Annual Reports 



Report of the Board of Trustees 



The Board held five stated meetings during the year, as follows : May 

 25, October 5, December 7, 1912, February i and April 12, 1913; also one 

 special meeting June 14, 1912. During the intervals betw^een the meetings 

 of the Board the Executive Committee met when necessary and transacted 

 all ad interim business; and at the meetings of the Association the social 

 features were admirably looked after by the Women's Auxiliary Com- 

 mittee, to whom the thanks of the Board are hereby tendered on behalf 

 of the Association. 



At the annual meeting of the Board on May 25 the officers of the pre- 

 ceding year were unanimously reelected as follows : President, Howard 

 Randolph Bayne; First Vice-President, William Thompson Davis; Second 

 Vice-President, William Hinman Mitchill; Treasurer, Charles Arthur 

 Ingalls; Secretary, Arthur HoUick. 



The following active members were elected during the year : Mr. Court- 

 land V. Anable, New Brighton; Miss Bessie E. Davis, New Brighton; 

 Miss Theodora Lins, New Brighton; Mrs. F. Winthrcp White, New 

 Brighton; Miss C. C. Mase, New Brighton; Mr. John May, New Brighton; 

 Mrs. John May, New Brighton; Mr. Guy Pene Du Bois, West New 

 Brighton; Mr. Edgar L. Benjamin, Port Richmond; Dr. Sidney G. Carney, 

 Tompkinsville; Mr. Wm. C. Rowland, Stapleton; Dr. H. G. Steinmeyer, 

 Stapleton; Mr. Henry A. Tabb, Arrochar; Mr. Frederick Marshall, Great 

 Kills; Mrs. Percival G. Ullman, Huguenot Park; Mr. Ernest Shoemaker, 

 Brooklyn. 



Mr. Shoemaker qualified as a life member. 



The following budget estimate for the year 1914 was submitted to the 

 Board of Estimate and Apportionment: 



Salaries $7,270.00 



Supplies and materials 178.50 



Repairs to interior of house 50.00 



Fuel 130.00 



Rentals 1,500.00 



Lighting 120.00 



Telephone 50.0O 



Contingencies 90.00 



Furniture and fittings 5^3 -50 



$9,912.00 



This was reduced to $9,335 by the Board and was finally adopted and 

 apportioned as follows : 



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