; for rent, $245; for salaries, $136.50; for other current expenses, $122.14. Cash balance in hand, $3.71. Balance due on rent, $55.00. SOPH IK B. McNEAL, Superintendent. 141 BENEVOLENT DUTIES PERFORMED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CHICAGO. POLICE NAT URK OF DUTIES PERFORMED. 1893 1892 1891 1890 1889 Women and children cared for by matrons 20,159 17,911 13,160 13,057 1.974 Lost children found and restored to parents 4.174 4,692 3,719 2,826 3,089 Lodgers accommodated Intoxicated persons assisted home. 88,138 1,539 77,o85 2,078 60 55,565 2,201 29,402 i,95i 30,925 1,417 38 Sick and injured persons taken to hospital 3,989 2,908 2,555 1,944 1,579 Sick and injured persons taken home 2,256 2,113 2,068 2,097 1,360 Sick and injured persons taken to station 762 771 819 685 506 Insane persons cared for Destitute pers ons cared for Lost children taken to parents Mad or crippled animals killed. . . . Abandoned children taken to 7H 9,129 1,461 146 62 755 1.333 1,184 383 48 661 636 1-539 172 22 635 622 1,404 129 j 489 509 1,101 288 6 Inebriates taken to Washingtonian Home 323 621 2OO 236 IJZ Persons taken to the House of the Good Shepherd 109 53 58 35 56 Persons taken to the Home for the Friendless 48 26 9 27 26 Persons taken to Errings Woman's Refuge 72 47 25 24 32 Persons taken to St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum 14 29 32 16 6 Persons taken to St. Joseph's 24 I 12 23 Persons taken to County Agent Runaway horses overtaken am stopped 397 76 269 77 27 86 I; 9' 26 68 Total ... i HV558 112,444 83,734 55,267 43,461 Placed in Protestant Institutions. Placed in Catholic Institutions. . .469 485 142 SPECIAL CHARITIES. GERMAN SOCIETY OF CHICAGO. (BeutscbeOesellscbaft von Cbicago.) 49 LASALLE STREET. "The objects of this Society are: In all possible ways to assist the German immigrants, chiefly by information and advice; to protect them by moral influence, and if necessary, by the laws against ill treatment, imposition and swindling; to provide work for them and to assist them to continue their jour- ney; to restore to them their lost baggage; to pro- vide for the sick, free of charge,, medical advice and medicine, and furnish those who are needy and in distress with material aid, as far as the means of the Society will permit. "Such aid and assistance shall also, as above indi- cated, be tendered those Germans who are already residents of the United States, and according to the judgment of the competent officers of the Society, such immigrants as may come from the neighboring States of Germany, and who have no representation here. " 143 i 4 4 GERMAN SOCIETY SUMMARY OF RELIEF IN MONEY AND EMPLOYMENT. Year. Families. ChilJren. Single Persons. Cash Expended. Employers Kmployees. 1885 241 619 152 Sl.417-38 201 1 2354 1886 148 416 167 806.66 2366 25S9 1887 240 673 221 1,490.78 2382 2530 1888 267 691 I8 9 1,560.91 2197 2249 1889 225 618 2O6 1,318 09 2325 2258 1890 370 981 254 2,160 08 2923 3097 1891 445 1162 202 2,008 77 3226 3i69 1892 465 1287 202 2,754 43 3457 3353 ih93 55 1653 266 3,460.96 2852 2577 1894 1068 3204 515 +,7I3-58 1180 H73 To Aug. There were 984 applicants for relief during 1893; 851 were granted/ by the German Society, 42 re- ferred to other benevolent societies, and 91 were re- fused after careful examination had proved the ap- plicants to be regular beggars, idlers or impostors. Aid was granted to families who were in need owing to the following causes: Death of the head of the family , 119 Death of the mother 2 Sickness of the head of the family . . 159 Sickness of the mother or children 48 Desertion of the family 61 Want of means and work 165 Old age and infirmity 31 TO SINGLE PERSONS. Sickness and inability to work 83 Want of means and work 150 Old age and infirmity 33 Coal was furnished in 53 cases, and board and lodging paid for in 62 cases. Three sick persons received medical aid and medicine, while 23 were admitted to hospitals through its agency. Thir- GERMAN SOCIETY 145 teen persons received legal protection and advice, arid in three cases lost baggage was recovered. Thirty-two persons were recommended to the County Agent for admittance to the poor-house. There were received 648 letters for emigrants. The Society has no religious affiliations, and is sup- ported by the members, of which there are about 900, the annual fees, $4 and upwards, being collected by the collector of the Society. Its average annual receipts are about $5,500. It owns no buildings, but $32,900 in interest-bearing investments. Extract from the last report of the German So- ciety: "There are many reticent men and women who will rather starve than apply for aid, but, on the other hand, there are still more who could very well earn a living for themselves and for those who depend on them, but who are not ashamed to accept support from benevolent societies instead of working, always repeating the old story about hard times, and never providing for them. "Nothing is easier and cheaper than to grant a beggar a little aid without caring whether he de- serves it or not, but the Society believes it to be its duty towards its fellow men, not to deprive a worthy poor man of its assistance for the sake of a professional beggar. It does not wish to increase the number of the latter class of people by support- ing and aiding them. It thinks it but just, that it thoroughly investigate each case and give assist- ance only to those who really deserve it; in order 146 GERMAN SOCIETY not to waste the resources of the Society upon un- worthy persons. " MAX EBEKHARDT, President. GEORGE H. RAPP, Vice-President. ADOLPH STURM, Secretary. JULIUS WEGMANN, Financial S2cretary. CHAS. EMMERICH, Treasurer. OSCAR KUEHNE, Manager. ALFRED SANDER, Collector. Danish Relief Society. Object: To relieve worthy Danish people. Last year the society collected and disbursed in cash, in sums varying from $3 to $10 and upwards, more than $1,000. THEODORE WINHOLT, President, 477 W. Madison Street. GERMAN OLD PEOPLE'S HOME. HARLEM, COOK COUNTY, ILL. (ALTENHEIM. INCORPORATED 1885,) WORLD'S FAIR MEDAL AWARDED. Objects: "To establish and maintain a home for aged Germans. " The Home is a spacious building, accommodat- ing 84 inmates, males and females. There are also hospital and laundry buildings. Twenty acres of land are owned and cultivated. "No paupers or former inmates of the Poor-house are admitted. The inmates of Altenheim are always led to feel that they are in their own Home, and have every inducement to enjoy truly and peaceably its many advantages." The age of admission is from 60 years and up- wards. An admission fee of $300 is required for the age of 60 to 65; $250 from 65 to 70; from 70 to 75, $200, and any age above 75, $150. Other conditions are a three years' residence in Cook County, and a good character. It is regretted that many worthy applicants can not gain admittance, because more room and greater means are not at hand. The support is from endowments, $71,200, dona- tions, entertainments and the membership fees of two societies, one of men (Herren Verein), one of women (Frauen Verein). The fees are collected by a salaried agent. No solicitor is employed. There are no religious affiliations. Receipts since organization, 1883, $249,764.35; disbursements, $174,770.31. Receipts from Nov., 1892, to Nov. ,1893, $33, 853. oo, including legacy of $10,000; disbursements, $11,958. 147 148 GERMAN OLD PEOPLE'S HOME Contributors cO the endowment fund are: C. Seipp, and heirs; P. Schoenhoven; Charles Wacker; A. C. Hesing; John Buehler; Carter H. Harrison; Gerhardt Foremann; Charles Kosminsky, and others. Altenheim was awarded a medal by the World's Fair Commission for an exhibit of Photographic Views and Reports of the Institution, which gave "evidence of a charity well organized and admin- istered. " It also received an official letter of thanks from the Illinois Woman's Exposition Board for ex- hibits of "Fancy Work and Sewing," made by its old female inmates, ranging in age from 70 to 94. The two Societies have their own officers and elect annually a number of directors, these together forming the governing Board of Altenheim. Directors of Frauen Verein: MARIA WERKMEISTER, President. HEDWIG Voss, Secretary. AMALIE NABROTH, Treasurer. HENRIETTE WOLTER, Financial Secretary. GUSTAVA ROCKENER, I DA BUSCHICK, GESINE RAPP, SOPHIE HEISSLER, ANNA FEHL, MRS. DR. HENNING, . LOUISE LACKNER, EI.ISE BECKER, ELISABETH COLTZAU, MARIE KABELL, CHARLOTTE GOLLHARDT, JOHANNE BAUM. Directors of Herren Verein: J. C. W. RHODK, President. GEO. H. RAPP, Vice-President. FELIX BUSCHICK, Secretary. C. MECHELKE, Financial Secretary. JOHN BUEHLER, Treasurer. 156 .GERMAN OLD PEOPLED HOME" A. C. HESING, Louis WAMPOLO, JULIUS ROSENTHAL, WlLLIAM HETTICH, ARTHUR ERBE, MAX EBERHARDT, J. C. MEYER, C. MECHELKE, JOHN BUEHLER, JACOB HEISSLER, HENRY GREENEBAUM, T. J. DEWES, EDWARD UIHLEIN, PHILIPP KOEHLER, JACOB GROSS. Officers of the Executive Board: A. C. HESING, President. MRS. MABIA WIRKMEISTER, Vice- President. ARTHUR ERBE, Recording Secretary. MRS. HEDVVIG Voss, Corresponding Secretary. MR. C. MECHELKE, Financial Secretary. JOHN BUEHLER, Treasurer. GERMAN HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO. 754-756 LARRABEE STREET. Object: "To do the general work of a charitable hospital. " During 1891 the report gives 714 as the total num- ber of patients cared for; 201 were charity, 112 part pay, and 401 pay patients; the average cost per pa- tient has been in 1891 $26.77. The work is sup- ported by pay patients and donations; no solicitors are employed. Officers receive no remuneration. The buildings are owned, valued at $60,000. The Hospital is without religious affiliations, but is con- ducted on Christian principles. Receipts in 1891 were $20,666; expenses, $19,114. FRANK F. HENNING, President and Treasurer. J. C. BURMEISTER, Secretary. DR. CHR. FENCER, Surgeon-in-Chief. HOLLAND RELIEF SOCIETY. NEDERLANDSCHE HULP VEREENIGING. This committee was formed in January, 1894, elected by delegates from the Reformed Church of Chicago. Its object is to extend relief to worthy Hollanders, irrespective of church connections. They expended last winter in cash for relief, and transpor- tation to the Netherlands in the case of one very aged couple and their sickly son, upwards of $1,000, besides distributing clothing and provisions. No salaries are paid to any of its officers and no solicitors are employed. GEORGE BIRKHOFF, President, 557 W. Adams St. A. J. VAN PERSYN, Secretary. S. Bus, Treasurer. NORWEGIAN RELIEF AND AID SOCIETY. E. STROM, Secretary, 242 N. Curtis St. Object: "To extend relief and aid to worthy Nor- wegian families." This Society is incorporated, and has been in op- eration for five years. It expended last winter some $1,500. It is without sectarian affiliations. No salaries are paid to any of its officers, and no solic- itor is employed. 151 ILLINOIS ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY. ROOM 7, 81 S. CLARK STREET. INCORPORATED 1853. Object: "To relieve all deserving Scotch with cash, provisions, clothing, fuel and transportation, also to bury their dead in their lot at Rosehill Cem- etery. " The objects of the Society are attended to by a Board of Managers, consisting of five members, of which Wm. Inglis is Chairman. Membership None but Scotchmen, or the sons or grandsons of a native of Scotland shall be admitted as members of the Society. Meetings are held on first Thursday of Feb., May, August and Nov. of each year. The Society's receipts for 1893 were about 2,000, and disbursements $1,300. The re- ceipts for the first nine months of 1894 were $1800, and disbursements $2300. Its support is from dues, donations and the proceeds of an annual banquet. Neither sectarianism nor politics is allowed as a test of membership, nor as subjects of discussion at the meetings of the Society; no solicitors are em- ployed; no property is owned; its deposits are invested in government bonds. JOHN J. BADENOCH, President. JOHN F. HOLMES, Secretary. DUNCAN CAMERON, Treasurer. WM. INGLIS, Chairman Board of Managers. 152 ST. GEORGE'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA- TION. 510 MASONIC TEMPLE. "The objects of this Association, through its members, shall be: To give advice to English im- migrants; to provide for the social intercourse and mutual improvement of its members; to visit the sick, bury the dead, assist the widows and orphans of deceased members, and, at its discretion, to grant relief to any person of English parentage, not mem- bers of this Association; provided always, that all applicants for relief shall be of good moral charac- ter. The members of this Association shall consist of Englishmen, and the sons of Englishmen." The association contains a membership of about 250 persons, paying a fee of $3 each. Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month at the Grand Pacific Hotel. Last year's disbursements for relief were $142.16, besides the special appropriations spent to aid in returning English people home. Employment was often secured. No salary is paid to any officer of the Association, and no solicitors are employed. The Association has $5,000 invested in funds and property, the revenues of which, with contributions of its members, constitute its relief fund. A valua- ble lot is owned in Rose Hill Cemetery, where Eng- lishmen dying destitute are buried. W. B. JACKSON, President. W. L. TAPSON, Treasurer. C. J. BURROUGHS, Secretary. REV. JOSEPH RUSHTON, Chairman Relieving Com- mittee. 153 SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. (SWEITZERISCHE WOHLT^TIGKEITS GESELLSCHAFT.) 49 LASALLE ST., OFFICE OF GERMAN SOCIETY. Object: "To assist (exclusively) indigent Swiss people, either immigrants, or those born here, but of Swiss descent, with pecuniary relief, or hospital care and otherwise. " During 1891, 122 persons and 5 families were aided financially, 61 persons were given meal and lodging tickets, 6 families received coal, and others shoes, railroad tickets, and loans in some cases. To secure the needed care for the sick, an annual appropriation of $75 is made to the Alexian Brothers' Hospital. The "German Society" investigates the applicants of the Swiss Society when desired. Receipts for 1891, $1,305; disbursements, $787. No solicitor is employed. The support is from yearly subsidies from the different cantons of the Swiss Confederation averaging $100 a year and from voluntary donations from the members of the Society, ranging from $3 to $20 yearly. The prop- erty owned by the Society consists of two lots, par- tially improved. There are no endowments or re- ligious affiliations. C. BIRCHMEIR, 22 Carl St., President. C. E. ZIMMERMAN, Secretary. Jos. H. HEPP, Treasurer. 154 GRAND ARMY OP THE REPUBLIC. Headquarters, Room 37, 80 Washington St. There are forty G. A. R. Posts in Cook County, They all do more or less relief work, but are pa- triotic rather than charitable organizations. The total disbursements in relief throughout the State was $10,489.25, through the various treasurers, and about $10,000 additionally otherwise. There are 623 Posts. No solicitors are employed. There are in Chicago no organizations doing relief work, in good faith, for needy soldiers or their widows and orphans other than the G. A. R. Posts, the Wom- an's Relief Corps, ladies of the G. A. R., the Sol- diers' Home, and the Illinois Woman's Soldiers' Home. All soliciting of funds for old soldiers is forbid- den by and forfeits membership in the G. A. R. and public confidence. WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS, AUXILIARY OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. Room 412, 70 State St. Objects. "i. To specially aid and assist the Grand Army of the Republic and to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead. "2. To assist such Union veterans as need our help and protection, and to extend needful aid to their widows and orphans. To find them homes and employment, and assure them of sympathy and friends. To cherish and emulate the deeds of our 155 156 WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS army nurses, and of all loyal women who rendered loving service to our country in her hour of peril "3. To maintain true allegiance to the United States of America; to inculcate lessons of patriotism and love of country among our children and in the communities in which we live; and encourage the spread of universal liberty and equal rights to all." Woman's Relief Corps are composed of mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of Union soldiers, sailors and marines who aided in putting down the Rebel- lion, with other loyal women. The order was organized as a national body at Denver, Colorado, in 1883, with E. Florence Barker of Mass, as its first President, with a membership of less than fifty. Since that time there have been organized thirty-three departments with fifty-five de- tached corps, making a total membership of 139,981, all working for the Union veteran and his dependent ones. One of the most important features of the work of the order is the interest manifested in the care of the Army Nurses, for whom a National Home is provided and established at Madison, Ohio, supported by the Woman's Relief Corps of the U. S. The National W. R. C. since its organization has expended in relief $1,018,560.25 of which during the last year $170,584.26 was given in assisting 24,742 dependent persons. The Department of Illi- nois alone during the period beginning March 18, 1893, and extending to May 9, 1894, expended $13,- 596.20 in relief, exhibiting the growing interest among patriotic women in this work whether they are relatives of the Union soldiers or not. Twenty- WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS 157 five new Corps were organized in Illinois during the last year, and applications for several more are now pending. The officers of the Department of Illinois are as follows: EMMA R. WALLACE, Department President. JENNIE BROSS, Department Secretary. MARY E. McCAULEY, Olney, 111., Treasurer. WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS OF CHICAGO. 