ANNUAL STATEMENT.
Receipts to date, from all sources—April 30, 1855.
| By cash received in donations, subscriptions, fees, &c., | $7,822 67 |
| ———— | |
| $7,822 67 |
Payments to Date—April 30, 1855.
| Cash paid for | repairs and offices | $350 38 |
| ” | furniture and office fittings, | 444 50 |
| ” | rents, firing, &c., | 1,113 92 |
| ” | salaries, | 3,663 20 |
| ” | petty disbursements, | 310 07 |
| ” | advertisements, | 356 73 |
| ” | books, stationery and printing, | 525 75 |
| ” | licenses, | 50 00 |
| ” | transportation of emigrants, | 482 33 |
| Balance of cash on band, | 525 79 | |
| ———— | ||
| $7,822 67 | ||
We do hereby certify that we have examined the books of account of the American and Foreign Emigrant Protective and Employment Society, and audited the above account, and find the same correct.
| Jasper E. Corning, H. Planten, | } | Committee. |
New York, May 22, 1855.
So that “$482,33, for transportation of emigrants,” was every cent (out of the annual receipts of $7,822,67) that was devoted to the legitimate objects of the Society. This is the boldest robbery of a Charitable Society on record, though the following is close at its heels:
Official Statement of the Hunter Woodis Academy of Music Calico Ball.
| Receipts, (rogues’ exhibit,) | $9,202 30 |
| Expenses, (rogues’ exhibit,) | 4,288 72 |
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| Balance disbursed for John Hecker’s Bread, with a very small balance still in the hands of rogues | 4,913 58 |
Peter Cooper was also President of this Ball, and Mayor Tiemann and James W. Gerard the Secondary Managers.
Official Statement of the Crystal Palace Ball, of which Peter Cooper was the President, and Mayor Tiemann and James W. Gerard the Secondary Managers.
| Receipts, (rogues’ exhibit,) | $10,147 38 |
| Expenses, (rogues’ exhibit,) | 6,828 03 |
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| Balance still in hands of the Hunter Woodis Roguish Managers, | 3,319 35 |
So that not one cent of the enormous receipts of this famous Ball has been devoted to the purchase of one little loaf of John Hecker’s Bread, nor to the relief of the indigent thousands, whom the receipts of this Ball were intended to relieve. The Hunter Woodis Society Managers told me on Monday last, that the receipts of the Crystal Palace Ball were §10,147,38, and that the expenses were $6,828,03, leaving a balance in the hands of their Treasurer of $3,319,35, which is now in their Safe, and that they have not disbursed one cent for bread nor any thing else for the relief of the poor, and do not intend to, until the next winter. I had a long interview with the officers of the self-constituted Hunter Woodis Society, (at their official quarters,) who are remarkably well clad, and smelt very strongly of cologne and pomatum, and they seemed extremely happy in their gaudy easy chairs, and I learn that they can often be seen on the fashionable avenues with fast steeds, and at the Italian Opera, and the aristocratic clubs. One of the leaders of the Hunter Woodis Society (doubtless fearing that I was about to let loose my Alligator upon himself and associates,) breathed honied words during my visit to the Society, and boldly said that Peter Cooper was anything but an honest man, but that the Hunter Woodis Managers were all honorable men, and that all the members of the Hunter Woodis Society were Know Nothings. He told me this three times, lest I should forget it, the fool supposing that I regarded Know Nothing thieves with less abhorrence than Irish or British thieves, of the Busteed, Connolly, or Matsell brand. I believe that most of the charitable funds of the “American and Foreign Emigrant Protective and Employment Society,” and of the “Academy of Music and Crystal Palace Balls,” have gone into the pockets and bellies and bladders of the scoundrels who collected those sacred funds for the immediate relief of the Emigrants and Starving Poor of New York.
