New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-30
UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY.
ADDRESSES BY RICHARD WATSON GLIDER CARL
SEIZURE AND OTHERS.

ADDRESSES BY RICHARD WATSON GLIDER CARL
SEIZURE AND OTHERS.
The upper parlors OF the City Club were crowded
with an interested gathering OF the friends OF chart
table work Yesterday afternoon when the University
Settlement Society held its annual meeting. se'h
Low presided James y. Reynolds head worker OF
the settlement. gave brief account or the history
ard scope Of the society and the admirable work II
maintains Henry Holt. Richard Watson Glider. Pro-
fessor W. NJ Sloane. " +. Macy and John r. Mac
Arthur were elected to fill vacancies In the council,
class Of 1900 Mr. Glider then read an address OF I'M
usual interest and force THE University Settle
ment and Good Citizenship prefacng II BY express
Ing his approval the tenement-house provisions or
the Greater New-York Charter He said in part:
cit must not be supposed that the University SEX
Element has to deal only with the very 1t Is an
Intellectual moral. social and civic centre and ex-
change for a large nelghborhood; for people VINO
make use Of for their bet,erment and for that
Of their companions.
Good citizenship is the keystone Of such an nsti-
tuition as the University Settlement. There must be
mutual and manly helpfulness all along the line; the
bringing of the best that is In every individual en-
gagged In the work 10 a common storehouse; patri-
otsm not forgetting that the neighborhood Is part
OF what should be a pure and noble city. ana or
country that shames humanity If 1t falls to be the
pures and nobest as it is the freest. upon earth.
President Low next introduced Carl Schurz. who
was warmly received. He gave his hearers prac-
teal and cogen discussion of the problem Of poverty
and bespoke the heartest financial support for the
society Il do not believe" said he. that the rich
growing richer and the poor poorer. thorough.
careful and candid investigation will show that the
general tendency is 10 equalization. But with the
present development Of the higher aspirations Of the
poor the contrast in conditions is more keenly feit,
especially in large cities. Agitation by demagogues
sharpens these differences Everything calculated 10
make them more obtrusive should be discounte-
nanced. Private muniicence has done much TO OBJ
literate them. Mr. SchurZ referred In closing to the
charity of the late William Steinway in terms of deep
feeling.
Mr.. Low then announced that the debt of the
ciey had been reduced g. 40 and the building fund
raised $4,000 adding that the council would buy
property for building purposes when $4,000 had been
added 10 that sum- He then read the list of officers
Of a womans auxiliary which the council had de-
clded 10 form. and spoke briefly on city government
and the duty OF the we-todo TO take an interest in
IT, Mrs Esther Hermann subscribed $1,000 the
funds OF the society at the end Of the meeting. The
officers OF the auxiliary are: President Mrs.
Schuyler Van Rensselaer,: vice president Mrs John
A. Lowery; honorary vice-presidents Mrs. II. f. Cut
ting, Mrs. William Jay, Mrs. +. T. Kinnicutt. Mrs.
A.. l.. LOOMS, Mrs Levi p. Morton, Mrs w. c.
Whitney. Mrs Lorard Spencer, Mrs. J. ". Pinchot,
Mrs. Henry G.. Potter. Mrs. W. II schienelin and
Mrs. J.. w. Vanderbilt; treasurer. Miss Edith Ken
dali; secretary, Miss Florence Dixie.