Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-12
Alley Population Declining.

Mrs. Ernest p. Bicknell, chairman NJ
the housing committee, reported on me
work of the committee, saying that as
the alley population of the District OF
Columbia has declined within the last
few wears from 81 900 to about S'ooo'
and as elimination of alley houses is
not to be completed until 1918. the coI,
mittee has not done much active wor N
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, chalrinai ~
the District section, in her repoi
showed that a teachers auXllary, me
only one in the United States, mas pesi II
formed with Membership VI
teachers in the local public schooIs.
Mrs. Hopkins also referred 10 'ne r NC
of the section in making surgical
dressings and bandages. saying that
four boxes of such material had peeh
forwarded through the Red Cross "
hospitals in France since last .>oNen
her Referring to the work Tor the
support of French war orphans, MIS-
Hopkins said that $3.50 was sufncien.
to support one child one year, and that
in response to an appeal Tor pleuses
for this work more than Si,ooo was
pledged.
The Ellen Wilson Memorial.
Mrs Hopkins also described the mod
al houses. to be known as the Ellen
Wilson memorial The project, she said,
was practically financed and construc-
tion is to begin in the near future the
arranpement of the model houses was
described from an architects drawing,
the houses providing quarters Tor TWO
families each, with modern conVeh-
fences. ,or+
Mrs. ROYAL Meeker in brief report
showed the progress mace py the ~
,;.taa on emnloyment of which she is
chairman and urged the section sup
mort of legislation for the estaoisn-
ment of a federal employment bureau;
she also touched briefly on benenciai
insurance among the poor OF the us.
trict of Columbia, suggesting .hat
many reforms are urgently needed IN
order to make such insurance dement,
to those carrying IT
Mrs Nora Hoegelsberger, teacher
in Central High School, spoke IN ao-
sion saving that a bill designed to pro-
vide partly contrlbutory pehsloii
scheme is now being drafted for pres
entation in Congress.
Welfare Work in Departments.
Mrs John Mclaughlin. vice chairman
of the section and chairman of the gov
eminent employees committee, reported
that welfare work in the departments
is being kept up without the aid OF the
committee an entering wedge having
been all that was necessary. In her re-
port Mrs Mclaughlin said that a
lunchroom for the Department of Com
merce is contemplated, at which en-
ployes of the department can buy
lunches similar to those served at the
bureau of printing and engraving. In
the rest room established several years
ago in the Treasury Department, she
said, first aid had been given to more
than $500 employees of the department,
and in the rest rooms in the Department
of Commerce several hundred employed
had received first aid.
Mrs r. Van Rensselaer,, executive
secretary of the woman's. department.
of the National Civic Federation, ex-
tended an invitation to attend the ses-
sions of the federation in the Willard
Hotel.
All officers of the District of Columbia
section were reelected, as follows:
Chairman. Mrs. Archibald Hopkins:
vice chairman, Mrs. John Mclaughlin;
treasurer, Mrs. James Carroll Frazier;
secretary, Mrs. NJ. c. Pilling.