New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-22
WORK OF SETTLEMENTS.
ROBERT A WOODS TALKS ON THEIR LARGE
INFLUENCE

The great work of the Settlement. in the opinion
of Robert A Woods headworker of the South
End House. Boston. is to build up social concep-
ton of the city in its ensemble. Just what MI
Woods means by this made clear in an ad-
dress delivered yesterday before the Summer School
| in Phanthropic Work conducted by the Charity
organization Society He said in part:
s The Settlement in developing neighborhGCd fe
feel tbat Won Iiva OF waai II means 10 NM
BY spreading this sort of Intelligence and spirit
Municipal oysy a m ns h aP will be-
the means Of getting cities of their great
s TUT s55 int as9ys all is in
Gla as Tninthe scene in which the personal and do;
toms but upon causes and upon final results
mpes the se wo9 ana DS clam
WITH accumulated results of evil conditions and
those final results.
&C. OF s the people that make up the nelghborhood
1.-The weak in the struggle the aristocracy of labor
third middle class that the special field of the
Siet'ement hesaamong those not urged by neces-
those above The hungry man and the achieving
eess DG re THIS are col
stands Tor the working class for its religious or
tics it's neighborhood CHARACTERISTICS. There may
| thropic assistance. but the distinguishing quality
OF the Settlement workers in the eyes of the neigh
ton with them for some end which they recognize
as In f fhhlns s9 be desired sired ). nothing r.,
tween the Settlement workers and the people they
We INDUCED in good deal Of sentiment in regard
to common humanity that is not all we'll
ious CULTS. by racial traits burned deep through
and bte4 fh t have and
listed between the well-to-do and the poor classes
nS for nyd ME-. You 9 naye to at the
take not one year, but ten, the unit in building
up common interest with the people of the neigh
should be respected and encouraged hatreds COM
ing out OF them moderated and humanity estao-
ment in keeping together and strengthening the
ditons are 10 greater or less extent being disn-
| tegrated by new conditions
tribution Of the settlement thus far has been in at
f9aGng stimulus to the younger members Higher CHER
| Of immigrant families seek higher grade occupa
hygienic standards are fostered and in some cases
higher moral ones. d. Blaustein told of the dan
gers OF reaching families through the children
e s Il "a m part 1T Of the agedy y Of o
Each generation hnds larger opportunities. and
| by that very fact is separated in sympathy from
fathers can easiest be reached and families brought
| into better relations with each other. ~
The Settlement comes into touch with the labor
union Whatever blunders labor unions make, or
guard of maintaining the wage scale OF the coun-
| try, The new immigrant is used TO lower stand
of life OF the neghborhood and Of the country We
talk OF the educational aspects OF the assimilation
| OF newcomers. The economic aspect is even more
important-to urge them to take over our standards
ae9T ea9ePs IN theS aIse P1 F % N 'e
is one of the most difficult and complicated eco,
| them arc in their homes II seems almost impossible
| 10 erect organization among then yet even mere
| The Rev. Gaylord 8 White led in discussion.
Miss Harriet F. Thomas and Miss Alice Nj. Higgins
| read interesting papers.