The Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Manchester and Salford Boys' and Girls' Refuges and Children's Aid Society (1894) Reference Number: DA/2020/1/3 (1893)
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The Together Trust Archive The Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Manchester and Salford Boys' and Girls' Refuges and Children's Aid Society (1894) Reference number: DA/2020/1/3 (1893) Original copies can be viewed at Manchester Central Library Rare Books Collection: 362.7M1 1891-96 © 2021 The Together Trust 1'1-1E TWE TY-FOURTII A - 'u \.L REPORT OF TilE sounding sea among the innumerable spri"ging Howers. and they MANCHESTER AND SALFORD way in due time experience the luxury of doing good and eagerly carryon tbe work by which they benefited Jt may be hoped, too. BOYS' AND GIRLS' REFUGES that a taste for beauty, a love of the pure and noble, may somftimes A:\n find its way into the heart of a poor lad who, when forlorn and CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY, beset by biting poverty, was for a few days made acquainted with TR \. 'GEW.\'YS, L\. - TIE TEH.. comfort and the fair things of nature. Tpustees. Every Snnday an open-air service is held in the Camp, attend~d HERBERT PIlILlPS, EsC] .. J.P. JfF:'IRY CIlARLTO:ol, Esq. by a fair number of visitors to tbe neighbouring towns. The boys ISAAC HOYLE, Esq., J.P. \V. J. Cr ssley, Esq. join in it with great heartiness and sing lustily. The work of this HENRY .I.El', Esq., J.P. l{ICIIARO 1 . TAYLOR, Esq. encampment is carried on by a branch of the Boys' and (;irls' F. VV. CROSSLEY, Esq. J.P. Lo IS 1\1. HAYES, Esq. LEO:'lARD K. SIJAW, Esq. Refuges, Strangeways, Manchester. For si" shillings per head Committee. the boys are conveyed to the Camp, fed plainly and abundantly \V. J. HOSSLEY, hairman. I GILBERT R. KIRLEW. for a week, and brought back to their homes. Manchester has JOHN TIIOMSON. .lAillES BOYD. many splendid organizations in philanthr pic work, but none mor~ !{ICIIARD B. TAYLOR. 1'1105. R. ACKROYD. LOUIS 1\1. HAYES. ALFRED IfAWQRTIJ. sagacious and humane than this. 1\ lump is apt to come in the LEONARD K. SUAW. throat when watchinO' its operations. ft is another assurance that TreasureI'. a good work on sound lines will never call for helpers in vain? HENRY CIIARLTON, Esq., Blackfriars Street. Honol'ary Medical Offieel's. ANDREW BOUTELOWEH, E q., Great Ducic Street. ROBERT l{ODGER, Esq., 'heetham 1fill. Honorary Dentist. \VILLIAiIf SIMMS, Esq. Honol'al'Y Solieitors. Messrs. FARRAR C CO., Fountain Street. Honoral'Y Counse\. A. C. MABERLEY, Esq. J. 1\f. YATES, Esq. Bankers. WlLLIAMS DEACO:-: 8:. !\1A:-:CIJESTER " SALFORD BA:'IK, Limited. St. Ann Str et Branch. Supel'int ndents of Central Refuge. 1\11'. & 1\lrs. F. A. \VOOD. HonOl'ary Seeretary. LEONARD K IJAW, Broom 11olm, -hcetham Hill, And at the Refuge, Slmngm'"ys. l\lANCHESTEh : BOYS' REFUGE, PRINTING DEPAR ri\tE~l', STRA:s'GEWAYS. 1894. su ~nIARY OF A;\K AL ~IEETING. The tW&Illy-follyth A ~l/llal1l1eetillg of the lA~CIlESTER A~D SALFORD Boys' & GIRLS' REFUGES <' IIo~lEs & HlLDREN'S AID SOCIETY was held in the Lord !lIayoY's Pel/'Iollr, Town Hall, ,lIal/chester, Olt TVedllesday, 111l/ych 7th, 1894. In the unavoidable absence of the Lord layor, 1\1r. "V. J. ros ley took the chair at 3 o'clock. Amongst those present were Lady IIenry Somerset, the Lady 1[ayoress, 11rs. lIIoorhouse, His 'Worship the layor of Salford, Sir F. Forbes Adam, \V. H. Holland, Esq., M.P., Henry Lee, Esq., ].1'., has. Lister, Esq., J P., J. A. Beith, Esq., J.P., Councillor II. B. Harri on, II. Philips, Esq., J.P., T. L. Farrar, Esq., Conncillor Southern, \V. H. ewett, Esq., and Dr. Boutflower. Letters of apology for non-attendance were read from the Very Rev. The Dean of Manchester, Archdeacon \Vilson, C",non Lowe, Dr. McLaren, Dr. lVIackennal, Sir ghtred Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir " These Homes are based upon Christian principles, J. J. Harwood, Samuel Smith, Esq., M.P., Dr. Wood, Mayor of they are managed by practical methods, and are doing outhport, and others. a great work for all the Churches. They are doing the There was an overflowing attendance. The Rev. F. J. Horselield, offered prayer. work of ten societies, and are in danger ofonly receiving A Summary of the Annual Report was read by the Secretary, the support of one."