The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . s organized in 1890. Likeother organizations of a like name and character in all large cities, itswork is intended to reduce almsgiving to a system — to furnish toall benevolent societies of the city, and all tlie churches of whateverdenomination, a central bureau of information, through the agency ofwhich fraud may be detected, and relief extended to the needy, withproper discrimination, and with the assurance that it is productive ofgood results. There are many other societies and institutions of a less public char-acter,
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . s organized in 1890. Likeother organizations of a like name and character in all large cities, itswork is intended to reduce almsgiving to a system — to furnish toall benevolent societies of the city, and all tlie churches of whateverdenomination, a central bureau of information, through the agency ofwhich fraud may be detected, and relief extended to the needy, withproper discrimination, and with the assurance that it is productive ofgood results. There are many other societies and institutions of a less public char-acter, some of which are the offspring of a parent organization, andsome the charitable features of which are confined for the most partto individual members. A full description of their work could not wellbe given within the limited space allowed this article. Among theseare the Odd Fellows Home; Geo. H. Ward Post 10, Grand Army of theRepublic; Womans Board of the Baldwinsville Hospital Cottages,Worcester Branch; Worcester Boys Club; Worcester Police GEORGE JAQUES. WORCESTERS BENEFACTORS ANDTRUST FUNDS. By the Hoxorable Hexrv A. Marsh.* jJHERE are few cities, if any, in the country that surpass the city ofWorcester in the number and amount of gifts of money or itsequivalent which have been made by its citizens to the several institu-tions and to the city itself during the last fifty years. It is estimatedthat the sum total of such gifts will exceed in value $5,000,000. A complete list of such benefactions would be too long for publicationhere, but appropriate mention of many of the larger gifts to institutionsand the like will be made in other chapters of this volume. The giftsdistinctly made to the city as a municipality are noteworthy, and arehere recorded : CITY HOSPITAL. By deed, March 12, 1872, George Jacjues gave to the city of Worces-ter, as a site for a public city hospital, a certain parcel of land situatedin said city of Worcester, bounded on the nort
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