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Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University"},{"label":"Language","value":"eng"},{"label":"Collection Location","value":"Workman Family Papers CSLA-9, Series 1: Mary Julia Workman, Box 1, Folder 1"},{"label":"Subject","value":"Social settlements--California--Los Angeles; Settlement houses--Social aspects--California--Los Angeles; Youth organizations--California--Los Angeles;"},{"label":"Object Identifier","value":"LML_CSLA-09-00039"},{"label":"Physical description","value":"[3] p. ; 28 cm"},{"label":"Names","value":"Brownson House (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Finance; Conaty, Thomas James, 1847-1915--Correspondence;"},{"label":"Note","value":"Thomas Conaty was a well-known national orator and former Rector of The Catholic University of America. In 1911, Fr. Conaty, bishop of the diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles, helped opened Los Angeles College. The Brownson House assisted underprivileged and immigrant families in the city, providing them with educational, vocational and social programs such as student clubs, Sunday school, dances, and sporting events. Brownson House was originally located in a rented cottage on Aliso St., but moved to a new facility on Jackson St. in late 1904 or early 1905."},{"label":"Description","value":"A carbon copy of a three page letter to Fr. Thomas Conaty from the Executive and Nursery Committees of the Brownson House Association.  The letter discusses the finances of Brownson House, its unsuccessful fundraising efforts, and the need to relinquish control of the Catholic Day Nursery to another organization due to financial hardship."},{"label":"Creator","value":"Brownson House (Los Angeles, Calif.). Executive Committee; Brownson House (Los Angeles, Calif.). Nursery Committee;"},{"label":"Title","value":"Executive and Nursery Committees Brownson House Association Letter to Thomas J. Conaty, Feb. 27, 1910"},{"label":"Date","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1910"},{"label":"Type","value":["Correspondence"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"https://library.lmu.edu/archivesandspecialcollections/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/"},{"label":"Location","value":["Los Angeles, Calif."]}],"description":"Executive and Nursery Committees Brownson House Association Letter to Thomas J. 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Rt. Rev. Thos. J. Contay,   #114 East Second Street,   Los Angeles, Cal.     Rt. Rev. and dear Bishop Conaty:     The Executive and Nursery Committees of Brownson House Association desire respectfully to submit the following report to your Lordship as a result of their investigation since the meeting at your office last November.     At that meeting the Catholic Day Nursery was declared to be a necessity in Los Angeles. We then first consider the extreme difficulty of financing the Brownson House Day Nursery; we secondly considered the fact that a new location uptown was necessary; and thirdly, the practicability of creating a Nursery board of representative Catholic women.     At the time of the Conference, we were Five Hundred ($500) Dollars in debt, having been obliged to borrow this amount from the Bank at seven percent (7%) interest on our individual note, in order to carry us through the summer. On October 1st, we sent out letters of appeal and received a little over Five Hundred ($500) Dollars as a result. Then Christmas came and the donations amounted to Seven Hundred three ($703) Dollars. Out of this, we have paid the Bank the Five Hundred ($500) Dollars with accrued interest, leaving us short of Seven Hundred ($700) Dollars to carry on the work from January 1st.     As our expenses are Two Hundred ($200) Dollars or over per month for Brownson House and the Nursery together, about Seventy-five ($75) Dollars for Brownson House and One Hundred Twenty-five ($125) Dollars for the Nursery, by Easter our Treasury will again empty. Thus we are face to face with another crisis.     We are confident from our experience, especially of last year, that it is folly for us to expect the general Catholic or other public to support us in a large entertainment. We are class-ed by the Protestants as a distinctly Catholic charity, no matter how much we do for children of all races and creeds, and the Catholic public, even the clergy, do not rally to our support in sufficient numbers. Thus we are limited to those who know us personally, and who aid us all the time.     The list of our Christmas donors, subscribers etc., from year to year reveals the same names with few additions. For this reason, large entertainments and their accompanying outlay are entirely out of the question for us. Small entertainments netting only a few hundred dollars, will do us no good, as we    -1-"},{"label":"Source","value":"Department of Archives & Special Collections, William H. 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Rev. T.J.C.     must raise Twenty-five Hundred ($2500) Dollars to carry on both Brownson and the Nursery for a year, and we cannot be before the public all the time.     