New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-17
T.S.S.ANNUALLUNCHE0N
Great Year for Suasshine-Large In
crease in Membership and Resources.
Co.'s a HIS heaven,
AVS Tight with the world.


sang Mrs. Cecilia Niles at the annual luncheon
OF the Tribune Sunshine Society yesterday at
the Hotel Manhattan. Nothing perhaps could
have better expressed the happy 6eenng"-the
caneraderie. the sense OF satisfaction IN the
society as a whole and pride in its phenomenal
growth-Which characterized the occasion and
animated the several hundred members and
guests who were present. The sunshine which
poured In at the windows seemed only an out
ward and visible sign OF the warmth and light
Of human Fellowship and kindly concern which
filtered all through the afternoon. a heritage
from the mornings business session-the biggest
business meeting. by the way. the Tribune Sun
shine Society has ever known.
Had not Mrs. Clarence Burns. the president
been telling them that the society had exactly
doubled IN membership since last years annual
luncheon? And did not that mean far greater
material resources and an infinitely wider-and
continuously widening-circle OF influence?
Y wish you could all have been here this
morning 20 hear our splendid reports" said Mrs.
Burns. as the women pulled up their chairs
toward the long guest table. with its bank Of
delicate pink roses IN front OF the president
and the tail glasses Of yellow and white daisies
-sunshine's own Aower-which graced It In
common with the host OF smaller tables.
TIGHTENING BURDENS.
Then followed series Of speeches which well
illustrated the catholicity Of interest which in
spires the activities OF the society.
Mss J. E. Hitchcock, OF the Nurses Settle
ment, skehched the story OF the Nurses Settle
ment from the day when it began with two
nurses in a tiny top floor fiat in Jefferson street
70 the present. when its twenty-five nurses
make on average nine calls a day. the whole
city being districted with a nurse in residence,
except a section OF the West Side from Tooth
street 70 Harlem.
We didn't say, Go TO. will have Settle
ment,'" said Miss Hitchcock; I'VE just said.
Let's see what we can DO TO help people The
first day one nurse went in one direction hunt
ing sick people and the other in another.
That's the only time we have ever had to hunt
Up patients. Since then they've hunted US
not 10 say haunted u.s.
Then she explained a little how the nurses go
70 work say. with a child I'll with pneumonia,
showing and telling and giving little hygienic
hints and bracing up the poor. dazed mother
And they pull the child through.
We have a great deal Of disease in the tene-
ments. but we should have a great deal more
Il il not for these noble women" re-
marked Mrs. Burns before introducing as the
next speaker Miss Ada L. Fairfield Of the
National Plant. Flower and Fruit Guild. who
---o-I N4E aAAtGA4SC Adusn with AdCA 0NCOAIlL Oh
the old woman who painfully raised a potato
plant in a tin can. She had received annually a
plant from her church. and it had regularly
dec One day her son wore a red carnation
home in his buttonhole. The old lady snatched
i out and pinned il on TO her sickly potato
plant
I just DO want to see that potato bearing a
nice red blossom" she cried.
That illustrated Miss Fairfield said, some of
the pleasure the guild gives through its weekly
distribution OF flowers. which amounted to
ten thousand punches week during ten weeks
last summer.
During the winter" she went on, 1--WE havo
given over sixteen thousand punches from social
functions Our window box experiment last
summer succeeded beyond our widest dreams,
and the demand this summer has been i've
times as great. We expect the tenement section
will bloom like the rose, and Fifth avenue won't
be in IL"
THE STORY OF A CHILD.
Then Owen r. Lovejoy. who came instead OF
Dr Samuel McCune Lindsay secretary OF the
National Child Labor Committee. told the story
OF little 10 Batusld. who lost his life IN the ex-
plosion in Shenandoah City coal mine last
Tuesday morning. Before ne was half through
the tears stood in many eyes
Although 10 had been old enough only two
months 10 work legally" Mr. Lovejoy said. "he
had been working in the mine since 1902 Yes
terday at 4:3O a. m. when he was riding his
mule into the mine, firedanp or dynamite blew
him up with six Others Little 10 is only a
type-I am not here TO bring any appeal from
hirn-for when I looked at his torn and man.
gled body IN the little darkened room at mid
night and remembered that he had lived since
he was twelve underground and that the best
he could do, with nine hours labor a day, was
81 Z week-well, thought. after all. little 10
was the most fortunate boy in Shenandoah. His
work is done The vice Of American neglect and
Indifference toward one little boy is ended. Al
though his name was foreign, he was an Ameri-
can child, yet we Americans let little 10 90 into
the mines, and the school superintendent tells
me there are 1900 boys under age in the Shen-
andoah City mines. There are probably 10000
or 1900 boys under fourteen in the mines, and
these only a fraction OF our great army OF
child Iaborers"
Ar. LovejOy urged the Sunshine members to
write TO Senator Dolliver favoring the passage
o. the three child labor bills now before Con-