Evening star., 1901-12-10
NEW METHoD PROPOSED
PROGRAM FOR ANNUAL MEETING OF
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES.
Justice Brewer to Deliver an Address
e
ILLUSTRATED Lecture by Sec
retary Weller.

A great deal of interest is being mani
Tested throughout. the city In the new
method to be followed at the twentieth
annual meeting of the Associated Charltles,
to be held Tuesday evening, December H.
In the lecture hall of Columbian University.
Instead of formal written reports with ory
statistics the entire review OF the past
years work of the Associated Charities Will
be given in the form of new stereoptlcon
views. The very few figures which need TO
be given will be thrown upon the canvas.
Mainly, the review will be composed OF In
teresting, typical stories of distressed fami-
lies and needy individuals who have been
helped to help themselves. Pictures OF MD
den alleys, neglected neighborhoods ana
poverty-stricken homes will be displayed;
The pictures to be used are being prepared
especially for this meeting, so that people
who have heard the earlier lectures OF the
general secretary in this city Will .nnd that
the review on Tuesday evening Is entlrely
new. =
The stereopticon lectures will be entitled
I'm Washington's Byways and Hedges IL
will be delivered by Mr.. Charles Frederlck
Weller, general secretary of the Associated
Charities, who was recently called TO TINS
city from the Associated Charities OF Chi
cago. The plan of making the associations
annual report in the form OF interesting
pictures is one devised by Mr.. Weller, and
was uSeu Dy IlIl III tue SHlSa6o <nSSoSAoeNN
Charities.
Justice Brewer to Deliver Address.
Justice David ]. Brewer has consented to
deliver a special address upon this occa-
sion. He will speak briefly, occupying only
the first fifteen or twenty minutes Of the
meeting He will probably speak upon the
general theme, THE Citizens Duty to the
Charities Of His City" Justice Brewer is
known not only from the fact that he is
member of the Supreme Court of the United
States, but also as speaker OF special
force and eloquence. The members OF tne
board of managers of the Associated Charl-
ties have considered themselves very fortu-
nate In securing his cooperation for this
twentieth annual meeting.
Judge A. B. Hagner, president OF the AS
ISOLATED Charities, who was born in this
city and has long been intimately identi-
fled with its important public affalrs, Will
preside.
The general program will begin promptly
at o'clock, and it Is expected that the
meeting will be closed by about 9:3O or 9:45
pm. A business meeting will be held, how
ever, from 7:15 to 7:45 o'clock AT this
time the election of the new board Of man
ayers for the new year of the Associated
Charities will be held. All members Of the
association are privileged to vote, member
ship simply involving the payment of So
annually toward the support Of the Asso-
ciated Charities. The general public Will
be welcome to attend this business meet
ing. In the past the annual meetings OF
the Associated Charities have not been at
tended by a large number of people. The
policy for this meeting has therefore been
greatly changed. The one hundred new and
interesting pictures of neighborhoods with
which the ordinary inhabtant of Washing
ton Is not familiar have been especially
prepared. and it is expected that these will
attract an audience which will tax the full
capacity of the auditorium at the Columbian
University. All persons interested are ex-
pected to attend-atg = -r :. -.s..
At this meetingsthe general secretary will
speak of new plans for the future and new
work which has alpeadyl been begun by the
Associated Charities. This will include men
ton of a new social settlement which has
been opened in affiliatten with the Asso-
-ciated Charities, also a description of
new office opened at 17a0 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. northwest, social center, and pic
lures Of division conferences, a Conference
Glass" for Persons Interested In Friendly
Visiting,' and special conference of col
ored volunteers who have been enlisted to
serve as unpaid friendly visitors, each to
one or two colored families