The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-27
SOUTHERN WOMAN WILL
BECOME SOCIAL ENGINEER"
Mrs. Crnnston Is to study Homes. Hos
pitfalls and Asylumn for American
Institute.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York June 26.-Mrs. Mary r. Gran
ston, the first woman social engineer in
America, will sail for Europe to make
studies from which she will compile a
photography of cooperative distribution
and production for the American Institute
of Social Service.
The institute has as its object social and
industrial betterment through the collec-
ton of every kind of information that will
make the world a better place to live in
and expert advice as to how to use 1t. Doc
tor Josiah Strong is the president. Mrs.
Cranston is the librarian.
II am going" said Mrs. Cranston yester-
day. mot to wander through famous ca
thedras art galleries, but to go into
asylums and hospitals and homes of all
sorts. to see with my own eyes how other
people set about helping their fellows and
are likely to accomplish. l shall visit Brus-
sells. Milan, Rome, Paris. London and Am
sterdam.
HAS COLLABoRATORS ABROAD.
IN most of the foreign countries distin-
guished students of sociology are our COL
laborators. In Brussels there is Professor
L. w. Waxweller director of the Savoy In
stitute Of Sociology; in Paris Leopold Ma
billeau of the Musee Social; in Amsterdam,
Security. and so on. These men will put me
in touch with just the experiments in So
GEOLOGY that l desire TO study. Industrial
efforts will naturally also come within my
scope. | am to be absent till October /,
and shall spend the entire month OF Sep
tember in England.
What is the occasion of the expert In
vestigation at this time? 1t is in response
to call from one of our subscribers Mr.
Stanley Mccormick of Chicago desires the
fullest details on this point, and l am.
CO RI n frr. ,,-If, NV
information once secured will, of course be
OF vast us" to the institute and our uIti-
mate hope is to establish here. as they have
In Amsterdam, Museum of Security. That
includes all known appliances for the safe
guarding of the individual.
Among other things / shall study the
, Trained nurse as she is known in Paris.
There are some phases of sociology in
which the United States are decidedly in the
advance Fresh-air work Is one OF these
and our French collaborators have only re-
Gently sent to us for data along these
lines" '"ese
HELEN GOULD INTERESTED.
Mrs Cranston. who is Southern woman
Is thoroughly in love with her work and
sees in it wide field for women. The So
cial Engineer makes herself thoroughly con-
versant with projects of social benefit and
gives expert advice to those who wish II al
case. When, for instance. Miss Helen Gould
planned her extensive phianthropies for Tho
children OF Tarrytown and her many prof.
ects for the children of the employees on
her estate she did not hesitate an instant.
She invited Doctor Strong. the president.
and Doctor William H. Tolman, the direc-
tor of the institute, to come out and loo.e
over the ground. The cooking school and
other improvements were the result.
Miss Gould is herself one of the Executive
instance that Doctor and Mrs. Toman went
abroad in May to specialize In certain
branches.
THE demands upon the institute for in
formation said Mrs. Cranston. ARE of the
most varied description. Evidently public
OF sociology has no limits. Somebody threw
US into deep water by asking how much
money was collected for foreign missions
In the churches every. Sunday. and what
proportion was given by men and women
But But the greatest poser Of our experience
States Congressman were Christians, We
gave that up at once.
These are the humors of the new profes-
sion. On the other hand We daily supply
suggestions on all lines of social progress
for the help of the children. the bettering
work"
The institute also trains what is known
as the Social Secretary. whose special vo-
cation Is to smooth things over in any
manufacturing plant or large store Its
membership includes both individuals and
wide field
Miss NJ. Carey Thomas. president of Bryn
Mawr: Miss Caroline Hazard. president OF
Wellesley, and Miss Mary E. Woolley
president of Mount Holyoke. with Wash.
ington Choate. William R; Corwine William
associated with Miss Gould on the Execu-
tive Committee.