New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-19

fllo. y Y: Mr.. Anna Garlin Spencer the writer
~ Providence r. J.: Mrs. Mary Robert Smith,
professor. Leland Stanford. jr.. University, CALI
fornia. formerly professor at Wellesley college;
Miss Mary Bosly. New-York city. and Miss Carol
Han Cooke Nassar College.
TO me collcsr .lrl DESTROYS Of dong great good
10 great numbers and not oversocitous 20 acquire
fortune" said the secretary ~ the Charity Organ-
zatlon Society yesterday. there il scarcely line
IF work tha; affords better opportunity than that
OK charity worker. To the properly trained a
comfortable lrcon" is assured. o. sixty IN the
employ ot the society at present. AL are women
save four. The rank and file receive a salary from
$40 - SO a month"; district agents tGo 20 So, while
a tew more responsible places command higher
remuu'raton Philanthropy. understood Row
adays is competitive With teaching The prcfes-
sion o.. charity worker Is not yet definitely defined
u is in ru .;.3rA oaic state
But 'Ae day mas passed when The hroken-down
minister Ct Guaptatri Sunday teacher
can hope 60 else out existence by Tending 10 the
charity distributions a. parish. by process
Of gradual evolution trained service. secured on a
business basis ia being recognized az the most
sane ANA effective way of discovering the needs
The establishment Of general training school
for professional workers In charities and sOrrcc-
time THAT nos is the accepted time for csta5-
lHhinE such school Is generally ro-osnized by
There are probably no; less than five hundred
persons IN New-Noik alone who are engaged In
work for which s-ch training would ne desirable
Paying places ia his kind Of work steadily in
crcIslns. The great need IS definite organization
to TIA, siaryi by the civil inechanie.ca. or cleo
trcal ensihccr. FOR example. is lacking.
The Knowledge at hand has been slowly and
expensvcly gathered in the personal experience OF
cnch worker Tentative effort toward a training
schoo. has been made at Boston and Baltimore.
The associated charities Of Boston require agents
In training To agree In advance 10 remain for three
years In III, service OF THAI society
II IS In response to pleas made at the Toronto
National Conference by Miss Frances K. Morse, OF
Boston, and at the annua. meeting OF the Ameri-
can Academy OF Political and socla Science In
secretary of the Baltimore Charity Organization
Society, that Il move In the direction OF some
that the New-York training class IL opened 1t is
not expected that "A thorough training VIII be I'm,
parted IN six weeks. No diplomas or degrees Will
be conferred. Future employment Is not promised
those who enroll as students.
II Is the first time in this country that the ex-
pertinent ~ teaching and training philanthropy
hand-in-hand Will have been tried As d contribu-
ton to the proposed professional school the
suits of the summer class will be OF paramount
the have ,s%%sTed their
Cune Lindsay. University OF Pennsylvania; DR., f.
K. l.. Gould. Mrs Gendower Evans. Boston: Ma
Charities. n. y; Or A l.. Mcdonald. Professor
Richmond Mayo-Smith. Columbia University: Miss
Agnes s. Brennan. superintendent OF the New York
Training School for Nurses; Mrs. Roland &. Lincoln,
Boston: and DR.. Albert Shaw Editor Of THE Re-
view OF Reviews"
Something OF the nature OF the study that will
be pursued may be CLEANED from this brief sum-
mary OF the programme:
During the first week the subject OF charity
ganiznton ard general private phianthropic work
Will be considered with visits to the offices In the
Charities Building. industrial agencies Of Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn. and other private charitable in
stitutons The second week viii be devoted to the
care OF dependent and delinquent children and the
third week study will be made OF the public chari-
table Institutions, with Addresses FROM the several