The sun., 1905-09-06
The COOK IN BLUE PAJAMAS.
THAT'S THE ONE FACT IN SET
TLEMENT HOUSE SCANDAL.
mir. Durisni and Miss iicCaushtry Have
Resigned. but that's Another story
Tales OF Wine Suppcrs and Other
Wild D0ings Denied by Prof. Hamilton.


1t is necessary to record, not as morse
OF gossip, but as historical fact alliet
to the story Of settlement work in Darkest
New York. that tho female cook Of the
University Settlement, at Rivington anc
E1dridge streets, once wore ajamas In the
kitchen and in such rament was surprises
by two Of the men workers. Judge Of theiI
horror!
This came out yesterday, somewhat re-
luctantly, when Prof. j. II. Hamilton, the
head worker OF the Sett lement, was asked
about n report that Scandal had stalked
through the pious halls Of the Settlement
building. 1t was said not only that fe-
male attache had appeared in baby blue
paiamas within sight Of man, but that the
double barelled garment resembled one
possessed by the assistant head worker,
Kellogg Durland, author, Harvard man
and friend Of j. @. Phelps Stokes, the hus-
band Of Rose Harriet Pastor; said, too
that the recent resignation of Mr.. Durland
and Miss Edna McCaughtry, settlement
workers who were once reported to be EN-
gagged, was due to their estrangement.
1t Is true that the young persons have
resigned and that Mr.. Durland's place
the present. but the word Of Prof Hamilton
~ given that neither left the Settlement
for any reason that could reflect upon their
characters.
When the engagement of Mr.. Stoke 3
and Miss Pastor was announced many
Mr.. Durland and Miss McCaughtry would
he best man and bridesmaid, respectively
That didn't happen, and perhaps that was
why the report got about that they had
been engaged and their engagement was
broken later.
Mr.. Durand's friends Indignantly denied
yesterday that Miss McCaughtry had given
him the mittsn because he was wearing him
self out In slum work. day and night, and
not devoting enough time to her Mr.
Miss McCaughtry, who lives at 1852 West
Forty-ninth street. with her mother, who
likewise has been employed in settlement
work, declined to discuss the matter.
But really, all this was trifiing as COM
pared with the adventure Of the paiamas,
most officially told by Prof. Hamilton as
follows;
Il decline to discuss the story which
deals with the withdrawal from the service
of the Settlement Of certain persons. l
desire however, to correct what seems
calculated to create wrong impression
which might do injury to the Settlement
and to certain individuals.
There was in the printed story an intima-
ton that wine suppers have been conducted
in the residence rooms OF the Settlement
building l nsver heard anything Of the
sort. l am quite confident that there is
no basis for the statement.
The story to the effect that one woman
occupant of the Settlement House and one
of it's employees in spirit OF humor one
night danced mazurkn in a pair OF baby
blue pajamas that rescmbled those worn
by Mr.. Durland has for its basis the fact
that two Of the residents surprised the
cook, who is an elderly woman (about so
years oldD, in pair of pa ajamas which some
one had gathered up with the laundry and
which. it should be added. is situated di-
rectly opposite her room, and it was
place where she was little likely to encounter
any one. There was certainly nothing in
the incident that would have warranted
the sensational newspaper story printed
to-day.
"As to the story that several of the Set
tlement workers were dismissed on account
Of their alleged hirtations or galantries
all desire to say is that the dscontinuance
hecton on any one. The work of the Set
tlement is substantially reorganized each
year. will only state with reference to
the reorganization for the new year that
the workers are engaged from summer to
summer and that it is the stated policy of
tne oettNHlcHI W ciIdLHc iIS "oIheIs from
year to year None Of last years workers
was discontinued for reasons that would
in the least reflect upon moral char
tacter."
Whether the cook il still at the Settle
ment, WIN tier shs has broken any engage
ments and Whether she has since made a
bifurcated garment dash to the kitchen was
not learned. One whose authority could
scarcely be doubted said that the worthy
woman never danced mazurka in all
her useful life.