The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-08
MRS. HARTMAN
GIVES $4,000
TOWARD A SWEAR SCHOOL FoF
STUDY OF PUBLIC BUSINESS.
THE SCOPE WILL BE NATIONAL

ore" carnegie ana MANY OtncTs
Contribute to the Maintenance OF
the Project.
Largely through the efforts OF Mrs.
II. H. Hartman fund OF 100000 n
year for five years has been provided
to maintain an experimental school for
the study and administration Of public
business The school will he started
at New York, but its scope Is Intended
20 he national
Some years ago t. II. Hartman he.
came interested in municipal research
mental efficiency. Ills widow has
been following the work done in this
connection Requests for the extension
of ii to other cities and the inability
to get n sufficient number OF men who
are qualified to take it up suggested
to Mrs. Hartman the need Of proVid.
ing n training school FOR public scrv.
Ice.
Wishing to learn how men familiar
with governmental problems would
go about it to insure such training,
Mrs. Hartman consulted personally
and by correspondence business men.
journalists. educators and public of
fclals as to the need OF new kind
OF training for the study and admins
traton of public business.
In order to make possible five
years test for a training school for
public service Mrs. Hartman made
the offer OF q contribution of $4,000
for the first year and $4,000 year
for the succeeding four years, condi-
toned on other contributions of $780,
coo n year for the second, third, fourth
and fifth year being obtained. These
contributions have been received from
the following persons, thus creating a
fund OF over $4,000 year for five
years:
Others Who Gave to Fund.
Mrs. Il. III. Hartman. John ID. Rock.
efellcr. Andrew Carnegie. Jacob II.
Schiff. Otto II. Kahn. Henry Phipps,
George +. Baker. Cornelius Wander
bit, c. A. Coffin, j. +. Morgan. Com
bhOublN ''iiN ''plSN Nl.
Hartley Dodge AdoIph Lewiston. Ed
win lIawley. Robert Goelet, j. w. Har-
rman. j. q. Schmidapp, Mortimer l..
SChiff, George W. Perkins, Cleveland
III. Dodge, Frank A. Munsey, Stephen
s. Palmer, Clarence II. Mackay, Pro.
lessor James Douglas. Felix NJ War
burg William l.. Bonbright & Co.. ii.
NJ. Byllesby, Samuel insult, Myron II.
Herrick. Samuel A. Lewisohn, August
Belmont and w. NJ. V. Hoffman.
George w. Perkins. G. \. Coffin and
Mortimer l.. Schff have been asked to
serve as an executive committee and
trustees for this fund and to assist
Mrs Hartman In the practical work,
ing out of her plan. The first steI
taken has been an arrangement with
the New York bureau OF municipal re.
search to afford practical training to n
certain number of men who are quail.
fed ana DESTROYS OF fitting themselves
for public service.
The bureau will afford these men an
opportunity for the study Of municipal
administration on its practical and
business side. such as the administra.
ton OF departments and the analysis OF
public expenditures, and from this mi
tial beginning the establishment of n
training school for public service will
be developed along such practical lines
as experience may indicate.
For the bureau Of municipal re-
search II. Fulton Cutting its treas
urer and founder, said that the train
ing itself will be in doing government
tai work that needs to be done and in
seeking facts about methods and re-
suits OF government work such as
analysis OF budget estimates; charter
studying, drafting and explaining:
tests OF milk inspection and physical
examination Of school children; study
OF school and health problems and
management; Standardization of sal
aries, contracts. specifications; meth.
DDS Of assessing and collecting taxes:
preparing handbooks on administra-
tive practice; watching and reporting
the proceedings OF the board Of esti-
mate and the board of aldermen, and
preparing public statements.
Directors Of tho Work.
The work will be directed by the
bureaus directors, William II. Allen,
Henry Bruere and DR.. +. A. Cleveland.
II will take practically all Of Mr.. AL
lens time, The field work will also
be supervised by experienced workers
In the bureau OF municipal research
or in some of the city departments
which have rendered cooperation.
such as the department of finance, Dor
Ough OF Manhattan. The same tests
will be applied TO men as are applied
10 regular paid workers in the bureau
and as we feel should be applied to
workers in public employ.
Four classes OF applicants are ex
pected-tirst. college graduates wish
ing TO go into public service or social
work: second, accountants wishing to
qualify for analysis OF public business
third. superintendent Of schools. sec
retaries of boards OF trade heads Of
civic organizations wishing to take IN
public business; fourth, postgraduate
students OF politics. economics. soci.
ology, law and journalism wishing
practical field work to supplement
academic training.