Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Bonds Gold 4's (due 1948) . 31⁄2 per cent.. Union Pacific R. R. 1st Mortgage Bonds (due 1947), 5,000 00 5,000 00 Northern Pacific R. R. Prior Lien Bonds (due 1997), 4 per cent.. 6,000 00 Wisconsin Central R. R. 1st General Mortgage Bonds (due 1949), 4 per cent. 10,000 00 St. Joseph & Grand Isle R. R. 1st Mortgage Bonds (due 1947), 4 per cent. .... 5,000 00 Chicago, Burl. & Quincy R. R. Joint Gtd. Bonds (due 1921), 4 per cent..... 15,000 00 New York City Registered Bonds (due 1929), 21⁄2 per cent.. 15,000 00 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R. R. Bonds (due 1928), 4 per cent. Balt. & Ohio R. R., Pittsburg, L. E. & W. Va. System, Refunding Mortgage Bonds (due 1941), 4 .... 5,000 00 per cent... 6,000 00 Pennsylvania R. R. Convertible Bonds (due 1915), 31⁄2 per cent.... 5,000 00 Del. & Hudson R. R. 1st Lien Equipment Bonds (due 1922), 41⁄2 per cent. . . . 5,000 00 Central Pacific R. R. 1st Refunding Mortgage Bonds (due 1949), 4 per cent.. . . . . . 10,000 00 N. Y. City Bonds (Callable 1930-due 1960) 44 per cent. Central New England R. R. 1st Mortgage Bonds (due Securities examined and found correct as per list above. $180,000 00 F. L. HINE, Chairman, Finance Committee. The report was accepted and ordered to be placed on file. The report of the Treasurer was read, as follows: Balance, November 11, 1912... $4,257 28 file. CHARLES C. BURKE, Treasurer. Accounts and vouchers audited this day and found correct. NEW YORK, November 14, 1913. F. L. HINE, The report was accepted and ordered to be placed on The report of the Committee on Charity was read, as follows: To the New England Society in the City of New York: The Committee on Charity report that during the year they have investigated in detail a considerable number of applications, and upon their recommendation to the Board of Officers the following appropriations have been authorized: 1. An annuity of $50, limited to five years not yet elapsed, has been continued to the widow of a deceased life member. 2. An annuity of $155, limited to five years not yet elapsed, has been continued to the needy daughter of a deceased annual member, who had paid into the treasury $155. 3. The Board continued a grant of $25 a month to the needy sister, aged seventy-five years, of a deceased member, who died leaving no estate and upon whom the sister was entirely dependent. 4. An annuity of $105, limited to five years not yet elapsed, has been continued to the widow of a deceased annual member, who had paid into the treasury $105. 5. An annuity of $50, limited to five years not yet elapsed, has been continued to the widow of a deceased life member. 6. The Board has continued an appropriation of $150, to be applied to the assistance of a needy New England family of three persons. 7. An annuity of $125, limited to five years not yet elapsed, has been continued to the widow of a deceased annual member, who had paid into the treasury $125. 8. An annuity of $100, limited to five years not yet elapsed, has been continued to the widow of a deceased life member. 9. The Board has continued in a suitable institutional home, at a charge of $170 per year, a destitute member who was elected to the Society more than forty years ago. 10. The Board has granted $50 a year for the personal expenses of an aged and worthy New England woman, who was earlier placed in a suitable institutional home partly by the aid of the Society. 11. A grant of $250 was made to the needy widow, aged seventynine, of a deceased life member. 12. A grant of $30 was made for the urgent needs of a worthy family of six New Englanders. 13. A grant of $50 was made to give a proper start to a deserving but unfortunate New England man. 14. The Board has made the customary grants of $600 to the Charity Organization Society, and $400 to the Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor. All the grants now made by the Board are subject to renewal each year by affirmative action of the Board. The Committee on Charity also report on the moneys expended since the last annual meeting, as follows: During the last ten years the Society has disbursed the following amounts upon the recommendation of the Charity Committee. The report was accepted, with the thanks of the Society, and ordered to be placed on file. The report of the Secretary on the condition of the membership of the Society, December 1, 1913, was presented, as follows: Report of the SECRETARY ON THE CONDITION OF THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE SOCIETY, DECEMBER 1, 1913. Elections from that date to December 1, 1913: Number of members on the rolls, December 1, 1912. . 1,286 The following deaths have been reported since December 1, 1912: Rev. James O. Murray, died March 27, 1899. Leander N. Lovell, died February, 1912. Whitelaw Reid, died December 15, 1912, in the 77th year of his age. Rev. Abbott E. Kittredge, D.D., died December 17, 1912. C. E. Barrett, died December 18, 1912. Maurice H. Chase, died December 31, 1912. Major-General Joseph Hayes, died in 1912. William W. Hoppin, died January 3, 1913, in the 74th year of his age. I. De Ver Warner, died January 10, 1913, in the 73d year of his age. George H. Southard, died January 12, 1913, in the 72d year of his age. Edward Russell Rice, died January 29, 1913. Henry J. Lamarche, died January 31, 1913. Stewart L. Woodford, died February 14, 1913, in the 78th year of his age. Dr. Kingman B. Page, died February 21, 1913. Captain Charles P. Low, died February 22, 1913. John A. Stevens, died March 13, 1913. |