Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-13
VOLUNTEER FORCE GROWS
Efforts Will Be Devoted to Improv-
ing Alley Conditions.
DONATIONS ARE RECEIVED
First Announcement Of Contributors
to Cause to Be Made
Today.

IOmorrow mas Deen designated as C1ty
cleaning week Sunday. Reference to the
crusade, which Is to start Monday, will
be made by the ministers of approx
mately 80 Washington churches in their
sermons tomorrow, according to advices
received by the executive committee.
In the northwest section of the city
alone minister of fifty-two churches have
promised to refer in their discourses to
the plans for a cleaner Washington,
while many Of them will urge the men,
bers of their congregations to join the
corps Of volunteer workers which will
endeavor to improve the sanitary con-
dition of the capitals alleys.
The worshipers in New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church will have the matter
brought to their attention by the pas
tor, Rev. DR.. Wallace Radcliffe.
The Cleaning Up of City, will be
the subject Rev. John Van Schaick.
jr.. will discuss In the Church of Our
Father. Several weeks ago the pastor
made an address on the question and
tomorrow he promises to go still deeper
into the problem.
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Metropolitan Memorial NJ E. Church
is one of the ministers especially en-
thusiastic over the cleanup crusade
and will refer to 1t at some length in
his sermon tomorrow morning.
In the Bloomingdale section of the
city Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson, pastor of
Bethany Baptist Church, will give a
part of his discourse to the subject.
Among the other clergymen who have
taken a deep interest in the question and
will mention it from their pulpits are
Rev. DIR. ]. ]. Muir, pastor of Temple
Baptist Church; Rev. Joseph F. McGee,
pastor of the Shrine Of the Sacred Heart:
Rev DR.. Ulysses G. B. Pierce. minister
of All Souls Unitarian Church; Rev. Earle
Whitley, pastor Of Vermont Avenue Chris
tian Church, and Rev b. ID. Cav, pastor
of the West Washington Baptist Church.
At meeting of the committee of vol
unteer workers Thursday a subcommittee
was appointed to communicate with the
ministers Of Washington and request
their cooperation in executing the plans
for the cleanup crusade.
The first official announcement of con-
tributors to the city cleaning week fund
will be made this afternoon at a meeting
of the central committee, which is to di-
be called at 4:45 O. clock in the boardroom
of the District building.
Although the appeal for contributions
by the public to help defray the cost
of conducting the crusade was issued
only Thursday, a number of donations
have been received by Treasurer John
Joy Edison, and it is believed that the
report to be submitted by Mr.. Edison
will be an encouraging one.
At this afternoons meeting of the COM
nnittee final arrangements will be made
for the launching the cleanup crusade.
Several subcommittee are to report. The
preliminary work necessary to be done
has been transacted in a generally salts
r o$< nd = &c fha pivaia nf
both Arthur c. Moses, chairman of the
central committee, and DR.. William G.
Woodward, chairman Of the executive
committee, that the situation at the be-
ginning of the crusade could not be more
favorable to the ultimate obtaining of
the results hoped for.
Citizens Promise Aid.
That, as result of tomorrow's sermons,
large number Of Washingtonians will
call at the headquarters Of the volunteer
committee, in the Associated Charities
Office, 923 H street, and volunteer their
services for the alley improvement cru
sade is believed to be assured. Follow
ing the call for volunteers, issued yester-
day by the committee, a number of resi-
dents communicated with the Associated
Charities office today and promised their
assistance. Mrs. William Lincoln Brown,
chairman Of the volunteer committee, and
Charities, who is to direct the execution
Of the plans for the volunteer work, both
will be at the Associated Charities office
early Monday morning to receive the
names of persons who desire to partici-
pate in the crusade.
Assignment of Workers.
The volunteers will work under the i'm
mediate direction of the social workers
of the Associated Charities and the social
settlements. They will be assigned to
eight general districts mapped out by the
Associated Charities. The plan to be fol-
lowed, it is said. will be to assign vol
unteers, as far as practicable. to the
respective districts from which they re-
port and as near as possible to their
own homes, as this arrangement will put
them in touch with territory with which
they are fairly familiar.
Walter S. Ufford of the Associated
Charities, who is assisting Miss Brown in
the assignment of volunteers, today said:
THE volunteers will interest house
holders, business men and others in the
success Of the campaign. Special atten-
tion will be given by the volunteers to
conditions in certain blocks and alleys.
and it is hoped that there will be enough
volunteers to cover every alley in the
city The general plan is to make
houSe-to-house canvass TO arouse the IN
tereSt of every family and OBTAIN the
promise that each will clean its own
premises. The volunteers will arrange
for the removal of the accumulated debris
when this has been gotten together. In
this way it is expected that the cam
paisn will be made one Of general edu-
cation and good teamwork.
Illustration of Plan.
Each volunteer who undertakes to
visit q particular block or neighborhood
will be asked to stand by the task until
it is possible to report that the cleanup
has been accomplished.
THE proposed method OF procedure can
be vel, Illustrated by that arranged for
Southwest Washington. Mrs. ]. p S.
Neigh of Neighborhood House, and Miss
Clara j. Van Trump District visitor of
the Associated Charities for Southwest
Washington, have agreed to act as a local
committee i'm that nelghborhood to or
ganfze volunteers and to assign them
certain territory. Mrs. Adolph Kahn of
the Alliance of, Jewish Women, which is
doing much volunteer work in that Sec
tion, has also offered to cooperate In
the neighborhood.
..In the northeast Mr.. E. j. Garm-
hausen head worker of the Noel House,
and Miss Mary F.. Minor, District visitor
of the Associated Charities 916 II street
northeast. have agreed to act as heuten-
ants for volunteers in their own sections.
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