14 John Brown State and 28th Mrs. Fannie Brown. 78 Gen. Silas Casey Archer and Western Mrs. Louisa Smith. 81 Gen. G. Weitzel 785 W. Madison Mrs. E. E. Bent. 85 Barrington Barrington Mrs. Lucy Townsend. 92 Farragut Congress and Honore Mrs. M. H. Weston. .08 Abraham Lincoln ...3120 Forest Mrs. Kate Smith. 1360. G. Meade 528 63rd Mrs. L. L. Allen. 141 J. A. Mulligan 85 S. Sangamon Mrs. Cora Antisdale. 143 Blue Island Blue Island Mis. L. H. Lohr. 150 Gen. L. Blenker 3954 State Mrs. J. Sullivan. 161 A. E . Burnside South Chicago Mrs. Emma Otto. 175 Columbia Masonic Temple Mrs. E. A. Morse. 176 Whittier 85 E. Madison Mrs. M. K. Elliot. 181 Gen. E. Hatch 43rd and Emerald Mrs. M. A. Connell. 191 Dom. Welter 2505 S. Halsted Mrs. Julia Wieland. 194 Win. Scott 1052 Milwaukee Mrs. Emma Welch. 192 Gen. Dan Dustin. .. . Masonic Temple Mrs. A. S. Smith. 230 L. H. Drury Grand Crossing Mrs. M. E. Everett. 240 B. P. Butler Irving Park Mrs. Addie Balkcom. 247 Chicago Heights Chicago Heights Mrs. Lucy Goff. 249 H. B. Dodworth Arinitage & Mil'kee Avs.Mrs. Lettie Coffinberry 257 Wilcox Washington Heights Mrs. A. M. Elmendorf. LADIES OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. G. A. R. Hall. Object: "To unite with loyalty to our country a sisterly love and affection for each other, parallel with the comradeship among the G. A. R. ; to hon- or the memory of our fallen heroes; to perpetuate and keep sacred Memorial Day; to assist the Grand Army in its mission, and encourage and sympathize with them in their work; to aid sick soldiers and sailors and their families; to do all in their power to alleviate suffering; to look after the Soldiers' Homes and Soldiers' Orphans' Homes, and see that children who leave the Homes are provided with proper situations; to watch the public schools and see that the children and youths obtain proper edu- cation in the true history of the country, and in the principles of loyalty and patriotism." The organization, which is national, is composed exclusively of the mothers, wives, sisters, and daugh- ters of the Union soldiers. The support is from dues, initiation fees, and vol- untary contributions. There are no endowments, paid solicitors, or religious affiliations. The following is their report of their special relief work from Dec. i4th to March 5th, 1894 (not in- cluding their general work constantly being carried oa). 158 LADIES OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC 159 Amount of money received from Dept. Commander, comrades and friends.. $ 99, 1 6 Cash and provisions from Comrade Z. R. Winslow 1,123.27 Bread given by Siegel & Cooper, D. F. Bremner, Halbe Bakery Co 6,332.75 Total $7,555-18 Expended $7,525.20. Number of meals given, 121,798. MRS. Z. R. WINSLOW, Department President, L. of G. A. R. MRS. NETTIE E. GUNLOCH, President Relief Com- mittee. MRS. A. E. HOWE, Secretary. ILLINOIS SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME. Quincy, Adams County, 111. Object: "To provide a home and subsistence for honorably-discharged ex-soldiers and ex-sailors who enlisted from Illinois, in the army or navy of the United States during the rebellion, or the Mexican war, or who have since become, and now are resi- dents of the State of Illinois, who may have become disabled through the exigencies of such service, or who, by reason of old age or other disabilities, are disqualified from earning a livelihood, and who, under existing rules, are unable to procure admis- sion to national homes." One half of the current expenses are borne by the United States, the other by the State. Average number of inmates during 1893-4, 5^7- Expenditures, $139,707.23. SOLDIERS' HOME IN CHICAGO. 51 and 53 La Salle Street. The Home was incorporated by a special act of the General Assembly of Illinois, Feb. 28, 1867. In 1879 the Home was discontinued. The corporation devotes, since that date, the income of its invest- ments towards relieving honorably discharged and indigent Illinois soldiers and their widows and children. The relief is in the form of money, from one to ten dollars monthly, or meals, or lodging, or transportation. An average of about 60 persons are aided monthly. The total expended for relief was: in 1885, $4,076; in '86, $3,779; in '87, $4,043; in '88, $3,244; in '89, $2,667; i n '9 $3*251 ; in '93, $6, 200. 10, in 1,182 ap- propriations. The receipts are from rents and interest on investments. The total net assets are $103,040.50. No solicitors are employed and no salaries paid to any one. Disbursements to applicants are made at the general office of the Chicago Relief and Aid So- ciety every first Saturday of the month. The cor- poration is without religious affiliations. HON. THOS. B. BRYAN, President. 160 ILLINOIS MASONIC ORPHAN'S HOME. 447 CARROLL AVENUE. Object: "To provide and maintain, at or near the city of Chicago, a Home for the nurture, and intellectual, moral and physical culture, of indigent children of deceased Freemasons of the State of Illinois; and a temporary shelter and asylum for sick or indigent widows of such deceased Freema- sons, " The gth annual report gives the number of in- mates, Jan. 31, 1894, as being 40, both boys and girls, ranging from 4 to 16 years of age; 16 were added and six dismissed, and 3 died during 1893 Receipts were $21,548.57; disbursements, $8,433; from board, $1,485; from membership fees, $720; from annual charity ball, $6,354; from third annual picnic, $2,899; from lodges, $2,200. There was a balance on hand of $10,454, and no debt on the Home, which is valued at $45,000. There are no endowments, no solicitors, and no religious affilia- tions; the entire control is vested in Freemasons by the articles of organization. As the capacity of the Home was overtaxed, there is an addition being built at a cost of $20,000. It is 45 by 105, three stories and basement. October ist, 1894, there were 50 children in the Home; all but five were attending the public schools. In June one graduated from the grammar school to become a clerk in one of Chicago's banks. JoriN J. BADENOCH, President. LUDWIG WOLFF, Vice-President. WILEY M. EGAN, Treasurer. GEORGE W. WARVELLE, Counsel. CHESTER S. GURNEY, Secretary. 161 CHURCH CHARITIES. In this division of the book are reported the Char- ities which are in some way affiliated with religious orders or bodies. In some cases, as for instance with the St. Mary's Industrial School at Feehanville, the Archbishop is president ex-officio, in others the management is confined by a provision in the Con- stitution wholly or in part to the one or other of the religious sects, and in still others the organiza- tion stands committed to certain religious forms or doctrines. Considerable efforts were made to glean the neces- sary data for a proper presentation of the benevo- lent activities of the Churches; but the returns have not been sufficiently general to warrant their publi- cation except along certain lines, such as Hospitals, Day Nurseries and Kindergartens. No mention is made of Sewing or Industrial Schools, Ladies' Aid Societies, Sewing Circles, Charitable Unions, Guilds, Clubs, Mothers' Meetings, Girls' Friendly Societies, Ministerial Relief Associations, funds for relief in the pastor's hands, funds for retired clergymen, and for ministers' widows and orphans, etc. The year books of the various denominations do not give the items of expenditures on account of Charity except as they are included in the total of non-denominational contributions in the column de- 1G2 CHURCH CHARITIES 163 nominated "Miscellaneous Charities," and "Benev- olences," embracing gifts to Bible and Tract Socie- ties, etc., as well as expenditures for alms. This column foots up approximately as follows: Congre- gational, $29,000; Episcopal $27,000; Presbyterian, $26,000; Methodist, $22,000. YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA- TION Boarding Home, 291 Michigan Ave. Transient Home, 467 Jackson Boulevard. Transient Home, 5718 Kimbark Ave. Employment Bureau, 291 Michigan Ave. Traveler's Aid Department. Objects: "To promote the moral, religious, in- tellectual and temporal welfare of women, especially women who are dependent upon their own exertions for support a part of this work to consist in organ- izing homes and securing employment for self-sup- porting girls, and those endeavoring to become such, and furnishing medical aid through a well-regulated dispensary. " "The work is vested in a board of 150 members from the different Protestant churches of Chicago. There are several committees for the more effectual carrying out of the work: religious, hospital, em- ployment, visitation of sick, boarding homes, library, traveler's aid, extension of the work, entertainments, educational, building, finance, etc." The Association has three boarding homes Y. W. C. A. Home, accommodating during 1893, 182, 164 YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION Transient Home, 375, and at the Kimbark Ave. Home many more. These Homes daily accommodate from 75 to 100 girls. The limit of time is one year. This is pursuant of the policy of the Association in order that a greater number may have the protection of the Homes until they have become acquainted with the city. The number of admissions, 1893, were : perma- nent boarders, 405; transients, 1661. The Employment Bureau, No, 243 Wabash Ave- nue, furnishes positions for women. The number of situations secured last year was 1557, but aid in other ways was given to many more. The number of applications was 4641. Traveler's Aid Department. This work is the daily visitation by six women of the depots, and aid- ing in any way needy incoming strangers. Money and transportation is often furnished, and those who need the protection of the Transient Home are taken there. Cards for direction are posted conspic- uously at the depots. The following extract is from the Association's last report: "We placed six women visitors at our different de- pots, who met, in person, the incoming through trains likely to bring the classes we wish to serve. In this way we have gotten hold of large numbers of girls before sinfully disposed persons could do so, for it is in the hurry and confusion of first step- ping from the trains that they are most easily influ- enced. Our workers, with blue badge upon their breast, stand within or just outside the gates while the train unloads, their instructions always in mind, YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 165 "Look for girls alone or in suspicious company." They politely address the strangers, and offer aid in any possible way. They acquire wisdom and dis- crimination, tact and quickness of action. They are ready to help any woman who needs help, often finding friends, preventing extortion from cab- drivers, etc., placing on right cars, obtaining assist- ance when money has been lost or stolen, taking to friends who have failed to meet them, procuring care in case of illness, etc. Number aided in various ways, 4,500; number sent or taken to the Homes for board or temporary charity (young women especially needing such care), 855; number accompanied to addresses, or to friends who failed to meet them (young and ignorant girls, who might otherwise have suffered), 371; girls res- cued directly from the hands of evil persons, 17; obtained transportation (in whole or in part ), 93. Transient Home. Number received in the Home, May to January, 700. A large number have been sent to suitable homes, of which no record is kept. Places filled, 200; day board given to various desti- tute ones, 725; money, $30; also a large amount of clothing. Several have been sent to institutions where they properly belong. Many have been fur- nished passes or half rates to their homes. The For- eign Consuls and the City Detective Department have sent a number of people to the Home until they could provide for them, and three unfortunates have been sent to the Insane Asylum. The receipts of the Y. W. C. A. for 1891 were $14,396, $5,633 being from donations. The expend- YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION itures were $9,580, the balance going into the building fund. The support is from board and donations, there being no endowments. There are no paid solicitors. MRS. LEANDER STONE, President. MRS. A. S. CHAMBERLIN, Secretary. MRS. M. E. TRUE, Treasurer. GERMAN BETHESDA DEACONESS' SO- CIETY. 30-32 BELDEN PLACE. Object: "To nurse the sick poor free of charge, both at their homes and the hospitals, and to fit for such trained nursing. " Bethesda Home accommodates from 35 to 40 nurses, all females, this being the maximum capac- ity. Trained nurses are sent to the sick; those able, pay a fair charge to support, in part, the Home. One-third of the nurses were so employed. A Nurses' Training School is a part of the uses to which the Home is devoted. The Society owns its buildings, valued at $30,000; employs no solicitors is supported by voluntary donations. Receipts in 180,1 were about $2,500; disbursements same. Re- ligious affiliations are Protestant. FRANK F. HENNING, President and Treasurer. HERMANN JACOBS, Secretary. KIRKLAND FREE ALL NIGHT DIS- PENSARY. in S. HALSTED ST. Object: "To give medicine and professional advice free of charge to the worthy poor. " The Dispensary was opened in 1889; number of patients treated during 1890 and '91, 5,546; treat- ments, 8,494, and prescriptions, 8,494; number of outside calls made by the four Dispensary physi- cians, 1,021. There are nine physicians connected with the staff. Office hours are from 2 to 5 p. M. daily, except Sunday. The financial management of the Dispensary and Mission are the same, except that the Dispensary assumes the cost of medicine and medical appli- ances; the total receipts and disbursements average about $6,000 a year. The Mission is Protestant, but its benefits are not limited on account of race, nationality or creed. It has no endowments, owns no property, employs no solicitors. DR. Cox, Superintendent. DORMITORY. WAIFS' MISSION AND TRAINING SCHOOL. 44 STATE STREET. TELEPHONE 4910 MAIN. Objects: The training of neglected and va- grant children to habits of industry by trade teaching and instructive oc- DININGROOM. cupations. Runaway and needy boys are also sheltered until employment or homes are found for them, or until their parents are communicated with. Day and Night Ragged School. j Three sessions daily are held at j the Mission every week-day, except 1 Saturday. The teachers are supplied ,1 by the Board of Education. The 1 average attendance is about 30. Average in the Home, 80 boys. SCHOOL ROOM A Waifs' Sunday School is held at Cavalry Armory, on Michigan Ave. near Madison St. Lunch is furnished children and clothing dis- tributed. Average attendance 536. The work is undenominational. On Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's and Easter the Mission pro- vides suitable entertainments and B dinners to about 1,000 children; on the last Thurs- day in June a picnic is given by the Mayor's proc- lamation, affording "a good time" to some 10,000 poor children. A laundry also affords employ- ment for a number of the boys. The receipts for 1893 amounted to $21,832, of which $5,225 was donated and $16,607 was earned HLACKSMITH SHOP, by the industrial departments. 