The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-22
ANNUAL MEETING HELD.
APPOINTMENT OF COUNCIL OF
 LOWELL HOUSE ASSOCIATION

Reports of President and Treasurer Mrs. Evans and Dr. PuIia TeeIe on Local Work in slums-Mrs. Florence
 Kelley Delivers Interesting Address on The Community and Its Work ing ChiIdren"-RepOrt of Council. At the annual meeting of the Lowell House association held last night at United church chapel the following were appointed members of the council who are to elect the officers of the as- soclation later; Prof. Henry W. Fan nam, Mrs. Prof. Henry Wade Rogers, Dr. Julia Teele. H. Stuart Hotchkiss, l William B. Bailey, Mrs. N. S. Bronson, Mrs. John s. Ely, Henry c. Emery, Miss Ethel R. Evans, Prof. Irving Fish l CT, Robert Hunter, Charles Kleiner, Dr. Nicola Mariani, Mrs. A. B. Morrill,, Mrs. Frank c. Porter, Matthew A. Reynolds, Prof. John c. Schwab, Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, jr., Mrs. Percy T. Wal den Miss Edith Woolsey, James Wheel CT, Osborn Day, Miss Susan Whiting, Mrs. J. Kingsley Blake and Mrs. H. B. Learned.
 After this election the transaction of the usual routine business was had and the regular reports of the president, Henry W. Farnam. and the treasurer, H. Stuart Hotchkiss, were read. The report of the treasurer showedNthe as- soclation to be on a good standing fi- nancially. After the reading of the reports addresses were made by Miss Evans and Dr. Julia Teele. Both worn- en confined the basis of their speech to the local work in the slums, especially in the Italian quarters. The address of the evening was delivered by Mrs Florence Kelley of New York. Her scheme was "The Community and It's Working Children"
 Mrs. Kelley recounted to the audience her personal "reminiscences at the Hol- land house, Chicago, among thN Ital- ians there. She referred to, the child labor and the great change among that class of people and how they still need ed the assistance of the association. Her address was very touching and in teresting and drew loud applause from the large audience.
 The following is the report of the council of the Lowell house for the year ending March 21 1907:
 The general work of the settlement has been carried on during the past year most successfully under the man agement of Miss Ethel B. Evans as headworker, with the cordial co-opera- tion of pr. Julia E. Teele, who has oc- cupied a small flat on Hamilton street in order to be more free to attend to her neibhbors. but who has taken her meals at the settlement and assisted in the work. Miss Evans had as fellow workers and residents in the house down to the opening of the summer Mrs. A. B. Coe and Miss M. H. Shank lin. Tn the fall their places were taken by Miss Elizabeth Updegraff, Miss Rita Randall and Miss Adeline Sherwood. The work will be reported upon in de- tail by Miss Evans and Dr. Teele.
 As the legislature was not in session last year the settlement has undertak- en little in the way of civic activities. l It is interesting to note, however, that the tenement house law, which our as- sociation was instrumental in securing two years ago, has worked so well that citizen of Bristol has endeavored to have it's provisions extended by the present general assembly so as to in- clude smaller cities,
 The widening of the railroad cut and the increase in the population have created demand for tenements, which is often met by the alteration of old wooden buildings and other make shifts. It would probably be of great benefit to those who live in tenement houses, as well as to the city as a whole, if company like the City and Suburban Homes company of New York could be formed for erecting model buildings. This company has from the beginning paid per cent. to it's share holders. and has supplied to the ten ants we'll designed and well lighted dwellings,. A few such tenement houses | in New Haven, built on commercial basis but with an intelligent regard to comfort and sanitation, would be of great value as an example to prospec- tive builders.
 Some of our members have been ac- tive in working for a bill to provide for the appointment of a female factory in- spector. This measure is a natural ex tension of all factory legislation. Ex- perience has shown that, in view of the large number of women and chill dren employed in our factories there are many abuses about which a wom- an can much better inform herself than d man. There is nothing radical in this move. It Is intended merely to make efficient those measures which have long been recognized as being passed alike in the interest of morality, of health and of the economic strength of the people. The factor inspector of the state has adYicated this addition to his force many manufacturers have favored it, and it is believed that the necessity of such an appointment is now generally recognized.
 At our last meeting it was stated that our association might before the close of the year has a house of it's own. This is now nearly an accomplished fact. Through a gift made by one of our members a plot of land with a frontage of about 55 feet and depth of about 190 feet was secured on Ham ilton street facing Locust street. Se- curities were also deposited with our treasurer, Mir. Hotchkiss, amounting to about $23,000 in value, and believed to be sufficient to build such a building .l