The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-26
A CRIMINAL Law SETTLEMENT
THAT rs WHAT JEROME'S EAST
SIDE HOME WILL BE.

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Jerome's BODYBUILDING for Meet
ines without Ginmn Attachment
There are some people In New York who
thought that District Attorney Jerome was
doing an original thing when he moved
his CITY home from Washington Heights
down 10 Rutgers street, OF the edge OF the
Ghetto. Very few people realize that there
are in this city thirty or more places where
neonle live 10 do what is called settlement
work. And little as the District Attorney
nav like II, his new home VIII practically
be a criminal law settlement.
of these settlement houses about fifteen
are south Of Fourteenth street and In them
lice about one hundred men and women
who are doing just what Mr.. jerome Is
ooinv 10 do, living in a part OF the city
,ha, Il dissgreeable TO them In some ma
,erial way so that the people who are forced
Inv noverty and other circumstance TO
live there NAV learn how TO make the most
az themselves and their families against
heavy odds.
Mr., Jerome laid down his opinion OF the
Last siders' mental and moral condition
several times during the campaign In words
that fairly express the thought OF most OF
the advanced settlement workers. He said
he believed that the average man below
Fourteenth street was rather more moral
and more thoughtful than the average man
above the dividing line. He said that
because these people were very poor,
wicked and avaricious men took advantage
Of them, and because sometimes they
we're not familiar with the English Ian
guage they seemed to be ignorant of a
great many things on which they were
thoroughly well Informed.
1t is rather hard for some folks not ac-
oualnted with settlement work to under
stand Why people such as those described
by Mr. Jerome do not resent the coming
among them Of comparatively rich people
who advertise the fact that they are max
,ng sacrifices in order to live among the
lowly. The workers in the settlements
However find very little such resentment
They say that the resentment Is not lacking
because the people lack pride. Men and
women who know the resident OF the East
Side well say that he Is the proudest man
In New York and the most suspicious OF
any attempt to patronize him or make him
dependent. But in the neighborhood OF
the settlements the people have taken the
workers at the workers own estimate of
themselves as friends and helpers.
So well known an authority on the public
pulse as Col Abraham Gruber has said
that Mr.. Jerome's action in going down
TO Rutgers street will turn his ~neighbors
there all against him. Mr.. Gruber has not
come to this opinion by a house-to-house
investigation in the neighborhood Of Seward
Park but has made the reports Of numer-
Gus politicians the basis for the prediction.
There Is no doubt at all about the resent
ment which is felt by the politicians against
Judge Jerome for going down there. He
complexities matters for them. And IL
he accomplished nothing more tina just
such complications he would feel amply
repaid for making the change that he has.
The three largest and most ambitious
settlements downtown are the University
Settlement at Eldridge and Riytngton
streets, The Hebrew Educational Alliance
In Fast Broadway ai,d tho Roys' Gu 81
Aveuue A and Tenth street. Then thee
are the Nurses Settlement. at 2o5 Henry
street. with it, branches; Christodora
HOUSE at it1 Avenue b, which IL conducted
by young women: the College Settlement
AT g5 Rvington street, the Clark Settle
meni, the Cooper Settlement and the Kings
Settlement, besides a number
Of Institutional mission church settlements
and proselytizing agencies which. do not
under the classification Of settle
rnents except technically they are after
At least most Of the people
lhluk they are, which amounts 10 thes same
hing
Il will Le remembered that Bishop Potter.
one summer several years ago went down
D. 81. n. I.UN.a..N a.. AHaENLU. aNW-.E
10 live for two or three months The He
newspapers az the time voiced some
~ his going down there. No
complaint was heard however, from the
who lived around tlie P-o-Cathedral,
that they felt their pride anfonted by the
presence among them of a wealthy and
citizen whO had a fns home
hall an hOuf walk from the comparatively
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