The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-22
PAY
JANE adams
TRIBUTE

CHICAGO, May % G.N.S).-In
the famous Hull House settlement
which she founded the body OF
Miss Jane Adams lay today as
sorrowing thousands came to pay
final tribute to the Stout-hearted
friend of the underprivileged and
advocate of world peace.
Until 2 p. m. tomorrow, When
simple UNCONVENTIONAL services
will be held in Hull House court
the body of Miss Addams will
lie at rest in Bowen Hall Tor
friends to view. Following the
funeral services Miss Adams
body will be taken to her birth
place at Cedarville, Ill.
Miss Adams died in Passavant
Hospital where she underwent an
operation last Saturday to relieve
an abdominal obstruction. Before
she lapsed into coma earlier IN
the day Miss Addams told her
nephew, James Weber Linn:
81 think have done my
work and 1 am satisfied. II
the time has come am ready.
Had Cancer
With her death doctors re-
vealed that Miss Adams was SUI
fering from an internal cancer
that would have proved tatal
within the short span OF a few
months had she survived the
operation. She had not been in
formed, although the cancer first
was found when the social worker
underwent an operation for tumor
at Baltimore in 1881.
DR.. Charles A. Elliott, one OF
the three attending physicians,
said Miss Adams continued in
deep sleep and coma all through
the day and until death set in.
Mrs. Roosevelt Wires
Truck loads of flowers, sent by
friends and admirers in all parts
of the country, lined the room
where the humanitarian's body
lay. Crowding the room were
civic leaders and the social elite
mingling with the women and
children settlement house resi-
dents to whom Miss Addams had
devoted her life.
One of the first kilograms ex-
pressing grief at Miss Adams
death came from Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
Jane Adams was born at
Cedarville. ILL.,, September 6, 1860,
the daughter Of John H. and
Sarah Weber Adams. In Twenty
Years at Hull House," which is
volume 8 of the Adams auto
biography, the author describes
herself as the ugly duckling Of the
family, impaired in health by
slight spinal curvature and glow.
ing with pride in her father, "a
most imposing figure in his Sun
day frock coat"
Jane AddamS was graduated
from Rockford College with the
degree Of Bachelor of Arts in
1881. She spent the following
two years in Europe. The story
goes that the inspiration to found
Hull House came to her when
she saw a beggar in the London
Slum district of Whitechapel
snatch a cabbage from a stall,
run down a lane and devour it.
She returned to America deter
mined to engage in social work
Opened in 1889
Hull House was opened in the
center of Chicago'S vast foreign
district-even then beginning to
be called the melting pot"-in
1889. Joining Jane Adams in the
project was Ellen Cats Starr,
school friend who had been with
Miss Adams in Europe.
In 1881 she received the Nobel
prize award, which she shared
Jointly with DR.. Nicholas Murray
Butler. She received honorary
degrees from four universities. She
presided over conventions in zu.
rich in 1919, Vienna in 1921, The
Hague in 1922, washington in
1924. Dublin in 1925 and Prague
in 1929.
In her busy life Miss Addams
found time to write six books, in
addition to the two autobiography
ical volumes, Twenty Years at
Hull House." and 1.-THE Second
Twenty Years at Hull House."