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Show ; ! Catholic Charities In New York. Rev. Thomas L. Kinkead, supervisor of Catholic charities, has written a long- letter to Comptroller Colcr presenting pre-senting his views in the matter of public aid to private charities. He regards the matter as a city contract, . and endorses "the equal pay for equal work", principle. He takes exception, however, to the idea of "paying for ( expenses only," as likely to encourage t ; extravagance. ' ! lie sa's that the institutions und-r "j i supervision are able to give their ' inmates better care than thev could i receive in public institutions, and can ! do it more cheaply. As an instance of I how figures, unexplained, may give false ideas, he calls attention to the , fact that of the 5177,000 paid out for ! "salaries" by the New York Foundling I j asylum, $160,000 goes to the poor, re-: re-: portable women who nurse over 1 00 j of the foundlings in their own homes, j He also takes exception to the idea that private beneficiaries decrease as J public subsidies are increased, and . maintains that they are only deflected : into other equally charitable ehan- Urn Is. , He presents tabulated statements , showing the various Catholic charita-; charita-; hie institutions in the city receive an-; an-; r.ually $1.71"i.;.G5 from private sources and fj.Sl'2.150 from, jiublic sources. To ; the first amount he adds the interest j on the- J14.OP0.S61 invested in build- in.s and sites, making a total of -71 -! 10. He says that 146 free schools, '"aV-j '"aV-j comniodating f.s.ooo children,' are ! also maintained, and that the value j of their buildings and sites is ?x ooo -i Ono. Including interest. $,36o.oon jj from private sources, he says, is thus i spent on education, and on education I and charities. $4.fi:'.!U9!i from private jj sources of Catholic benevolence is spent annually in New York City II This, sum, he says, is more bv about ; S.lOO.uoo than the amount contributed from publi sources in the entire Mate to all the nrivate charitable in-' in-' stitutions of all denominations. |