The deaths of John H. Dillingham and David Sulzberger, both occurring near the same time in early spring, removed two valuable members from your Committee. Appropriate notices of the life and faithful labors of each of these have been prepared and read in our meetings, and it is proposed to publish them in the forthcoming number of our Journal.
Our prayers and sympathy go out to all who have the oversight of those offenders, whom society, for its own protection and for the reformation of the sinner, declares must be debarred from freedom. Upon these officials devolves the duty not only of restraining the criminals within physical bounds, but--what is their chief mission--of implanting in their charges incentives for a change in their attitude in society. They should endeavor to inspire them with some sense of self-confidence and self-respect, so that they may be prepared to face the world with new aims and a spirit of hopefulness. The Pennsylvania Prison Society has from its inception desired to work in harmony with the administrators, and we trust has been comparatively free from the errors of a misdirected zeal. In another year this Society shall have rounded out a century and a quarter of existence. While we may contemplate with a good degree of satisfaction the achievements of past years, we are aware that in some lines progress has been slow, but we trust under Divine guidance to go on with the work with greater zeal and consecration.
To Balance on hand, December 31, 1909 $697 50 “ Members’ Dues 278 75 “ Collections by Secretary 3,253 00 “ Income from Invested Funds 1,911 52 “ Income from I. V. Williamson “Charities” 561 00 “ Interest on Deposits 20 31 “ Life Membership 50 00 “ Proceeds Sale of Bond 1,032 50 “ Legacy, Estate of Marianna Gillingham 805 54 --------- Total Receipts $8,610 12
For Clothing Discharged Prisoners, Eastern Penitentiary $2,324 45 “ Appropriations for Prisoners Discharged from Philadelphia County Prison 835 00 “ Salaries 2,650 00 “ Expenses on Account of “Journal,” 1910 437 20 “ Expenses Delegates to Prison Congress 56 72 “ Sundry Printing and Postage 249 29 “ Office Expenses, Incidentals 148 52 “ Rent, Janitor Service 184 00 “ Capital Moneys Paid to Fiscal Agent for Investment 855 54 “ Balance, December 31, 1910 869 40 --------- Total $8,610 12