The Portland daily press., 1892-11-29
CAN DO GOOD WORK BETTER
Portland Fraternity Opens Its New
and Commodious Quarters.
ITS AIMS AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN
TERESTINGLY DESCRIBED.

ton, Mass, on the Work of Such an
Blanchard, Hon. Charles F. Libby and
Rev. DIR. Merrill.
The new rooms of the Fraternity in
the former school house on Spring
street were opened to the pub
lie last evening. At Z o'clock
the annual meeting was held, the
president, E. c. Jordan, presiding. Re
ports were read, and the following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing year:
President-E. c. Jordan.
Vice President Sidney W. Thaxter.
Secretary-Harrison M. Davis.
Treasurer-E. D. Moves.
Directors-Hon. w. w. Thomas, Mr. Alfred
Woodman, Mr.. James P Baxter, Rev. Asa pal
ton, ID. D., Rev. Henry Blanchard, D. D.; Rey.
John Carroll Perkins, Hon. c. F. Libby, MI: D.
w. Snow. Mrs. Fred Storer, Mrs. w: W. W.
gin, Mrs. E. c. Jordan, Mrs. Zenas Tnomas,
Miss Gertrude jenkins, Miss Irene ii. Noyes,
Miss Maud Washburn.
Votes of thanks were extended to the
volunteer teachers committee, newspa-
pers and all donators. 1t was voted that
the sympathy of the Fraternity be ex-
tended to Mrs. Storer in her present i'll
ness, and the earnest hope that she will
soon be able to resume the work which
she so ably and generously carries on.
The meeting was then adjourned and the
rooms formally opened to the public.
Rev. DR.. Dalton opened the exercises
with prayer. Mr.. Edward G. Jordan
made
The Annual Address.
just % years ago tonight the first steps
were taken to organize the Fraternity, and
on December q, 40 persons met to consid-
er the necessary steps 10 take to open an
evening school and the bylaws to form
the Portland Fraternity.
The lines on which this organization
was founded are comradeship and edu-
cation. The work is strictly non-secta-
rian. We look backward with pleasure
to the results obtained. There is an
alumni association, dramatic club, a
debating club, and probably cooking
school will be started in the new rooms
This building is the third home of the
Fraternity, and the removals have been
quite as expensive as fire. The eve
| ming school is the strongest feature, and
| it is taught by 20 teachers who serve one
night in the week each in the various
| branches. MI. Jordan called on the
| friends to try and secure larger mem
| bership in order to build up the Frater-
nifty and place the work on more solid
basis. He read note from the Mayor
| in response to an invitation to be present,
regretting his inability to accept on ac-
| count of meeting of the school board.
| The superintendent and members of the
| school board, who were invited, were
| unable to to be present for the same rea-
| son.
Miss Eva Goodwin played a selection
on the violin.
Miss Moffat of Northampton, Mass,
secretary of the Home Culture Club in
that town was then introduced and con-
graduated the Fraternity upon its name,
the foundation laid in the only spirit
| which can make an organization useful.
| If we are not our brothers. keeper we are
his murderer. The gravest questions
which the nation is called upon to settle
are between the rich and poor, and the
learned and the ignorant, those who
| have had advantage and those who have
not. To unrayel the social tangle they
need to touch hands under fuller knowl-
edge of each other. The difficulty is to
bring the two classes together,
| the one which has had ad-
| vantages and the one which has
| not. And there new system comes in,
| the fraternal 1t belongs to the man
who has had an education rather than
| the man who has not, to make the first
| overtures. The second way of reaching
| people whom you wish to help is in an
! organized way like the Fraternity. Here
| you have what business men would call
a plant, the means of education. The
work Of all such organizations ought to
| make better homes.
| Misses Knight and Kicker sang vocal
duetin very pleasing manner.
| Other Remarks.
Rev. DIR. Blanchard referred to Toyn-
bee Hall, and is hpoeful sometime of
seeing the Portland Fraternity similar
university.
| Hon. G. F. Libby referred to the fact
that SO years ago he entered the building
as school boy and had been in it in the
capacity of a school committeeman since
| then and he was glad to see two such in
situations are to occupy it, though he
fought the Deaf and Dumb school
lould be under the fostering care of
tle state.
Rev. DR.. Merrill was the last speaker.
FL told of the good work done by class
e, in stenography, dressmaking and
cooking under the auspices of the Second
Parish church.
York County Pomona Grange.