Balance on hand December 31, 1909 $193 48 Income from Investments (net) 94 66 Loan to Discharged Prisoner, Returned 10 25 --------- Total $298 39
Tools to Discharged Prisoners $36 74 Amount Transferred to Principal Account 375 10 --------- $411 84 Less Overdraft December 31, 1910 113 45 --------- Balance $298 39
Balance, December 31, 1909 $107 80 Income from Investments (net) 24 50 Income from Caroline S. Williams Legacy 150 85 Income from H. S. Benson Legacy 196 00 --------- Total $479 15
General Fund $869 40 Home of Industry Fund 479 15 --------- $1,348 55 Less Overdraft (Barton Fund) 113 45 --------- Total Cash on hand December 31, 1910 $1,235 10
We, the undersigned, members of the Auditing Committee, have examined the accounts of John Way, Treasurer, have compared the payments with the vouchers, and believe the same to be correct, there being a balance to the credit of our deposit account under date of December 31, 1910, of $1,235.10.
We have also examined the securities in the possession of our agents, The Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia, and have found them to agree with an accompanying schedule.
JOHN SMALLZELL, JOHN A. DUNCAN, _Auditors_.
Another year has passed and it becomes my duty to present to you a report of the work of the General Agent. During the past year I have visited over 6,000 men and women in the prisons in Philadelphia, and talked to them of the past and the future. I feel that much good has been accomplished and that while it is impossible to measure the amount of good accomplished by any fixed rule, yet there is evidence in all directions that the seed sown in the Master’s name is bearing fruit abundantly. All over this broad land of ours, in every prison may be found the lost son or daughter; it gives the world but little concern so long as it is some one else’s son or daughter who occupies a prison cell. Go through the prisons of our State and nine times out of every ten the prisoners will tell you they never would have thought of getting into prison; in a moment of temptation they fell and the world turns from them when the walls of the prison separates them from the outer world. My experience has taught me that if we were more sympathetic, more interested in fallen humanity, there would be less of crime. One Sabbath afternoon I visited a prison in western Pennsylvania. I arrived at the prison just about the time for service. As I was a member of the Pennsylvania Prison Society I was requested to say a few words to the men and women. My remarks were brief, and I closed with, “Your mother or wife, or sister is praying for you to-day, and when you leave your prison cell, go home to your mother, your wife, or to your sister; go back to your church, and God will bless and help you to be a better man or woman.” One prisoner went to his cell weeping. I followed him to his cell and said to him, “Brother, why do you weep?” and he answered, “When you said ‘mother’ it touched a tender spot, and when I leave here I will go right home to her and will be a better man.”