New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
CIVIC COUNCILS PLANS.
MEN AND WOMEN WILL WORK FOR
MUNICIPAL REFORMS

MUNICIPAL REFORMS.
series of 80 cent suppers. under the direction
Of the various committees will be among the first
events TO be given in the clubhouse of the Civic
Council and Social Reform Club, Jointly The
committee womens industries will have charge
Of the first Of these. about April 15. and Miss
Leonora O'Reilly. head worker OF the Asacog Set
tlement, Brooklyn, II is expected, will be the
speaker of the evening. Mrs V. G. Smkhovitch Is
chairman of the women's industries committee. and
Miss Ada Laura Fairfield. head worker of the West
Side Settlement. secretary.
The new house, at No. 128 East Twenty-eighth-
St. is known the Central Civic Hall, or Club
house for the Trade and Labor and Social Reform
Societies Of New-York. 1t has hall that will
seat go people. a large dining room. reading and
smoking and library. In the basement is a
spacious kitchen. and billiard room may be
opened there
The Civic Council is a recently organized society.
IN which men and women are pledged to work to-
gether for civic betterment. Ernest H. Crosby Is
president. The other officers are Miss Adele Fielde
Miss Elizabeth S Williams and Miss Gertrude
COLES Among the reforms to which the council
is committed are fair hours and fair treatment
for city and corporation employees. charter amend
for the people and not the corporations,
abolition of the sweating system, tenement legts-
lation in the interest OF the occupants. good and
sufficient schools and the using of Blackwels ISL
and as park for the people" The committees are
composed OF resident Settlement workers. DR.. Jane
ment, being chairman of the on tenements
Three members Of this committee at present
visiting tenements condemned by the Board of
Health. which still occupied.
circular recently issued. asking for enrolment,
says: The Civic Council has voted TO enroll as
peoples committee the names of all persons. men
or women, IN all portions OF the city who would
be willing TO work for and support the labor and
reform measures adopted by the council. 1t is
proposed TO form a committee OF one thousand to
work for the measures adopted by the council
These measures being formulated by com
mittee and will be referred to all organizations
federated in the council for immediate agitation.
1T is proposed further ask the persons en-
rolled take part in frequent referendumS on CIVIC
matters, that may have quick way or getung
at the views OF the citizens and may go TO hearings
citizens in the city or in their ward or dlstrlct
desire such and such measure, or are opposed
out entering partisan politics, bring great pres
to bear upon officials and politicians or all
parties In times of emergency. TO support or @ ue,
| feat bill this may be of great value. WIN you
aid us by joining such an enrolment? Such WORK
will cost something and therefore shall ask each
one who joins the enrolment committee to pay .
rolled our one thousand names there Will be a
mass meeting of the committee" Names and ad-
dresses should be sent TO the enrolment coHiih4t-
tee, No Il Bible House.
Almost every Social Settlement in Manhattan and
Brooklyn and many women's organizatlons are rep
resented In the council. Among these are the Con-
sumers' League, with Mrs Frederick Nathan as
delegate; the Church Association for the Advance
| ment of the Interests Of Labor Miss tarrletta a.
Kayser delegate: Friendly Aid Settlement Mrs
Simkhovitch; Hartley House. Miss Helen r Greene
and Miss Mary f. Wight; League for Political Edu-
Lillian D. Wald: Society FOR the study or Lie Mrs
Almon Hensley; Young Women's Settienent, MIS-, rs
held on every third Monday of the month. at
p. m.