The sun., 1903-05-03

Social Service deals. not with theories or
with experimental, but with the real facts
Of social and industrial progress.
The Government maintains experiment
stations" he says. ours is an applica.
ton station" He calls himself q social
To DR.. Tolman as director Of the insti-
tute falls, most Of the work. both OF gather
ing the facts at first hand Of social and
industrial hetterment and also Of dissent.
duty at the institute, he is doing one Of two
things. Either he is In the factory, the
sweatshop or the slum studying the facts
at close range. or he is engaged in passing
on to others the information he has thus
collected through the medium OF his lect-
ures.
These lectures he has delivered in nearly
every State and Territory in this country
and in most of the leading cities of this
country and in many Of those in Europe.
They have been delivered in drawing rooms
in this and other cities, before chambers OF
commerce and mercantile associations.
in the offices Of great corporations and in
the assembly rooms Of labor unions before
women's olu bs, social settlements, wage
earners' clubs, branches of the Young
Mems Christian Association and churches,
colleges and alumni associations and con-
ventions
During the past winter DR.. Tolman de-
livered a series Of six lectures on present-
day problems and their. solution at Miss
Gould's Fifth avenue home. The sub
substitutes" to .villaee and Roadside
Improvement"
This was one OF the most successful
series Of lectures the director has given
and made for the institute and its work
many warm friends and sponsors. At
the city child was discussed. there was
present as a guest woman who is a men,
Der Of q prominent and influential Italian
family in Rome.
She was so greatly impressed with what
she learned that since her return to Italy
ure by DR.. Tolman this summer in Rome
before the Queen mother on what is being
done to improve the condition Of the Italians
in New York Queen Margherta is greatly
Interested in the welfare Of her people
here, especially that of the children. and
the lecture is likely to take place.
Among other drawing rooms in which
DR.. Tolman has lectured are those of Mrs.
Frederick K. Billings and Gustave Schwab
In this city. Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick In Chi
cago, Mrs. John B. Henderson In Washin gton
and Mrs. Frank Moore in Pittsbufg. At a
in San Francisco one Of those present was
Mrs. Hearst. When the director had con-
cluded Mrs. Hearst quietly sought him and
gave him her check FOR 5000 for the insti-
tute.
On all his lecture tours DR.. TolmAn il
ACCOMPANIED by his wife. She acts as his
secretary and, like her husband, Is an en-
thusiastic worker for the institute. She
not only has much to do with the arrange
ments for the lectures, but Is herself 50
full OF the subjects about which her husband
talks that IL occasion should require she
could, DR.. Tolman says, give them rs we'll
as he does.
But 1t is in the collection Of the raw ma
terial or the facts on which the lectures are
based that Mrs. Tolman renders her husband
assistance that Is absolutely invaluable.
Many Of the photographs OF dustrial
subjects used by DR.. Tolman in illustrating G
his lectures have been ia ken under her
personal direction, and she has spent many
days In the sweatshops or tenement dis
tricts directing the composition OF the
pictures.
When DR.. Tolman first began to take
an active interest In the lire OF work which
now occupies his whole time he was teaoh-
ing in an uptown school. His mornings
being fully occupied by his school work,
Mrs Tolman was then accuet omed to spend
much OF her time on expeditions in search
Of social facts and the photographs TO
illustrate them.
Now when Dr.. Tolman is investigating
IN Industrial or allied subject, Mrs. Toll
man accompanies him and, in addition to
aiding him by suggestions in other. ways,
looks after the distinctively women's side
Of all the problems he tackles Pr. Toll
man saws that by this division Pf labor
he and Mrs. Tolman are able to getlft many
facts and circumstances Of prFM Inn.
portAucs thst neither he nor any fthsr In