We have tried yearly subscribers, but again reached only a limited number. For two years we issued Year Books and sent five Hundred (500) of them each year, but met with little response out-side. We are convinced that we cannot raise sufficient money to carry on both Brownson House and the Nursery. We are now depriving Brownson House of necessaries and curtailing the work in order to make ends meet. We have neglected needed repairs on our shed roofs and our clothing has suffered each time it rained, because we have not had One Hundred ($100) Dollars to replace the worn out roofs. We should last summer have enclosed our porch at Brownson House, and we are suffering for need of the added space, but we could not incur the expense. This year we can issue no Year Books.     We can see no prospect of relief from all these diffi-culties, except to detatch the  Nursery from the Settlement and allow it to pass into other hands than ours.     People do not realize that we have now two institutions to support. The aid they give us is sufficient for the ordinary needs of Brownson House but not enough for the Nursery also.     We believe that were the Nursery under a separate manage-ment, especially if it were in the hands of a religious order, like the Sisters of the Holy Family of San Francisco, that the public would respond better than now when it is identified with Brownson House. It would then occupy a distinct place in the public eye. We are willing to turn over our small equipment, tables, chairs, beds etc. to those who assume the management of it.     In regard to the second point discussed at the meeting, we have visited the uptown neighborhood for the purpose of moving the Nursery and we find that suitable near in quarters are diffi-cult to secure. Our expenses would be increased beside the cost of moving, and we have not the money to expend.     In regard to the third point of a board of representative Catholic women, we do not believe that we could bring this about. The Catholic women whom we know to be interested in such work are already identified with other organizations and this work calls for women who can give undivided attention to the upbuilding of the Nursery.     Our conclusion, therefore, is that Brownson House Association should relinquish the Nursery. We realize the great need of a Catholic Nursery in Los Angeles, and we do not wish to stand in the way of its unqualified success. To carry on Brownson House, is all we can do. The Settlement situation is different to that of any other organization. The workers are giving their own.     -2-"},{"label":"Source","value":"Department of Archives & Special Collections, William H. 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Rev. T.J.C.     personal service all the time at considerable sacrifice. They are, for the most part, busy people. This gratuitous personal service is absolutely necessary to the Settlement work. If, in addition to this, they are all forced to raise money, many very useful workers will drop out, because this part of the work is very obnoxious to some. We need the service of those workers even if they could never raise one penny for the general treasury, and they also aid the work in may ways out of their own pockets. Thus the Brownson House Com-mittees must plan the raising of money, and at the same time see to it, that no worker becomes discouraged because of continual financial demands and difficulties.     Some of our oldest and best workers, who have labored the whole nine years of our existence have been opposed to the Nursery from the beginning, solely because of the burden, and there is a growing sentiment against it among the workers.     We can carry on Brownson House with One Thousand ($1000) or Twelve Hundred ($1200) Dollars a year. In the event of a strin-gency, we can curtail the work of the Settlement to some extent. We cannot do this with the Nursery, it can never be self supporting and its cost cannot be lessened.     We know that you will carefully consider this report. We regret deeply the necessity which compels our decision and we deeply appreciate your kind interest and assistance, as well as your words of commendation from the pulpit and in the columns of the Tidings. Our only consolation is that during our incumbency [Originally written encumbency with the replacing \"i\" written over \"e\" in ink], we have never allowed our financial uncertainty to lower the stan-dard of the Nursery, and we have paid all our expenses monthly. Under our splendid matron, the Nursery has been and is a credit to the Catholic charities of Los Angeles. We feel some comfort also in the thought that we may be a stepping stone to greater things in this most excellent work of caring for the helpless little children of working mothers who otherwise must neglect their little ones or be separate from them continually.     Our committees respectfully submit this report, and would willing respond if you should desire to discuss any of these points with them or make any suggestions.     With most sincere appreciation believe us,     Very respectfully,     Rose Bernard  Nell C. Reardon  Mrs. J.P. Farrell  Marie Rose Mullen   Mary J. Workman     Executive and Nursery Committees Brownson House Ass'n.     -3-"},{"label":"Source","value":"Department of Archives & Special Collections, William H. 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