A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . ordinating agent for all relief societies, to the end that dui)li-cation of effort might be prevented. As one of the promoters de-scribed it—this was to bear the same relation to the charitablesocieties of the city a clearing house bears to the banks. As anintegral part of co-operative effort, the Associated Charities in 1905established a central registration bureau for all social agencies, whichlater became the Charities Clearing House, where sixty organiza-tions record names and salient facts,
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . ordinating agent for all relief societies, to the end that dui)li-cation of effort might be prevented. As one of the promoters de-scribed it—this was to bear the same relation to the charitablesocieties of the city a clearing house bears to the banks. As anintegral part of co-operative effort, the Associated Charities in 1905established a central registration bureau for all social agencies, whichlater became the Charities Clearing House, where sixty organiza-tions record names and salient facts, identifying 150,000 Clevelandfamilies and assuring a maximum of accoin|ilishment to all socialeffort. General James Barnett, Clevelands fii-st citizen, was a leaderin social progress as in other civic lines. He was the chairman ofthe relief committee of the Bethel Mission, the earliest charitablesociety in Cleveland and an outgrowth of the Western SeamensFriend Society. In 1884, the Ciiarity Organization Society and theBethel Mission united in the Bethel Associated Cliarities, which car-. General James Babnett 632 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. XXXIII ried forward the aims of both societies. This further crystallized in1900 into the Associated Charities, dedicated to family rehabilitationand the conservation of normal living. All through this period ofevolution and until his death in 1908, General Barnett was president. In so brief a sketch of Clevelands social development, no adequatemention can be made of even the leaders therein. The trends ofsocial progress originated from certain springs of thought and theseonly can be named here. Under the leadership of SuperintendentJames F. Jackson, the efforts of the Associated Charities of Cleve-land for the development of normal family life have assumed magni-tude and achieved results such as were undreamed of twenty-fiveyears ago. Through its staff of more than sixty highly trainedvisitors, working from eight district offices,
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