Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-14
OPPOSED To
D0LL|VER BILL
Mr.. Chaplin Browns Argument
Before Board of Trade.
CRITICISM OF THE MEASURE
School Interests Regarded as Prop
erly Under Care of District.
COMMITTEES ANNUAL REPORTS
Appeal for District Charities.
Changes in Health Laws-Pros-
pective Bridges.
COMMITTEES ANNUAL REPORTS

pective Bridges.
At its meeting last night the
Washington Board of Trade rec
commended, through the reports
which it adopted, the purchase of
the land south of Pennsylvania
avenue for government use and
Of additional land for Rock Creek
Park; the deepening and widen
ing of the Potomac channel and
the improvement of Anacostia
river; that four members be added
10 the committee of three to OPP
pose the Dolliver school bill :;
favoring the construction of a
second conduit from Great Falls
to the Georgetown reservoir and
the protection Of the watershed ;
increase in pay for employees of
the Public Library and an appro-
priation for a branch library at
Takoma; extension of trunk sew
ers and building of dikes along the
river to guard against floods; ap-
proving the Commissioners meas
ure providing that advance for
extraordinary improvements be
charged in a separate account
in the Treasury, to be reimbursed
at per cent interest within fif-
teen years, in amounts of not less
than 100000 a year, and that free
examination be provided for sus-
pected cases of tuberculosis.
Just before the adjournment of the
second annual meeting of the Washing
ton Board of Trade, held at Rauscher's
last night, strong appeal was made to
the association by Chaplin Brown. asking
that everything possible be done by the
members to keep the Doliver school bill
from becoming law.
'If they take from us the school sys-
tenn which we have developed and per-
fected,' said Mr.. Brown. I'VE shall be-
come merely an appanage of Congress. a
| sort of attachment to the departments
Then let the police force be joined to the
War Department. and the medical frater-
nifty be under the orders of the Depart
ment of the Interior. We ourselves will
be on an equal footing with the Fill
pinos or any other of the subject races
of this republic. The foreigner. three
months landed in this country, can COM
mand more influence than dweller in
the District of Columbia, for from his
district there is a representative in Con-
gress. who will exert himself to do what
the foreigner wants. But for us there is
apparently no recourse. The senator or
representative from some distant state
becomes toward us like CULVER in Llli-
put, trampling us under foot. 1t is a lit
tie late to rouse enthusiasm on this SUBJ
ject, but I am glad to see that such en-
thusiosm exists in the board. This mat
ter should be fought out to the last
ditch, and the schools of the District pre-
served for the District
Additions to Committee.
Mr.. Browns speech was applauded en-
Enthusiastically. 1t had been called forth
by resolution introduced by William f.
GUIDE, calling for four additional MEM
beers on the original committee of three
| appointed to oppose the Dollfver bill. Mr.
GUIDES resolution specified the men he
desired to have named on that commit
tee: Judge Charles S. Bundy, Charles E.
Weller, Ernest H. Daniel and Edgar B.
Shaw. 1t was thought wiser. however.
to permit the chair to name the men,
bers. and the resolution was, accordingly
modified to that effect.
The matter of the merging of the Board
of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce
did not come officially before the meeting
though it was referred to. incidentally, by
two speakers. DR.. ]. b. Gregg Gusts and
Daniel ]. Callahan.
In the course Of. the session fifteen min
utes were granted to John Joy Edison to
explain to the board the working methods
of the Associated Charities. MIR. Edison
began by recalling the distressful days
of 1894, when the citizens relief COM
mittee was organized to relieve want and
| suffering. He said that from the expert
ence of that committee it was discovered
| how great the percentage of impostors
was and how often charity went to those
VINO were by no means deserving of it.
| He said that it cost $4,000 to relieve
suffering in 1894. much of il going to the
| undese rvrg. Mr.. Edison said that this
| was diScOuraging. but that from the ex-
per fence thus obtained the present mod
| ern methods Of administering charity in
| the District were evolved.
Undeserving Cases.
| BY the work of the Associated Charities,
| he said 1t Is shown that nineteen out
of every twenty cases applying for help
are undeserving. Nevertheless, he says.
help is not withheld until complete in
vestigation is made, thus not leaving Ros-
| sibly deserving persons to suffer while
their records are bei2f examined. The
first thing done. he I'D. is to send re-
lief-clothes, fuel or food. The next thing
| is to see what can be done to get the
applicant to help himself and to become
self supporting.
Since the work of the Associated Chari-
ties began in Washington, Mr.. Edison
said, 1850 persons have been provided
..-:th employment. thus not only relieving
| the community from a burden, but even
helping it by adding to the sum Of work
ers He said that 13 per cent OF those
applying for help have been provided with
employment.
| In the course of his remarks, Ma Edison
| gave high praise to the efficiency of
Charles E. Weller, secretary of the Asso-
cisted Charities. saying that he was the
most capable man he had ever met in any
walk in life, and that he had devoted
himself to the charity work as the chosen
| calling of his life. He answered the I'M
spoken criticism regarding the cost Of ad-
ministration by saying that for every dol
| lar thus spent three were saved. Last
gear for instance MIR. Edison said. only
$500 was spent for relief, while the
cost of administration put the whole ex-