The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-15
RELIEF OF
THE POOR
School Of Philanthropy
TO Be Opened.
A CHARITY ORGANIZATION
Will Have Charge and II Will Be
Intensely Practical.
A CHARITY ORGANIZATION
PROGRAM AND Glass LECTURES.

any destitute person or family" said an
official Of the Charity Organization society
to the writer yesterday. Yet members OF
the class will have ample opportunities to
study the problem Of dispensing relief at
first hand, since 1t IL part of tho scheme
that each shall serve the society IS directed
during the life Of the class. and will thus
be called upon to perform visitation work
alone or In company with q other per-
son.
s'It ID thought that this plan will be
much more satisfactory thar any which
might include the invasion Of privacy by
q number Of class members at the same
time. Persons Obliged to accept charity
naturally resent being plsced on show, SO
to speak, and besides conditions are oever
the same when observed BY a party a. by
one or two individuals"
The work Of the class will begin next
Monday morning. 1t viii be conducted
under the direction of the Charity Organ.
ization society and will continue for SIX
weeks. In effect 1t will be . summer
school for those who wish to study the
best methods Of applying relief to ths
needy, and will be experimental In q de-
gree, since, while two such classes have
been conducted in Cincinnati, nothing OF
the sort has been previously attempted In
one Of the worlds great cities.
Faculty and Clsss.
The faculty" of this novel school, II
the term be allowable, will consist Of the
working officers of tho Charity Orgnniza
ton society and q large number OF special
lists in charitable work. Among the latter
are Jacob A. Riis, author of How the
Other Half Iave;'' Nathaniel Rosencau,
who came to New York from Buffalo SOW
eral years ago to take charge of the New
York United Hebrew Charities; Mrs.
Charles Russell Lowell, DIR. Albert Shaw,
editor of The Review of Reviews; William
Howe Tolman and Mrs. M. Fullerton Of
the Association For Improving the condi'
ton of the Poor, Homer Folks of the Stats
Charitable Aid association, Professor Sam.
ucl McCune Lindsay of the University Of
P~ennsylvania, Colonel George Z. Waring,
former superintendent Of the street clean
ing bureau, and others scarcely less well
known.
1t will be seen that the students Of prac'
teal philanthropy are to enjoy the coun'
sells of exceptionally we'll qualified advis.
ers. It may be added that the names OF
those who will belong to the GLASS make
up Q most interesting list.
x0ey luCluuc OkAo. WAL WV
who was formerly q member of wellesley's
faculty. but for Q year or two, since her
marriage to q professor at the Leland
Stanford, Jr., university In California,
| has been a professor at tho same institu-
ton; Miss Annie Damar Of the Buffalo
Training School For Nurses, Philip b.
Whelpley, superintendent of the Boys club
at Lynn, Mass. Miss Alice Taylor, gen
eral secretary Of the Society For Organic
ing Charity at Providence; A.. A. Tenney
of Columbia university, Miss Norma Gar
vim Of Providence, who is prominent IN
university settlement work In that city
Miss Adeline Moffat Of Northampton
Mass, who has lone much to further thu
movement started by George w. Cable
the novelist, resulting in the celebrated
homo culture clubs I'm various cities, ant
Others quite as worthy Of mention.
In all the class will number about "
persons, nearly every n OF whom Is reg
ularly engaged in charitable work, Will
the exceptions in most cases are coiieg
and university graduates who are desirou
of gaining the sort of practical information
IN sociology through this class that can b
obtained by no other method.
To study College Settlements.
The value Of the course offered by tn
class will DO greatly enhanced for cersai.
of its members by the fact that they WI
be college settlement residents during Tn
whole of their stay here, the doors OF ever
one of the 10 local settlements being ho'
pitably thrown open for this purpose.
In this way practical knowledge OF set
Element work" that could not otherwii
we'll be gathered will be obtained. Hcg'
lar service az Charity Organization socies
visitors will afford thorough insight Int
praotical charity work as In tf
greatest city of the country. Visitatio
work will extend over four weeks OF Il
six weaks' duration Of the class. 1t Will
4 preceded In some cases and followed
others by two weeks experience In the O
fccs of the society, assisting the agent
regular routine work. Besides, each men
her Of the GLASS will DO expected to gi'
personal care to q or more families
mead. families being selected as far as po
sibls who will not apparently require q
after the close of the class.
THE sessions OF the class for tho hearin
of lectures, addresses and reports will
> two daily each day Of the week exceptir
Wednesday. Reports from the secretary
the Charity Organization society or b
assistant will be heard for the first thr
weeks each morning at s:S0. Az socio'
: daily through nearly tho entire course
lecture or address by q specialist Will
' listened TO. Saturday AFTERNOONS ana :
= entire day on Wednesdays VIII BIO deyot
TO paying visits to state and other instit
tions. such o. the woodward OF the Chari
Organization society, Bellevue and OH
: hospitals, almshouses, p~enitentiarics, a.
lums. police stations, jails m the ike.
A Comprehensive Courss.
II will be seen that the students OF pr
y t,cai philanthropy who place themsel'
y under the direction Of the New no
II charity Organization society are going
10 keep pretty busy during the entire
wecks. but the work outlined above IL
all that will have 10 be done by n meal
: class members must make reports OF Wis
;. made, work performed and investigate
entered into, and the reading OF these
ports will - the e:so q. m. feature nea