Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-02-23

sidewalk, tore it with his testh and de- |
voured it, uncoo1ed and uawashed as !
1t was. He and his companions were
referred to by the guide as the sub |
merged TENTH" and Miss Addams de- |
parted from the scene as from a hor- |
rthle nightmare, carrying In her mind |
picture OF "myriads of hands, em-
pity, pathetic. nerveless and work.
worn, showing white In the uncertain
flight. and clutching for food already
unfit to eat"
1t was her vision OF a needy suffer-
ing world, a world which she felt she
could relieve. and was a pivotal point
In her career. Miss Adams tastifies
that to this day whenever she sees
group Of hands held aleft, whether In
a class of calisthenics. where they
move rythmically. or the dear. chubby
hands of little children at the re-
quest of their teacher, she is seized
with fearful clutching Of the heart,
as memory recalls the despair and re-
sentiment which seized her at the sight
in East London.
In her travels she was thrown in
close contact with wealth which was
burden, with education which was so
ultra that the reproach Of Tomlinson
occurred to her:
"Ye have read, We have heard, We have
thought
Give answer-what ha' We doneT
So there grew up in her mind the
plan that the girls of education and
wealth should be asked to assist her
in helping those who lacked these
blessings. She deferred carrying this
plan into execution for five years,
spending the time in travel, pleasure
and dreaming, seeing the great art
: galleries of Europe, visiting the ia
nous cathedrals and churches, study
ing early Christian charity, taking in
struction at the catacombs under the
? great archaeologists, until April, 1888,
: while on tour of Spain her decision
became fixed,
Some of her schoolmates were with
Starr. She felt she must talk the
matter over with some one and went
to Miss Starr, fearing that the telling
thereof might cause her golden dream
to slip through her fingers" Miss
: Starr heartily favored her plan and
the next January found them. in Chi
cago searching for a neighborhood of
squalor in which to begin their work.
= Miss Adams had gone to Tonybee
" hall, London, which had been founded
i four years before this to study the So
: cial settlement there. She differed
: from most settlement workers, mas
much as she believed in carrying with
her the advantages of her culture and
: wealth and at Oxford young man of
great wealth and high social position,
: who had gone down into East London
and attempted to live the life of the
poor and miserable but his career was
cut short by his failing health and
: untimeIy death
Miss Adams argued that the poor
loved real art just as much as she low
ed it, and she would help them to see
It. They did not love homes
of poverty any more than she. but
they were living in those places be-
: cause it was compulsory,
In September 1889 she and Miss
: Starr We're duly installed in Chicago,
= on South Halsted street in what was
; known as the Hull House, built by
9 Charles J, Hull, and still so called. A
= housekeeper accompanied them. and
r. as they were greatly encouraged by
r. many of the leading men of Chlca-
go their work was auspiciously begun.
# Their charter was not obtained until
II their institution had been in exist
ii ence FIVE years but the spirit of II
# prevailed at the start.
10 "To provide a center for a higher
: civic and social life: to institute and
. maintain educational and philanthro-
pic enterprises. and TO investigate and
a Improve the conditions in the indus
: trial districts of Chicago"
is The people about them were i'm
Y migrants. Russian Jews. Greeks, IT.
alians, and those of many other ma
p lions, with little knowledge in many
= Instances of what America meant
g Many Of the people were descended
y from centuries Of ignorance The
70 great "unwashed," as Hall Cain states
Al not pleasant to look at hut the ones
n for whom Miss Adams would devote
her entire life.