108 ass; WaiFS* MISSION AND TRAINING SCHOOL 169 Summary of the Mission's report for 1893: Free meals given, 96,403; free baths given, 11,319; free gar- ments given, 18,328; visits to sick, 1,063; police court cases, 707; boys admitted to Home, 564; relig- ious services held, 365; employ- ment and homes found, 371; free lodgings, 22,462. The Training School. The American \ Youth is a weekly paper published by the Waifs' Mission. A number of boys LAUNDRY. "'; ?.i*ji WAGON SHOP. for delivering Ji EXPRESS OFFICE, are given employ- ment in setting the type for it, print- ing it, etc. There is also a thor- oughly equipped printing plant for L general job printing. A pony express parcels, is a Mission enterprise giving employment to the boys on its wagons and in the barn. A mes- senger service is operated by the boys. A blacksmith and wagon- making shop is also in operation, where boys are instructed in those trades. JUDGE RICHARD S. TUTHILL, President. FRANK E. BROWN (of the First National Bank), Treasurer. JAS. E. SlocuM, Secretary. T. E. DANIELS, Superintendent. THE MARY A. AHRENS MISSION. 48 PECK COURT, CHICAGO, ILL. Its object: To give immediate aid and furnish a home for unemployed girls and women. Immediate relief given to women and children. This Mission is a department of the "Chicago Im- mediate Aid Society, " which was incorporated the third day of August, 1890, and had for its object immediate relief and aid for indigent and suffering people. December the nth, Mary A. Ahrens, President of the Immediate Aid Society, opened the first Relief Station in Chicago, which was located at 346 and 348 Wabash Ave. , and in the period of five weeks and three days served 44,000 meals to men and boys, and furnished lodgings to over 25,000 persons. She also, furnishing the necessary articles for cleaning the streets, set the men at work and was instrumental in furnishing a number of men with employment, and assisted others in returning to their homes, located in other states. During this period of relief work, the use of the premises, 48 Peck Court, was donated to Mary A. Ahrens, as a lodging house for homeless men; but recognizing the necessity there was for giving relief and aid to women and children, she had the house put in order, and by the help of friends, it was fur- nished in a comfortable manner, and opened as a Mission, January 8, 1894. The maintenance of this Mission is dependent wholly for its existence upon voluntary contributions. There is but one 170 THE MARY A. AHRNES MISSION 17! paid position, viz., a solicitor and agent combined. The officers of this Society, as required by the Charter of "The Immediate Aid Society," are three in number. The report ending in June shows as follows: Cash received, $605. Cash disbursed, $748. January, distributed 7,000 loaves of bread, and 1,100 blankets. Fe" ^ebruary, " 4,348 March, " 2,210 April, " 1,608 May, 560 June, " 520 with meat and milk most of the time. BOARD AND LODGING. January, board 220, lodgings no. February, March, April, May, June, 176, 216, no. 150, " 175- 125. 93- 105, " 50. "The Mary A. Ahrens Mission" is without sec- tarian affiliation, and gives aid and relief to all who apply, regardless of creed, color, or nationality. There are twenty-two (22) beds in the Mission. MARY A. AHRENS, President. JENNIE E. SCOTT, Secretary. KATHRINE V. GRINNELL, Treasurer. ADVISORY BOARD. JESSIE B. BISHOP, MARY F. FELLOWS, FANNIE A. BLOUNT, EMMA L. PARKER, MARTHA C. SWARTHOUT. EMMA C. PARSONS, Visitor. S. S. BISHOP, M. D., Physician. BAPTIST HOSPITAL. CENTRE STREET AND RACINE AVE. Object: "To conduct a general hospital, with a staff of Homoeopathic physicians." The institu- tion was established Sept. 29, 1891. The hospital is Baptist in its affiliations, but admits patients with- out reference to nationality, race or creed. It owns no property, has no endowments and employs no solicitors. Patients may have physicians of any school of practice, as desired, though the regular hospital staff is Homoeopathic. Baptist Missionary Training School 2411 Indiana Ave. The Baptist Missionary Training School is car- ried on under the auspices of The Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, and is designed to assist women of suitable age and qualifications to prepare themselves for all lines of Christian work, so that they may render efficient service as Sunday School, Church, City, Home or Foreign Missionaries, and thus to secure the Christianization and consequent purification and elevation of homes. The Mission Training School was organized in 1881. The Home, which is owned, accommodates 55 students. One day a week is devoted to visiting from house to house in the most neglected parts of the city, nursing the sick and relieving the poor, hoHing industrial schools, and children's and moth- ers' meetings, Besides this, there are religious and temperance features of work. MRS. C. D. MORRIS, Preceptress. 172 CATHOLIC CHURCH CHARITIES. Alexian Brothers' Hospital. 559-5 6 9 N. Market St. "The objects of the Order of the Cellite or Alex- ian Brothers are to nurse the sick, take care of lu- natics, and bury the dead." It was founded during the great plague of the fourteenth century It con- ducts the hospital, admitting only male patients, excepting for prescriptions in its dispensary. The total number treated in the hospital during 1891 was 2,243 Catholics, 1,258; Protestants, 865; number paying full rates, 1,114; partial, 302; char- ity patients, 827; brought by patrol, 260; discharged as cured, 1,408; improved, 393; unimproved, 65; died, 150; brought in dying condition, 53; remain- ing in hospital Dec. 31, 1891, 174. No financial statements are made public. The religious affiliations are Catholic. Three of the Brothers, of whom there are twenty-eight, are "solicitors of contributions." BR. IGNATIUS MINKENBERG, President. BR. JOSEPH MARX, Treasurer. BR. ANDREW MAYER, Rector. Chicago Industrial School for Girls. 49th Street and Indiana Ave. Objects: "To provide a home and proper train- ing school for such girls as may be committed to its charge, and to train and educate them so as to be- come good and useful women." In 1894 there were 160 dependent and some board- ing children. Fifteen sisters were in charge. The County Commissioners make annual appropriations of some $10,000. GEO. W. SMITH, President. 173 CATHOLIC CHARITIES HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD N. W. Cor. Market and Hill Sts. Objects: The reclamation and reformation of fallen women, and protection of children. During the year 1893 there were 486 women and girls in the institution. Of that number 147 returned to friends, 63 were placed in service with families and 8 died. The institution is supported by the labor of the inmates, consisting of laundry and needlework, by voluntary contributions, and by a portion of the city fines, which in 1893 amounted to $1920.07. Total receipts $37,284.95. Disburse- $37,034.48. It owns its property, covering the block enclosed by Market, Sedgwick, Elm and Hill Sts. The control is vested in the Catholic Church but abandoned women and destitute children are received regardless of creed, race or nationality. MOTHER MARY OF THE CROSS, President. SISTER ANNUNCIATION, Treasurer. Guardian Angel Orphan Asylum. High Ridge, Cook County, Illinois. During 1891 the Asylum took in 85 and dis- charged 54 children 309 were cared for altogether. At the close of the year there were 255 children in the Asylum. Seventy infants were cared for, 202 of school age and 37 above 14 years of age, one a cripple and one an imbecile. In September, 1894, there were 16 sisters in charge, and 210 orphans in attendance. CATHOLIC CHARITIES 175 The older boys, through labor on the farm, raised in 1891, 3,000 bushels of potatoes, 115,000 heads of cabbage, 50 tons of hay, etc. ; the girls aided in cooking, baking, laundrying, sewing, knitting, etc. The receipts from the farm were $1,998; from do- nations, $683; total, $3,015. Disbursements, $2,- 970. For 262 orphans, 26 German Catholic churches paid board to the amount of $3,001. The religious affiliations are Catholic the German congregations of the archdiocese of Chicago. FERD. KALVELAGE, President. A. WOLF, Treasurer. VEN. SISTER M. B.\RTHOLOMAE, Superintendent. Holy Family Orphan Asylum (Polish and Bo- hemian). Cor. Holt and Division Sts. The Orphanage is in charge of the Sisters of Notre Dame. There were 190 orphans in 1894. SISTER HUGOLINA, Superior. Home for Working Boys, and Mission of Our Lady of Mercy. 363 W. Jackson St. The attendance is about 75 boys on an average. D. S. MAHONEY, Director. Industrial School for Girls (Polish). 130 W. Division St. The attendance in 1894 was 80 children in charge of four Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. SISTER M. LAURETTA, Superior. 176 CATHOLIC CHARITIES "Little Sisters of the Poor." Three Homes are conducted by "Little Sisters of the Poor" for aged poor. They are maintained by charity, the sisters going out and collecting funds and assistance in the form of clothing, food, etc. NORTH-SIDE HOME FOR AGED POOR, Cor. Sheffield and Fullerton Aves., cared for 175 aged persons dur- ing 1891; an average of 140. Twelve Sisters are in charge. SOUTH-SIDE HOME FOR AGED POOR, Cor. 5ist Street and Prairie Ave., cared for 60 aged persons during 1891; an average of 50. WEST-SIDE HOME FOR AGED POOR, Cor. Harrison and Throop Sts. , cared for 130 aged persons Sep- tember, 1894; an average of 132. Twelve Sisters are in charge. The inmates are received for their lifetime. No financial statement is made in the reports. The North-Side and West-Side Homes are owned, the South-Side has rented accommodations. Each Home is in charge of a "Mother Superior." Mercy Hospital. Twenty-sixth St. and Calumet Ave. Object: "To care for the sick." It is conducted by the "Sisters of Mercy." The number of patients admitted during 1891 is 1,700 free of charge, 550; fixed pay and part pay, 1,150. Receipts for 1891 were $48,392; disbursements, $48,392. The institution is self-supporting from charge patients. It is affiliated with the Catholic CATHOLIC CHARITIES 177 Church. There are 37 Sisters of Mercy in charge, and about 200 patients in 1894. MOTHER RAPHAEL, Superior. House of Mercy. A home for distressed women of good character adjoins the hospital. There were about 75 inmates in 1894. SISTER M. ANGELICA, Superior St. Joseph's Home 409 S. May St. HOME FOR WORKING GIRLS. Object: "Principally to give help and protection to respectable young working girls." The average number in the Home is 200; 400 transients were received during last year, and helped in various ways. The work is a private benevo- lence, and self-supporting by means of laundrying, dress-making, etc. No financial report is made public. The Industrial School is in charge of the ladies of the Sacred Heart. The attendance is forty. The School for Deaf Mutes aims to care for and train deaf mutes. It was opened in 1894 and has 1 20 pupils, 80 boarding in the institution, a sepa- rate building, but on the grounds. It is maintained in part by the bequest of the late Peter Schoenhoffen and voluntary contributions. The Home for the Friendless receives and cares for temporarily homeless women and girls. Miss E. CAUGHLAN, Superior. 178 CATHOLIC CHARITIES St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum. (Incorporated 1872). Cor. 35th St. and Lake Ave. Object: "To protect, support, and educate in- digent children in the city of Chicago." During the past twenty-seven years it has shel- tered and educated several thousand children. In 1894 there were 250 girls. It is conducted by 1 1 Sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph, who have their mother-house in South St. Louis, Mo. It is under the charge of different English speaking Catholic churches of the city, all of which contrib- ute to its support, while Archbishop Feehan gives it his especial attention. The enrollment, Septem- ber, 1894, was 309. Board is charged when the par- ents or guardian is able to pay. The girls are given a share in the housework. Receipts during 1891, $10, 106; disbursements, the same. It has no en dowments, owns durable brick buildings, and spa- cious grounds. M. MATILDA, Superintendent. St. Joseph's Hospital. 360 Garfield Ave. Object: "The care and treatment of the sick." There were 80 patients September, 1894. The average number of patients during 1891 was 70; en- larged present capacity, 250. The report estimates that two-thirds are pay, and one-third charity pa tients. The former class is the main support of the institution. It was founded in 1871, is conducted by the "Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph," and is CATHOLIC CHARITIES IJ9 Catholic in its affiliations. It owns its buildings, the additions and improvements of 1890 costing $130,000, which was covered in part by a $10,000 legacy from Conrad Seipp. "SISTER M. ELIZABETH, " Superintendent. St. Joseph's Providence Orphan Asylum. Crawford Ave. , near Belmont Ave. Object: "To shelter and instruct in the branches of a common-school education homeless boys under twelve years of age. " There are four teachers. The report is as follows: Number of boys in the Home, 200; number received during last year, 100; number for whom homes were provided, 72; average annual receipts, $6,859. Dis- bursements last year, $6,859. The property owned is a large four-story brick building and several acres of land, the title and control being vested in the Sisters of St. Joseph, a Catholic order. SISTER DOMINICA, Superior. St Peter's Catholic Day Nursery and Kinder- garten. 451 S. Clark St. This combined Day Nursery and Kindergarten was established by the St. Peter's (R. Catholic) Church. The average attendance is about 30. There are also some ten half-orphans boarding there, and these, with the tuition charged, are the principal support of the work. Receipts and disbursements for 1893-4 were $1,500. l8o CATHOLIC CHARITIES St. Mary's Training School for Boys. Feehanville, 111. On the Wis. Central R. R. Object: "To care for and teach some useful em- ployment to indigent and wayward boys. " In September, 1894, there were 400 pupils and 16 "Christian Brothers" in charge. Cook County Commissioners appropriate approximately $12,000 annually for 100 boys, or $120 per capita. The ex- penditures for 1893 were $26,552, the per capita cost being a little over $60.00. The average number of boys are 400. The school is in large part self-sus- taining. The receipts from private boarders were in 1891 $7>^5; from donations, $122; from farm produce, $4,588; from dairy, milking 46 cows, and from poultry, $3,435. The institution owns its farm of 440 acres through which the Desplaines River flows. The site is picturesque. The water is supplied by an artesian well. Manual and literary training alter- nate each half da}'. Net assets, $80,149. No ^aid solicitors are em- ployed. The religious affiliations are Catholic. ARCHBISHOP P. A. FEEHAN, President ex-officio. JAS. BURKE, Acting President. REV. P. J. MULDOON, Secretary and Treasurer. "BROTHER LEO," Director and Superintendent. CATHOLIC CHARITIES l8l Visitation and Aid Society. Room 500 and 501, 34 Washington St., Venitian Building. Object: "To visit public and private eleemosynary institutions and assist temporally, spiritually and educationally the inmates; to place destitute chil- dren in homes; to obtain employment for deserv- ing persons, and to engage in other charitable work. " The Society in its Fifth Annual Report (1893-4) gives the number of visits made to the infirmary as 154; number of visitors, 954; number of religious services held in institutions, 143; number of books distributed, 9,000. It interested itself in 1,505 children; returned 297 to relatives, and placed in Homes and Institutions 602; otherwise improved the condition of 608. Employment was obtained for 298 persons, transportation for 197; otherwise assisted by securing for them nurses, physicians, relief, etc., 3,252. Its receipts were $2,107; ex- penditures, $2,569. Two Jesuit Fathers assist the Society in its spiritual work. The Society employs a visitor and a clerk; no solicitors. One of its agents is paid and detailed by the Police Department. The visitor and Police agent attend the Police Courts to take charge of dependent children and families. The Society owns no property; has no endowments; is supported by contributions from members and friends. The So- ciety affiliates with the Catholic church, its officers and visitors being mostly Catholic. T. D. HURLEY, President. P. T. GILLESPIE, Treasurer. MRS. THOMAS F. QUINLAN, Secretary. St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Cor. Davis and Le Moyne Streets. Objects: "The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, in whose charge the hospital is, are banded together to nurse the sick and poor in private houses and hospitals. " There were 800 patients nursed last year; 467 were discharged recovered, 65 improved, 77 unim- proved, and 101 died 30 having entered in a dying state. There were nursed free of charge 271 pa- tients, 470 paid full rates and 57 partial. The average annual receipts are $32,947.62; dis. bursements for 1891, $80,478. 54. The support is from "soliciting," Mr. Martin Ryerson's "charity trust," and pay patients. The assets are the block of five acres on which the hospital is located, and buildings valued at $250,000. The affiliations are Catholic. It is in charge of 22 Sisters. SISTER M. POLYCARPA, Sister Superior. 