NAWSA. SUBJECT FILE. Addams, Jane Preliminary and Incomplete List of NATIONAL SPONSORS AND SPEAKERS for the World Tomorrow Peace Meetings October 25-31, 1931 148 Sponsors and 94 Speakers Included in this List (Persons acting as Sponsors do so in their private capacities and not as representatives of organizations or institutions.) Chairman Harry Emerson Fosdick - Minister, Riverside Church, New York City Vice-Chairmen Jane Addams - Hull House, Chicago Carrie Chapman Catt - Suffragist and Peace Leader, New York City James T. Shotwell - Professor, Columbia University Norman Thomas - Director, League for Industrial Democracy Stephen S. Wise - Rabbi, Free Synagogue, New York **** *Willis J. Abbott - Contributing Editor, Christian Science Monitor *W. S. Abernethy - Minister, Calvary Baptist Church, Washington *Peter Ainslie - Minister, Christian Temple, Baltimore *Ernest Bourner Allen - Minister, Pilgrim Congregational Church, Oak Park *Florence E. Allen - Judge, Supreme Court of Ohio *Will W. Alexander - Commission on Interracial Cooperation, Atlanta George W. Anderson - Circuit Judge, United States Courts, Boston *Gaius Glenn Atkins - Professor, Auburn Theological Seminary Bruce Barton - Author and Publicist, New York City *Albert W. Beaven - President, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School *Bernard I. Bell - Warden, Saint Stephen's College Alice Stone Blackwell - Suffragist and Publicist, Boston *Paul Blanshard - Executive Director, City Affairs Committee, New York *W. Russell Bowie - Rector, Grace Church, New York City Charles R. Brown - Formerly Dean, Yale University Divinity School *David Bryn-Jones - Minister, Trinity Baptist Church, Minneapolis *Richard Clarke Cabot - Professor, Harvard University S. Parkes Cadman - National Radio Minister, Brooklyn Arthur Capper - United States Senator from Kansas Edward C. Carter - American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations Stuart Chase - economist and Author, New York *Ben M. Cherrington - University of Denver Foundation for the Advancement of the Social Sciences *Indicates a sponsor who has also tentatively and provisionally agreed to speak at one or more World Tomorrow Peace Meetings. *Bernard C. Clausen - Minister, The First Baptist Church of Syracuse *George A. Coe - Former Professor, Teachers' College, Columbia University Henry Sloane Coffin - President, Union Theological Seminary *Abram E. Cory - Director, Pension Fund of Disciples of Christ *Henry H. Crane - Minister, Elm Park Methodist Episcopal Church, Soranton *Bruce Curry - Professor, Union Theological Seminary George B. Cutten - President, Yale University Divinity School *Jerome Davis - Professor, Yale University Divinity School *Frank P. Day - President, Union College *Dorr Diefendorf - Contributing Editor, The Christian Advocates *John H. Dietrich - Minister, The First Unitarian Society, Minneapolis *Ralph E. Diffendorfer - Board of Foreign Missions, M.E. Church W.E.B Du Bois - Editor, The Crisis Sherwood Eddy - Lecturer and Publicist, New York City *Charles M. Eichelberger - League of Nations Association, Chicago *Charles A. Ellwood - Professor, Duke University *Earle E. Eubank - Professor, University of Cincinnati Mrs. J.H. Finley - Peace Leader, New York City Irving Fisher - Professor, Yale University Frederick B. Fisher - Bishop and Minister, First M.E. Church, Ann Arbor *Albert Parker Fitch - Minister, Park Ave. Presbyterian Church, New York Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes - Peace Leader, Milton, Mass. Frank E. Gannett - President, The Gannett Newspapers *J.W. Garner - Professor, University of Illinois *Charles W. Gilkey - Dean, University of Chicago Chapel Elisabeth Gilman - Social Worker and Peace Leader, Baltimore *George Gleason - Secretary, Y.M.C.A, Los Angeles *Harold S. Gray - Banker, Detroit Francis J. Haas - Professor, St. Francis Seminary *Rolvix Harlan - Professor, University of Richmond *A. Eustace Haydon - Professor, University of Chicago Carlton J.H . Hayes - Professor, Columbia University *Hubert C. Herring - Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America John Grier Hibben - President, Princeton University *Henry T. Hodgkin - Director, Pendle Hill School *Arthur N. Holcombe - Professor, Harvard University *Harry N. Holmes - World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches *John Haynes Holmes - Minister, Community Church, New York City *Robert M. Hopkins - General Secretary, World's Sunday School Associations J. H. Horstmann - Chairman, Evangelical Commission on Christianity and Social Problems *Manley O. Hudson - Professor, Harvard University *Edward L. Israel - Chairman, Central Conference of American Rabbis Charles E. Jefferson - Pastor Emeritus, Broadway Tabernacle, New York City *F. E. Johnson - Research Secretary, Federal Council of Churches *Paul Jones - Bishop and College Pastor, Antioch College Mrs. Orrin R. Judd - President, Council of Women for Home Missions *M. Ashby Jones - Minister, Second Baptist Church, St. Louis H. V. Kaltenborn - Radio speaker and former editor of Brooklyn Daily Eagle *Robert L. Kelly - Secretary, Council of Church Boards of Education *Wm. H. Kilpatrick - Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University *Susan M. Kingsbury - Department of Social Economy, Bryn Mawr J. H. Kirkland - Chancellor, Vanderbilt University * Indicates a Sponsor who has also tentatively and provisionally agreed to speak at one or more World Tomorrow Peace Meetings. Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw - Peace Leader, New York City B. F. Lamb - Executive Secretary, Ohio Council of Churches Salmon O. Levinson - Lawyer, Chicago *E. C. Lindeman - Professor, New York School of Social Work H. L. MacCracken - President, Vassar College D. C. Macintosh - Professor, Yale University Divinity School *Louis L. Mann - Rabbi, Chicago Sinai Congregation *Daniel L. Marsh - President, Boston University *Harold Marshall - Manager, The Christian Leader *J. B. Matthews - Executive Secretary, Fellowship of Reconciliation *Francis J. McConnell - Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church, New York City James G. McDonald - Chairman, Foreign Policy Association *William F. McDowell - Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church, Denver *Mrs. A. J. McGuire - Regional Director, National League of Women Voters, St. Paul *Charles L. Mead - Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church, Denver *Charles S. Medbury - Minister, University Church of Christ, Des Moines *Henry H. Meyer - Dean, Boston University, School of Religious Education *Broadus Mitchell - Professor, Johns Hopkins University Mrs. Helen B. Montgomery - Former President, Northern Baptist Convention *Parker T. Moon - Professor, Columbia University *Fred Atkins Moore - Executive Director, Adult Education Council of Chicago *James M. Mullan - Social Service Commission, Reformed Church in U. S. *A. J. Muste - Chairman Faculty, Brookwood Labor College *Philip C. Nash - Director, League of Nations Association WIlliam A. Neilson - President, Smith College *Henry Neumann - Leader, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture *G. Ashton Oldham - Bishop, Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Albany *H. A. Overstreet - Professor, College of the City of New York *George L. Paine - Secretary, Boston Federation of Churches *Albert W. Palmer - President, Chicago Theological Seminary *Marion Park - President, Bryn Mawr College *Ernest M. Patterson - Professor, University of Pennsylvania Ellen F. Pendleton - President, Wellesley College *Dexter Perkins - Professor, University of Rochester *Clarence E. Pickett - Executive Secretary, American Friends Service Committee Davis R. Porter - National Student Secretary, Y. M. C. A. Channing Pollock - Author and Dramatist *Pitman B. Potter - Professor, University of Wisconsin *Curtis W. Reese - Dean, Abraham Lincoln Center, Chicago M. S. Rice - Minister, Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, Detroit Virginia Roderick - Editor, The Women's Journal Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Albany *E. A. Ross - Professor, University of Wisconsin *John Nevin Sayre - Executive Secretary, Fellowship of Reconciliation *A.A. Shaw - President, Denison University *Charles M. Sheldon - Minister and Author, Topeka * Indicates a Sponsor who has also tentatively and provisionally agreed to speak at one or more World Tomorrow Peace Meetings. *William R. Shepherd - Professor, Columbia University *W.J. Sherman - Minister, Temple Church, San Francisco Upton Sinclair - Author and Publicist, Pasadena Frank D. Slutz - Educator, Dayton *Sidney B. Snow - President, Meadville Theological Seminary Fred B. Smith - Chairman, World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches Edmund D. Soper - President, Ohio Wesleyan University *T. Guthrie Speers - Minister, Brown Memorial Church, Baltimore *Edward A. Steiner - Professor, Grinnell College *Charles Stelzel - Social Worker and Publicist, New York City *William L. Stidger - Professor, Boston University School of Theology *William T. Stone - Washington Representative, Foreign Policy Association Charles H. Strong - Attorney, New York City *William E. Sweet - Former Governor of Colorado *Augustus O. Thomas - President, World Federation of Education Associations *Ernest F. Tittle - Minister, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Evanston Lillian D. Wald - Henry Street Settlement, New York City Harry F. Ward - Professor, Union Theological Seminary *Luther A. Weigle - Dean, Yale University Divinity School *Ernest H. Wilkins - President, Oberlin College *Howard Y. Williams - League for Independent Political Action Samuel M. Zwemer - Professor, Princeton Theological Seminary * Indicates a Sponsor who has also tentatively and provisionally agreed to speak at one or more World Tomorrow Peace Meetings. Supplementary List of NATIONAL SPONSORS AND SPEAKERS * William F. Anderson - Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church, Boston Clarence A. Barbour - President, Brown University * Edwin M. Borchard - Professor, Yale University * Benjamin Brewster - Protestant Episcopal Bishop, Portland, Maine * Heywood Broun - Columnist, New York City * Lucius H. Bugbee - Editor, Church School Publications M.E. Church Edward P. Costigan - United States Senator from Colorado * Donald J. Cowling - President, Carleton College * James E. Crowther - Minister, Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, St. Louis Dorothy Detzer - Executive Secretary, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom * Dr. James H. Dillard - Educator and Publicist - Charlottesville, Va. * William F. Faber - Bishop of Montana, Protestant Episcopal Church * Sidney B. Fay - Professor, Harvard University Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Author, Arlington, Vt. * Alvin C. Goddard - Executive Secretary, World Peace Commission, M.E. Church * T. W. Graham - Dean, Oberlin Graduate School of Theology * William P. Hapgood - President, Columbia Conserve Co., Indianapolis * J. Eugene Harley - Professor, University of Southern California * Heber Harper - Professor, Teachers College L. C. Haworth - General Secretary, Y.M.C.A., St. Louis * Henry Hobson, Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Ohio, Protestant Episcopal Church * Charles Hodges - Associate Professor, New York University * Henry T. Hodgkin - Director, Pendle Hill School * Hamilton Holt - President, Rollins College Harvey Ingham - Editor, the Des Moines Register and Tribune Rufus M. Jones - Professor, Harverford College * John A. Lapp - Professor, Marquette University Halford E. Luccock - Professor, Yale Divinity School * Charles G. Maphis - Director, Institute of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. Joseph F. Newton - Rector, St. Jame's Church, Philadelphia. Mrs. Thomas Nicholson - President, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, M.E. Church * Edward L. Parsons - Protestant Episcopal Bishop, San Francisco * A. Ray Petty - Minister, First Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo. Charles W. Pipkin - Dean, Graduate School, Louisiana State University * Jeanette Rankin - Associate Secretary, National Council for Prevention of War * Aurelia H. Reinhardt - President, Mills College * Raymond T. Rich - Director, World Peace Foundation, Boston William Scarlett - Bishop Coadjutor of Missouri, Protestant Episcopal Church A. M. Schlesinger - Professor, Harvard University * Gale Seaman - Secretary, Y.M.C.A., University of California at L.A. * Fred W. Shorter - Minister, Pilgrim Congregational Church Ralph W. Sockman - Minister, Madison Avenue M.E. Church Alfred K. Stern - Director, Julius Rosenwald Fund * Alva W. Taylor - Professor, Vanderbilt University Goodwin B. Watson - Professor, Teachers College * Hugh Vernon White - American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston * J. Stitt Wilson - Lecturer and Publicist, Berkeley Mary E. Woolley - President, Mount Holyoke College *Indicates a sponsor who has also tentatively and provisionally agreed to speak at one or more World Tomorrow Peace Meetings. [Sponsors for Peace Meetings] The International Conference of Women Workers to Promote Permanent Peace will be held in the Civic Auditorium, July 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, under the chairmanship of Mrs. May Wright Sewall. The Federal Suffrage Association will also hold its convention in the same auditorium July 11th, 12th, and 13th, under the presidency of Rev. Olympia Brown, making in all ten days of active suffrage work at the San Francisco Exposition. It is hoped there will be a large attendance at each of these assemblages. If you intent being present at the convention of the Council of Women Voters, please communicate with Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe, 505 Perkins Building, Tacoma, Washington. EMMA SMITH DE