The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
MISS ADDAMS WILL ARRIVE TOMORROW Has Made Many Friends While in Asheville A FINE PERSONALITY Former Birmingham Man Writes of Interview With Miss Addams
 and Her Secretary,
 Mrs. Bowen
A FINE PERSONALITY
By JOIN T. EVANS

l in the Chicago settlement work, first vice president of the Woman's Suffrage league of the United States. and fla
 nous authoress is quite anxious to get to Birm' ngham for the big meet | ing of woman's right advocates who are to gather in the Alabama metrop- oils during the coming week. This interesting woman has spent the | past week or 10 days in the mountains | of western North Carolina and she de- clares that her stay has been most pleasant one.
 Southern hospitality in general and
 that of North Carolina in particular has aroused the enthusiasm of Miss Ad- dams to a high pitch.
 Miss Addams is ia wonderful woman!
 Birmingham really has something to
 live for. If my predictions are not bad
 " wrong she is going to take the
 Magic City by storm next week. l Miss Addams ends her stay in the
 Land of the Sky Sunday night, depart
 ing then for Birmingham. She is due
 to arrive in the big Alabama city Mon day morning via the Queen and Cres- cent route.
 The Terminal station should be
 crowded with welcoming committee. | Not because Miss Ad1ams is a leader
 among the leaders for woman's rights. but because she is a wonderful Amer
 ican woman.
 Miss Addams had been in Asheville
 several days before it was generally
 known that she was here. She was in
 seclusion, so to speak She wanted rest and her every wish has been carried out in that respect
 Rest, the friends of Miss Addams are
 frank to say, is wanted by her before
 the meeting of the suffra gettes in Bir-
 mingham, for she intends to take an
 active part in that notable gathering. "Politics?'
 No;i Miss Addams would not discuss
 such a subject to newspaper folks
 while here
 Mrs Joseph T. Bowen, the private
 secretary to Miss Addams, is accom- panyiDg the settlement worker on her
 trip through the southland. Mrs. Bowen
 met the reporter for The Age Hera Id at the door of the suite and ushered him into the room where she and Miss | Addams were enjoying a cup of tea l Miss Addams was real sorrY-because
 she said so-that the last drop of tea had disappeared before the newspaper man arrived.
 l She was glad. however to welcome him.
 The noted woman is slightly past the middle age of life. Readers may de-
 eide for themselves just what that means. She is of good boise and would, and does, attract attention in
 any gathering that is lucky enough to
 have her as member. The determined cast of Miss Addams
 has reserved expression that leads
 one to think that she considers her
 speech carefully before utterance.
 Settlement work that she has acnom-
 plished in the great city of Chicago.
 often under the most unfayorable Of
 circumstances, is, of course. the sub
 Ject that is. really next to her heart.
 She is big and broad minded, however.
 and can and does do other things in
 connection with Hull house efforts. Miss Addams is reserved, however,
 about the settlement work. More so thu
 one would first imagine. She sepalxs
 calmly and in business-like way
 about the great undertaking of uplift snort and to the point at all times are
 her sentences. That she has a whole
 some regard for this work, however,
 Is plainly seen immediately after her conversation drifts along that line Miss Addams has a full realiza tion
 of just what the settlement work means for the bustling, hurly-burly. aggressive city of Chicago Miss Addams said:
 |. As you doubtless know, the settle ment work is a group of people who go into certain locality or section of
 a great and cosmopolitan city for the purpose of improving conditions there. There are about 40 of us living at Hull house now. The settlement is more like a college of learning than anything else that I can recall to mind just at this time. There are about 12 or the larger buildings and few smaller ones. About 10000 people liv- ing in the vicinity are benefited by it. coming there each day to be taught. l live there.
 'The instruction includes many branches. The girls are coached in the practice of practical things such as sewing. cooking and general work about the house. Those who desire training sto enter the business world are also cared for by efficient in structors The boys are taught nearly everything that will be useful to them in their lives as useful citizens "Amusements are provided for. We have a dance hall and theatre there and it is chiefly through the social part of the work that we are really able to reach many of the people that we arc trying to assist
 ne SelIlemelI uOeS not cODI1ne it. self to the immediate vicinity in which it is located, but in the welfare of the city in general. There are about 15 other settlements in Chicago and oth- CTS in New York and in Philadelphia. We are interested greatly in regulat- ing the dance halls, pool rooms and other places of like character and the credit for the reforms that have taken place in Chicago in the last several years is largely due, l am quite sure, Fl to settlement work
 H Then back to the subject of woman s rights and the coming Brmingh am convention
 Miss Adams thinks, so she says, that the recent vote of the women at Chi cago in the primary is no real test as
 to the manner in which they will go to the polls and cast their ballots at regular elections of the future. Wait and see," is the advice of the noted woman.
 | Mrs. Bowen, the secretary, absented herself from the room during the early part of an interview. Returning short ly, Miss Addams insisted that her com
 panion remain and participate in the discussion with the newspaper folks. The relation of these two women is
 one oG. the most remarkable things about them. Mrs. Bowen is reputed to
 be immensely wealthy, and it is stated by those who claim to know that she occupies her position solely on account of the love she bears for the work and the woman with whom she Is asso- ciated
 Miss Addams stated that the build ing for boys at Hull house was erect
 ed solely through the aid and efforts
 of Mrs Bowen and that the secretary