182 CATHOLIC CHARITIES 183 St. Vincent's Infant Asylum. 191 La Salle Ave. Objects: "To care for foundlings and destitute children under six years of age; also, to accommo- date poor mothers with their infants." A portion of the building is fitted up as a lying- in department, which is entirely private. The capac- ity of the home is 200; average number of children, 150. In September, 1894, there were 150 infants, 25 patients. A Kindergarten with 40 boys and 100 girls, in charge of 2 teachers. The children are dis- posed of in some cases by being returned to their relatives, in others adopted into private families, and still others transferred to the Orphan Asylum when seven years of age. The annual cost is $12,000; the grounds are valued at $25,000; buildings, $75,000; furniture, $8,000. The support is from boarders, legacies, donations, and proceeds of lectures and en- tertainments. The benefits of the asylum are extend- ed to mothers and children of all denominations. The religious affiliations are Catholic, it being con- ducted by the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph. SISTER M. JULIA, Superior. St. Francis' House of Providence. Cor. Market and Elm Sts. Object: "To furnish a home for ladies with or without employment." It is in charge of 16 sisters of the Franciscan order. There is here also a Home for unemployed girls. SISTER M. EMILIA, Superior. EPISCOPAL CHARITIES. St. Luke's Hospital. Dispensary. Training School. Diet School. Objects: "To provide for the sick and poor and to maintain a hospital therefor in the city of Chica- go, Illinois, under the control of the Protestant Episcopal church." The following statement shows the work for the year ending October i, 1893: The number of patients remaining Oct. i, 1892 114 The number of patients admitted during year 1 748 Total 1862 Total number discharged: Cured, 61 per cent 1128 Improved, 17 per cent 323 Unchanged, 6 per cent 114 Died, 8 per cent 152 Total 1717 Remaining October i, 1893, 8 per cent... 145 DISPENSARY. The following were the number of cases treated in the Dispensary free of charge to applicant: Surgical 2141 M edical 1629 Gynaecological 1 209 Eye and Ear 552 Total 553 1 184 EPISCOPAL CHARITIES 185 RESUME. Patients treated in the Hospital 1862 Patients treated in the Dispensary 553 1 Total number of patients treated 7393 The number of free patients admitted was. .. 68g The number of pay and part pay was i59 Total admitted The number of hospital days devoted to free patients was 19,818 The number of hospital days devoted to pay and part pay was 24, 115 Total number of hospital days 43>933 RECEIPTS. Churches $ 3,041.21 Support of beds 9, 178.83 Donations from Individuals 7,147.13 Board 26,673.19 Training School 1 ,225.22 Clinic tickets 40.00 Material sold 40.25 Charity Ball 4,944.65 St. Luke's Annual 2,301.87 Rents: The Clinton, net 15,810.76 All other rents 1,109.45 Diet kitchen fund 81.21 Total $71,627.79 Training School for Nurses. The number in the School, as given in the 8th annual report, is 42; 39 were admitted as probationers during 1893, and 600 applicants refused. The demands on the school for special nurses, both from private individuals and hospitals, is increasing, and greatly exceeds the sup- ply. Receipts from nurses' earnings, $1,546.46; special expenses on account of school, $174,48. The lot adjoining the hospital on the north has been bought for a Home for the nurses with a legacy of $25,000. Diet School. The object is to thoroughly instruct the trained nurses in the art and science of cookery. l86 EPISCOPAL CHARITIES No solicitors are employed. The religious affilia- tions are with the Protestant Episcopal Church. ARTHUR RYERSON, President. JOSEPH T. BOWEN, Vice-President. FREDERICK T. WEST, Secretary. N. K. FAIRBANK, Treasurer. REV. J. W. VAN INGEN, Superintendent. St. Mary's Mission House. 213-215 Washington Boulevard. Objects: "Helping and visiting the sick and poor; having Bible classes and mothers' meetings." The House is connected with the Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul (Protestant Episcopal). It is in charge of the "Sisters of St. Mary, " who live on the third floor, the other floors being devoted to guilds and mothers' and girls' meetings. A Free Dispensary is conducted in the basement, being open for three days a week. St. Mary's Home for Children. 221 Washington Boulevard. This Home was opened Sept. 18, 1894. It is part of the Mission and under the charge of the sisters. Six children are in the Home. It can accommodate 15 children. A Boys and Girls' Guild meets twice a week; a Sewing Class for Girls on Saturday afternoons. Domestic service is also taught to girls. The property is owned; no solicitors are em- ployed; there are no endowments, and no salaries are paid. REV. GEORGE D. WRIGHT, Minister-in-charge. "SISTER FRANCES," Sister-in-charge. EPISCOPAL CHARITIES 187 St. James' Church. PHK ST. JAMES' DAY NURSKRY. 268 Superior St. It reports that it is now entering upon its third year and presents an encouraging record of the work it is accomplishing among poor women and their little children. From month to month there has been a steady increase in the number of children cared for, and the amount of employment supplied to needy moth- ers. The doors of the Creche are opened each morn- ing at 6:30. and the matron, with her assistant, re- ceives the little ones. After a breakfast of warm milk and bread, they go to the play-room, where the younger children pass a happy day with their play- fellows and their toys. At 8:30 the older children are taken by the nurse to the Moody kindergarten an arrangement having been made with the teach- ers to receive them during the morning session. This provides them with schooling, and greatly lightens the cares of the matron. At noon the nurse calls for them and brings them home, where a din- ner of meat, potatoes or rice and bread is served. At 5:30 they have a supper of mush and milk, and by 7 o'clock they are all once more with their mothers. The average daily attendance of children has been nine, making a total number for the year of 2,806. The matron has supplied many of the mothers with work, this being an important feature of the Day Nursery. 188 EPISCOPAL CHARITIES Receipts, 1893. Balance, Nov. 1 892 $ 644. 69 From Mothers 1 88. 66 Dues and Subscriptions 564. 75 Tea Party Sales 6.00 Charity Fund 15- Tableaux 219.55 Total Receipts $1,638.65 Expenditures $1,435.19 MRS. PERRY H. SMITH, President. MRS. T. W. GROVER, Treasurer. ALICE G. KERFOOT, Secretary. Convalescents' Home. 4333 Ellis Avenue. Objects: "The Home has been incorporated to provide a comfortable and inexpensive resting place for invalids who are well enough to leave the hos- pitals, but not yet strong enough to resume life's burdens. " The society pays for these accommodations at the rate of $25 a month, the beneficiary being en- couraged to return this when able. The Protestant Episcopal church has the work in charge, but the benefits are not limited as to race, creed or nationality. The society has the use of a cottage for working women and girls, accommodating 20 persons, on a lake near La Porte, Indiana. REV. DR. WALTER DELAFIELD, President. GEN'L JOSEPH STOCKTON, Vice-President. CHAS. M. FLACK, Secretary. C. R. LARRABEE, Treasurer. Also a board of lady managers. Church Home for Aged Persons. 4327 Ellis Avenue. Object: "To provide a quiet, comfortable home, the daily companionship of others in the same sphere of life, and kind watchfulness and care for such persons as have been accustomed to the refine- ments of life, but who have outlived their friends, lost their means of support, or in other ways become dependent. " 189 igo EPISCOPAL CHARITIES i I. Church Home for Aged Ladies. The Home was incorporated Aug. 22, 1890. One room has been endowed at a cost of $5,000 by the Church of the Transfiguration; a second by Mrs. Ruben Taylor. The total receipts for 1893 were $4,648.22; dis- bursements, $4,324.22. Net assets, $25,000; liabili- ties, $4,000. II. Church Home for Aged Gentlemen. This Home forms a part of the same block of buildings with and is adjoining the Orphans' and the Old Ladies' Homes. It was opened Aug. ist, 1894. The property is valued at $25,000, on which there is still a debt of $19,000. It aims to accommodate aged and destitute merchants, clergymen, artists, literary men, etc. The cost of endowing a room is $5,000. The admission fee for life inmates is $500. Some are taken temporarily free of charge, or for board. The Home is under the direct supervision of the Episcopal church its board of managers and trustees being Episcopalian by the requirements of its charter, and subject to the supervision of the bishop of the diocese. There are no paid solicitors or endowments, the support being mainly from vol- untary donations. REV. DR. WALTER DELAFIELD, President, CHAS. W. BREGA, Vice-President. O. W. BALLARD, Treasurer. A. J. BRADFORD, Secretary. Also a board of lady managers. CHURCH HOME FOR ORPHANS. IQ2 EPISCOPAL CHARITIES Church Home for Orphans. 4331 Ellis Avenue. Incorporated Sept., 1892. Objects: "The care of orphan and half-orphan children. " The Home is owned by the corporation. There are no endowments, the support being from volun- tary contributions. The Protestant Episcopal church has charge of the work, but the benefits are not limited on account of race, nationality or creed. The Home has accommodated 50 children during 1893. The policy is to care for the children, charg- ing board when relatives or friends are able to pay, but otherwise to place them out in private homes as soon as practicable. The receipts for 1893 were $1,621.66; disburse- ments, $1,601.29. JREv. DR. WALTER DELAFIELD, President. COL. GURDON S. HUBBARD, JR., Vice-President. COLLINS H. JORDAN, Vice-President. RICHARD H. WYMAN, Secretary. IRA P. BOWEN, Treasurer, Continental National Bank. LUTHERAN CHARITIES. Uhlich's Evangelical Lutheran Orphan Asylum. Burling and Center Streets. Object: "The support and education, first, of the orphans of the First United Evangelical Luth- eran Church of Chicago, and of orphans of such Evangelical Lutheran Churches of Chicago as the corporation may see fit to admit. The board of trustees must be members of the above named church. " The Asylum sheltered during 1891,33 appears from its 22nd annual report, 123 children, 45 being ad- mitted during the year and 31 dismissed. The av- erage number in the Home was 84, and the cost per capita $2 per week There was no death, excepting that of the Superintendent. About 30 of the chil- dren are entire orphans; for the others, the half- orphans, board is paid by their parents from 75 cents to $1.50 per week. The receipts were $12,045; disbursements, $10,741. The Asylum is supported mainly from the income of the land (60 lots) be- queathed by Carl Uhlich in 1869, which it leases. It receives but small donations; has no solicitors. WM. KNOKE, President. C. A. HERRMANN, Superintendent. JOHN L. DIEZ, Treasurer. 193 194 LUTHERAN CHARITIES Augustana Hospital. Corner Lincoln and Cleveland Avenues, Chicago. Objects: "The training of well-qualified nurses, the establishment and support of a hospital, the care of the aged, the education of the young, and, in general, the exercise of mercy among the suffer- ing." (Charter Feb. 14, 1892.) The report from Oct. 15, 1893, to Oct. 15, 1894, is as follows: Patients treated during the year, 522. Total number of days of treatment, 11,585. Days paid, 7,877. Part paid, 2,284. Charity days, 1,424; pay patients, 393; part pay, 62; charity, 67; cured, 324; improved, 105; unimproved, 25; died, 31; surgical, 320; medical, 202. Admitted since opening, 1,732. A Training School for nurses was established re- cently as a department of the work of the Hospital. The Hospital has only one room endowed, and reports that it is utterly unable to do the charity work which appeals to it. There is an encumbrance of $60,000 on the property, which is valued at $200,000. The Hospital is owned and controlled by the Illinois Conference of the Swedish Lutheran Church. It is supported by voluntary contributions, and by receipts from patients. No solicitors are em- ployed. REV. S. G. OHMAN, Superintendent. DR. A. J. OCHSNER, Surgeon-in-chief. REV. M. C. RANSEEN, President. REV. C. A. AVALD, Secretary. THEO. FREEMAN, Treasurer. I/I Oi ig6 LUTHERAN CHARITIES Danish Lutheran Children's Home. 69 Perry Street. Object: "To support and care for children of Danish parentage who are orphans or destitute. " The Home shelters 33 children; is in charge of a matron and two assistants; occupies a three-story building, the top floor being devoted to the nursery. An adjoining lot is owned and used for play ground. It is open to orphans and half orphans of Danish parents from all parts of the United States. Last year's receipts and disbursements amounted to $2,200. The Home is supported by voluntary contributions from members of the Danish Evangel- ical Lutheran church of U. S. A., in which its con- trol is vested. MRS. MARTHA OLSEN, Mother. Doard of Directors. REV. THEO. HELVIG, MRS. FREDERIKA D. HANSEN. MRS. C. W. HANSEN, Treasurer, 615 W. Indiana St. METHODIST CHARITIES. Chicago Deaconess' Home 227 E. Ohio St. Object: "To organize, promote and maintain the work of women, banded together to devote their whole time and strength to good works, errands of love and mercy, without remuneration except to re- ceive their support at the Home." The aim is to instruct and train for the work of visiting among the poor, and to direct it through careful superintendence. The Deaconesses fit them- selves for the work by an elementary course in med- icine and nursing when visiting, and when nursing Deaconesses, through a full course in a training school for nurses. The Home is supported by volun- tary contributions. No charges are made for services, since these are rendered to the destitute. The last report shows: Receipts for one year, from Apr. 10, '93, to Apr. 10, '94, $5,000.36; disbursements, $4,723.74. Receipts for "emergency fund," $1,610; disbursements, $1,519.54. Much of the work is spiritual. Among its philan- thropic features are : Number of sick nursed in their homes, 196; number of calls on the sick, 1,528; number of days spent in nursing sick in their homes, 800^ nights,672; number of garments given away, 17,440; baskets of food, 1,202; bouquets of flowers, 3,126. The number of Deaconesses living in the Home, not including teachers or students or those engaged in hospital work, is 18. The society owns its building, has no endowments or paid solicitor. 197 I 98 METHODIST CHARITIES Its affiliations are with the Methodist Episcopal church. It owns Rest Cottage. The finances are managed by the Chicago Dea- coness Aid Society. Miss C. ADDIE BROWN, President. Miss LAURA M. HYNE, Treasurer. MARY JEFFERSON, Superintendent. Methodist Deaconess' Orphanage. Lake Bluff, 111. Object: "To care for destitute children and to furnish a Home for the needy; to educate them and find them when required permanent homes. " The orphanage is a building containing 18 rooms, two stories with attic and basement. It can ac- commodate 75 children and is designed as the main building for a group of cottages to be erected when needed. There are spacious grounds, with shade trees and wide verandas. The whole is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hobbs. The orphanage is in charge of the Methodist Deaconesses whose headquarters are at their home, 227 E. Ohio St. The work was commenced in 1893 in a rented home, the Deaconess' Rest Cottage on the present grounds MRS. J. B. HOBBS, 343 La Salle Ave. METHODIST CHARITIES 199 Halsted St. Mission. 