The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-11
TWENTY FIFTH CONFERENCE
OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION TO HELDIN NEV YORK IN MAY.

BEHELD NEW YORK IN MAY. Hundreds of Charitable Institutions in
 That City to be Inspeeted-Interesting
 Papers to be Presen ented-Prominen Per- sons to speak-Connecticut Board to Attend.
 The twenty-fifth Conference of Char ities and Correction will be held in New York beginning Wednesday, May IS, and continuing one week. Ses- sions will be held daily morning and evening in the hall of the Young Mems street and Fourth avenue, and the af- ternoons will be devoted to the inspec- tion of the hundreds of institutions in the city, Illustrating every phase of charitable, philanthropic and reform atory work. The annual conference sermon will be preached at Grace church, Sunday, May 22, by the Rev. Dr. William R. Huntington, the rec tor
 and all who have an active interest in practical philanthropic work are in- vited to be present. Papers on select ed topics will be presented by their authors, none of the papers to exceed the limit of twenty-four hundred words. Nearly every phase of the work which comes under the direct supervision of boards of charity or prison form, and such like organizations, will be dis cussed, with the opportunity of seeing the practical demonstration of many reform methods in the New York in stitutions.
 The opening session will be on We'd nesday, May IS, and will be presided over by William R. Stewart, who is not only president of the national con- ference, but of the New York state conference as well. It will be held in the great Carnegie hall, which seats 4,0O0 people, and the meetings next day will begin in the Y. M. c. A. building. The headquarters of the conference, with the offices of the general com mittee, will be in that building. The section on the organization of chari- ties will be at the rooms of the Chari- ty Organization society in the United Charities building, No. 105 East Twen- ty-second street.
 The hotel headquarters will be at the Park Avenue hotel and it is expected that the citizens of New York who have invited the conference to the city will make the meeting worthy of the oc- casions, and a committee of 100 promi- nent citizens has been appointed to do the honors.
 The programme, which has been par tially announced, will include an open ing address by President Stewart and a welcome by Hon. Joseph H. Choate. It is expected that President McKin- ley and Vice President Hobart, Cover nor Black of New York, Mayor Van Wyck Archbiship Corrigan and Bish- op Potter will be present and make brief addresses. Addresses during the conference are announced from Dr. Stephen Smith of New York, F. B. Sanborn of Concord, Mass, the Hon. Josiah Quincy, mayor of Boston: the Hon. Carl Schurz of New York and many well known men and women in- terested in the various departments of work coming under the investigation of the conference. Dr. George H. Knight of Lakeville, Conn.,, will read a paper on "The Prevention of Feeble Mindedness from a Legal and Moral Standpoint"
 Members of the state board of char ities of this state are intending to be present, Charles P. Kellogg, as assist ant secretary, Miss Mary Hall, as one of the committee on reports from the states, Dr. Edwin A. Down, as mem- Der of the committee having under con- sideration the problems of insanity and other members interested in the many discussions that will be brought forward during the conference for dis cussion.