Among more than 200 children who came to his attention during the year as superintendent of the Stevens-Swan Humane Society, not one was of Jewish extraction, Harry J. Gourley declared in an address to the Harmo## club. Utica, Explaining his work in examination into cruelty to children. Mr. Gourley praised Jewish parents and pointed out that the Jews of Utica cost the city less than any other nationality for charity, number for number.
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