7788. Halsted St., Cor. 2oth. Industrial Classes. Information Bureau. Kitchengarten. Free Kindergarten. These lines of charitable work are conducted in and in connection with the Halsted Street Mission (M. E.). (Organized in 1866.) The Mission aims to be a benevolent center for that part of the city. In it the Relief and Aid Society has had one of its branch offices for two years. The Industrial classes embrace printing, shorthand and typewriting, drawing, telegraphy, and needle and fancy work. Average attendance, 237. The Kitchengarten instructs larger girls in all kinds of housework and housekeeping. The aver- age attendance is 26. The Kindergarten is in session five days in the week, and has an average attendance of more than 73 pupils. The Information Bureau seeks to supply male help. Besides these departments there is a course of free lectures given in the winter on social and moral questions, also free stereopticon entertainments. The Mission is conducted in a building owned by the Chicago Home Missionary and Church Exten- sion Society of the M. E. Church, but encumbered $12,000. Receipts and disbursements on account of the 200 METHOD! .jT CHARITIES Kindergarten last year were $600, and on account of the industrial work, $450. The support is from voluntary donations. CHAS. K. TROY, Treasurer, Metropolitan Bank. D. J. HOLMES, Minister. ADVISORY BOARD. G. W. SWIFT, Stock Yards. E. G. KEITH, Pres. Metropolitan National Bank. N. W. HARRIS, of N. W. Harris Co., Bankers. W. A. FULLER, of Palmer, Fuller Co., Mfgrs. J. B. HOBBS, Secretary, Pres. Com'l Loan and Trust Bank. PKRLEY LOWE, of Perley Lowe Co., Lumbermen. T. WILCE, of T. Wilce Co., Lumbermen. Wesley Hospital. Cor. 25th and Dearborn Sts. (Incorporated 1888.) Objects: "The gratuitous treatment of the medic- inal and surgical diseases of the sick poor." Char- ter, Sec. 2. In its present building, which is owned, there are accommodations for 30 patients and the nurses. Receipts: from board, $3, 041; from subscriptions, $4,070; total, $7,816. Expenditures, $7,480. En- dowment, $1,000, by Mrs. Susannah L. Brown. No conditions of race, creed or nationality are imposed on its beneficiaries, though the hospital affiliates with the Methodist Episcopal Church, a provision of its by-laws being that seven-tenths of its trustees shall be of that communion. W. H. RAND, President. M. P. HATFIELD, Secretary. |N. W. HARRIS, Treasurer. REV. DR. ODGERS. METHODIST CHARITIES 2OI The Epworth House- N. W. Corner Halsted and Congress Streets. The Epworth House is an Evangelistic Social Settlement. It is under the direction of an organi- zation known as the "Forward Movement." It was established March 4th, 1894, after the general plan of a work known as the Oxford House, founded in London by Hugh Price Hughes, and the University settlements. It affiliates with the Episcopal Leagues of the M. E. Church. Object: "Its aim is to establish a center of moral reform in the most neglected sections of the city of Chicago, where there can be provided a creche, a Christian kindergarten, free dispensary, medical at- tendance, industrial schools, a night school, a reading room, lecture courses, preaching services, Sunday schools, a system of visitation which will give thor- ough information as to the needs of the community, and in brief, where there can be utilized any form of applied Christianity which may seem practicable in winning the people to a better life." The Medical Department gives medical advice and medicines to the neighboring poor. The Kindergarten was opened at the House, March 12. The Lunch Counter is established and lunches are served not to realize profits, but rather for pur- poses of hospitality and good fellowship. Food and drink is offered at cost and sometimes given away, to offset the free lunch counters of the saloon. The Musical Department gives both vocal and in- 202 METHODIST CHARITIES strumental music for the entertainment of the passer- by and strangers. Sewing Schools teach the girls of the neighbor- hood sewing. The Bureau of Information aims to bring the em- ployer in relation to the man or woman who seeks work. A Reading Room is also opened to make possible access to the better literature of the day. A Legal Advice Department, where the poor can get freely and without charge, legal information is also open. There are in the House from four to ten visitors, the main reliance being on personal contact at the homes of the people in the neighborhood, especially to reach in this way the children. The residents of the House are without salaries and donate their ser- vices. The Home is dependent on voluntary contri- butions. CHARLES E. PIPER, President. N. J. HARKNESS, Secretary. JOHN R. LINDGREN, Treasurer. GEO. W. GRAY, D. D., Superintendent. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. G. W. CHAMBERLAIN, L. N. MOVER, C. N. GARY, J. F. BERRY, E. A. SCHELL. THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO. Cor. Congress and Wood Sts. (Chartered April 18, 1872.) Maternity. Convalescent Home. Throat and Chest Department. Objects: "To afford surgical and medical aid and nursing to sick and disabled persons of every creed, nationality and color. " The eleventh annual report, 1893, shows the fol- lowing: Patients remaining March 31, 1893 201 Patients admitted during the year 1,834 Total 2,035 203 204 PRESBYTERIAN CHARITIES Patients remaining March 31, 1894 208 Patients discharged cured 1,362 Patients discharged improved 279 Patients discharged unimproved 24 Patients not treated 63 Patients died 99 Total 2 >35 Number days of treatment 72,452 Number of days of attendance 548 Per centum of deaths to number treated.. . . 4.8 Number admitted this year 1893-94, 2,035, as against 2,131 of last year, whereas there were 72,452 days of treatment as against previous year of 72,270. Of the days of treatment 48,470 were pay and part pay, and 23,982 were free. The daily average of free patients was sixty- six, 65 beds being endowed; pay and part pay were 132, making total daily average 198. The lowest number of patients for any one day was 107; the highest 228. Since the opening of the Hospital, in August, 1884, it has cared for over 12,000 patients. The treasurer's report shows the cost of administra- tion for the year, to be $90,732.14, and expenses for interest, insurance, taxes, etc., $5,438.40, making a total of $96,190.54. PRESBYTERIAN CHARITIES 205 Receipts from donations were $4,340.28 Receipts for free beds 8,250.00 Receipts from interest on endowment funds and other sources 9,679.45 Receipts from pay patients , 68, 677. 72 Expenditures 90,947.45 Wages and nursing 34,560.81 Supplies 5i,547-i5 Expenses 9,479.47 Repairs 603. 1 1 Total $96, 190. 54 The Maternity Department occupies a separate building, and is deemed a successful departure. The Convalescents' Home gives relief by being more homelike than any hospital can be made. The Throat and Chest Department. This class of diseases, it is claimed, are better treated when isolated in a building by themselves. The support of the Hospital is from endowments, amounting to $161,602, donations and receipts from patients; no solicitors are employed. The buildings are owned. The religious affiliations are Presby- terian. REV. JOHN L. WITHROW, D. D., President ERNEST A. HAMILL, Vice-President, j GEORGE W. HALE, Treasurer. W. A. DOUGLASS, Secretary. J. A. ROBISON, M. D., Assistant Secretary. UNIVERSALIST CHARITIES. Church of the Redeemer. 2581 Austin Ave. Talcott Day Nursery. Talcott Kindergarten. Sewing School. These charities are connected with the Church of the Redeemer (Universalist). The average daily attendance for 1891 was 44 at the Nursery, 40 at the Kindergarten, and 5 at the Sewing School. The average annual expenses are about $3,300. All garments the children make are donated to them. The teachers of the Sewing School are from among the members of the church. MRS. A. E. CLARK, President. MRS. MARK SHERWOOD, Treasurer. St. Paul's Church. Prairie Ave. and 3Oth St. Free Kindergarten. Industrial School. These charities are conducted in connection with St. Paul's (Universalist) Church, in its chapel, in the rear. The Kindergarten has an average attendance of 60 scholars. A principal and four assistants are in charge, the latter being furnished by the Free Kin- dergarten Association; annual cost, $712. The Industrial School has sessions every Saturday morning, from October until May, with an average attendance of 129, and an annual cost of $712. Sat- urday-evening classes in dress-making are also held the cost being $59, and the average attendance n. A. J. CANFIELD, Minister. 206 UNITARIAN CHARITIES. Church of the Messiah. Kitchengarten, Church Parlors, 23rd St. and Mich. Ave. Herford Kindergarten, 406 22nd St. These charities are conducted and supported by the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian-Congrega- tional) and its Ladies' Aid Society. The Kitchen- garten aims to give instruction to children who would otherwise not learn the best methods of elementary housekeeping. The three classes held last year comprised an average of 70 pupils; to each class one and a half hours' instruction was given weekly for four months. The receipts and disbursements, 1891, were $196. The Herford Kindergarten had an average atten- dance of 55 children. The receipts and disburse- ments of the Kindergarten are about #900. MRS. J. C. LONG, Treasurer. REV. W. W. FENN, Minister. Third Unitarian Church. N. W. Corner Monroe and Laflin Streets. Kindergarten. Relief Room. The Kindergarten in this church has an average attendance of 25 pupils. The church has for some time past furnished office room to the West Side branch of the Relief and Aid Society. J. VILA BLAKE, Minister. 207 Unity Church Industrial School. 80 Elm St. Industrial School Day Nursery. Kindergarten. Objects: "To help the very needy of the North Side, especially the little girls who wander about the streets, begging. " It was opened in 1876 by the members of Unity Church, and a few years later, through a bequest of $20,000 by Eli Bates to the trustees of Unity Church, the ground and buildings were provided, the property and management being vested in this church, which also supports the enterprise mainly. The departments of work are: 208 UNITARIAN CHARITIES 2OQ Sewing School, Saturday mornings, with an aver- age attendance of 175 girls. The children are given the garments they make. Cooking Classes. of ten pupils, in rotation, are also held "a popular feature." Two girls are constantly in training as nurse girls. A cooking class for older girls and women was also held one evening a week last winter. Two evenings a week were devoted to boys' clubs. A mothers' class was held in the afternoon. During the summer months, when the public schools are closed, the school is open daily, and lessons are given in cooking, sewing and calis- thenics, and the attendance is full. The Day Nursery accommodates daily from 10 to 20 infants. The Kindergarten has one paid, and 4 assistant Kindergarten teachers. The average attendance is 45 each day. The average annual expenditures are about $2,500 - last year's, $2,796.49. There are no endowments or solicitors. MRS. J. W. HOSMER, President. MRS. THOMAS F. GANE, Secretary. MRS. H. B. STONE, Treasurer. MRS. J. Q. SEWELL, MRS. J. L. BREWER, MRS. HERBERT WADSWORTH, MRS. WM. McFADON, MRS. WM. E. FURNESS, Miss HANNAH FRENCH. 210 CHURCH CHARITIES All Souls Church. Cor. Oakwood Boul. and Langley Ave. Kindergarten. Manual Training- School. Relief Station, 3210 Wall St. These charities are conducted in and in connec- tion with All Souls Church, for the benefit of the children of the neighborhood. A charge of 25 cents per week is made for attendance on the Kindergarten when parents are able to pay, otherwise a friend assumes the cost. The average attendance is 20, for the past four years, at the Kindergarten, and at the Manual Training School 14. The receipts and disbursements are about $630. In connection there is a free Reading Room and Library. The Manual Training School held classes in me- chanical drawing and Sloyd in the winter, and has a full outfit of tools. The Relief Department was opened in a section of the Stockyards population where the bread-winners were almost all out of work and great destitution prevailed. It was in close co-operation with the Central Relief Association, which furnished it with supplies. RECEIPTS OF WALL STREET RELIEF STATION. Oakland School, Room 5 $0.95 Forestville School 9.00 All Souls Church members 195. 20 Individuals outside the church 225.00 Dramatic Entertainment 166.50 Through Dr. Julia R. Low 254.50 Central Relief Association 749.25 Total $1,600.40 CHURCH CHARITIES 211 This was disbursed in the form of provisions, clothing, and coal, by the Superintendent, Dr. Hel- len A. Heath. Twenty-five friendly visitors from the church aided in investigation and otherwise. MRS. ELLEN T. LEONARD, Treasurer. REV. JENKIN LLOYD JONES, Minister. CONGREGATIONAL CHARITIES.* The Workers' Creche. 3007 Butler St. This Crdche was opened in 1892, and is now under the auspices of the Plymouth Church of Chi- cago (Congregational). It cares during the day for the infants of mothers who are compelled to go out to work. REV. FRANK GUNSAULUS, D. D., Minister of Ply- mouth Church. *The Congregational as most of the other Protestant Churches conduct their philanthropic activities along nnsectarian and purely philanthropic lines and make therefore but a small showing in their organic denominational capacity. UNITED HEBREW CHARITIES OF CHICAGO. Relief Office, 223 26th St. Employment Bureau, 223 26th St. Michael Reese Hospital, 29th St. and Groveland Ave. Dispensary, 2gth and Groveland. Training- School, apth and Groveland. "The object is to provide a permanent, efficient and practical mode of administering and distribut- ing the private charities of the Israelites and others * of Chicago; to put into practical and efficient oper- ation the best system for relieving and preventing want and pauperism among the Jewish poor of said city; to assist and aid the sick, the widow, and the orphan; to purchase, lease, or otherwise procure lands and buildings for the maintenance and conduct of hospitals, widow and orphan asylums, homes for the aged and infirm, and any other similar insti- tutions, and to perform whatever act or thing may be necessary or proper to relieve the wants and needs of the Jewish poor and others in such manner as may be deemed best. " "Any Hebrew society declaring its intention to co-operate with this Association, and contributing to the funds of the Association not less than $50 per annum, shall be entitled to the privilege of membership in this Association." Relief Office, 223 26th Street. The principal work of this department is to make its beneficiaries self- 212 HEBREW CHARITIES 213 supporting. It reports 40 regular pensioners, receiv- ing from $5 to $20 per month, or a total of $4,700 during 1893. Clothing, medical care, burials and cash, in amounts varying from $5 to $100 and up- wards, are expended on the applicants of the Society. Transportation, wl\en beneficial, is furnished; 2,949 residents and 185 transients were ^ assisted during 1893; 215 cases were aided with transportation at a cost of $2,376. The receipts for this department were $27,138.62; disbursements, $28,817.27. Employment Bureau, 223 26th St. D uring 1892- 93, 966 asked for, and 870 received work. The United Hebrew Charities are under one finan- cial management; they embrace these component societies: The Hebrew Congregations of Sinai ($11,- "462), Ansche Mayriv ($3,730), Zion ($2,343), North Side ($823), B'nai Sholem ($335). The Lodges, Ramah ($50), Hillel ($74), Maurice Mayer ($50), Johannah ($150), Russian Refugees' Aid Society ($3,693). North-Side Ladies' Sewing Society ($50), Jewish Charity Association ($50), and Young Men's Hebrew Charity Association ($7,400). The general support is mainly from voluntary donations in part from endowments, $132,600 being placed in interest- bearing investments. No solicitors are employed. The property owned consists of an office-building, at 223 26th Street, Michael Reese Hospital, and a part of Ridge Lawn Cemetery. Michael Reese Hospital. 2gth Street and Groveland Ave. This Hospital is under the control of "The United Hebrew Charities." It cared for 1,072 patients dur- ing 1893; of these 257 were non- Jewish pay, 116 non-Jewish charity patients, 99 Jewish pay, and 600 Jewish charity patients; 60 were brought by the Police Patrol. Number discharged as cured, 658; improved, 211; incurable, 17; left, 38; died, 68; remaining, 78; daily average, 69; average length of stay, 23 days. Money received from pay patients, $13,932.50. Total receipts for Hospital, $44,986.66; disbursements, $37,551.08. Dispensary. Number of treatments, 7,673 1,289 patients; number of prescriptions for patients outside of Hospital, 5,687 on account of charity. Training School for Nurses This department of the Michael Reese Hospital was established Sep- tember, 1890. Last year there were a superintend- 214 HEBREW CHARITIES 21^ ent, 3 head nurses, 23 pupils, 2 probationers, and 70 applications. They attend to the wants of the Hospital patients. The Nurses' Home contains a maternity ward. Classes and lectures are held. The earnings of the nurses were $1,530.50. ISAAC GREENFELDER, President. MAURICE ROSENFELD, Treasurer. CHARLES HAFTER, Financial Secretary. FRANCIS A. Kiss, Superintendent. The Northwest Charity Association. 500 Milwaukee Ave. Object: "To relieve worthy Hebrew families re- siding in the northwest part of the city." The organization, though independent, affiliates with the United Hebrew Charities. It was organ- ized and incorporated in 1890, and gives relief in money. Its receipts and disbursements amounted to $1,500 in 1893. It is with Hebrew affiliations; employs no solicitors or other salaried agents and has no endowments. MAURICE DROSDOWITZ, President. JOSEPH GOLDWATER, Treasurer. MAX BROWN, Secretary. 2l6 HEBREW CHARITIES Jewish Training School. 