New-York tribune., 1909-03-28
PRAISES SETTLEMENT
Mr.. HicLersham Says CmUerS't3
W0rk Is Most I'm pOrtdnt.

Attorney General wickershens Henry " lai'
and Police Commissioner Bingham yesterday ef'eT
noon addressed a large audience q associates anu
workers at the annual meeting In the IhlFeLsllS
Settlement House. at No 1S4 Eldridge street, MI
Taft who was introduced by James Speyer Is one
who had long laborsd for the Settlement. MADE "A
short address and then presented the Attorney
General who MADE MS FIRST speech since assuming
ofnce. Ee said:
The idea Of nelghborhood work is one of the most
- n hss becn said that II Is terrible mis-
fortune 10 have residing next 10 4Ol
york that neighborliness among those who hTe @
close t9seter Is not Tbs gsfberinS to pause
and think how few Of those present perhaps. Sc
foT whose benefit this work IS being eondqcted.
Yet these the children that viii con!FoI F ni[
roieTtiaIities OF the country, and. II We re no.
neighhorly IN our dealings with them. they gel
away with the bait
General Bingham said that he die not know OF
another city where people we're animated so thor
oughly by kindly feeling and generous ana help'oI
notires as IN New YORK The only hard part OF
his duty. he said. was that Of attending meetings
and making addresses. lie continued;
Regardless Of religious questions. I think that
1 Wei IS material side Of life AS science pro
gresses nothing has been found 10 breaK me ne 'so ne
or the continuity Of things, the ~9rFlIs GU % a
things from continuous motive II we nae nae, la% S
governing spiritual things well as material aIu
lisve is for man has GENE back over JTiLe S
must br1n its punishment, as all violations OF
H9<ever' IN helping foreigners IL IS important
20 take 2 common sense view of things We OF
the Anglo; Saxon race have o,r % hsIs grest and
worthy traditions The people OF the srea1 JeSlsn
history and their literature their art, as nave
the Italians end the French ana German, pe4pte t
mem fhit1 ty their forsfathers-
minds Of fair that We should continue u AZ az
ford an asvurn here for the oppressed a1d lle
9%,9o9en and % With vi respect for their feelings and
traditions Don't leg Us he in too great N.Y. the ,e
word American. Let Us graft our ideas OF p9Itac
TtSoSs and religious preferences and make them
citizens without uprooting the past ITon g IhSa
i,s1s +os Toes sing non f5a l Coambis without any
derstsndiug Of what the hymn stands for
James p Reynolds, former head worker Of the
home Urged his hearers to write to their Assembly
men and Senators and request them 10 support inc
hfu providing for the appointment Of commission
70 investigate Of work conditions and TO rec
ornmend measures 10 DO away with the evil OF lack
cf employment
Mr. Reynolds told a story Of his own experiences
.rupersonating an unemployed man and seeking
work Fse said that he had gone 70 a certain
woodward" Everybody the road 70 the wood
yard eyed him with suspicion. and when ne arrived
e. the haven where work given 10 unemployed
raen he was treated with roughness and insoiencs
rv the employees and asked long string Of ques-
fions" Afte-wsrd he told 70 "go cut into the
woodward and get busy" This he did, and also
got q pain in the back from the laborous task SET
before him that he did not get rid Of in weeks
Miss Ella Mabel Clark. Of the wornan's auxiliary
cf the Settlement and James Hamilton, the present
head worker, made reports Miss Clark said that
fhe auxiliary had been sadly handicapped by lack
Of funds within the last year but had managed TO
keen Ua much Of its work. Mr.. Hamilton said that
e statistical report Of facts and figures would be
submitted in print later He said that the neigh
o-e and workers the institute both Catholic
and Protestant and that in the walls Of the Settle
,nent Jews and Gentiles found q common meeting
tpiace New citizens he said. did not, rIle
want 10 be known Catholics Protestants or Jews
but simply good citizens"
Among those present were Mrs. James Speyer
and Mrs Egerron L. Winthrop. jr. Charles P How
land reober4 G Mead sr Henri P werthein and
Gustav H Schwab, jr-, We're elected members Of
the governing council. TO serve until 1872