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Central District:-
"January 13, 1903. Thomas F. Parnan, Marshal, Sir:-
I respectfully report the receipt of a donation of forty dollars ($40}, from Messrs. Samuel V. Bohgert, William Gefcrmann and Billy Madden, for the purchase of coal for the poor of this district.
The above amount is the proceeds of an entertainment held at the Belair Music Hall, #618 Forrest street, on night of January 12, 1903.
Respectfully,
EDWARD SCHLEIC-H, Captain."
It was ordered that the Forty Dollars in the hands of Captain Schleigh, as mentioned above, be returned to the doners with the stateme-.t that, the Department as a rule does not accept anything for distribution to the poor, as such would interfere with the proper duties of the police; and with the suggestion that the object sought to be accomplished by them, ie:-the distribution of coal to the poor, could best be effected through the agency of the Charity Organization in this City. If, however, after such suggestion is made to the doners of the money they should insist that the police dispense their charity, as indicated, the police may receive it for that purpose.
Charity Organization - Visit of Delegation. Distribution to Poor from Sta-Houses.
A delegation composed of Messrs. Jeffrey R. Bracket, Walter S. Upford, John Glenn, Jr., and John R. Carey, representing the Charity Organization Society and the Association for the Improvement of the condition of the Poor, called upon the Board to present to it, they said, the situation as at present existing in Baltimore in respect to the coal scarcity as affecting the poor of the city. The delegation stated that from its experience there are two classes of persons needing assistance in the matter of coal. First, that class who are unable to buy coal because they have not the money with which to buy; secondly, that class of self-respecting poor who are able to pay normal prices and who should be protected against extortionate rates, and for whose benefit associations are forming throughout the City, for the sale of coal at cost prices.
The Delegation further stated that the Charity Organizations
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