The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-05-31

during recent years and of the arriVa
2 of criminals, paupers, lunatics and 9th
er burdensome classes from other coun'
tries. The statutes relating to immi'
grafton We're believed to be effective
The plan was advocated for the inspec-
tion of all immigrants at the ports OF
departure instead of at the ports Of re-
ception as at present, to be made by
agents at foreign ports under the super
vision of the United States consuls.
He said that with the return of pros
perity and the revival of business en-
terprises in this country the tide Of inn
migration Is certain again to set to our
shores and increase in volume with its
attendant evils, unless checked and re-
strained by stringent and restrictive
laws.
After the reading of the paper the
subject was discussed by f. B. San
born and Rev. DR.. Malcolm MEG. Dana
of Brooklyn.
There were several papers on training
schools for nurses read by Miss Linda
Richards superintendent Of the Home
opathic hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss
L. w Quintard, superintendent of the
Connecticut Training school in this city;
Miss Agnes Brennan Of the New York
training schools; Miss Sophie e. Palmer
Of Washington, d. c., Miss Lillian d.
Wald of New York, Miss Marie Bron-
son and Miss Diana G. Komber of New
York, and Miss Louise Darcher.
other papers were read by III. Fl. Hart
of ST. Paul and by Rev. Charles w:
Wendte Of Oakland, Cal.
Rev. Luther p Ludden of Lincoln,
Neb.. was elected railroad secretary yes
terday morning.
AT THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
The final afternoon session of the con-
ference met yesterday afternoon at 2:SO
at the First NJ. E. church. all the sec
tions meeting together. The meeting
| was devoted to an informal discussion
of which the subject was, Personal
Service on the Part Of Managers and
Directors of Charitable Institutions and
Societies., J. r, Bracket Of Baltimore,
who presided, upon calling the meet
ing to order said the discussion would
be a sort of after dinner talk.
Alexander Johnson of Fort Wayne,
Ind, was first called upon to tell of
his personal experience. He said that
he had found that it Is often difficult to
get societies to do what they are or
ganlzed for, and when this is the case
the societies are in a sense bankrupt,
and ought to go out of business. There
Is need of more thorough work by the
unpaid directors and trustees of charit-
able societies. A difficulty under which
agents labor is that they have to fur
nlsh so much Of the machinery and
energy OF the work.
The workers must have true charity
in the heart. Decisions of boards of
charity are reached by the energy of
the agent and through no energy on the
pert of the members of the board.
Mrs. Lincoln of Boston was then asked
to tell of her work, and said in the kind
of work In which she is engaged one
feels that the tenents can help much. |
In her work they do many little acts to |
help her, and always greet her kindly |
when she calls upon them. Some of |
her tenents have lived in the associa- |
tion's houses for fifteen years, and |
show the greatest zeal in the work. |
Some of the tenants, through no fault |
of their own become paupers and have
to be taken to almshouses. In cases of |
this sort. when the persons seem to
feel particularly opposed to going to
lllH dliHSIOuStS OulSldc tllu 10 SlNGlis |
The houses are Kept UP in good con-
dition, but the Improvements are not
all done at once. as the people would
not appreciate them and would undo /
them in a short time. But repairs are
gradual, and the people are always
grateful for them.
Miss Julia g. Lathrop Of the Hull
house, Chicago, then spoke and said
that one to do good work among the
poor and do it where it is needed must
go down among them. They will then
find how extremely like the rest of
they are. There is nothing
like living at the point of action. There
is no hope Of success in the settlements
unless the members go among the
people in a simple, unaffected way
These settlements are very closely re-
lated in their work to the organized
charity associations. They deal with
the same class of people, They ought
to meet in cooperation, and thus make
both methods more successful. One of |
the principles Of the settlement Is that |
aims can't be given to friends. One |
may give the world to a friend, but it |
will not be considered aims, so in the |
the members make friends
Of the people with the people among |
whom they work, and any gifts are not
considered as aims.
Dean Wayland of the Yale Law school
hen spoke of Friendly Visiting Among
he Poor" He said that what he knows
If this visiting is from observation and
lot from experience, and in this obser-
yation it has seemed to him that no
good results come of it. There are
iome isolated cases in which friendly G
,isitors have endeared themselves to | (
he people whom they visit, but there ,
s vastly greater majority who have
Gained the enmlty of the people they
-isit, as the people think that the peo- t
lie suppose they are condescendlng. f
The poor need above all things instruc- S
ion, to be taught better cooking, better
anitary habits and better care of their
and this instruction should be S
iven by persons who know what they g
re talking about The great trouble is c
o know how to supply this need of the v
oor. u
The first attempt Of poor family is d
D see what can be got In the way Of Y
ecuniary supplies from the visitors, o
nd to conceal from them the fact that L