The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-20


..-,;c.. If DR. Luther H Gulick and of l. F. Hammer
h,v. been procured for the playground movement
The trustees of the Foundation are Mrs Russell
S.,e president; Robert W. de Forest, vice president;
Cleveland H. Dodge, treasurer. Directors are Miss
Helen Gould. Robert c. Ogden, Mrs. William B. Rice
and Miss Louise Lee Schuyler The executive mead
IS Iohn NJ Glenn formerly OF the SUPERVISORS OF
.h,r;t;.s in Baltimore, Md Glenn was lawyer
with large practice and widely known student OF
sociology at the time of his appointment The head
quarters of the fund located IN small once on
the sixth floor of the Charities building East Iweny
second street. New York. This serves merely as
b..dor,rters for Glenn and small Office staff With
Glenn are associated other sociological experts this
staff now comprising DIR. Luther H. Quick, Lee Ham
mer. Hastings H. Hart DIR. X. Frankel. Edward L
Divine. Paul A. Kellogg, Clarence W. WaSsam, Ar
thur II. Ham. Robert Colt Chaplin and others These
men are engaged in investigating social conditions
and from time to time the results OF their IaDorS are
published by the Foundation
The subject on which the Foundation IS at the
moment placing great emphasis is that of the housing
~ the working.classes Ii is not proposing dupi
cate the model tenement building of the PhPPs houses
or the CITY and Suburban homes company in Man
haitian and Brooklyn, but it IS giving serious attention
to suburban housing. The recent acquisition OF some
acres Of land near Jamaica which has been credited
in the public press to Mrs Russell Sage, was pur
chase by the Foundation For more than year past
Grosyenor Atterbury the architect has been making
for the Foundation studies for small houses and eN
periments in cheap construction
Among the corporate individual efforts 10
which the Russell Sage Foundation has contributed
pecuniary aid are the following The National Red
Cross. to procure the appointment OF an efficient
director Git after this contribution that Ernest P
Bcknell was chosen fill this ofhce) the Presi-
dents Homes commission OF the city of Washing
ton; the expenses of the child saving congress
in Washington in large part betrayed by the Founda
ton The fundamental idea of the Foundation is to
place the hands OF qualified the income of
considerable fund. with power use it in whatever
particular way they think best from time time to
improve social and living conditions.
METHODS OF WORK
Briefly stated these arc the purposes and the
methods of administration of this great charity.
small part of the income has been devoted the
payment of expenses, salaries and of invcstga-
ton. Hall million has been used in this and
in money contributions various organizations
gagged in the works noticed above $350OO0 has been
expended in effort to solve the problem of working
mems houses in Jamaica and much time and money
have been given the investigation of practical
form of cheap insurance which may later be estab-
lished by the Foundation. In regard it's work and
its methods the officers extremely reticent 1t is
their belief that far they have merely studied the
opportunities for effective campaign and that the
time is not yet for any formulation of plans,
least for any public statement of them They
studying and experimenting
What of this herself who has been hailed
the greatest phanthropst Of any tinea Remem-
Der that if she speak she would insist her late
husband deserved equally that praise; she is simply
carrying out their work She lives simply and quietly
For many she has retired from all social life,
living in the companionship OF few friends women
and men who active workers for the worlds good.
OF these perhaps the closest is Miss Helen Could
whom she cherishes and intimate friendship,
and of whom she has publicly expressed the highest
regard.
She maintains three homes-a city residence at
o52 Fifth avenue, New York; summer home at
Lawrence, L. l., and little bungalow retreat at sag
Harbor. These houses all simple on the exterior
and interior. Indeed, her library in her city house
looks like the city room of newspaper; it is the
Office of worker full of letters pamphlets and maya
zines There is filing system for letters and
drawers for newspaper clippings She spends from
four TO six hours day her desk and in addition
to secretary employs typewrtist assist her Her
household arrangements simple and sensible Her