Evening star., 1898-12-14
CAUSE OF HUMANITY
Convention Of American Humane AS
sociation Opens Today,
WELCOMING ADDRESS And RESPONSES
Reports of Officers Read Giving
Exhibit Of Work.
L l 7 OF DELEG ATES

The opening session of the twenty-second
annual convention OF the American HUI
name Association was held this morning I'm
the Church OF Our Father. 18th and l.
streets. Mr.. John @. Shortall of Chicago
the president of the association presided.
and after the Rev DR.. Wallace Radcliffe
had invoked the Divine blessing upon the
association and its work Mr. John b.
wight, president of the board of District
commissioners. extended a welcome to the
delegates to the convention on behalf OF
the citizens Of the District. The remainder
OF the morning session was taken up i'm in
formal remarks and the reading of the re-
port of Mr.. Francis H Row-ley OF Fall
River, Mass. the secretary of the associa-
| ton. and that of its treasurer Mr. f. 4.
Parmelee Of Cleveland. Ohio
The Presidents Address.
President Shortan then formally called
the association to order, saying. In his adj
dress:
Washington has been nobly planned.
nobly perfected and nobiy cared for; Il is,
in its beauty, a source of. pride to all of
| us, especially to those who are not used
TO the luxury of cleanliness under our feet
III 1t were not for the exigencies of the
struggle for bread and butter We would
all be living here. But some of US heathen
remembering your city i'm oiden DAYS gbe-
fore your discovery of Trinidad may
learn the possibility of redemption and go
home resolye to do likewise.
Il speak of this first because II is The
first impression a cleanly person receives
here
Il desire to express our thanks to the
Washington Humane Society for fits invt-
tation and our gratitude TO the Creator
that we are permitted to gather together
once more to take counsel of one another
in the work We are engaged in: To receive
fresh inspiration from thoughtful MINDS;
to lay aside. for these few days at least
all selfish considerations, and devote our
selves TO the forwarding and conservation
of that branch of philanthropy which has
for its object the amelicration Of the suf-
fering fellow creatures. animals and chill
dren. whose unhappy lot has been cast
among the ignorant and cruel or cur race
! Responses to Mr.. wight.
President Shortall called upon Secretary
Rowley and Mr. James NJ. Brown of To-
ledo. Ohio. to reply to the remarks of Com
missioner Wight. which they cid in brief
complimentary terms. Mr. Rowley referred
to the Old song which spoke of a certain
city beautiful for situation and 10y
of the whole world" He said he had never
seen so beautifully situated city Wash
ington, and while it might not lie beautiful
to the whole world, il certainly is to the
whole country. Mr Rowley paid Mr. A =
Pratt of this city very high compliment
for The manner in which he arranged the
details of the convention here, and assured
him that the association is vefr grateful
| therefor to him and to the Washington Hu-
name Society.
Mr.. Brown said the delegates feel CRATE
ful for the kind welcome extended to them
by one of the city fathers, and also ex-
pressed HIS admira ton for the city
The association hopes, he said TO impress
upon the people of the District the respon-
| sibility and value of its work and to enlist
@ rpf rod 70, ha
fact that the people of England contribute
monthly $4,000 for the prevention OF cruel
| ty to Children, and stated that the people of
this country may well conclude that a very
| large per cent OF the evils making neces-
sary such an expenditure in England exist
in America.
DIR. RadciiHe'. Remarks
Rev. DR.. Radcliffe also gave a welcome to
the members of the association say
| ing that as they are not after Off
ces, and not interested in any
but good works, their presence here is
more than welcome and desirable Much
| that the association hopes to correct h.
remarked is due to ignorance. TO want of
thought, and he urged the importance OF
educating the people everywhere to prop
er und erstanding of the rights Of children
and of the dumb creation
The annual report of Secretary Rowley
was next read. The secretary began by
paying A high tribute to the Washington
society and its honored president Mr.. A.
5. Pratt. for splendid cooperation in Sc
curing the success of this. the twenty
second annual meeting. The attention of
the association was then called to the i'm
portance to the local humane societies of
the country of taking up the work of bring
ing about the teaching of humane princi-
pies in the public schools. The idea was
that this should be done in connection with
the American Humane Education Society.
The secretary dwelt at length in the third
place, upon the attitude of the American
Humane Association toward the question
of ViVisection.
He closed by saying: I'VE want. first.
the facts. After that we want the public
to know them. Then We believe that an
enlightened people will demand such legis-
lation upon the matter shall reduce the
suffering involved in this method of re-
search to the lowest possible degree
The summary of the statistics gathered
from annual reports of the local societies
representing the constituent members of
the association was as follows;
Children relieved from distress taken
from evil surroundings, homes found for
them, etc. 32.471: animals relieved from
distress. 101,59S; prosecutions for cruelty
S.4S9: total number of cases investigated,
67.l7S
The report of Treasurer Parmalee was
next presented:
Afternoon Session.
At the session this afternoon, the Rev.
James H. Dennis. president of the Society
for the Prevention OF Cruelty to Children
OF Rochester, New York, read an inter sting
paper on "A Phase of the Work for Chill
dren." Mrs. Caroline Earle White of Phila-
de!phia. president of the Women's Penn
sylVania Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals, read a paper on ''Vivi-
section and DR.. Albert Leftingwell of New
York discussed the reforms made during
the nineteenth century relative to yivisee-
ton.
Among the delegates who registered this
morning were the following: Mr.. and Mrs.
f. Fellows jenkins. New York; Mrs. NJ. L..
Skafter New Orleans: Adrian l.. BlaiSoeH,
Milwaukee; Robert j. wilkins. Brooklya;
Charles II. Thurber, Providence. RI; Jo-
seph T. Snow Bangor Me-; Albert Letting
well, Aurora, N Y; John @. Shortall, Chi
cago; w. A. Fuller. Chicago; Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles r. Frazer and Miss Ellen +. Fra
ger, Canton. Ohio; James II. Denning, Ro-
chester, NY; Frank p. Jackson and +. A.
Brady Columbus, Ohio: Mr.. and Mrs. +. II.
Rowley, Fall River, Mass; Mary 4.
Lowell Bryu MaWr, Pa: Miss n. II