New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-13
With Other Rich New Workers
She Creates Fund of $780,.
900 to Last Five Years.
TO STUDY PEOPLES SERVICE
Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie
and Others Contribute-Re-
search Bureau to Have
Hand in Management.

for five years has been proNldeu w iii~''t
tain an experimental school for the study
and administration of public business
The school will be started in TINS CITY
hut its scope is intended to be national
Announcement regarding its institution
and the details OF the plan was maze
last night by the Bureau OF Muncipa'
Research. with which Mrs. Hartman has
been cooperating.
Several years ago. 1t appears from the
statement, Z. H. Hartman became inter-
ested in municipal research as methoo
of increasing governmental efhclehcy'
and his widow, Mrs Hartman. has been
following with special interest the work
done in this connection by the New YORK
bureau.
REQUESTS for the extension of TINS
work in other cities and the inability 10
get a sufficient number of men quaiihed
to take 1t up suggested TO Mrs. Hartman
the need Of providing n training scnooi
for public service Wishing to learn now
men familiar with governmental prop
lens would so about II TO insure sucH
training. Mrs. Hartman consulted per-
sonaly and by correspondence many
business men. journalists, educators ana
public officials as TO the need OF a new
kind of training for the study ana au-
ministration Of public business.
Without exception, these men repled
that the training for this work is needed;
that field work is required TO supplement-
the work Of the university and technical
schools, and that the time Is ripe TOT
such a trial The statement continues:
In order TO make possible a five years
test for a training school for pubic ser
vice Mrs. Hartman made the generous
offer Of q contribution or Ao,Vo IoI tne
first year and $4,000 year Tor the SUI ,
ceeding four years conditioned on other cor
tributions of $4,000 year for the second'
third. fourth and fifth years being opldl,ieu,
These contributions nave peeh Ie go,
from the following people, thus cfeaeile
fund Of over $4,000 a year ior hNe pocke-
Mrs. z. H. Hartman, John ID; EoSk fs
Teller. Andrew Carnegie. Jacob H. och'It
otto II. Kahn, Henry Phipps. George
Baker, Cornelius Vanderbilt I. a ( Soi,,,,
J. P. Morgan. Commodore Gerry t ASoi5h
Blumenthal. NJ. Hartley Dodge, Ado'pI'
Lewisohn. Edwin Hawley, Robert GoeLe,t, -.
W Hartman. ]. G. Schmidlapp, MortlHlvr
/. schiff. George w. Perkins, Cleveland n
Dodge Frank a. Mu9sey, Ste prnfessor
lanes Douglas, Felix NJ. Warburg. Will
; Sn,,'ep Ronhright e Co, II. NJ. Byllesby,
Samuel insult Myron T. Herrick, Samuel
A. Lewisohn, August Belmont ana W. W.
" Hoffman.
George w. Perkins c. A. CONN ana
Mortimer L. Schiff have been asked 10
serve as an executive committee ana
trustees for the fund and to assist MIS-
Hartman in the practical WORKING OUT
of her general plan The first step taken
has been an arrangement with the Ne"
York Bureau of Municipal Research TO
a ford practical training to a certain
number of men who are quained ana
DESTROYS of fitting themselves for pupllc
service. The bureau will afford these
men an opportunity for the study OF
municipal administration on its pract-
cal and business side. such as the adj
of departments and the
analysis of public expenditures ana
from this beginning the establishment Oh
a training school for public service VIII
be developed along such practical lines
as experience may Indicate.
For the Bureau of Municipal Research,
r. Fulton Cutting said the training itself
will be i'm doing governmental work that
needs to be done and in seeking tacts
about methods and results of government
work. such as analyses of budget estl-
mates, charter studying, drafting ana
explaining, installation of cost RECORDS,
tests of milk inspection and physical ex-
animation of school children. study Of
school and health problems and manage
ment, Standardization of salaries. con-
tracts. specifications. methods of assess
ing and collecting taxes, preparing
etc.
The work, the statement says. will be
directed by the bureaus directors, Will
lam II. Allen, Henry Bruere and DIR. F.
A. Cleveland, who is also chairman of
President Taft's commission on efficiency
and accounting Continuing, the state
ment says:
Four classes of applicants are expected;
First college graduates wishing 20 go into
public service or social work, second, ac-
wishing TO qualify for ANALYSIS
or pnDlc DuSlneSS, EEI"Nidll Nv INC soSiti
phases such as health. education. pub.
iicity. etc: third. superintendent OF
schools, secretaries OF boards OF trade. and
heads of civic organizations wishing TO
take up public business: fourth, post-grad-
uate students OF politics. economies, soci-
ologv, law and journalism wishing prac
teal field work 10 supplement academic
training Starting with different expert
snces and different interests, these men
will all receive. each for his own specially,
The benefit OF the bureaus experience,
which represents cost of $4,000 10 the
bureaus supporters.
part OF the funds will be used TO make
the results of special studies available fot
textbook and handbook uses In colleges.
high and accounting schools.
Tho work begins In New York. but when
n better result may ne secured by having
The men work I'm some other city, where
work. particularly needs to hc done, the
training school contributors expect us TO
nursue this broader course. Thus the work
Is national. not only In the need for II, hui
In the actual field OF training and In our
aim 10 supply that need.
The Poard of Estimates inquiries into
schools. health, hospitals, charities, con-
tracts and payrolls make 1911 an oppor-
I; ne time to begin. In the opinion of the
IN ,nders. Mayor Gaynor. Controller
President Mitchell of the
Board of Aldermen, and Raymond u.
.