COMMISSIONERS, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR. First Judicial District.-WILLIAM R. STEWART, 31 Nassau street, New York City. New York City.-STEPHEN SMITH, M. D., 1000 Park avenue. New York City.-VICTOR F. RIDDER, 182 William street. New York City.— GEORGE J. GILLESPIE, 20 Vesey street. Second Judicial District.-J. RICHARD KEVIN, M. D., 252 Gates avenue, Brooklyn. Third Judicial District. Fourth Judicial District.- FRANK F. Gow, M. D., Schuylerville. Fifth Judicial District.— CEYLON H. LEWIS, Syracuse. Sixth Judicial District.- DANIEL WAITE BURDICK, 116 East State street, Ithaca. Seventh Judicial District. Eighth Judicial District.- WILLIAM H. GRATWICK, 1604 Marine Bank Building, Buffalo. Ninth Judicial District.- HENRY MARQUAND, Bedford Hills. OFFICERS. WILLIAM RHINELANDER STEWART, President. WILLIAM H. GRATWICK, Vice-President. [3] GENERAL OFFICE OF THE BOARD. The Capitol, Albany, N. Y. Hours: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. On Saturdays to 12 M. The Secretary has general supervision of the employees of the Board and of all branches of the Board's work. Charles H. Johnson, Secretary. Augusta L. Mulholland, Stenographer. William C. Hinkley, Executive Hearing Stenographer. DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION. Wellington D. Ives, Chief Clerk. Katherine L. O'Brien, Stenographer. Reta Van Der Volgen, Stenographer. John J. Skelly, Clerk. Frances M. Landsborough, Typewriter-copyist. Grace M. Leary, Typewriter-copyist. Minnie J. Levine, Typewriter-copyist. (Vacancy), Typewriter-copyist. New York City Office, United Charities Building, 287 Fourth Avenue. John B. Prest, Office Superintendent. Violet H. Scheil, Stenographer. Henrietta Wecker, Stenographer. (Vacancy), Stenographer. Jennie R. Block, Stenographer. Harry E. Baxter, Clerk. DIVISION OF STATISTICS AND PUBLICATION. Ellen L. Tenney, Statistician, Chief of Division. Alice M. Powers, Stenographer. L. Elizabeth Thacher, Clerk. Clara M. Paquet, Clerk. Helen Carroll, Clerk. Anna J. McChesney, Clerk. DIVISION OF DEPENDENT CHILDREN. James H. Foster, Superintendent. Anna H. Purcell, Stenographer. (Vacancy), Inspector. Mary A. Steer, Inspector. Alice M. Kautz, Inspector. Mary E. Walsh, Inspector. Florence D. Daniels, Inspector. Edith Dudley, Inspector. Marion H. Adams, Inspector. DIVISION OF ADULT WARDS. Robert W. Hill, Superintendent of State and Alien Poor.. Anna Mitchell, Stenographer. Hannah B. Oppenheim, Stenographer. Henry M. Lechtrecker, Inspector. David W. Park, Inspector. Evelyn H. Ellis, Inspector. Bureau of Removals, United Charities Building, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Seward Wikoff, Deputy Superintendent of State and Alien Poor. Flora E. Baehr, Stenographer. Harry M. Hirsch, Transfer Agent. Alice M. Tharnisch, Inspector-Transfer Agent. George C. Rowell, Inspector-Transfer Agent. Bureau of Removals, 241 Terrace, Buffalo. George W. Elson, Transfer Agent. DIVISION OF MENTAL DEFECT AND DELINQUENCY. Chester L. Carlisle, M. D., Superintendent. Gertrude J. Miller, Stenographer. Gladys H. Secor, Stenographer. (Vacancy), Inspector. Marion Collins, Investigator. Jessie L. Herrick, M. D., Investigator. DIVISION OF MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS. Clarence E. Ford, Superintendent. EXTRACTS FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK RELATING TO THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES * ARTICLE VIII * * * § 11. The legislature shall provide for a state board of charities, which shall visit and inspect all institutions, whether state, county, municipal, incorporated or not incorporated, which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional or reformatory character, excepting only such institutions as are hereby made subject to the visitation and inspection of either of the commissions hereinafter mentioned, but including all reformatories except those in which adult males convicted of felony shall be confined; a state commission in lunacy, which shall visit and inspect all institutions, either public or private, used for the care and treatment of the insane (not including institutions for epileptics or idiots); a state commission of prisons which shall visit and inspect all institutions used for the detention of sane adults charged with or convicted of crime, or detained as witnesses or debtors. 1. CORPORATIONS - WHEN CHARITABLE IN NATURE CAPACITY TO TAKE CHARITABLE GIFTS. The capacity of a corporation to take and administer charitable gifts does not imply that the corporation must necessarily be of a charitable nature. 2. EXEMPTION FROM TAXATION AS INDICATION OF CHARITABLE NATURE OF CORPORATION. The exemption from taxation given by chapter 553 of the Laws of 1890 to societies for the prevention of cruelty to children does not show that the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is of the class designated as charitable, since charitable institutions were already exempt, and the statute was not necessary if this corporation belonged to that class, and, moreover, exemption from taxation is a privilege frequently conferred by the legislature upon corporations with no charitable features whatever. 3. CORPORATION RECEIVING MONEY FROM CITY TREASURY. In receiving and disbursing the money which is annually given from the city treasury to the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children that corporation does not receive or administer any charity, but only takes an allowance from the city for doing work that otherwise would devolve upon the police department. -- 4. NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION 07 CRUELTY TO CHILDRENPURPOSE AND CHARACTER OF - NOT SUBJECT TO VISITATION BY STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES. The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to [7] |