The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-13
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FOURTH ANNIVERSARY.
Green and White Celebration
Last Night at Whittier
House.
AMERICAN FLAG DISPLAYED
Miss Bradford Tells Of the
Years Work--Prominent
Workers Speak.
AMERICAN FLAG DISPLAYED

The doors of Whittier House were again
thrown open to the public last evening.
| The occasion was the celebration of the
fourth anniversary of hat settlement.
The house was beautifully decorated in
| green and white bunting. hydrangea car
| nations and dogwood, which later Miss
Bradford and her assistants had brought
| all the way from Mcntclair. There were
| great quantities of it, and the conductor
protested against taking it aboard the
train. However, when things were ex-
| planned the conductor opened his heart.
and the party, dogwood and all, pro-
ceeded to Jersey City unmolested. A
large American flag was draped in the
doorway between the assembly and re-
Eception room. This was the only varia-
ton from the colors of the evening.
green and white. Even Miss Bradford
herself and a number of the Reception
Committee wore green and white, nor was
the ice cream lacking N these colors.
Miss Stimson opened the programme
with a solo. She was accompanied by
Miss Smith; Rev. DR.. Amory Bradford of
Montclair gave a very short appropriate
address, and Miss Bradford of Whittier
House gave her ten minute talk on the
work of the year.
1T hardly seems" said she. 'that four
years have gone by and gone by very
quickly, since I first came to Whittier
House with a rocking chair, a writing
desk, a lounge, a widow and four chill.
dfen, and just ten dollars to begin the
work. Until within the past year Whit
tier House was the Only settlement in
the State. The work has grown, and
every evening, except once a year, when
the directors have it, Whittier House is
filled with the various classes" Miss
Bradford then spoke of the Newsboys'
Club, and of their new home next door,
of the Improvement in the boys them
selves since the settlement took hold of
them; of the Heroes Club, recently or
canned; of the Mothers Club, and several
other branches of the work.
After a solo by Miss Stimson, What
Could Little Doris Do?' Miss Kingsbury,
eHeadworker of the College Settlement,
was introduced. She spoke of the aes-
thetic or artistic side of settlement work,
SAYING, If a settlement stands for any
tnlng 1t stands for aesthetic work. Every
body ought to nave a chance to develop
everything OF value in their nature. 1t
is our duty to develop artistic tastes in
others as we'll as in ourselves. Will power
is the finest thing that can be had ana
aesthetic work edevelopes that; in fact,
there is no class of work that really de-
mands greater will power. We have
first to grasp the fact that there is al
ideal, and then aim towards that IDEAL
Miss sWald of tho Nurses Settlement in
New York. was then Introduced. She told
of the work dome by the nurses in New
York. OF how the nurses took up their
to be benefited lived. OF how the calls
came to them from the ~clergyanen, doc
tors and most encouraging OF all, from
Ths people cagsd t fer sss sist Ct }dr no how ts the
the poor people could pay (often nothing),
and lived with them in a spirit Of true
grown, and has a building of its own
where other branches of the work, such
as Kindergarten, newsboys' clubs, etc,
are taken up.
Miss ovington, of the N~eighborhood
Settlement. in Brooklyn, was the next
speaker. She spoke of the manual or
technical training, of dressmaking, mill
City said she, You have need Of such
work. There is a great deal to be done
by the schools, and a great deal to be
done by the individuals. The first i'm
portant thing is In having a teacher. A
worker. understands her work thoroughly.
In procuring a teacher, there is one dis
to it. You will find that such a teacher
is apt to push out the less intelligent
part of her class. The teacher should be
a resident, or so thoroughly coached by
q 0idCAt VI tAS IiS llbOAi Aoo0s ti1dt oAlO
will know exactly how to handle her pu-
pills" She then went on to speak of the
good influences of dressmaking, millinery
and cooking, not only on the individuals
taught, but on their. families Miss Ov-
ington especially emphasized the infiu-
ences of good cooking, saying that where
the cooking was good there was less
of children, she said that II they had
their palatable meals a day the longing
for cheap sweets. SO injurious to the
4 ~ n 1E 81 r1r116 70 a CrnnfL vtnrfA Il
appear. After all" she said, in conclu-
sion THE question is whether the Set
stlement makes the good more easy and
Rev. DR.. Bradford, before introducing
DR.. Brett, said, "The question is often
asked. Is the settlement work a relig-
mean the Church., it is NOT religious, but
II we mean promoting the spirit Of
G ehriistii + BY & fDe fruits y rel asall know eus
them" Rev. Cornelius Brett, DID,, in
his address ON whittier House and Jer-.
sey Glty.a said SAID t,ma sa+44,ou,an uor,,
has reached hardly. more than the ex-
perimental stage. You ave all heard the
story of the Inventors Wife" How her
husband invented one thing after another
until he inverted a bed which folded with
him inside, and the. wife had to break the
bed to splinters to get him put. And with
the breaking of the bed came the break
ing of their fortunes. Such has been the
end of some experiments where lone
guessed at the symptoms. ana the wrong
remedies were applied, but settlement
work is growing successful. Social set
Elements are founded on fundamental law
ard where are we to find fundamental
law In the Text Book. / go no fur
ther than my Testament for fundamental
He then went on to speak of how Christ
was the first real founder Of Settlement
work. OF how He came to earth, lived
Hamong the people. studies their natures,
their needs, the best way to accomplish
the most good, and, like present workers,
often had not a spot to lay his head.
He spoke in the highest terms of the in
fluence of Whittier House in Jersey City,
comp1imented the Settlement on it's great
success. and took his seat amid much APP
plause. This closed the programme, and
after a social hour, including Ice cream.
lemonade n cake, each guest babe Miss
Bradford God speed" and departed for
the night, sorry that an anniversary
The reception committee were Mrs. E..
s. Davey, Miss Adeline Van Wrinkle, Miss
R0saline Fl. Doremus, Mrs. H. Niese,
Mrs. M. r. De Hart. MD, Miss Myron
Furst, MIS-. "A. j. Newbury, Mrs. Thomas
q. Eaton. Miss M. Katharine Jones', Miss
JULIA Ludlow, Mrs. William Marshall and
Miss Elizabeth f. Johnson.
asS0ciety was out in full force, SO full,
In fact, that the assembly and reception
rooms were mot large enoug To hold the
numbers, and many remained in TIE hall.
WANTS PAv0NIA AVENUE PAVED.