The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-02-10
WILL TALK OF
REFORM PLANS
New Jersey State Conference
Of Charities and Correc-
tions to Meet In Newark
This Month
HOLD THREE DAYS SESSIONS

MEETINGS AND WELLrKNOWN
PEOPLE WHO WILL SPEAK
THE OFFICERS.
The fifth annual meeting of the New.
Jersey State Conference of Charities and
Correction will take place in the Pubhl
Library, Newark, OF February Is, 16 and
II. This is the programme
! First session, Thursday, February Is,
2.30 P. NJ, Medical Charities, Mr. Hugh
+. Fox, Plainfeld, Chairman. (a) Visit
! ing nursing; opening address, Rev. Louis
ShreVe Osborne, President of the Newark
I Visiting Nurses Association. Discussion,
Miss Margaret Pierson, President of the
Visiting Nurses Settlement, Orange; Mrs..
1 w. i. G. Glenney City Union of Kings
/ Daughters, Plainfeld Miss Newell, Ber-
nardsville. (b) Local Treatment of Con-
sumptives, opening address, DR.. j. NJ.
| Wainwright, West Mountain Sanatorium,
Scranton, Pa; discussion, DR.. W. K.
! Newton, Paterson; Prof e. Fl. Loomis,
Princeton; DR.. Gordon K Dickinson,
Board of Health, Jersey City; Mrs.
James Edward Newcomb, President
Stony Void Sanatorium, New York; DR..
| Walter S. Washington, Newark, Chair
man of Committee of the Board of Trade
on Tuberculosis Exhibition.
Prof Loomis viii speak on the advan-
tages of. local organizations af1iliating
themselves with a State organization in
the fight against tuberculosis.
DR.. Dickinson will discuss the work Of
the Municipal Visiting Nurses of Jersey
City, in relation particularly to the tuber-
culosis problem.
| (The tuberculosis Exhibit, which has
been on view in New York, Boston and
ether cities, may be seen in the Public
Library during the conference.)
|
Second session, Thursday, February
Is, 500 P. NJ, Mr.. Bleecker Van Wage
men, President of the Conference, East
| Orange, Chairman. Weleome-to Newark,
Mayor Henry NJ. Doremus; Response on
Behalf of the Conference, Rev. Adolph
Roeder; Address by the President,
Blocker Van Wagenen; Address by the
/ Governor, Hon. Edward G. Stokes; The
State Institutions, What They Are, and
What They Are Doing, Hon. George B.
Wight, Commissioner of Charities and
Correction; The Keynote of the New
Philanthropy, DIR. Edward T. Devine,
Dean Of the School Of Philanthropy, and
General Secretary of the Charity Organ
ization Society, New York City.
Third session, Friday, February 16,
| inal, Mr.. Decatur NJ. Sawyer, Montclair,
Chairman; The New Parole System of
the State Prison, Warden George O..
Osborne Trenton; Advantages of the In
| determinate Sentence, Rev. Charles G.
| Cooder, Moral Instructor at the Railway
Refermatory Is the Penitentiary Useful,
Former Judge Alfred F. skinner, New
ark; The Need Of a Women's Reforma-
tory, Mr. William Fl. Speer, Jersey City;
Causes Of Juvenile Delinquency, Mr..
John G.. Kalleen, Supt of State Home
for Boys, Jamesburg: discussion.
Fourth session, Friday, February Is,
2.30 P. M, County and Municipal Char
tiles, Mr.. J. u Mulvaney, Chairman; Re
port OF the Chairman, J. J. Mulvaney,s
Jersey City; What Should the State Do
to Minimize the Hardship Caused to In
| diyiduals by the Enforcement of the
Truancy and Child Labor Laws, Mr..
Henry Snyder, Supt. Of Schools, Jersey
City; General Discussion; Management
and Care of Almshouses, Mrs. Emily e.
! Williamson, Elizabeth: Discussion,
opened BY Mrs. G.. H. Harbert. Matron
of the Burlington County Almshouse;
General Discussion.
Fifth session, Friday, February 16,
800 P. NJ. The Organization of Charita-
bic Administration. Rev. James |. Vance,
l.