The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-05-05
CHARITIES AND CORRECTION.
Meeting of the National Conference in
Portland.


Portland.
All of the details in connection with the
meeting in Portland, June 1922, of the Ma
tiOnal Conference of Charities and Cor
recti0n have been completed. A great deal
of time has been given to the arrange
ments, both by the officers and by the
several committees made up of Portland
people, who will strive to make the affair
one of the most noteworthy in the history
Of Portland. All of the meetings will be
at City hall. The opening session will be
held at 8 p. m. June Is and will include ad-
dresses of welcome, responses and the an
nual address of the president of the con-
ference, Jeffrey R. Bracket. Phi. D., of
Baltimore, Md.
President Jeffrey r. Bracket has issued
the following letter in connection with this
important gathering:
The officers of the national conference
very earnestly ask that persons who are
interested in the progress of enlightened
work in charity, public aid, correction or
plan to attend the conference which is to
be in Portland, Maine, beginning Wednes-
day evening, June 18th, and closing We'd
nesday evening, June 22nd.
The topics to be considered are indicated
by the tentative program.
These topics will be treated by carefully
prepared addresses and largely by discus
sion. The program is so arranged that the
general sessions will come mornings and
evenings, and the section meetings, which
come in the afternoon, will overlap very
little; with the purpose of allowing the en-
tire attendance on The conference to get the
fullest benefit of the proceedings A chief
aim of the conference is to bring workers
who observe from various points of view
the problems of lessening want, suffering
and crime, problems which are more and
more clearly seen to be of common interest.
The opportunities for acquaintance for
informal discussion, are of marked help
fuIness
The membership of the conference is now
about 1900, distributed among 33S States,
Porto Rico, Canada and foreign countries
There are two classes of membership,
patrons, those who pay $1,000 year, and
active members, who pay $525 year :;
poth receive the proceedings and other pub
LEGATIONS of the conference. The confer
ence is purely deliberative, it has no plat
form and adopts no resolutions by which
anyone is III any way compelled to follow
particular policy.
There will be special rates from trans
portatIon companies and reasonable rates
from hotels A local committee will give
advice as to lodging and boarding houses.
The middle of June is an ideal time in New
England. A sea trip to Portland from New
! ork or Boston is pleasant at that season.
A trip through the White Mountains is
rare treat. Portland is very unusual in it's
situation, and in its opportunities for recre-
alton. From one park on the hillside at it's
eastern end is a view over its harbor and
the many islands of Casco bay, to the
ocean. From the Western promenade is
view, in clear weather, over a wide extent
OF fertile farm land to the White Noun
talnS. The city is in every way attractive.
The hotels are not large, but if visitors are,
therefore, scattered, they will be brought
close together in many ways, for the CITY is
not large, and the section meetings will
probably all be held in neighboring rooms
OF the City hall. The local committees are
made up of very representative citizens.
The cooperation of all persons interested
is asked. IN order to make this Portland
conference well-attended and very help
full one.
Twice only in it's history of thirty years
has this important educational body met
within the New England States in Boston
in 1881, in New Haven in 1895. This Port
land conference will be the 25th anniver-
Sary OF the first session held as separate
organization. The total attendance in
1879 at Chicago was only 146 members rep
resenting twelve States. The movement
Tor enlightenment in charities and cOrrec-
ton is great and growing one Of it,
this national conference is both means
and an expression.