Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-06
SEES WANT AND
SIN IN CHICAGO
REV. MARSHALL TELLS OF SET
ELEMENT WORK
He Explains Conditions In the Great
City by the Lakes and Urges the
People of Los Angeles to Profit
by Example

Settlement work in Chicago and Los
Angeles was discussed by Rev. Thomas
C. Marshall last evening at the Church
uf the Neighborhood. Rev. Mr.. Mar
shall has recently returned from an
eastern visit, and he gave an account
of. the work as carried on there. He
said:
"Those of you who are old enough to
have observed it know that church
work now is very different from what
it was twenty years ago. The church
of the past considered only mans spir-
itual interests. Its doors were closed
during the week except for an occa-
sional service, it's minister was q
preacher and pastor. The modern
| church recognizes that a man is some
thing more than soul, that he has a
body mind aesthetic and social nature
and that religion has to do with all
and like it's Master it heals the sick
feeds the hungry, teaches the ignorant
mingles with the people socially and
thus by service seeks to exhibit the
manifold love of God.
Settlement Methods
"The Church of the Neighborhood be-
longs to the new movement in church
life and therefore it was a great salts
faction to your minister, especially as
We are on the eve of extending our
work into larger fields, to be able to
see some of the institutions for social
service which are exerting such a splen-
did influence in Chicago. For here we
see settlement methods carried to a
vfry high degree of perfection and also
severely tested by their application to
social conditions peculiarly Chicago's
| own.
There are two Chicagos-there is the
| Chicago of wealth, culture and piety
the Chicago of the lake front, of South
Park, Oak Park, Evanston and the bet
| ter residence portions, and then like
the decayed core in The heart Of the
lusous apple, there is the great sub
merged Chicago of which Halstet
street is the axis, running for miles
| through a wearyinC monotony oi
poverty, dirt and evidences of vice. Il
| is through this section that the great
settlements are ranged like so many
torches of light.
"At the extreme south is the Chicago
university settlement in famous Pack
ingtown, where probably twenty-five
thousand employees of the stock yards
and packing house live amid the odor!
of rendering lard. city dump heaps ant
Bubb.y creek, a vast open sewer fol
the convenience of the packing houses
The head of this settlement is Miss Nc
| Dowell. a woman of fine education ant
culture who began work about clever
years ago in rooms over feed store.
For Study and Industry
"Now they have beautiful building
costing over $25,0O0, which is an opel
house for all the people, where club
can be ioined, classes found for instruc
tion in any branch of study or industry
and abcve all, where friendship and dis
interested counsel Is to be had by an,
one at any time. Several miles farthe
north on Halsted street is the re
! rowhed Hull house, dominated by tn
personality of Jane Adams.
1T impresses one as not so much
settlement as great institution Wit
separate buildings for its woman's club
boys club, Jane club (for young WON
en), industrial courses it's children
house, gymnasium theater, restaurant
all in excellent taste and providing 70
every conceivable want of the people
/ even TO milk for the babies at one cen
a feed.
Several miles again north of HUI
house is the Chicago commons, who's
inspiration is DR.. Graham Taylor who
when called to a chair in a theologlcs
, seminary in Chicago, took his residenc
IN one or the most degraded sections o
the city. out Of the sacrifice of him
? self and his family has grown a splen
did institution with expensive buildings
equipment for classes and clubs Of a
kinds and with such. a name for efficien
social service that there is always
Z waiting list of applicants for the priv
lege of entering the settlement house
/ hold. DR. Taylor lectures In the thee
logical school, conducts a school G
social service. edits a magazine an
delivers lectures throughout tie cour
try.
4 Great Breadth Of Work
= "Stir further north In the same sec
/. ton Is situated Olyet church and Olive
house, an institutional church belong
ing TO the Presbyterian denomination
in which the Sunday school and th
church services are the center Of III
comm unity life, but provision is ais