Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-04
Committees Completed and Ready
for Work.
PUBLIC QUESTIONS TO Be CONSIDERED
General Plan and Scope Of the
Organization.
LIST OF oFFIC ERs

that VIII have charge of the various sub
jects taken under consideration by this
new institution. The Civic Center is designed
to serve central agency ito co-ordi-
nate. harmonic and help all associations
societies and agencies, public and private
which are working in the city for the pub
lie good" At Its several NEE tings topics
of interest II the citizens of the munich
pallty have been discussed and founda-
ton has been laid for broad field of use
fulness in the future. The plan of the or
ganizaton is somewhat unique. The Civic
Center consists. first, of a center council
composed of the chairmen Of the civic
committees and six councillors, and, second
ly, of the civic committees themselves in
seven departments of work. The officers
OF the center council are DR.. John NJ.
Gregory. chairman; Miss Katharine P.
Hosmer, corresponding secretary and treas
urer. and Mr.. John p. Doyle, recording
secretary. The councillors are the three
officers and Miss Alice c. Fletcher. Mrs
A. l.. Woodbury. and Mr.. Theodore w.
Noyes.
Under each department there are several
committees to care for various subdivisions
of the work. These departments are CLASH
ned under the following heads: Municipal,
education, charities. industries, public
health, public comfort and public morals.
The Municipal Department..
The municipal department is composed of
three committees. as follows: 1-Committee
on legislation and police. Its field includes
reforms and execution of laws and regula-
tons. general municipal reform, new and
needed legislation, civil service reform, po-
lice regulations, appointment and character
of the police, suppression of gambling,
bookinalsing and other public evils which
can only be suppressed by law, taxation
and expenditure. Edwin Willitts, chair
man: Luther r. Smith, Miss E. NJ. Gillett,
Rev. Hugh r. Stevenson, Rev. Howard w.
Ennis
field includes building regulations, archi-
tectural reform, improvements in safety,
convenience and comfort of dwellings,
housing the poor, model dwelling and tene-
ment houses. municipal and private lodging
houses. Rev. D. w. Skellinger, chairman;
G. A. Weber. secretary: G. Wallace w.
Hanger. Mrs r. I. HILL Miss Haidee Will
hanson, Charles II. Verrill, Henry Spofford
and Archibald Hopkins
subcommittee Oh streets and alleys. Lo-
cation and extension of streets and alleys,
especially in suburbs, street paving. park
ing and ornamentation, obstruction or
abuses of streets and alleys street clean
ing, lighting of streets. street transporta-
ton, railways and other public convey
ances, their condition, supply and fares.
Frederick l.. Sddons. chairman; W. H.
Walker. Miss Ethel Glover, NJ. I. Weller.
Miss Ada Carman.
Educational Matters.
The department of education has these
four committees:
l. Committee on sch0ols-Its field: School
building and accommodate tons; school reSu-
lations and attendance; school hooks and
other facilities OF Instruction; courses of
study; compulsory attendance; home studies
and school visitatons: kindergartens: need
full aids for the children of the poor, hooks,
clothing and food; teachers work, wages
and training: school supervision: school
excursions; pensions. Mrs. Carl Barus,
chairman; Mrs. Theodore Cole, Mrs. 8. E.
Stevens. Rev. Frank Sewall, Mrs. E.udora
Hailmann. Prof. w. N. Hailmann, Mr..
John Patten.
2 Committee on manual. industrial and
technical ducation.-ItS field: Manual
training in public schools; cooking, sewing
and other industrial schools; trade schools
and apprenticeships; evening schools for
drawing. and business training for young
artisans and clerks; designing and dec
orative art instruction. Mrs. Annie Toll
man Smith, chairman; Bernard S. Janney
Miss Sadie White. Weston Flint and Edw.
Oldham.
3 Committee on adult education-Its field :
Public libraries and reading rooms. and
branches of the same; book exchanges and
circulation of good literature; lectures for
the people; public museums and branches:
debating and literary societies; reading
circles, Shakespeare clubs; education of
citizens in the duties of citizenship; home
readings for the poor. Miss Josephine A
Gas y. Smith, Theodore Cole, Gen. A. W.
Greeiy. Prof. VIM Taylor Thoms.
D. COMMITTEES on education of the blind
and deaf.-Homes or asyluIns, and schools
for the deaf and the blind; care of the
feeble minded and Of orphans; employ
mentS. amusements, comforts and nursing
for these classes. Prof. Edward A. Fay
chairman; Rev. Jonn w. Elliott, D. D.;
Mrs. Edward A. Fay, Mrs. Olivia F'ernow,
John b. Wight, Miss S. 4. Lobb.
Public Charities.
Three committees are to compose the
department of charities, but at present only
two are appointed, the duties of the third
being assigned to No. l. These committees
are:
l. Committee on pauperism. Its field:
Persons able but unwilling to work; char
ity organization; cause and cures of the
tramp nuisance: prevention of and remedies
Tor pauperism suppression of street and
house-toe house begging; reformatories and
workhcuses. II. Pickman Mann, chairman:
MISS Florence p. Spofford, DIR. Julia Cleves
Harrison. Mrs. Herbert Owen Dr. Anna A
Wilson, Mrs. Pauline Hanson
. Conmittee on the industrious DOOR It's
Held: Persons able and willing to work:
employment agencies. day nurseries, friend
~ visitors and councillors; free gardens,
farm colonies, cooperative workshops:
proyident and mutual benefit societies
economies in food fuel, clothing rents and
funerals; peoples kitchens; lodging houses;
itSdi s.tu' savings, lean and insurance.
Rev. y. NJ. Hiliher, chairman Prof. A. F.
Craven, r.. n. Waters
). Committee on the dependent poor. Its
heidi Persons unable to work: INDECENT in
Nahd ana aged adults, and their children;
children without guardians; almshouses
ana nenes: pensions. Assigned TO first
comm. ttee for the present
Industrial Affairs.
Two committees compose The department
of Industries thus:
l. Committee on the laboring classes
Cor dttions and needs of these classes.
work for the unemployed, municipal and
state employment bureaus and labor ex-
changes; public work in times OF indus
trial depression: aS ancieS for the improve
Hent OF the condition of working men and
women; postal and other savings banks:
cooperative stores; friendly and mutual
help societies; public loan shops; building
associations economies in living; clubs for
mutual improvement, ami discussion of
labor questions; farm colonies and potato
patches Rev. Alexander Kent chairman
Edward T. Peters, f. II. Hitchcock. w. F.
WilloGghby w. II. u. simmons, II. T.
Ncwconrb, Miss Elizabeth Elliott.
:. Committee or relations of labor and
captai-Its field Working hours; time and
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