Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-04
IN NATIONAL SESSION
CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES AND
CORRECTIONS TO MEET.

| Delegates from the District of Columbia
| to the national conference of charities and
| correction. to be held in Philadelphia May 0
TO 16. inclusive. have been appointed by the
| Commissioners as follows:
| Members Of the board of charities-S. W.
| Woodward. president: Charles p. NELL. vice
president: George w. Cook, John Joy Ed
l son and Simon WoI': secretary, George s.
| Wilson
| B. Pickmsn Mann. president; Mrs. ]. w.
| Babson. secretary, and John w. Douglass.
| agent. of the board of childrens guardians.
/ Crosby s. Noyes, president, and o. E. OAR
| NELL superintendent of the reform school
| for boys.
| Chaplin Brown. president. and Mrs. Eliza
beth A. Whitney, superintendent. of the re-
| form school for girls.
| ]. Ormond Wilson, president and C. w.
Skinner, superintendent, Of the Industrial
| Home School.
Louis F. zinkham, superintendent of the
| Washington Asylum
| Capt, A. A. Maxim, superintendent of the
| Temporary Home for Soldiers and Sailors.
A. H. Tyson, superintendent of the Munic-
| ipal Lodging House.
Gen. George NJ. Sternberg, L. S. A, presi-
| dent of the Citizens Relief Association
| Justice David ]. Brewer, president of the
| Associated Charities.
| Charles r. Weller, general secretary OF
| the Associated Charities.
Mrs. Charles F. Wellere head resident
| Neighborhood House.
Edward Gilfillan. resident Noel House:
| Miss Amelia A. Ryan, resident Noel House.
| w. c. Clephane, chairman OF committee
| on charities of the Board of Trade.
James F. Oyster, president Business Mems
| Association, 3
/ S. W. Curriden, Cuno H Rudolph, Brig.
Gen. John NJ. Wilson, U. 8. A; Commander
| F. A. Miller, U. S. N; Mrs. Kate B. Barlow,
Mrs. Kate w. Barrett, national superintend-
| ent of the Florence Crittenton Mission; VIM
| +. Downey DIR. William A. White. superfn-
tendent of the Government Hospital for the
/ INSANE; Max West. Rev. j. H. Bradford
| q. D. Copp, John B. Sleman, jr.. w n
| Baldwin, Mrs. c. M. Ffoulke, Rev. II. C.
| Amos, Miss Ida A. Green, Miss Janet E.
| Kemp, Mrs. X. E. Howells, Miss H. Ida
| Curry Mrs Mary c. Rugg, Miss lnez IA
| Southworth. Miss F. s. Crosby, Miss A. NJ
| Prescott, Mrs. Sarah c. Fernandis.
Outline Of Program.
| With ex-President Cleveland in the chair
the opening night and three governors. a
| Commissioner of the District Of Columbia
three heads of city departments and the
| United States commissioner Of labor partici-
pating in the wide range of discussions
which made up the program, considerable
public interest attaches to the national con-
| ference.
| This conference, 1t IS claimed, has no du-
plicate In the world. Prison reformers, set
| Element workers. district nurses. charitable
| tories. juvenile republics, boys clubs and
| the like gather once a year from all parts
Of the country to discuss their various work
| from the standpoint OF the needs or the
American community.
| Thus, there is this year a section meet
| ing on the care of the sick given over to q
| discussion of state and municipal control OF
! tuberculosis. Another session takes up the
overcrowding in the cities; a third the pres
| ent status of the child labor movement with
| addresses by DR.. Neill Of the Department
| of Labor. Jane Adams of Hull House and
| Samuel McCune Lindsay, former commits
| sioner of education of Porto Rico.
There are sections on how to protect
| predetermined women; on what to do for
| delinquent girls on how the great super
| vising boards which have in charge the
| charitable and reformatory and hospital IN
| situations of commonwealth can keep
| track of their wards and see whether the
states money is properly expended Judge
Julian w Mack will tell of the Juvenile
| court of Chicago; Gov. Hanley of Indiana.
| of efficiency and charitable institutions
| Gov. Stokes Of New Jersey leading in the
| discussion).
Themes for Discussion.
| Commissioner mcfarland of Washington
| will take up the question of public subsi-
| dies. and the chairman of the New York
| state probation commission, Homer Folks,
| will raise the question as to whether there
| are not saner methods in dealing with first
| Offenders tnan 10 put them Denlnd the DarS
| Prof. Morris Loeb of New York University
| will challenge the immigration restriction
| lists who claim that the Sums of American
| cities are due to European paupers. And
| so on to the end of the list.
| The great relief work carried on in San
| Francisco will give an especial timeiness
| to many of the discussions of the confer
| ence dealing with practical philanthropy.
| This is shown by the fact that this year
| president of the conference, Edward T. De-
| vine of New York. was selected by Presi-
| dent Roosevelt to represent the Red Cross