-TJlE LORD BISHOP OF IVIANcHE TER. Mr. W. Edmondson, in the much regretted absence through ill at the AllIlllat Meeting, r892. health of the Hon. Secretary, Mr. Leonard K Shaw. An abstract of the Financial Statement was read by the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Henry Charlton. It was then mO\'e::l by Sir F. Forbes Adam, seconded by Lady Henry Somerset and unanimously resolved: .. That the Report, together with the Financial Statement, be adopted, printed and circulated, under the direction of the Com mittee, and thaI this meeting records its appreciation of the work of this institution, and heartily commends it to public support, meeting as it does, all classes of cbild destitution and need, and so bringing hope into many young lives otherwise drifting into pauperism or -crime." It was also moved by His "VOl' hip the Mayor of Salford, seconded by \V. H. Holland, Esq., M.P., supported by Henry Lee, Esq., J.P., and J. A. Beith, Esq., J.P., and un nimous:y resolnd: "That the Committee for the ensuing year be l\Iessrs. \V. J. 'Crossley, John Tbomson, R. B. Taylor, L. M. Haye, G. H.. Kirlew, James Boyd, and T. R Ackroyd; the Secretary, Mr. Leonard I\:. haw; the Treasurer, Mr. Henry Charlton; and the Auditors, Messrs. Theodore Jones, rewdson and Youatt." . r' A vote of thanks to the Lord l\layor for the u~e of bs parlour \ .closed thc proceedings. The Holy Supper is kept indeed In whatso we share with another's need; at that we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare TWEI\TY-FOURTH ANl\IYERSARY. 'ii\Tho giv s him elf with his alms feeds three Himself, his hungering neighbour and Me.- Lowell. ANNUAL REPORT OF TllE MANCHESTEH. AD ALPORD That was a loveless word Boys' and Girls' R fllgCS and Homes, 'ii\Thich, by strange spirit stirred, A:-<D Forbade the hildren grace To see Thy shining face; CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY, But Thou didst call them near, And smile away their fear; PaR TilE YEAR 1893. And one such little one the symbol seemed to Thee Of Thy great h aveuly kingdom yet to be! And it is thus HE year 1893, the twenty-fourth year of the Thou sayest to us: T Institution now ailed the Boys' and Girl ' " 0, feed l\Iy lambs, if ye loye l\le." Refuges and Children's Aid ociety, ha been one of mingled success and anxiety. The figures are larger in ~dmo t every department than they haye ever been before. The building in Franc's treet are at length completed, though not yet all paid for. The period of extension seems to be at an nd. 'i'i' are possessed of ex client and roomy premise, with appliances and machinery admirably adapted for the purposes of the • 6 In titution. It is hoped that the work may now nter 7 on a time of con olidation, and that there may be oppor earnestly to our friends to he p to clear ofT these debit tunity for perfecting the organization in e\'ery direction. balances. On the other hand, the health of the Honorary An important appointment during the year has been Secretary, 1\1r. Leonard K. haw, who has been the the promotion of Mr. \V. Edmondson, who has been heart and soul of this IVork from the very commencement, connected with the work for 15 years, to the position of has been such as to cause us much anxiety. Mr. Shaw Secretary. cannot give so much of his time and strength to the Vie have before us as we write, the report of the fIrst Refuge as he has done hitherto, but we are thankful to six months' operations of this ociety. It was op ned say he continues to be our Honorary Secretary, and to under the name of the Boys' H.efuge and Industrial supervise the Orphan Homes at Cheetham }'lill, th Brigade, at 16, Quay Street, early in 1870, under the man Cripples' Home, (Bethesda), and Eosen Hallas, the agement of a committee can isting of Messrs. R. B. Girls' Training Home. Vie tru t that with thi' diminu Taylor, James Chapman, and our Ilon. Sec., lYlr. L. K. tion in the extent of his labours his health may imprO\'e, Shaw. At the end of 1870, a second report was issued, as the experience of the last month encourages u' to shewing the numbers entered in the admission book for expect. the year to have reached lIO of whom 40 remained as The other anxiety which ha pressed upon the inmat s. Two other of the old reports are before us. Committee has been the state of the financ s. The The eleventh annual report (1881) marks a period of deficits are :-on the General Account for 1893, [r,9+8. extension, there were then ten homes in operation, and lIS. 2d., of which {683. s. 4d., has been added during that year closed with 201 children in them. The four this year; and on the Exten ion A.ccount£2,72I. 5s. 4.d. teenth annual report (188+), tells of the completion of These are serious deficiencies, occasioned no doubt partly the first block of buildings in Prances Street, and gives by the depression in trade, which has affected directly or the sum of the boys and girls then in charge of the indirectly nearly every class of our friends and Society as 254.