91 Judd St. Object: "It shall be the aim of this Association to enable poor Jewish children to become useful members of society by teaching them the elements of skill, habits of cleanliness and order, thus devel- oping within them a feeling of self-respect and self- reliance. It is the purpose of this Association to maintain and carry on a school for boys and girls under the age of 18 years in the nature of a Kinder- garten, a Girls' Sewing School and Kitchengarten, and a Manual Training and Trade School for boys and girls. The School, which was founded in 1890, has a Kindergarten, a Primary and a Grammar Depart- ment. The Manual Work is conducted as an art and mechanical department. The latter embraces modeling, free hand drawing and designing. The mechanical department comprises Sloyd work, card- board, wood, and machine work, and sewing, fitting and drafting, domestic economy, cooking and house- hold duties. German, gymnastics, and music are also taught. There are also large ungraded classes. No charges are made for tuition. The annual cur- rent expenses average about $20,000. Owing to the increase of immigration from Rus- sia and other foreign lands, the Ungraded Classes have always been crowded. Many children who came to the school directly from Russia have in less than two months been advanced into the fifth or sixth grades. HEBREW The founder of the School, Leon Mandel, gave $20,000. This sum was added to by others until the property now represents a value of $75,000. HENRY L. FRANK, President. MRS. LEVY MAYER, Vice-President. RABBI JOSEPH STOLTZ, Recording Secretary. HERMAN HEFTER, Financial Secretary. LEO Fox, Treasurer. GABRIEL BAMBERGER, Superintendent. DIRECTORS. DR. E. G. HIRSCH, MRS. M. LOEB, MRS. E. MANDEL, MRS. C. WITKOWSKY, W. N. ElSENDRATH, MRS. FLORA KAHN, A. KOPPERL, MRS. M. ROSENBAUM, L. SCHLESINGER, MRS. C. STETTENER. MRS. JAMES ROSENTHAL. SALVATION ARMY. Relief Depot, 558 W. Madison Street. Dispensary, 558 W. Madison Street Slum Post, 4i Dussold Street. Slum Post, 396 S. Clark Street. The Relief Station of the Salvation Army, at its headquarters, distributed in the form of provisions and clothing during the winter of 1893-4, to a value of about 50 cents three times a week to each of 30 fam- ilies. On Christmas 2,500 persons were given dinner. Total Meals given 1 1,080 Total Garments given 4,261 Total Sick cases nursed 333 The Dispensary was opened Jan. i, 1894, and is conducted principally for members of the Army, at an expense of about $50.00 a month for medicines, etc. It is in charge of a member of the Army, Dr. C. M. Beebe of the Faculty of the Homeopathic College. The Slum Posts reach out by personal influence and small amounts of relief to the destitute and wayward of their respective vicinities. Each is in charge of two female officers of the Salvation Army. The motives and aims of the Army in all their work are distinctively religious, the "saving" and not simply the relieving of the destitute and fallen. The responsible local officer in Chicago is "Brigadier" Edward Fielding. 219 CHICAGO MEDICAL MISSION, 40 Custom House Place, near Van Buren St. Free Nursing. Free Dispensary. Free Baths. Free Laundry. Object: "To advance the cause of Christianity, and to aid in uplifting the fallen, relieving the suffer- ing, and improving the condition of the neglected classes. " The following statement of the origin, and general plan of the work is furnished by the Superintendent. The Chicago Medical Mission was formally opened June 25, 1893. It is Christian, but entirely unde- nominational in its work. It was established and is conducted under the auspices of the S. P. A. Med- ical Missionary and Benevolent Association, which has for many years conducted a self-supporting and philanthropic institution at Battle Creek, Mich., known as the Battle Creek Sanitarium, and as the finances of the institution have improved to such a degree as to enable it to extend its work, and through the aid of generous gifts from Mrs. C. E. Haskell, and other philanthropic persons, has estab- lished medical missionary work in various lines, and in different parts of this and other countries. Its principal branches are at St. Helena, Cal., Guada- lajara, Mexico, and Cape Town, South Africa. It has also a branch Sanitarium at 28 College Place, Chicago, the means of which are devoted to the sup- port of the Chicago Medical Mission, though inad- equate to carry on the work of the mission, which 222 CHICAGO MEDICAL MISSION has grown far beyond the expectations of the pro- jectors. The following are the principal lines of work undertaken in connection with the Chicago Medical Mission: Missionary Nursing. For nearly a year before the formal opening of the mission a missionary nurse had been employed for the purpose of nursing the sick poor at their homes, and laboring for the im- provement of the condition of the most indigent and neglected families to be found on Clark Street, Sher- man Avenue, and in the wretched tenements of that vicinity. Since the opening of the mission a large number of nurses have been employed, from half a dozen during the summer months to more than thirty at times during a portion of last winter. The work of a missionary nurse is evangelical as well as medical. Since the opening of the mission, now fifteen months, more than 4,500 persons have been cared for by missionary nurses. Free Obstetric Service. Since October 8, 1893, a free obstetric service under the charge of a com- petent physician with a corps of trained nurses has been conducted in connection with the mission, through which 125 lying-in women have been cared for. This service is conducted in a manner different from the work of the ordinary visiting or missionary nurse, the nurse remaining with the patient as long as may be required by the necessities of either mother or child. Doctors, physicians, and nurses, are in constant readiness to answer calls to any part of the city. CHICAGO MEDICAL MISSION 223 The Dispensary. Since the formal opening of the mission a free dispensary service has been main- tained. The poor of all classes are received daily at 40 Custom House Place, where medicines are dispensed, wounds are dressed, and any other treat- ment required administered. The treatment given includes massage, electricity, and baths of every sort required, as well as medical prescriptions. The whole number of patients prescribed for and treated at the dispensary during the first year was 4,169. This number has since been increased to nearly 6,000. The number of treatments administered the first year, including dressings supplied, but not in- cluding ordinary baths, was 16,852, which has since been increased (fifteen months since opening) to over 20,000. The afternoons ot Monday, Wednesday and Friday are reserved for women exclusively. A lady physician is in regular attendance on those days. A gentleman physician is in attendance at the dispensary daily in the forenoon. Trained nurses are at the dispensary every day of the week for at- tendance upon emergency cases. Free Baths. Provision for free baths was made at the opening of the mission. Both shower and full baths are given, as well as such special baths as may be prescribed by the attending physicians. From the outset the baths have been very liberally patronized; the daily number of baths administered averaging more than sixty, sometimes reaching double that number. The total number of baths given in the fifteen months since the opening is a little more than 23,000. 224 CHICAGO MEDICAL MISSION Free Laundry. A feature of the mission, which is perhaps unique, is a free laundry, which is car- ried on in connection with the free baths. A large number of patrons of the mission are men who have no regular home, no facilities for washing their clothing, and no money with which to pay for laun- drying. The free laundry has been very liberally patronized from the beginning. It is fitted up with eight laundry tubs and a hot air dryer, and accom- modates seventy-five to eighty persons daily. The whole number of persons who have used the laun- dry from the opening to the present time is some- thing more than 17,000, or more than a thousand a month. The number of persons using the laundry would be very much greater if the facilities were more extensive, as it is constantly in use from early morning till late at night, and it is not an unusual thing for persons to come as early as 6 o'clock in the morning, to be sure of getting an opportunity to wash their clothing. Penny Dinners. Early last fall (in 1893) the hungry faces of those visiting the different depart- ments of the mission suggested the necessity of re- lieving, to some extent, the famishing multitudes left stranded in the city by the financial panic. The plan of giving penny dinners was instituted. The dinner consisted of a large bowlful of nourishing and palatable soup with zwieback or granola (a health food supplied gratuitously for the purpose by the Sanitarium Health Food Co., Battle Creek, Mich.). Books of 100 tickets each were issued and liberally CHICAGO MEDICAL MISSION 225 purchased by business men and others. The number of penny dinners given daily increased rapidly from one or two hundred to fifteen hundred. When the public soup kitchens were opened a few weeks later the sale of books of tickets was stopped and the dinners distributed, as far as possible, to those un- able to work. From this time on during the winter until May i, 1894, when the dinners were discontin- ued for the summer, the number averaged from three to five hundred daily. Financial Support. The financial foundation of the Chicago Medical Mission was laid by Henry S. P. and Francis Henry Wessels, of South Africa, friends of the enterprise, who contributed $40,000 for the purchase of a building to be used as a Sanitarium conducted in connection with the Battle Creek San- itarium, all the profits of the institution to be de- voted to maintaining the medical mission in Chica- go. The branch Sanitarium has been very prosper- ous from its opening, but the work of the mission has developed so rapidly that the necessary expend- itures have been several thousand dollars beyond the earnings of the Sanitarium, so that a debt of sev- eral thousand dollars has accumulated. The deficit has been partially made up by friends of the work, and it is hoped that the balance may be met in the same way. Thus far, no charge has been made for any service rendered by the mission It is contem- plated, however, to make a small charge hereafter for medicines and for soap, two items which amount to several hundred dollars a year, the charge made not to exceed five cents. Inquiries concerning the work should be addressed to J. H. Kellogg, M. D., Superintendent, 28 College Place, Chicago, or Bat- tle Creek, Michigan. "LIGHT AND HOPE" HOSPITAL. S. W. Cor. Harrison and MaySts. Telephone W-938. Deaconess' Home. Free Dispensary. The Refuge Home. Objects: "To train ladies for nurses and mis- sionary work. To take care of sick people. To care for erring women during confinement. To open a Home where orphans and neglected children shall be taken care of. To establish a place of recreation for the Deaconesses, where they may spend their vacation. To send Deaconesses to such families as are not able to pay for a nurse, and to take care of their sick without pay. To give special training to the Deaconesses for confinement cases, and for sickness of women and children." In furtherance of these purposes the society, which is incorporated as the Missionary Society "Light and Hope," has established in Berne, In- diana, April i, 1893, an Orphans' Home for girls, accommodating 100 inmates; at Bluffton, Ohio, a Home for Incurables, and Branch Hospitals at Cleve- land, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich. In Chicago it has purchased and fitted up the church on the corner of May and Harrison Streets for the purpose of conducting its Hospital, Deacon- ess' Home Training School, Refuge for fallen and other women, and Free Dispensary. The average number of patients in the Hospital is forty, of deaconesses, thirty. 226 228 CHURCH CHARITIES In Chicago the work among fallen women and nursing by the Deaconesses among destitute fam- ilies are prominent features, especially the receiv- ing into its hospital and Home erring women pre- vious to and during confinement, in the hope of restoring them to their friends and a life of virtue. Very encouraging results are reported for this line of work. The number of this class cared for since Jan. i, is 175; number of children born in Home, 60. The founder, general and financial manager and president, is an ordained Mennonite minister, but the work is conducted along unsectarian though dis- tinctively evangelical lines. Expended for institution at Chicago: For household expenditures $ 7, 075. 57 For household furniture 3,455.64 For remodeling buildings 4,632.75 For purchasing lots and buildings 15,500.00 Expended for the Orphans' Home 4,355.10 For Deaconess Home at Berne, Ind. , with household furniture 7,000. oo Total $42,019.06 Received during the first two years: Donations from people outside of Chicago. $ 1,387.70 For nursing and hospital fees 1,502.24 From World's Fair guests 1,487.24 Donations by friends in Chicago 201.00 By Rev. J. A. Sprunger 27,000.00 Total $30,578.18 Installments due on property in Chicago $10,000.00 Deficit 440. 88 REV. J. A. SPRUNGER, President. Miss M. GERBER, Vice-President. FRED ROHRER, Secretary. Miss K. MOSER, Assistant Secretary. SWEDISH HOME OF MERCY. Bowmanville P. O., Chicago. Object: "To be a home for those who love a home but have none, and are without friends or money, in times of sickness and old age. " The number of patients cared for last year was 212. The Home has accommodations for 49 persons. Most of the inmates have received free hospitality and medical care, but when able to pay a charge of $3.00 a week and upwards is made. Last year's receipts were $6,819; disbursements, $7,846. The property is owned, but there are no endowments. The religious affiliations are with the Swedish Evan- gelical Mission Covenant of America. The support is from collections and donations of churches and friends. H. PALMBLAD, President. C. A. OMAN, Secretary. S. YOUNGQUIST, Treasurer. EMERGENCY HOSPITAL. 192 E. Superior St. Object:. "That the suffering and the sick may be cared for and relieved in a becoming and Christian manner, without distinction of creed, country or color." During 1891, 294 patients were nursed and cared for in the Hospital, which is a large, airy, well- furnished building. The religious affiliations are with the Evangelical Lutheran church. The sup- port is from voluntary contributions and from such patients as are able to pay for the services received. REV. W. A. PAPAVANT, Director. HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL. Near Cor. 28th and Cottage Grove Ave. This is the oldest Homeopathic Hospital and Col- lege in Chicago. It was recently rebuilt and equip- ped with modern conveniences. It admits both pay and charity patients. No report is furnished. 229 COOK COUNTY CHARITIES. County Agents' Office. 129 S. Clinton Street. Object: "To relieve, with provisions, fuel and clothing and transportation, the destitute of Cook County. " The general monthly allowance of outdoor relief for one family is a 25-pound sack of flour, 5 pounds of corn beef, 5 pounds of beans, 3 of rice, 5 of oat- meal, Y-Z of coffee, and tea, i bar of soap, and in the winter a half-ton of soft coal. The allowance is pro- portioned to the number of persons in the family and the measure of disability, large families receiving twice this ration. Shoes are also given to school- children. Besides giving this relief the County Agent furnishes medical care, orders for burials and for admittance to the Poor-House and the Hospital. PROVISIONS, ETC., GIVEN OUT BY COUNTY AGENT. 1893. 1894 to Sept. i. Pounds of flour 1,010, 100 827.125 meat 144^92 I 37>33 2 oatmeal 12,090 254,301 beans I43>59i 117,640 rice 125,172 100,249 peas 56,H3 J5>95 coffee l8 ,379 10,376 tea J 5>993 9,012 Bars of soap 40,877 32,813 Pairs of shoes 2, 128 2,307 Suits of clothing 79 i Tons of coal 1 1,520 8,884 Value of relief $97,794 $73, 582 Average number of families aided monthly 2,669 3,248 No. aided in January 3>74 6,595 No. aided in December.. 8,649 Cases given transportation 150 195 C. J. HAPPEL, Agent. 230 "a ~ M "^ H S.2 SS 1 W3O t^O <^OO 5 . -t-va oo * W . "^? *> ! ll^lt 8 1"i ttllll _ 5, S R q a W o P ^ * o ??"!! s o * - IN.(N. HI ^- "^ Sg O^vo^vo c? 2 6 N O || * % S'oo'oo' C DO" Q, do ix r-s.o d, If M 1 00 *> 9 o !? 1 && S 5 R * H^s 0" * * H -. t- 1 .^ N CTlfO ro fx N -< " O * r?vo"vO >o'{x 3 a 1 COCO 0^ O 3 Ictlffv? R o o e a O O O Ol o >^ l^ll H o H *Sj ^-CO O * J2 5 1 S 2 O '=-> o ^ J^vS N 30 "T >1 O 00 N D30 ^D -* M o **" D O .5 w C H 7. ",* S "S C O . o ^o ov o r^ rx * S! S'C J a a. S*|J | M * b. O E 9 O3 O rxr^ 2 jj, | > 2 S o O - -"e 1 3 i vg'vo JO ?? "g wSvS 1 :?^ 1 H - 3 '3 M a O N ln?>8 5 1 n 3O co v7> co " M ^ S a fH *s**! H ,; ^- O rn ** O O N q vo q q i - S* mvo w W M O 30 co rxvo tj ^ ^ * rC tC ri a ?l?