Evening star., 1901-05-13

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Katharine Isabel Barrows
taught. They didn't undertake to make
prigs of them. but they We're merely boys
when they left the republic.
Those who took part in the discussion
| which followed the reading of the paper
We're Theodore +. Chaplin. superintendent
| of Lyman School for Boys at Westboro ,
Mass; Charles Fl. Bradley, superint endent
| OF the Farm School. Thompson's Island.
Boston: Mrs: Julia Z. Work. superintendent
OF Work Orphans Home of Plymouth Ind.
| and others.
Port" Rivnn Delegate Protests.
Mr.. Federico Degebau a delegate to the
bau. has lately been admitted to practice
from Porto Rico. made formal protest to
| President Glenn today against having the
delegates from Porto Rico classified in the
list prepared by, the conference among
those from foreign sections" Mr. Dege-
ban has lately been admitted to practice
before the Supreme Court of the United
! States only American citizens being al
lowed to practice before that court. That
admission cited by him as confirming
his interpretation of the terms of the
treaty OF Paris which, he claims, clearly
makes him ap American citizen.
! President Glenn agreed that Porto Rican
delegates in the future should be classified
merely as are other Americans. and that
they should not be placed in the column
| reserved for Canadian and Mexican dele
gates.
Future etings.
Many of the delegates will attend the re-
! ception to Cardinal Martnelli at the Cath
olic University between 4 and 6 o'clock
this afternoon. r. r.,
A large number of delegates went to Mt.
Vernon after . o clock
A Section meeting was held at 2 o'clock
this afternoon. at the Columbian University
| 10 consider Alcohol as a cause of degen-
eracy. the chief paper being read by Mrs.
! Ophelia l.. Arnigh. superintendent of the
State Home for ~JHvsnile Female Offenders
! at Geneya. Ill fhe, reading of the paper
was followed by a discussion under the
| tNe-minute rale.3 nt5.-.su.nSap
sion at Foundry Church, on Needy Fam
flies in Their Homes Mrs. jeffrey R.
Bracket president of the department of
! charities and correction of Baltimore Md,
will read q paper on present OppOrtuni-
ties for Training in Charitable Work.
The report of the committee on needy
families in their homes will be made by
the chairman. Miss Zilpha d. Smith, gen
eral secretary of the Associated Charities
of Boston and Prof. John Graham Brooks
of Cambridge, Mass. will read paper on
| Some Problems Of the Family
The general session tomorrow morning
will meet in Columbian University at 10
O'Clock and listen to the report of the COM
! mittee on the care of the feeble minded
anu epneptlcS, Wnlcn Will De MADE Dy the
! chairman, DIR. VIM. A. Polglase, superin-
! tendent of the Michigan Home for the
! Predetermined and Epileptics at Lapeer,
| Mich. A section meeting will be held in
| the same hall from II 30 m. to pm.
the subject being state supervision of des-
| titute and neglected people
Personal, Sketches.
William Rhneander Stewart, member of
| the executive committee of the conference
| is Il son of the late I.ispenard Stewart of
! New York, and is descended on his fathers S
| side from the famous Scotch family of
| Stewart Mr.. Stewart was born in New
! York on December 3, 1872, and was edu-
| Gated at charlier's Institutes gAuthons S
! Classical School and the Law School of
| Columbia College. From the last he was
! graduated in 1873. He admitted to the
bar, and entered the law Office of Platt
Gerard Il Buckley. He remained with that
| lirm for several years meantime carrying
on private business.
BENG OF independent, means. Mr.. Stew
art has been able to devote much time
and labor to public interests. He was ap-
| pointed by President Hayes in 1880 one of
| the TWO commissioners for the state of
| New York for the worlds fair which it
was proposed to hold in New York in 1883
In 1881 Governor Cornell made him a
member OF the committee of fifteen to re-
! ceiNe and entertain the delegation of de-
| scendants of French officers who fought
( under Rochambeau and De Grasse in our
revolution He thus did valuable service
I IN connection with the centenary Of the
| surrender of Yorktown. In 1852 Governor
| cornell appointed MI. Stewart commits
| sloner OF the state board of charities In
| lS9s he was president of the twenty-fifth
| national conference Of charities and cor
| rections, which convened in the city of
| New York, and made notable address on
! The Duty of the State to the Dependent
and Erring.''
Mr.. Stewart Joined Company K of the
7th New York Regiment in 1871. and served
IN it with credit for nearly eight years He
IS "a trustee Of the Greenwich Savings
! Bank of which his grandfather, William
| =. hhlielander. was an original ineorpora-
tor IN 1883, and Is a director OF the Corn
/ Exchange Bank. 81
charles Richmenas Henderson. also
member OF the executive committee Of the
conference OF charities and correction,
ms chair in the, University of Chicago.
me rudiments of his education he OBJ
tanned IN the public schools of his native
town. after which he attended the High
school or Lafayette, Ind, preparatory to
gate work was spent in Michigan at the
/ Kalamazoo College. He then entered the
Old Chicago University. from which he
graduated in 1870 with the degree. of RA
Three years later he graduated from the
| BAPTIST Union, Theological Seminary, now
Divinity School Of the Chicago University,
! with the degree OF. BID.
He became of the First Baptist
| church OF Terre IHaAte, Ind. In 1882 he
| accepted a call to- the Lafayette Avenue
Baptist Church in Detroit Mich, where he
remained an ten years. which was the length
! OF his pastorate at Terre Haute. Prof
Henderson has long been prominent con-
| trihutor to periodical literature, devotfng
his pen especially to sociological questions.
SERVICES YESTERDAY.
Representatives OF Charities and Cor
| recttOn FIN Local Pulpits.
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