New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-08
600 Interested in Social
Service Hear Addresses
at Luncheon.
M'ANENY PRAISES
MITCHEL'S IDEALS
Says Mayor Works for Peoples
Betterment-Dr. q. Taylor
and Miss Davis Speak.

What has been accomplished in the past
in New York and vicinity by settlement
work and what II is hoped to accomplish
I'm the future were the leading topics at
a luncheon AT Sherry's yesterday, attend
ed 10y more than coo persons interested in
that branch of social service
REPRESENTATIVES OF the various settle
ments and their guests listened to ad-
dresses by Or. Graham Taylor, OF Chi
caGo. president OF the National Confer
ence Of Charities and Correction; Mrs,
Mary X. Simkhovitch, head OF Green
wich House. Miss Lillian D. Valid. head
Of the Henry street Settlement; Miss
Katharine b. Davis. Commissioner OF Cor
rection. and George McAneny. President
Of the Board Of Aldermen.
Or. John IL. Finley, Commissioner or
Education. who presided. spoke of set
Element work as breathing the air OF
better life over the land. and that It's In
spiration was something vital in the sum
total OF human betterment
I'VE now have more direct administra-
tion than we have ever had before, SAID
DR.. Graham Taylor. 1T makes no diner
ence whether We like il or not; we have
il and We are going 10 have more OF it.
He said the settlement work was taken
I'm az humanity's response 10 the call OF
tho unfortunate. That the good results
extend not only to those administered TO-
hut are reflected back in the workers
He cited many examples of distinction
achieved by social workers.
Detachment. he said, is one of the perils
of society The man who is cut OF by
himself is the dangerous character ana
the community that is shut of from the
rest of the world becomes menace and
neril 10 the country He advocated the
attachment Of individuals TO society and
that he said. is a large part of the duty
of settlement worker.
M. McAneny said there would always
be a field for the settlement worker De
cause. no matter what was accomplished
in the way of human happiness, the yea
of the worker would always find zones IN
which still higher ideals might be reallzeo'
Mr.. McAneny said further that Mayor
Mitchell had carried the idea of social ser
wee into the present administration by
appointing to Official positions those who
rad won their spurs in the fisht for better
living and better thinking
Miss Davis announced that as far as she
was able she wanted to carry the ideas oil
settlement work into the administration Of
the Department of Correction, that the
same spirit might prevail there which hac
made the fruits of settlement work &c
beautiful. so lasting and SO effective.
Miss Valid drew some mental pictures
OF settlement work as it IS, etching in
sympathetic illustration its pathos, III
hopes, its triumphs.
The enthusiasm which prevailed
throughout the luncheon was interpreted
by Dr. Finley as illustrative OF the hold
settlement work has taken upon New
York.
Among those present were Mrs. William
Adams Brown. Mrs. John II. Finley, Mrs.
Arthur Curtiss James, Mrs. Robert lrv-
ing jerks. Mrs. J. Warren Goddard. Mrs.
Francis Boardman. Mrs. Louis Marshall
and Mrs George W. Perkins.