^ = Hi ii vX "d -4-33 O\ + O *n d D o .i,t r>r,r,r Rolief PnimtvA 232 COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL Cook County Hospital. Cor. Wood and Harrison Streets. Established 1865 Erected 1875. Object: "To render medical and surgical attend- ance to the poor of Cook County. " The Morgue, to receive any unidentified dead, is in the basement. A Contagious Diseases Ward is a part of the Hos- pital. ADMISSIONS AND EXPENDITURES OF HOSPITAL. 1891 1892 1893 1894 ist 6 months. Admitted .... ... 9,241 8,499 10,834 5,763 9,105 8,593 5 389 8,035 7,723 Births 398 Deaths 1,256 819 620 763 798 8150,764 $129,056.17 $158,070.02 $78,685.92 62,483 68,'92.86 75,163.27 46,909 23 Total expenditure Average number $213.248 661 5i97,349-03 59 1 $233.233-29 125,595-I5 Per Cap. cost per diem. . . 7&A 7H The property is valued at $1,700,000, covers 13 acres, is owned and controlled by the Cook County Board of Commissioners. WM. F. MONROE, Warden. M. R. MANDELBAUM, Steward. HOSPITAL COMMITTEE. O. D. ALLEN, CHAS. BURMEISTER, J. N. CUNNING, J. M. GREEN, GEORGE EDMANSON. \ Detention Hospital. Criminal Court Building, Dearborn Ave. and Ohio St. Object: To hold in temporary custody persons suspected of insanity and juvenile delinquents and dependents preliminary to their trial by court. 234 COOK COUNTY CHARITIES Cook County Insane Asylum. Chicago (Dunning P. O.), C., M. & St. P. R. R. Object: "To care for the insane of Cook County not cared for elsewhere. " The average number of inmates during last year was 1,038, 550 males and 472 females. The build- ings are estimated at the sum of $715,801. The property and control is vested in the Board of Cook County Commissioners. The support is from taxation. The number of employees average about 160 90 males and 70 females. The chronic insane are re- tained in this asylum; those for whom there is more hope for ultimate recovery are transferred to the Kankakee or other State hospitals for the insane. 1892, Inmates Disc'gd Recov- ered Impro- ved. Unim- proved. Died Trans- ferred* Re- tn'ingt Total No cared i or Males.. 26 15 54 M 29 17 85 60 77 53 53 43 II 4 II 5 8 7 39 43 54 45 49 29 165 65 4 103 6 3 333 445 660 632 Females 1893 Males 778 I2Q2 464 4i8 664 637 1894 to July 3ist. Males 88 1 1301 556 472 703 57' Females I028J 1274 The Insane Asylum and Poor-House were, at the beginning of the year 1892, placed under one man- agement. Supplies for the two Institutions, 1892 $210,092.30 Salaries " " 1892 80,692,90 $290,785.20 Supplies " " 1893 $266,397.30 Salaries 1893 86,073.86 $352,471.24 Of the number of inmates received at the Detention Hospital, 2,197 were sent to Dunning, 422 to Kan- kakee, 422 to Elgin. Various disposition was made of the remainder, some being sent to the Poor-House, some returned to friends, some to Washingtonian Home and some non-residents to the places whence they came. "Transferred to State Institutions. tjanuary i. tAugust i. COOK COUNTY CHARITIES Cook County Poor-House. Chicago (Dunning P. O.), C, M. & St. P. R.R. Object: "To care for the very poor of Cook County who cannot be accommodated in other institutions. " The average number of inmates is about. 1,300 both males and females about equally divided. Em- ployees, 75. The farm, comprising 246 acres, on which the buildings are located, is cultivated by the inmates; the value of the produce in 1891 was $9,469. The value of buildings is estimated at $250,000. The property and control is vested in the Board of Com- missioners of Cook County; the support is from tax- ation. The Infirmary is not arranged on the cottage plan. There are no industries conducted in it. The wards for males are in one wing and for females in another; aged couples are therefore necessarily separated. 1892-lNMATES. Hen. Women. 1181 125 369 1,274 131 39" 804 61 349 Children 3i8 35 82 M 54 192 17 69 ImbVll's 40 Total 5424 548 1628 7266 607 1907 4251 346 1256 Number cared for 1892 3885 388 "37 5634 433 M44 3190 268 823 Births, 108; Deaths Remaining January i, 1893 40 41 1893 Number cared for 1893 Births, 82; Deaths Remaining January i, 1894 12 15 1894 to July 31. Number cared for 1894 Births, 41; Deaths Remaining 15 Tramps accommodated 1892 2128 1893 52C6 1894- 55l8 to July 3ist. Cost per capita per diem, 1892, 44 1-2 cents. STATE CHARITIES. Illinois State Board of Public Charities. Springfield, 111. Object: The aim of this Board is to exercise gen- eral supervision over the Charitable Institutions of the State. The Board was appointed by Gov. John P. Altgeld. Much of the information concerning the State In- stitutions contained in this book is furnished by the courtesy of its Secretary. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. BOERNE BETTMAN, M. D., Chicago. GEORGE W. CURTISS, Stockton. JULIA C. LATHROP, Rockford. D. W. ANDREWS, Centralia. JAMES McNABB, Carrollton. GEORGE F. MINER, Secretary. STATE GUARDIANS FOR GIRLS. Office, Room 818, Chicago Opera House Block. The Home for Juvenile Female Offenders. Located at Geneva, Kane County, 111. This Home. was opened Jan. i, 1893, in a rented building at 3111 Indiana Ave., Chicago, but May 19, 1894, a permanent site was bought upon which buildings are being erected, at Geneva, 111. The object is to provide for the maintenance, dis- cipline and reformation of such girls as may be com- mitted to it, the law being that whenever any girl between the ages of ten and sixteen is convicted be- fore any court of record, or before any Justice of the Peace or Police Magistrate, of any offense 238 ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 239 or misdemeanor which, if committed by an adult, would be punishable by confinement in any house of correction, or county jail, such juvenile offender may be committed by the order of such court to the State Home for Juvenile Female Offenders, for a time not less than one year nor beyond their minority. NUMBER OF INMATES. Number of girls received during first 6 months of 1894 17 Number dismissed during first 6 months of 1894. 5 Number in the Home June 30, 1894 I2 CHARGE OF COMMITMENT. Vagrancy 6 Disorderly conduct 3 Petty larceny I Inmate of house of ill-fame 3 Open lewdness 2 Common night walked .1 2 The average age was 14, average length of com- mitment 2 years. There were 15 Americans and 2 Germans. The State appropriations were $75,000 for build- ing and grounds and $32,000 per annum for current expenses, of which $10,033.04 were expended for furnishing and maintenance June 30, 1894. TRUSTEES. MRS. J. D. HARVEY, President. MRS. G. M. HOLT, Secretary. W. J. ACKERMAN, Treasurer. MRS. M. R. M. WALLACE, MRS. C. M. HENROTIN, F. M. ANNIS, WM. PRENTISS, M. J. CARROLL. 240 ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES Illinois Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children. Lincoln, Logan County. Established 1865. Object : "To promote the intellectual, moral, and physical culture of feeble-minded children, and to fit them as far as possible for earning their own livelihood and for future usefulness in society. " In 1865 the General Assembly authorized the trus- tees of the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, at Jacksonville, to open an experimental school for idiots and feeble-minded children in a rented house. Ten years later, in 1875, this school was made permanent, and a site purchased at Lin- coln, upon which buildings were erected, to which large additions have since been made, including a custodial department. Cost, $250,000. The capacity is greatly overtaxed, 700 having been refused admission. Average number of inmates, 546; expenses, $91,073.95, for 1894. DR. A. M. MILLER, Superintendent. Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. Normal, McLean County. Established 1869. Object: "To provide a home for the nurture and intellectual, moral and physical culture of all indi- gent children below the age of fourteen years, whose fathers served in the armies of the Union during the late rebellion, and have died or been disabled by reason of wounds or disease received therein, or have since died. " Average number of inmates, 373; expenses for 1894, $50,220.97. CAPT. C. E. BASSETT, Superintendent. ILLINOIS ASYLUM FOR FEEBLE MINDED CHILDREN. ILLINOIS SOLDIER'S AND SAILOR'S ORPHANS' HOME. 241 242 ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind. Jacksonville, Morgan County. Object: "To promote the intellectual, moral, and physical culture of the blind, and to fit them, as far as possible, for earning their own livelihood, and for future usefulness in society. " This Institution, chartered January 13, 1849, was opened (in a rented house) in April of that year. The site, which contains about twenty acres, is in the corporate limits of Jacksonville. The original buildings were destroyed by fire in 1869. In addi- tion to the main structure, there are a separate cot- tage for girls, workshops, etc. The cost for land and buildings was about $250,000. Instruction is given in English, in music, and in mechanical trades. It is free to all residents of the State of Illinois, of school age, and the adult blind, who have lost their sight later in life, are admitted to the shops to acquire trades by which to support themselves without eyes. Annual appropriations are made for its maintenance by the General Assembly. Average number of inmates, 167; expenses for 1894, $70,010.52. DR. W. F. SHORT, Superintendent. ILLINOIS INSTITUTION FOR THK BLIND. ILLINOIS INSTITUTION FOR THK DEAF AND DUMB. 243 244 ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. Jacksonville, Morgan County. Established 1838. Cost, $500,000. Object: "To promote the intellectual, moral and physical culture of the deaf, and to fit them, as far as possible, for earning their own livelihood, and for future usefulness in society." This is the largest institution for the deaf in the world, having a capacity to care properly for 500 pupils. Instruction is given in the ordinary and the higher branches of an English education; also, in mechanical trades and free-hand drawing. The corps of teachers has been selected with care. The younger pupils are separated from the older. The facilities for training are exceptionally good, includ- ing a large library, a hospital, a gymnasium, etc. Much attention is paid to training in articulation. The discipline is mild, but firm. The institution has grown to its present size from a small begin- ning. It is the oldest of the State institutions, be- ing chartered February 3, 1839, but was not opened until 1845, nor was the original building (the present south wing) completed until 1849, and the north wing was not completed until 1857. The institution now includes a large group of buildings, disconnected from each other. Average number of inmates, 351; expenses for 1894, $124,098.75. DR. S. T. WALKER, Superintendent. ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 245 Illinois Eastern Asylum for the Insane. Kankakee, Kankakee County. Established 1877. It has 24 Cottages. Cost, $1,500,000. Its erection marks an epoch in the history of the care of the insane in the United States, since it was the first successful attempt to break the power of the Kirkbride "propositions" adopted by the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, in accordance with which all previous State institutions for this class of patients had been planned. The establishment, which has grown to a total capacity of 2,000 patients, and is one of the largest in the world, is in effect a village for the in- sane of both sexes, with a main building on the Kirk- bride system, which accommodates 300 patients, 150 of each sex, but is supplemented by a group of 24 detached wards fronting on streets regularly laid out, with sidewalks, sewers, gas and water-mains, shade trees, etc. These detached wards are unlike, both in their exterior and interior designs, and are adapted to the wants of special classes of patients. A por- tion of them have unlocked doors, and are without guards upon the windows. All of them have large, wide piazzas for summer use by the inmates. Two of them are hospitals or infirmaries, one for each sex; that for women has a resident lady physician. There are large general bath-houses, with Turkish and plunge baths; one general dining-room, which seats 410 male patients; special buildings for lodg- ing employees, one for each sex; workshops for pa- tients, a theater, etc. The farm and grounds include 843 acres, which 246 ILLINOIS HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, KANKAKF.F. One of its 24 Cottages. ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 247 are the property of the State of Illinois. The grounds are beautifully laid out and planted with ornamental trees and shrubbery. The site is on the left bank of the Kankakee River,adjoining the town of Kankakee, but just outside the city limits. This, as the other State institutions, is supported by annual appropriations by the State Legislature. No charges are made for board or medical care. Any resident of the State is admitted when needing its benefits, and when adjudged insane by a County Court. District: This Asylum is set apart for the recep- tion of patients from Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, La Salle, Livingston, Moultrie, Platt, Vermillion, and Will Counties, and a portion of the insane of Cook County. Average number of inmates, 201 8; expenses for 1894, $3 6 3> 6 99- 6 3 DR. CLARKE GAPEN, Superintendent. Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane. Anna, Union County. Established 1873. Cost, about $750,000. It has a capacity of 1,000 inmates. The main building is on the Kirkbride plan, but its north wing was destroyed by fire in 1881, and the temporary wooden barracks then erected are still occupied. An annex detached from the hospital was erected in 1891 and accommodates 300 patients. The grounds are rolling and covered with timber. Average number of inmates, 847. Expenses for 1894, $136,398.83. DR. W. C. LENCE, Supt. ILLINOIS CENTRAL HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANF. 248 ILLINOIS SOUTHERN HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 249 Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane. Jacksonville, Morgan County. This is the first hospital for the insane erected in the State, and owes its creation largely to the philan- thropic efforts of Miss Dorothea L. Dix, whose por- trait hangs in the reception room. The original charter was approved March i, 1847. The first pa- tient was admitted November 3, 1851. The plans adopted (to accommodate 450 patients) were not completed until 1867, so that the hospital was twenty years in building. Additions have since been made by extending the wings and by the erection of two annexes, connected with each other by a large amuse- ment hall and chapel, which have increased the ca- pacity of the institution to 1,200 patients. These annexes are separated from the main building, which fronts north, while they front east. Each of them is in charge of an assistant physician. The hospital grounds proper are inside the city limits and con- tain 160 acres. The outbuildings are very complete. District: This hospital is set apart for the recep- tion of patients from the counties of Adams, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, DeWitt, Fulton, Greene, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jersey, Knox, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Marshall, Mason, McDonough, McLean, Menard, Mercer, Morgan, Peoria, Pike, Rock Island, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Stark, Tazewell, Warren, and Woodford. Average number of inmates, 1,198; expenses for 1894, $178,630.75. DR. J. F. MCKENZIE, Superintendent. 