Author: Charles Kelley Jenness

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-24

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781333336738

Excerpt from The Charities of San Francisco: A Directory of the Benevolent and Correctional Agencies, Together With a Digest of Those Laws Most Directly Affecting Their Work This seems like an enormous charity bill for a city so young as San Francisco, and whose entire population numbers scarcely The city of Baltimore, with more in habitants, expended in 1892 about less.i While not much value is to be placed upon this comparison, since the figures for Baltimore are an estimate based upon a partial can vass, and it is not likely that the cost of caring for dependents in institutions outside of the city are included. And while some allowance is to be made for the greater demands upon all charitable institutions in the latter part of 1893, still, the cost of relieving the poor in San Francisco is undoubtedly more in proportion than in any other young and prosperous city. I want everyone who consults this little book to appreciate with me the sympathy and helpfulness of Mr. And Mrs. P. L. Weaver, Superintendent and matron of the City and County Almshouse; the many kindnesses of Mr. J. G. Chown of the Christian Union Mission; the hearty co-operation of Father Montgomery (now Bishop Montgomery) without whose aid I would not have been able to include the Catholic Charities; and especially the generosity of Mr. Timothy Hopkins, through whose assistance this work is given to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.