The sun., 1903-05-03
country and of Europe. as we'll as great
department stores and other business

country and of Europe. as we'll as great
department stores and other business
enterprises on like scale.
we collect from all over the world the
facts Of experience in every line Of better
ment," said DR.. Tolman, in explaining how
the institute works practically. These
facts we file away. In word, we have an
immense library. or museum. OF social and
industrial facts.
For instance, we gather everything in
this country and on the continent about
restaurants or lunch rooms for employees.
Then some day there comes along great
manufacturing concern in Pittsburg that
wants to put in a restaurant for it's work.
men. It would take 1t weeks, perhaps
longer, to get the best information else
where.
we give 1t to them the same day-evcry-
thing they want about the proper kind OF
estimates Of cost, who has done the same
thing or something like it before, names
OF people they may want to confer with; in
short, the whole subject just as they want II !:
To such a company that information would
be worth many times the paltry S25 yearly
fee for membership
Director Tolman told OF one instance Of
thi sort in which Western legislator came
to the institute seeking information as to
q sewage problem. He spent the after
noon at the institutes rooms and when he
went away said:
Now I am going home. I've been visit
ing various cities hunting data on this
question, but I've got more this afternoon
than have all tho rest of the time since 1
started out"
The institute. by the way. has a depart
mennt especially designed to instruct legis-
latore.
Students. particularly OF political econ
omy and sociology, are beginning to draw
on the institute very largely for information
along the special lines in which they. are
interested. The following are few Of the
subjects about which information was
sought one day recently, as shown by the
institutes record: The Rsfiet en- system
Campbell and E. Richards, charitable re-
lief Of poor widows in Europe. social econ
omy, school lunches. night schools. list Of
places in New York Of interest to the
sociologist, good citizenship. school gardens,
references against the use OF tobacco for
aschoolboys' club, and child labor. These
questions came from all over the United
States.
A recent visitor to the institutes head
quarters was Prof Peabody 9t Harvard.
He called to see what he could find in the
way Of illustrative material TO show his
classes in connection with his lectures on
sociology.
He found large number Of photographs
Of sweat shops, pawnshops. improved mu-
European labor colonies, &C., just what he
wanted, he said, and was so pleased that
before he left he placed an order with the
director for duplicates Of almost all the
pictures which DR.. Tolman expects to take
during his coming trip through Europe.
The institutes heads look forward to a
day soon when calls from college professors
in search OF help will be Of daily OCCUR
renee; when the Institute will bo regarded
as one Of the great educational institutions
OF the country, with large numbers Of
students In more or less regular attend
anoe in its various departments. DR..
TolmGn thinks that at no very distant time
Young men OF wealth may be induced to
spend eight months or q year In the insti-
tute studying social and industrial con-
dtions before embarking In business
careers.
we would like to have a young Rookie
feller or q young Vanderbilt or some other
Young man who is going to handle large
numbers Of men during his life, take sort
Of postgraduate course In the institute
before taking the actual plunge into busi-
ness life he said. @We should be able to
give him a survey Of all that has been done
IA his individual field, We would show
him what has been done in the way OF
handling largo numbers OF wage earners
the world over.
sThe amount OF good that the institute
might be able to accomplish In lessening
the dangers OF friction between that young
man and his future employees, by giving
him a proper understanding OF the prob
lems that had confronted Others in the past
and Of the way they met thsm' would be
inestimable.'
Dr. Tolman lays special strese on the
assertion that the American Institute az