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benevolent institutions of the city, and in conjunc- 

 tion with the late Theodore Roosevelt and a few 

 others he successfully started the " Bureau of 

 Charities," which subsequently became the Board 

 of United Charities of which he was Chairman. He 

 edited at the same time the valuable hand book of 

 the Benevolent Institutions and Charities of New 

 York, which was published annually from 1874 to 

 1877 by that Board, and which work has now de- 

 veloped into the valuable institution of the Charity 

 Organization Society. The success of the street 

 cleaning and tenement house reform movement and 

 the erection of improved dwellings for the poor was 

 largely due to his active interest. He was appoint- 

 ed a Commissioner of Education, but resigned in 

 1 88 1 and has since been compelled on account of 

 impaired health to give up his connection with many 

 institutions, such as the Association for Improving 

 the Condition of the Poor, of which he had been a 

 Vice-President and President, The Free Circulating 

 Library, Cancer Hospital, etc. During the whole 

 time of his connection with this Society, Mr. Pellew 

 devoted his energies in enlarging its usefulness, and 

 under his Presidency a marked improvement was 

 inaugurated in the mode of distributing its funds. 

 His enforced retirement as an active member was 

 sincerely regretted, for under his able administra- 

 tion the Society reached the zenith of its greatness. 



