New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-13


About a thousand people are entertained and In
etructed weekly at Whittier House. the social set
Element Of Jersey City. by Miss Cornea Bradford.
bood worker and her assistants. These attendants
frenuentlv include three generations, from the
grandparents, who hobble out to the civic League.
20 the babies in arms. who appear at the mothers
meetings.
Whittier House is not a charity, the people pay
Ing for what they get there and being received on
the footing Of neghhors and friends. Lessons in
all branches may be had for five cents apiece Inc
dispensary charge for consultation and medlclne Is
25 cents. The kindergarten children pay one penny
a day for their instruction.
The big house at No ia Grand-st., that Miss
Bradford hired two years and into which she
moved with three articles of furniture and $40 In
heg pocket. has already proved inadequate Tor inc
use of the settlement and within the last few days
the head worker has been obliged 10 hire haIf OF
another house in order 10 provide for the neces-
sites of the establishment There are ten resi-
dent workers. some of whom are employed during
the day. and give their services for triiling sum
70 the clubs and classes which are held at night.
In most cases the so-calied salaries Of the in
structors are returned once to the general fund
The settlement. work is divided into three distinct
branches-the educational the social and the Geo.
nomic Their. is a resident physician DIR. Florence
De Hartc: resident trained nurse, Miss Bronis,
both Of whom cooperate with Jersey CITY physi-
clans. DR.. De Harte has charge of the dispensary,
and says IL more than pays TOT llSeII. n gay UT
two ago. when the doctor gave an emergency
lecture at a mothers meeting, the trained nurse
brought in bed. and gave practical lesson on
how TO care for a sick person. This is only one
instance of the help mothers are getting at Whit
tier House. Once a week two OF the neighbors are
asked 10 dine and the settlement workers fire.
quently dine with the neighbors in return. The
most cordial relations exist on both sides.
Miss Grace Farrant, teacher Of Greek and Latin
at the Jersey City High School. lives at the set
tement, and spends many of her evenings pre-
pairing young people for college.
This is the only settlement in the Union that las
a newsboys club The latter. under direction of
erect a newsboys' home.
BUSINESS METHODS FOR CHILDREN.
Messengers and telegraph boys have had club
started for them. There seventy children in
the kindergarten There is a penny provident bank
connected with that OF the same name In Ncw-lork.
The newsboys bark their money Friday nights.
They are all equipped with bankboots. TIE other
children OF the neighborhood have the use OF the
bank on Monday, Tuesday wednesday 3nt Thurs ,rS
day nights. At the Civic League. held iorfmghtN.
for the benefit Of working men and women lectures
Thirty-ive young women have banded themselves
together for seli-improvemeni. end named thcm-
sse N C Cme Siu ~ ,a 49, - once, =
ioId,, once month 'u'E nav, Il .o'.ni' On'' ."
month they sit about table ana sew. While some
one Of their number reads aloud, and once a month
they give an entertainment. On nursery eV'inlMes
Miss Smiley speaks TO them ON physical culture.
structors Young women are taught dressmakins.
stenography, bookkeeping and cookery; There is
known ne a. The Ioui3 AlSo,. The Lend-a Hand
and The Little Mirams. Miss Natalie Stohr gives
what she calls a childrens hour filling the time
with music. games ana story telling.
There Is an advanced kindergarten club. pri-
mary sewing class. an advanced sewing class, an
elocution class a German class dancing class;
circulating pictures and book club. question and
reading class and summer Work and Flower
1000 bouquets and sent 800 children and grown
people TO the country for a fortnight
MISS BRADFORDs EXPERIENCE.
Whittier House, unlike the college settlements. is
maintained by voluntary subscription. Miss Brad
ford first engaged in such work at Mansfield House.
East London, aad later with Miss Jane Adams. at
Hull House Chicago She gave the Jersey city set
Element its name because of her warm. personal
friendship for Whittier. and because of his we'll
is motto these words Of his: He serves Thee best
who oveth mos his broih hers. ana my own ,u
nressed desire TO help the work one room each
bas bcen equipped by the Young Peoples Asso-
ciation OF Bcnnd Brook; the Kings Daughters OF
icrs Of the T'niversaiis Church. Jersey city, and
the Christian EndcavOr Society Of the second Re
Of @rsev Civ furnished the doctors oice Mont
John Gridi,h. of Jersey city. room and office for
the head worker ,,,.a l.,..a,,, ,,raafors
The resident workers are Miss Gornea brId ay,
Miss Lopse g. f1rrI Wdry W Wiapd Natae siohr
9ga Ms e CharIos H. '"Ne'' '" "
OIi bc s1 Ddo is in charge OF Miss Elizabeth
barbour. the Mothers club Is managed by Mrs. T.
S. DaTcy; th@ Lincoln club. by Miss phillbrOohk
Louisa Alcou club 0y Lillian Vanderbilt; the Lend
a-Hand, by Natal!c Stohr the Pr,mG sryy se%ng
Wrinkle: advanced sewing class BY Cornona y P9s,
and Matilda MacBrce: The Little Mirams' Dy
Miss Barbour. the millinery class. by Mfs n MAY
Blair; the dTossmaking class. By Mary Degad"eh
the bookkeeping class. by Miss EleanoL " 9od ,ne
man class by Miss Landon the at class by r.liza-
beth Hunt: the dancing class. ~ tlZiD.,h. W,
Cruttendon. the Penny Provdent Bank. by Natalie
s,ohr; the chllGrcs hour BY Natalie s3n n tne
Circulating Pictures and Books CluD by MISS o,
nclla Post ana the Cornelia class by MISS BRAD
ford.
WOU4V'S PAGE APPRECIATED.