New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-04

Although there is no line drawn as to religion
IN tho work of the Alliance the building is gwen
over To religious work on Saturday, when Inc
large auditorium is utilized for religious service
for adults Nearly all the Jews who attend ser
vice there belong to the ultra orthodox Glass;
and many of them hear there the first arsu-
ments in favor of reforms and the abolition Oh
customs and usages which may have been prop
or IN the Orient but are useless in free AmericA
A remnant of the ancient is preserved by sepa-
rating the men from the women and by having
the prayers chanted in the old way, but, on the
whole the service is of the modified rcIorheu
order On Saturday afternoon about eight nun
bred children attend service. which is conouc'en
In the English language. There Is coheres~
tional singing, and the superintendent speaAS
of the service as nearly like that in the moo
ern Temple Emanuel Sabbath school
THE SOCIAL SIDE.
Saturday evenings and all day SUNDAY Az
given over to social purposes. Forty-one cfube
have their meetings in the Alliance buiidihg' ana
many of these have their meetings on Sunday
Concerts dramatic entertainments and lectures
GRO arranged by the various clubs, and each
endeavors TO Guido the other in making the en-
tertanments enjoyable and instructive. Im
auditorium which has seating capacity FOR mon
than 700 persons is occupied every evening. ans
nearly all the entertainments which take place
There are free For those who do not go TO tne
entertainments there the assembly-rooInS
one for men and one for young women-where
the young people meet and where many OK tne
inhabitants Of that part OF the city get tnen
first glimpse of society"
Among the features Of the institution Is
Penny Provdent Fund, which has l2OOo de-
positors, and Is the means of saving mucn
money for the poor people which would be losI
to them II the institution did not exist
The fourth floor of the Alliance building >
occupied by the Baron de Hirsch School, wnefe
about FIVE hundred children receive instruction
IN the common school branches In the hall %
this department hangs an American flag which
was presented to the school by George WASH
ington Post No 1O3 Grand Army OF the ReS
public In this department, as in all the others
II seems to be the object Of the instructors 70
AmericaniZe the children, and the stories which
they hear and which they repeat refer to Amer
can subjects that tend to inspire them with
love for their new country.
MEN WHO CARRY ON THE WORK.
The Alliance is maintained by about thirteen
hundred members. who contribute according -
the class to which they may belong from IS -
500 year. But in order to do the work prop
erly more funds are necessary, and to aid tne
cause 100000 was subscribed recently, OF whfcA
Louis Stern gave s25,00O Jacob II. Schih, $2sb-
OOO Benjamin Altman. $4,000: Isidor Stratus
10000; william Solomon, $4,000; Felix ID.
Warburg $1,000. and Louis Marshall. S5,ooo'
The officers Of the Educational Alliance arc
President, Isdor S.raus; first vice-presidenL
Samuel Greenbaum: second vice president, AZ
bert r. Hochstadter; secretary. f. NJ Warourf.
and treasurer, Albert Friedlander. Among tns
directors are Louis Stern. Marcus w. MarRa
Benjamin Altman, Benjamin Tuska, Edwin y