250 ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane. Elgin, Kane County. Established 1869. Cost, $700,000. The main structure, which was first erected, was fully completed in 1874. It is on the Kirkbride or corridor plan, with wings in separate sections reced- ing in echelon on each side from the center building. The first patient was received April 3, 1872. A new building, known as the Annex, to accommodate 300 patients, was erected in 1891 at a cost of $120,- ooo. There are also several small cottages for in- mates on the estate. The out-buildings are numer- ous and extensive, and the ornamental lawn between the hospital and the river is a fine example of suc- cessful landscape gardening. District: This hospital is set apart for the recep- tion of patients from the counties of Boone, Carroll, De Kalb, Du Page, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kendall, Lake, Lee, McHenry, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside, Win- nebago, and a portion of the insane of Cook County. Average number of inmates, 1,095; expenses for 1894, $203,207.51. DR. LOEWY, Superintendent. Marine Hospital (U. S.) N. Halsted St., near Lake Shore Drive. Object: "The relief of sick and disabled seamen." During 1891 there were 3,431 patients treated. The Hospital is supported by the United States gov- ernment, and occupies spacious buildings, erected in 1873, and eleven acres of ground, the property of the government. It is under the treasury depart- ment, U. S. Marine Hospital service, port of Chi- cago. The service is performed by two internes, one assistant surgeon, one passed- assistant surgeon, and Gen. John B. Hamilton, Surgeon and Com- mandant. IT.I.INOTS NORTHERN HOSPITAL FOR THF 1NSANF. MAPTNE HOSPTTAT,, U. S. 252 ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals. Chester, Randolph County. Established 1889. Cost, $45,000. Object: "The proper care, custody, and treatment of insane criminals, namely, (i) convict insane, (2) discharged convict insane, (3) insane sent to the State insane hospitals under mittimus, (4) persons acquitted on trial for murder, attempt at murder, rape, attempt at rape, highway robbery, or arson, on ground of insanity. Patients under treatment in insane hospitals who have been guilty, previous to admission, of homicide, highway robbery, rape, or an attempt to commit rape or arson, and whose pres- ence is dangerous to others; likewise, all insane per- sons who have committed an act of homicide or who have attempted to commit such act, rape or an at- tempt to commit rape, arson or an attempt to com- mit arson, while under treatment in either of said hospitals, may be transferred to this institution by the State Commissioners of Public Charities at their discretion. " It is located on the grounds of the Illinois Southern Penitentiary at Chester, and under the control of the Penitentiary Commissioners but not of the warden. A building, which cost $45,000, has been erected on the bluff, commanding a fine view of the Mis- sissippi River. Average number of inmates, 112; ex- penses for 1894, $40,605.73. DR. V. S. BENSON, Superintendent. ILLINOIS STATE CHARITIES 253 Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. Chicago, Cor. Peoria and Adams Sts. Object: "To provide gratuitous board and med- ical and surgical treatment for all indigent residents of Illinois, who are afflicted with diseases of the eye or ear. " In May, 1858, an association was organized in Chicago which established an eye and ear dispen- sary on North Clark Street. In July, 1864, by pri- vate subscription, an infirmary was added at Nos. 16 and 18 East Pearson Street. In 1865 a charter was obtained from the legislature, and in 1867-69 small appropriations were made in aid of this purely private institution. After the adoption of the new constitution of 1870, the legislature accepted the establishment and converted it into a State institu- tion. It was destroyed in the great Chicago fire, Oct. 9, 1871, and for a time occupied a rented build- ing. But the Chicago Relief and Aid Society made it a grant in 1872 of funds with which to purchase a new site at the corner of Peoria and Adams Streets, and the General Assembly, in 1873, made an appro- priation for the present building, which has been supplemented by other appropriations since made for enlargement. Board and lodging are furnished at the expense of the State, but only to such persons as bring legal certificates of indigence. The medical and surgical treatment are rendered gratuitously by a staff of specialists. A free dispensary is attached. The land and buildings have cost about $80,000. Average number of inmates, 112; expenses for 1894, $38,698.31. DR. J. B. FOLEY, Superintendent. > 3 a O 0) Hg m Invo 1 !QSi^iQ?>o!o;m?? 1 o> oo *H O CO w 1 1 H rn CO M M J D 1 J LE] al O o If OO upoO o"o - IT o c5 -* o'l^c " ^r n? n N t< ^ IN OO tN Q -i- ro u~> -4- VO m N O M N M, M llfftfillil Per Capita Cost of Maintenance S'gg^SS-S.&kSg O N 00 tN - O iri w O N j Expenses for Maintenance. 2 m K SN ^ 5. & o" Si Si p F. fe M c; M |Mfei'? < iii t- CO *OvO tx O\ I-H oo~OO CT Average Number. o 3 2"o? u !? VO t IN 00 Appropriations for special Improvements. -* 1 oo ts do T*- >-H en o tx N M 3 5 00 !&;!?SS&8,!vSS > 0>NOOOO 10 - - Total No. under Treatment H$H *SSf * J Appropriations for Maintenance *t Remaining June 30, 1894. !IP= o SS 1 ^ Receipts from all sources. S O tO 4-30 4-30 N in Ol u-i H oo n I-N. -< C\OO u": Tf- "tt- Ix $1,697,292.70 1 c j M) S d 1 S * * 5 N N M M ^gl W f ? R 5*** T3 Hi *? 1 m V S * gONOl M W OO OO 'SNOIXnXIXSNI ck-rrTT n TIT dMT I tf f O MHI. >m sni.T.SI.T.V-LC i-" m - CO SO O w~l n N OO O* N in M 00 MOVEMENT OF POPULAT ii s Northern Hospital for Insane Elgin Eastern Hospital for Insane Kankakee Central Hospital for Insane Jacksonville. . . Southern Hospital for Insane Anna Hospital for Insane Criminals Chester Institution for Deaf and Dumb Jacksonvill Institution for the Blind Jacksonville Asylum for Feeble Minded Children -Lincol Soldiers' Orphans' Home Normal. Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary Chicago. Soldiers' and Sailors' Home Quincy INSTITUTIONS. Northern Insane Hospital Elgin Eastern Insane Hospital Kankakee Central Insane Hospital Jacksonville Southern Insane Hospital Anna Asylum for Insane Criminals Chester Institution for the Blind Jacksonville Asylum for Feeble Minded Children Lincol Soldiers' Orphans' Home Normal Eye and Ear Infirmary Chicago Soldiers' and Sailors' Home Quincy r. at Hi x + sis.* 3 S 2 S CO CO 1-1 - S S 5 CO* P* CC U CD S w Orle n Fran INDEX. Aged Homes for List 4 Chicago Flower Mission 28 Aged Germans, Homes for 147 Chicago Foundlings' Home 33 Aged Persons, Church Home for. 189 Chicago Free Kindergarten Ass'n 85 Aid Children's Aid 51 Chicago Froebel Kindergarten Aid Relief and Aid Society 42 Association 86 Agriculture and Manual Training, Chicago Home for the Friendless. . 24 Illinois School of 67 Chicago Hospital for Women and Alexian Brothers' Hospital 173 Children 29 All Souls Church Manual Training Chicago Indust. School for Girls.. 173 School 210 Chicago Mechanic's Institute 38 Altenheim(Home for Aged German)147 Chicago Medical Mission 220 American Educational Aid Ass'n.. 49 Chicago Nursery and Half Orphan Anchorage Mission for Women, W. Asylum 39 C. T. U 139 Chicago Orphan Asylum 35 Anna Hospital for the Insane 247 Chicago Relief and Aid Society 42 Armour Mission Dispensary 105 Children's Aid Society 51 Armour Mission Industrial School. 105 Children's Asylum for Feeble Armour Mission Institute for Man- Minded 240 ual Training 105 Children's Home Society 49 Asylum List 4 Children's Hospital M. Porter Asylum, Insane, Cook County. .... .234 Memorial 92 Asylum for Feeble Minded Chil- Children's Hospital W. and C 29 dren 240 Church Charities 162 Aurora Home 51 Church Home for Aged Persons. ..189 Baptist Hospital 172 Church Home for Orphans 191 BethesdaDay Nursery W.C.T.U. 138 Church of the Messiah Kitchen- Bethesda Free Kindergarten W. garten 207 , C - T' U ^ Church of the Redeemer Sewing Bethesda Home German 166 School 206 Blind 111. Institution for the Educa- citizens' League of 'c. for the Sup- tionof the 242 pression of the sale of liquorto Bureau of Justice.... 15 Minors and Drunkards 56 Bureau for Registration for Nurses 82 civic Federation 116 Burr Mission Home for Friendless 24 aara Barton Training' School" for Catholic Chanties 173 Nurses, W. C. T. U 140 Carriage Rides 28 clinics 29 Central Labor ;md Relief Bureau. .116 Conference of Charities' and Cor- Central Free Dispensary 18 rection 13 Central Hospital for Insane 249 /- fr u ?i CenSllfef C AsStTon' ' "lie Ced^urses' draining School: "iffi CharifvHosrital 21 Cooking Classes, Unity Church... 208 SnS'Su'm 1 for insane'c'rim-* Cook C^H^pita,^.. ^ ... .232 ChicTgt Deaconess'' Home" '. '. ! '. [iW gok County I^mary 236 Chicago Erring Woman's Refuge Cook County Ins^Asy.um . ..... JJ4 ChiS^Sange- for' Woman's ' gg^Jgjgg^^ Chicago Eye and Ear infirmary ' .' .' W C ' and Corrections 13 256 INDEX Contagious Disease Ward Cook Froebel Kindergarten Ass'n 8ft County Hospital 232 Guardian Angel Orphan Asylum... 174 C cnvalescents'Home 188 Gambling. Anti-, Association 137 Convalescents'Honie.Presbyterian 203 G. A. R. Chicago Posts 155 C. O. S. Branch Offices 45 G A. R. Ladies 158 County Agent's Ottice 231 German Bethesda Deaconess' County Hospital 232 Society 165 County Insane Asylum 234 German Hospital of Chicago 150' Country Week 107 German Nurses'Training School... 16ft Creche, Hull House 65 German Old People'sHome 147 Creche Margaret Etter 94 German Relief Society 143 Creche, St. James Church 187 German Society of Chicago 143 Creche, Unity 208 Glenwopd School of Ag. and M. Creche, University 51 Training 67 Creche List (Day Nurseries) 4 Girls Industrial School, Chicago. 173 Cruelty, Prevention of 78 Good Shepherd, House of the. 174 Cushing Free Kindergarten 51 Grand Army of the Republic 155 Crippled Children's Home 112 Guardian Angel Orphan Asylum. .174 Danish Lutheran Children's Homel96 Guardians, State 238 Danish Relief Society 150 Hahnemann Hospital 229 Deaconess' Home.M. E 197 Half Orphan Asylum 39 Deaconess' Orphanage, M. E 198 H aisled Street Mission 199 Deaconess' Society, German 166 Hebrew Charities 213 Deaf&Dumb, 111 School for the. 244 Herford Kindergarten 207 Diet Kitchen, Hull House 65 Holland Relief Society 151 Diet School 184 Holy Family Orphan Asylum 175 Dispensaries- -List 60 Home for Working Girls 177 Ear and Eye Infirmary, 111. Char- Home for Incurables 32 itable 253 Home for Working Boys 175 Elgin Insane Asylum 250 Home for Convalescents 188 Emergency Hospital 229 Home for Crippled Children 112 Employment Bureau, Home for Home for the Friendless 24 Self-Supporting Women 62 Home for Self-Supporting Women. 62 Employment Bureau, United He- Homeopathic (Baptist) Hosp 172 brew Charities 212 Homes for the Children List 4 Employment Bureau List 4 Homes for the Aged List 4 Endowed Charities 44 Homes for Women List 4 English Relief Society 153 Hospitals List 4 Englewood Nursery 52 Hull House ,.... 65 Episcopal Charities 184 Humane Society, 111 78 Epworth House 201 House of the Good Shepherd 174 Erring Woman's Refuge 19 House of Mercy 177 Evanston Indust. School for Girls. .73 Incurables, Home for 32 Exchange for Woman's Work 22 Indust. School for Girls, Chicago. 173 Eye and Ear Infirmary, 111. Char- Industrial School for Girls. Ill 73 itable 253 Industrial Schools List of Homes Feeble Minded Children, 111. Asy- for Children 4 lum 240 Inebriates' Home (Washingtonian)129 Feehanville Training School for Infectious Disease Ward Cook Co. Boys (St. Mary's) 180 Hospital 23* Florence Crittendcn Anchorage for Infirmary.Cook County 236 Girls 139 Infirmary, Eye and Ear 255 Flower Mission 28 Insane Asylum, Cook Co 234 Foundlings' Home 33 Insane Asylum List 5- FreeBaths 100 Insane Criminals. 111. Asylum 248 Free Dispensary Central 18 Institute.Mechanics', Chicago 38 Free Kindergarten Association 85 Institute of Manual Training 105- Fresh Air Ass'n, Lake Geneva 91 Institute, Armour's 105. Fresh Air Fund 10~ III. Asylum for Feeble Minded Fresh Air Work List 4 Children 24O Friendless Home for the 24 111. Asylum for Insane Criminals. .252 friendly Aid Society 61 111. Cent. Hospital for Insane 249 257 258 INDEX 111.. Charitable Eye and Ear In- Mechanics' Institute, Chicago 38 firmary 263 Mercy Hospital 176 111. Conference of Charities and Methodist Charities ; 197 Corrections 13 Methodist Episc. Deaconess' Homel97 111. Eastern Insane Asylum, Kan- Michael Reese Hospital of United kakee.. . . 245 Hebrew Charities ...212 Illinois Humane Society 78 Minnetonka Hotel, Working Wom- Illinois Industrial Association. .... 83 an s Home Association 124 111. Industrial School foi Girls Morgue, Cook County Hospital.... 232 (Evanston) 73 Needlework Guild 123 III. Institution for the Education of Newsboys' Home 95 the Blind 242 Normal Soldiers' and Sailors' Or- 111. Institution for the Education phan's Home 240 of the Deaf and Dumb .-...244 Northern Hosp. for the Insane 250 III. Masonic Orphan's Home 160 Norwegian Relief Society 151 111. Northern Hospital for Insane.. 250 Northwest Charity Association.. .215 111. School of Agriculture and Man- Nurseries. Day List 4 ual Training 67 Nursery & Half Orphan Asylum... 39 111. Soldiers' and Sailors' Home.. 159 Nurse Association, Visiting 127 111. Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Nurses' Training Schools List.... 4 Home 240 Old People's Home 97 III. Southern Hosp. for Insane... 247 Old People's Home.German 147 111. St. Andrew's Society 152 Orphan Asylum, Chicago 35 111. Training School for Nurses 82 Orphan Asylum, Uhlich's Ev. L. . .193 Jacksonville Hosp. for Insane 249 Orphan Asylum, Guardian Angel.. 174 Jacksonville Institution for the Ed. Orphan Asylum, St. Joseph Prov- of the Deaf and Dumb 244 idence 179 Jacksonville Institution for the Ed. Orphans, Church Home for 192 of the Blind 242 Orphans' Home.Soldiers' and Sail- Jewish Training School ;..216 ors' 240 Justice, .Bureau of 15 Out Door Relief, County 231 Juvenile Female Offenders 238 Police Department Report 255 Kankakee Insane Asylum 245 Placing out Children List 4 Kindergartens. Enumerations of.. 88 Presbyterian Hospital 203 Kindergarten Ass'n List 4 Protective Agency for Women and Kindergarten College 87 Children 98 Kirkland Free Dispensary 167 Protective Agencies List 4 Kitchengarten Ch. of the Messiah 207 Providence Orphan Asylum S Jos. 179 Ki chengarten Halsted St. Mission 199 Provident Hospital and Training Ladies of the G. A. R 158 School 101 Lake Geneva Fresh Air Ass n 94 Provident Laundry, Home for S. S. Laundry Provident Home for S. Women 64 S. Women fifl Public School Kindergartens 90 LightandHope Hospital. 226 Ouincy Soldiers' & Sailors' Home 159 Lincoln Asylum for Feeble Minded Reformatories List 4 Children 240 Red Cross Society Ill Lincoln Park Sanitarium 107 Refuge for En ing Women 19 Little Sisters of the Poor, Homes.. 176 Relief & Aid Society, Chicago 42 Lutheran Charities : ; 194 Relief-Giving Societies List 4 Lutheran Childr'n's Home (Danish)196 Relief Office United Hebrew Lutheran Orphan Asy. (Uhlich's).. 193 Charities 212 Manual Training, Institute for 38 Report of Department of Police 142 Manual Training, School of Agr. & 67 Rush Medical College Dispensary 18 Manual Training School, All Souls210 Sailors' & Soldiers'Home 159 Margaret Etter Creche 94 Sanitarium, Lincoln Park 107 Marine Hospital 250 School Children's Aid. ... 102 Mary A. Ahrens Mission 170 School f Agriculture and Manual Masonic Orphan's Home 161 Training . 67 Martha Washington Home 132 Scotch Relief Society (St.Andrew's)I52 Maternity Department, Presby- Self-Supporting Women's Home.. 62 terian Hospital 203 Social Settlements List 66 Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital Soldiers ... 155 for Children 92 Soldiers' Home (Ass'n)in Chicago. lv>' n r r / r INDEX 259 Soldiers' Relief Association :>29 Tbe Presbyterian Hospital, City Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans' of Chicago 203 .Home 240 Training School, Waifs Mission.. 168 Soldiers' and Sailors' Home.... ..159 Training School for Nurses, 111.... 82 Southern Hosp. for the Insane 247 Training School for Nurses List.. 4 State Charities ?38 Training School, Provident Laun- State Board of Public Charities... 2WJ dry 64 State Institution List 4 Transient Home.Y. W. C. A 163 St. Andrew's Society 152 Traveler's Aid Department, Y. W. St. Elizabeth Hospital 182 C. A. 163 St. George's Benevolent Ass'n 153 Uhlich's Evangelical Lutheran Or- St. JamtsChurch Creche 187 phan Asylum 193 St. Joseph's Home 177 Unitarian Charities 207 St. Joseph's Hospital 175 Universalist Charities 206 St Joseph's Orphan Asylum 178 Unity Church Ind. School 208 St. Joseph's Providence Orphan United Hebrew Charities of Chi- Asylum 179 cago 212 St. Joseph's Home and School for United States Marine Hospital 250 Deaf Mutes 177 University Creche 51 St. Luke's Dispensary 184 Visitation and Aid Society 181 St. Luke's Hospital 184 Visiting Nurse Association 127 St. Mary's Home for Children 186 Waifs' Mission and Training Schooll68 St. Mary's Mission Dispensary 186 Washingtonian Home 129 St. Mary's Mission House Wesley Hospital 200 St. Mary's Training School for Western Society for the Suppres- Boys 180 sioncfVice 134 St. Paul's Church Free Kinder- Woman's Baptist Home Mission garten 206 Society 172 St. Paul's Church Indust. School. .206 Women and Children's Protective St. Vincent Infant Asylum 183 Agency i 98 Suppression of Vice, Western Woman's Christian Temperance Society 134 Union 138 Swedish Home of Mercy 229 Woman's Refuge for Reform 19 Swiss Benevolent Society 154 Woman's Relief Corps of Ills 155 Talcott Day Nursery, W. C.T. U..I39 Women's Work Exchange 22 The Country Week 107 Women's Homes List 4 The Daily News Fresh Air Fund.. 107 Wood Yards C R.andA. C 46 The Lincoln Park Sanitarium 107 Working Women's Home Ass'n 124 The Minnetonka Hotel for Women.124 Young Women's Christian Ass'n. .163 The Newsboys' and Bootblacks' Young Women's Home 141 Association 95 7 \ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA BOOK OF CHARITIES 20 REV ENLCHGO