The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-16


the sanitary and aesthetic betterment
of the city. Each club has appointed
delegate, who. with the president
of the club. will constitute a committee
to arrange plans of action A lecture
course ON civic improvement is planned
for the early fall. and it is hoped to
secure Prof, Charles Lueblins head of
the sociological department of the Uni
versity of Chicago. for a course Of six
lectures in January and February.
The governor of New Jersey has ap-
pointed a commission of three men
and two women to report to the next
legislature in the matter Of the ad=
visibility OF State Reformatory; for
Women. The Newark News ,Says;;,,f,a
THE governor has selected commits
siotiers who are known to have a spe-
ciaf fitness for the duties they will be
called upon to perform. - OF
the two women members, Mrs Alexan-
der is prominent in church and chart
table work in the state, while Mrs.
Blackwell has been foremost in urg-
ing the necessity fol. a woman's re-
formatory. More than q year ago she
advocated the plan IN an address be-
fore the State Federation of Women's
clubs, and as a consequence that or
ganiZa ton committed itself in favor Of
the project. AS president of the Po-
litical Study Club of the Oranges she
has continued to- agitate the subject,
and in other ways she was prominent
in bringing the matter before the legis-
lature.An attempt was madeztog de-
feat it by persons who took the ground
that the state could not afford to build
and maintain such an institution.
Others held that all attempts to re-
form women after they had passed the
age at which they could be committed
to the stat Home for Girls were usez
less. as they We're then beyond redemp-
ton. In spite of this opposition. how
ever. the solutienA prevailed In the
past few years New Jersey has made
a greatxadvaneeein its system of pen
ology. The establishment of the Rah-
way refofn1atory the PROVISION for I'M
determinate, sentences the changes in
the reform schoolsaIhe creation of
probation officers aFdE Juvenile courts,
and the abolition Of the lockstep,
shaver heads. and striped clothing in
the state prison aEse,s reforms that
should be followed by the creation Of
a woman's reformatory."
The two women represented on the
commission are Mrs Alexander, of
Hoboken. and Mrs. ioFHnma l.. Black
well, of Orange. ) 5so.
The largest gift tovRadcliffe college,
though by no means the first, from the
Canta5rigia club of Cambridge, is a
fund amounting to half. the money re-
quired for the foundation of the schol-
arshfp called the CaItabrigia scholar
a resident of Cambridge.
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me
Aro+lar ,,,+o,o,.e,. 2ti,et - ~
lege, is that Of Miss Annette P. Rogers
of Boston. She has established as an
experiment for two years Fellowship
sufficient to provide support for a
graduate or special student of Rad
cliffe, who shall live for eleven months
in the year at the women's residence
of the South End house, Boston. The
holder is to devote the last one-half of
fer time ito the original investigation
of some concrete problem of the city
life of Boston" The first incumbent
Of the fellowship is announced to be-a
Radcliffe graduate of the year 1901, a
young women who is already valued
worker liz the Associated Charities of
Cambridge.
After ten years of effort ON the part
of patriotic societies the plan to pur-
chase the Betsey Ross home in Phila-
delphia, where the first flag of the
thirteen states was designed and made.
mas reached point where only few
thousand dollars are now needed to
complete the purchase price The di-
rectors of the American Flag house
and the Betsey Ross Memorial associ-
alton, have. by their. plan of ten-cent
subscriptions from the people. prac-
tically saved the home and it is now
their plan to reconstruct and isolate
the structure. The elittle house is at
present so closely surrounded by tall
business houses that it is almost i'm
possible for stranger to find it. The
societies desire to acquire and tear
down the adjoining buildings, and turn
the entire square in Which the house
stands into a public park The same
plan has been projected for Fraunces'
tavern in New York.
Another suggestion is that of plant
ing around the house thirteen trees,
each typical of the state from which
it was transplanted. The United States
department of agriculture has fur
nisfed list of trees. (which might APP
propriately stand as emblems of the
thirteen original States. They are as
foil ows: New Hampshire, white birch;
Massachusetts, American elm; Rhode
Island, gray birch, Connecticut shell
bark hickory: New York, sugar maple;
Jersey, Jersey, or scrub pine; Pennsyl-
vania, hemlock:, Maryland, chestnut;
Delaware. white oak; Virginia, Vir-
ginia. or Oldfieid zine; North Carolina,