The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-05-30
CONFERENCE
CHARITIES


employment. Inc 1act is emphaSlzeu
that this work is in no degree perma-
ment, and employees are encouraged to
seek better jobs and assisted to do so.
The educational possibilities of labor
tests are great and a wide field Is open
in that direction. The incubation of
better habits of living, regular meals,
cleanliness, greater skill in work. and a
corresponding Improvement in wages
will help much in building UP the char
acter of the depressed, respondent and
destitute classes.
Mr., r. e. Lincoln of Boston, director
of the Boston Cooperative Building
company, which aims to do away with
the slum by getting the lower classes
into sanitary dwellings, and seeing that
the dwellings are kept in a healthful
condition, then described the system
employed, and showed a model of the
tenements constructed.
j. F. jackson, secretary of the st.
Paul, MINI, associated charities, then
told of the system used In st. Paul,
by which two members of each church
in the city are placed on the board,
and thus most perfect cooperation Is
secured. He also said that the systems
tried at the Pingree farm In Detroit.
Mich, Is satisfactory.
Mr.. Orozier of Grand Rapids and DR..
Walker Of Philadelphia also gave short
interesting talks
Frederick Almy, secretary and treas
urer of the Buffalo G. o. S., and of
Fitch institute, then read paper treat
ing Of the test plan. He said that the
best kind Of relief which can be given
is that of work.
1t saves those who take 1t from the
feeling of being paupers. Five thou
sand dollars spent in a municipal labor
yard means $4,000 of relief in wages
This, however, is not ALL 1t closes the
doors of city poor relief on an army Of
loafers.
The paper then described the Gardner
plan. which is a species Of municipal
1abor test.
AT the conclusion of this paper let
ter was read from Mr.. c. S. Loeb, sec
rotary of the charity organization in
London. In the letter Mr.. Loeb said
that the plan of municipal labor help
was not feasible in England, as there
a great crowd of unsatisfactory charac-
tiers, who don't intend to work regular
ly, is attracted. This is also the chief
difficulty in the administration of the
German labor colonies. The system, he
thinks, also creates the idea that In any
and every emergency the people may
rely upon the locad authorities to pro-
vide work. 1t helps still further t[Hcon-
gest labor when everything should be
done to promote the exactly opposite
process Of Dispensing the unemployed
to new places, where they may find
work.
Mr.. w. G. Fairbanks, superintendent
of the Connecticut reform school for
girls at Middletown, then spoke on the
subject What does the state owe in
care and education to children whose
parents prove unfit to properly rear
them" He said in part: The real
problem is no so much to improve pris-
ons as to abolish them. To what ex-
tent the state should be allowed to in
terfere with family relations in behalf
of the better training of the children
is at present a rather complicated legal
question. The time to begin to save
is with the prattling child.
In many cases the state must take upon
itself the training of children. A re-
publican form OF government, more
than any other needs to have the boys
trained to become men worthy of being
and the girls to become
women worthy of being the mothers of
such sons.
The third number on the program
was to have been a number of stereopti-
con views by Robert Treat Paine, but
had to be omitted.
Rev. DIR. Dana was the next speaker.
He said in part: We have come In this
to learn a great deal of how
the other half live. And much wider
our vision is now. We have found that
1t is not all poverty, coarseness. vice
and misery. We find as we'll, heroisms,
tastes for art, neatness and ambition.
1t has been asserted that the greater
part of those who enter prison walls
are those whose education has been
neglected. 1t is now being seen that a
great mistake has been made in not |
caring for those of comparatively ten
der years-those under school age.
Conditions which produce children de-
linuuents have been divided into two
general classes: 1, The conditions and
qualities which reside within the per-
g. conditions without, and hav-
ing to do with the environment The
herding together of people in tenement |
houses is to blame to a great extent |
FOR the how morals among children. |
More emphasis should be placed on the |
home. And there is movement at |
present towards the better housing Of |
the poor.
Rev. Luther r. Ludder of Lincoln, |
Neb., ga.ve the closing address on Elmer |
gency Relief Work in the Recent Dis |
tresses in Nebraska" 1t was an ex- |
ceedingly interesting address, and was |
listened to with great interest
OFFICERS FOR THE ENSUING |
YEAR.
President, o. o. Wright, Wisconsin,; |
vice presidents, Professor Francis Way |
and, Connecticut, L. L. Barbour, Mich |
gan, Mrs. C. r. Lowell, New York, |
Archbishop Ireland, Minnesota, Presi- |
dent Gilman, Baltimore; general secre-
tary, H. H. Hart, Minnesota; secre-
taries e! P. Bicknell, Indiana, j. H. |
Gabriel, Colorado, ]. p. Byers, Ohio |
w. T. Rolph, Kentucky, j. ]. Kelso,
Canada, Mrs. Fred e. Lee, Michigan;
treasurer, John M. Glenn, Indiana; Off
,iaI reporter, Mrs. Isabel c. Barrows, |