The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-23
FORMAL OPENING OF
 THE LOWELL HOUSE Distinguished Assemblage Present at New Settle
 ment House.
GIFT OF PROF. FARNAM
Splendid Addresses Made Beautiful Loving Cup to
 Donor of House.

Association aided by its many friends last night. In the audience were Sec retary Stokes, Prof. H. c. Emory and other members of the Yale faculty as well as many prominent citizens.
 The house is much larger and better arranged than the old Franklin street house and will meet the needs of the association better. It is the gift of Professor Henry w. Farnam and was erected at a cost of 10000. A complete description of the building appeared in the Journal and Courier several days ago.
 The formal opening exercises were begun at o'clock with an address by Professor Farnam, president of the club. He expressed the thanks of the association to c. F. Townsend, the architect; the New Haven Gas Light company and Messrs. Botsford & Eng fish for faithful services; to the Mary Clap Wooster chapter, D. A. R., for the gift of beautiful American flag, and to George Dudley Seymour for kind advice and to Miss Woolsey for the effective way in which she has aided the work. Continuing, he said:
 'The social settlement differs from charities, missions, schools and other agencies for improvement, in that it aims primarily to make good citizens. The spirit which animates it is the spirit of democracy, which lies at the foundation of our institutions, and that in turn not only implies equality of op- portunity, but also cooperation and mutual help. To be more specific, let us look at one of the special problems which confront such community as ours, and the way in which the settle ment helps to solve them Our coun- try is annually receiving immigrants enough to constitute by themselves another state. In the last recorded year 100000 people came to make their homes among us, of whom about three-fourths came from countries in which the English language is not spoken and of whom about one-fourth were unable to read or write in any language. confess that my imagina tion fails me when I try to realize what 1t means to receive in a single year population equal to about eight times that of New Haven. Very many of us lead our narrow lives of work and recreation without seeing the tre- mendous problems which this influx involves. It Is only occasionally that a sensation is created by the publica- ton of some book or article describing some of the worst conditions of some Of our large cities, but the problem is a constant one, and the newcomers are bound to find a place in which they will develop into bad or good citizens, according to circumstances. There are plenty of conditions which tempt them to become bad citizens. They find sharpers ready to take advantage of them. They find people only too will ing to rnislead them for their own ad- vantage They find employment agen- cies turing them under false pretenses better than peonage, in which they will almost inevitably become brutalized and embittered
 "The function of the settlement, in view of this problem, is to show them the better side of life, to impress them with the real spirit of our institutions, rather than with the abuses which have grown up under their protection"
 Prof. Farnam next called upon Dr. Nicola Mariani to say few words about the work. Dr. Mariani said ''We Italians come to this country with the ability to adopt ourselves to all kinds of hardships The greatest diff flculty is the language but we respect and succeed, Finally we succeed eco- nonically and let me say socially.
 sAt present we are only a mass of people, each working individually for himself but without united effort. This must necessarily be so because we are in a private state of development. But let us learn the language, let us better understand the form of government. Let us share the great opportunities left open by this great country of ours. | am glad of this association whose main object is to raise the Italians and help them make of themselves good law abiding citizens"
 At this time Prof. Farnam took op- portunity to thank the Italian Mothers club for the gift of a table and sev- eral chairs for use on the platform,
 The next speaker was Miss Ethel R. Evans, one of the resident workers. She said that it seemed like waking from a dream to come from the old house into the new. Yet she said she realized that it meant a larger op- portunity for good and that the larger house would need larger working force.
 Mrs. Blumer's class of eight little girls sang little song very prettily and were well applauded for their ef- forts.
 Frank J. Diamond, a supervisor of schools in this city, proved an enter taining speaker. He said that educa- tion had been a controlling thought in all the work of the institution and that it's workers had been making it a cen ter for the complication of know ledge and right living, The settlement house ranks high in the community and and limited to the immediate locality but extends to the whole community.
 The school life of to-day, he said, lacks adaptability. We have too long fattered ourselves that the school that was good enough for our fathers is good enough for us. We have too long been shutting our eyes to the transfor- nation in the modern world and to the fact that this community once almost entirely Anglo-Saxon has become poly got
 I hope that the assertion that this section of the city is to have a modern school plant is not too good to be true but the ideal school should possess