The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

director of St. JohnIand, country home for children maintained by St. Georges Episcopal Church, of the State Tuberculosis Hospital, of Hartley House, of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, and treasurer of the State Prison Association. one of the noted aims of which Is to minimize the spread of tuberculosis among convicts as well as to secure some opening for them on their release from prison.
 While such men as these are striv- ing to place philanthropic work on scientific basis and are studying It's problems as the scientist does those of chemistry or physics, the purely human side of the question is not for gotten. The Board of Directors of the Juvenile Asylum furnishes two good examples of men whose work Is almost entirely along personal lines: It would be hard to say whether Evert Janson Wendell is better known through the performances of the Comedy Club, of which he is an active and enthusiastic member, or through his work among boys. Between the two he divides all his time, now that athletics no longer appeal so strongly to him. For ten years MT. Wendell, a Harvard man himself and brother of Professor Barrett Wendell of Harvard, held the amateur record for the 100 yards dash and now that he has been deposed from this pedestal of glory he has found consolation on the amateur stage. His serious work, however, he finds in such institutions as the JuvV- nile Asylum and the House of Refugs on RandaIIs Island. With the aid of a private secretary Mir Wendell mana ges to keep up a regular correspond ence with some 6,300 proteges, to all of whom, scattered all over the world as they were, he sent personally a Christmas present last year. In ad- ditlon each of the 1000 inmates of the Juvenile Asylum received present wrapped and addressed to him. Ma chine-like philanthrophy is rapidly be- coming a thing of the past and just as all the work of the Asylum is directed toward giving to each child an indi- vIdual home, so MT. Wendelrs is di- rected toward developing the individual character of the boys among whom he works.
 Similar to this Is the work done by Alexander M Hadden, a director of the Juvenile Asylum, and a member of the State Prison Association; though Mir. Hadden's lies among convicts instead of among younger offenders and waifs. For years he has been among the most prominent men socially in New York, and he Is equally .well-known within the walls of Sing Sing, the spot to which he betakes himself every Satur- day. His object in these weekly trips is to give to the convicts a means of communication with the outside world and to endsavor to secure a fair start for those about to leave it's sheltering fresh start and fair play for former convicts is serious to those who realize the case with which po- lice, fudge and jury can be convinced of the guilt of these men if a crime is committed anywhere in their vicinity. To overcome such diflculties as this, not to place cut flowers in the cells, Is the object of the Prison Association.
 While such men as MT. Stokes and MT. Hunter are living in settlements in the crowded sections of New York city, not as they say themselves, for the purpose of bestowing upon the poor the inestimable blessing of their pres ence but in order to st.ly- at close range and to learn from personal and thor louRh observation the conditions of the problem they are spending their lives in the attempt to solve: while District Attorney Jerome is living in his house | fin Rutgers Street in the heart of the East side where he removed immedi- ateIy after his election more. than three years ago; while Mir. Stokes and MT Ward are devoting themselves in a large measure to the physical we'll be-
 ing of the poor and to their material surroundings: while Mir. Wendell strives
 to aid his innumerabIe individual pro- teges and Mir. Hadden the convicts oi , Sing Sing. there Is a very general re. cognltjon of the fact that the most i'm
 portant thing Is to begin at the begin. tning--to begin with the children. Thus