Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-23
CHARITY MEET To
OPEN TOMORROW
Program Announced for State
Conference in WOman's Club
house, East Orange.

The eleventh annual New Jersey
conference of charities and correc-
lions will be opened tomorrow after
noon in the Woman's Clubhouse
East Orange. Delegates are already
arriving and are being entertained at
the homes of friends or in the hotels
of Orange and East Orange. Mrs. Al
bert w. Palmer, president OF the
Woman's Club of Orange, will well
come the delegates tomorrow after
noon.
For the opening session of the con-
ference, which will start at 8 o'clock,
the program will be as follows:
Invocation. the Rev. Father J. A.
Dillon, superintendent of parochial
schools, Diocese of Newark; presidents
address, Professor Royal Meeker,
Princeton, Education for Efficiency"
followed by addresses by Miss Vir-
ginia C. Gildersleeve. dean of Barnard
College, Columbia University; William
McAndrew, principal of Washington
Irving High School, New York. h
aim of the program is to have fewer
papers read and more time for discus
sion from the floor than in former
years.
Monday morning at $3.50 o'clock, with
Dr.. c. S. Chaplin, New Jersey State
Normal School, as chairman, addresses
will be made by DR.. James p. Haney,
department of education, New York;
DR.. Alexander Humphreys, Stevens In
s~titute, Hoboken; Meyer Bloomfield.
vocation bureau. Boston, and DR.. M.
G. Schlapp, director of Children's
Court Clinic, New York.
DR.. Addison B. Poland, of Newark,
will be chairman Monday afternoon
and the speakers John p. Murrey, New
Jersey State Board of Education, and
superintendent o. j. Kern, of Rock
ford, Ill. Demonstrations of teaching
music in West Orange schools will be
given by Miss Laura Lindsey.
Women to Speak.
The speakers on Monday evening.
with Frank A. Fetter, of Princeton
University, chairman, will be DR.. Tai
colt Williams, of Philadelphia; Dr..
Calvin N. Kendall, New Jersey COM
missioner of education, and DR.. Stewart
Patton, of Princeton University. Dis
cussion will be led by VIII S. Monroe.
of the New Jersey State Normal
School.
L uCSudy Ia lAAb6 NAAoOh hAAA
headmaster of Newark Academy, is to
be chairman and the speakers Mrs.
Howard c.. Warren. president State
Federation of Woman's Clubs, and
public school teachers from Newark,
Jersey City, Orange and New York.
who will tell of experiences with ex-
ceptional children.
DR.. j. NJ. Green, State Normal
School, will be chairman at the closing
session in the afternoon. Addresses
by DR.. w. E. Watts, of Chicago; C. A.
Perry. department of child hygiene.
Russell Sage Foundation, New York;
Miss Mary Garrett, of New York.
Preliminary to the conference a pub
lie welfare exhibit will be opened to-
night In the Lyceum. Main street, East
Orange, and will continue through the
conference. The exhibit will be open
to the public inc an opportunity is
given to the residents OF the Oranges
to view the exhibit prior to the ar
rival of the delegates tomorrow and
Monday.
The interest in the sessions of the
conference is Statewide and the local
committee has carefully planned the
various details 50 as to make a most
A special feature of the exhibit tonight
will be a display of model moving pic
lures. The chairman of the confer
ence exhibits is William H. Aborn, and
of the local exhibits Mrs. James E.
Cheesman Is chairman and Mrs. Sid
ney Colgate vice-chairman.