VOE, President, 505 Perkins Building, Tacoma, Wash. DR. CORA SMITH KING, 63 The Olympia, Washington, D.C. MISS JANE ADDAMS, Vice-President-at-Large. MRS. VIRGINIA WILSON MASON, Editorial Secretary. MRS. LEONA CARTEE, Recording Secretary. MRS. C. H. McMAHON, Auditor. Allstrum Printing Co. Tacoma, Wash National Council of Women Voters Convention (A Non-Partisan Organization of Women Voters) JULY 8, 9, & 10, 1915 in the Civic Auditorium of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco, California The National Council of Women Voters Sends greetings to the Women Voters of the United States, also to the women of all States who are seeking enfranchisement. The Second National Convention of the Council of Women Voters will be held in San Francisco in Civic Auditorium, July 8th, 9th and 10th. You are cordially invited to be present. The Panama Pacific International Exposition Board has placed the large Exposition Auditorium at the service of the National Council for three days and will give it official recognition. In connection with this National meeting it is hoped the objects of the Council may be pledged in a worldwide movement. These objects are: To educate women voters in citizenship. To secure legislation in the interests of men and women, of children and the home. To aid in the extension of suffrage to women yet unenfranchised. There will appear upon the program, United States Senator James H. Brady of Idaho, who, as Chairman of the Campaign Committee of the State of Washington, issued the call for the organization of the National Council of Women Voters. Other notable people who will take part in the Convention are: Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Rev. Olympia Brown, Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, Dr. Lucy Waite, Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, Miss Margaret Roberts, Mrs. Frances W. Munds, Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, Mrs. Josephine K. Preston, Dr. Cora Smith King, Mrs. Ida Harris Mondell, Mrs. John E. Baker, Dr. Viola M. Coe, Mrs. Cornelia T. Hatcher and others. In response to a wide demand for partial membership in the National Council of Women Voters by women not yet enfranchised, a Prospective Voters Auxiliary was formed at the last conference held in Washington City, giving them the privilege of the floor, but no vote in the body. At the present time in the United States one-fifth of the Senate, one-seventh of the House of Representatives and one-sixth of the Presidential vote came from equal suffrage States, where there is a total of more than 4,000,000 women voters. More than half of the area of the United States is covered by woman suffrage. Call to the Annual Meeting of the Women's International League U. S. Section - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Cleveland, Ohio - April 29, 30, May 1 and 2, 1927 Officers International President, Jane Addams National Officers Chairman, Hannah Clothier Hull Treasurer, Florence Taussig Vice-Chairman, Maud Richards Recording Secty., Alice Cheyney Director, Emily Greene Balch Chairman of Organization, Ella Boynton National Secretaries Anne Martin, Secretary, Pacific Slope States. Sarah R. Christy, Field Secretary. Dorothy Detzer, Executive Secretary. Statement of Aims, Adopted International Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 1926 The Women's International League aims at uniting women in all countries who are opposed to every kind of war, exploitation and oppression, and who work for universal disarmament and for the solution of conflicts by the recognition of human solidarity, by conciliation and arbitration, by world co-operation, and by the establishment of social, political and economic justice for all, without distinction of sex, race, class or creed. The work of all the National Sections is based upon the statements adopted and the resolutions passed by the International Congresses of the League. Headquarters of Convention, Hotel Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio Committee Chairmen Arrangements, Alice Gannett, 1420 East 31st Street, Cleveland, Ohio Program, Margaret Sloss, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Nominating Committee, Carrie Weyl, 6506 Lincoln Drive, Mr. Airy, Pa. Hotel Accommodations For hotel accommodations, write direct to hotels. Rates of hotels: Hotel Cleveland - Convention Headquarters Single Rooms ------------------------------------------ $3.00 - $8.00 Double Rooms ----------------------------------------- $5.00 - $10.00 Rooms with twin beds --------------------------------- $7.00 - $12.00 Allerton Hotel Single Rooms ------------------------------------------- $2.00 - $2.50 Single Rooms with bath ---------------------------------------- $3.00 Rooms with twin beds ---------------------------------- $3.00 - $4.00 National Headquarters, 522 Seventeenth Street N. W., Washington, D. C. (OVER) TENTATIVE PROGRAM Annual Meeting, Women's International League Cleveland, Ohio Headquarters--Hotel Cleveland Friday Afternoon, April 29, 2 o'clock Meeting of Executives and Secretaries Friday Evening, 8 o'clock Meeting of National Board Saturday Morning, April 30, 10 o'clock Minutes of 1926 Annual Meeting............................................................Alice Cheyney Report of National Chairman....................................................................Hannah Clothier Hull Treasurer's Report..........................................................................................Florence G. Taussig Three Minute Reports from State and Local Branches Appointment of Resolution Committee Report on Organization in the West......................................................{Sarah Christy {Anne Martin Report of Nominating Committee..........................................................Carrie S. Weyl Saturday Afternoon, 2 o'clock Three Minute Reports from Special Committees Report of Executive Secretary....................................................................Dorothy Detzer Discussion of-- Methods of Spreading W. I. L. Ideas Methods of Securing Financial Support Saturday Afternoon, 5 o'clock Tea-- (Place to be announced) Saturday Evening, 8 o'clock Dinner Meeting, Jane Addams presiding (Speakers to be announced) Sunday Morning, May 1, 10:30 o'clock Peace Services in Local Houses of Worship (W. I. L. Speakers to be announced) Sunday Afternoon, 2:30 o'clock Report of Director of Policies..................................................................Emily Greene Balch Discussion of W. I. L. Policies Arbitration Economic Imperialism League of Nations Sunday Evening, 8 o'clock Continued Discussion of Policies, led by Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch League of Nations (continued) Disarmament Ratification of Protocol on Poison Gas Monday Morning, May 2, 10 o'clock Elections Report of Resolutions Committee General Business Informal Luncheon for Jane Addams Monday Afternoon, 2 o'clock Report of Elections Unfinished Business Meeting of Newly Elected Board of National W. I. L. This Program is not complete, and is subject to addition and improvement. (OVER) Women's International League U. S. Section, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 522 17th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Telephone Franklin 8218 Cable Wilus International President Jane Addams Hull House Chicago, Ill. Friends of Peace: America needs your help again! The lifting of the existing embargo on arms to Mexico is threatened. This act, in all probability, would plunge Mexico into revolution and then intervention by the United States would automatically follow "to protect life and property." A state of War with Mexico would then be declared. The vote of 79-0 in the Senate in favor of Arbitration of the Mexican difficulty was directly due to the prompt and overwhelming demand for Arbitration by the people of the country. According to press reports "the deluge of letters and telegrams to the Senate was unprecedented" and "never has there been such an outpouring of public opinion." We need this outpouring of public opinion again - Now - At Once! Will you not wire or write immediately to the President - and get 10 other people to do the same - urging him not to lift the embargo on arms to Mexico and begging him again to submit our difficulties to Arbitration? Our goal is 100,000 messages to the President by April 1st. We won a victory for arbitration in the Senate - We must win it now in the White House! Faithfully yours, Dorothy Detzer. Executive Secretary. 48 EL PARNASO MEXICANO CARPIO (MANUEL). LA CENA DE BALTASAR. Era la noche, y la redonda luna Desde la inmensa B_veda, del cielo, Alumbraba los _______ del Eufrates Y a la gran Babilonia en sus festines, Fortalezas, alcazares, jardines Y los templos magnificos de Belo. El intrepido ejercito de Ciro Esta sobre las armas impaciente Por tomar la ciudad; la infanteria Se conmueve y agita sordamente, Cual negra tempestad que alla a lo lejos Brama y rebrama en la montana umbria. Ya se aprestan de Persia los ginetes, Susa fuertes armaduras centellean, Y encima de los concavos almetes Altos plumajes con el aire ondean. Ya se escucha el crugir de los broqueles, De la trompeta el Belico sonido, Y el bufar de los fervidos corceles, Y la grita de jovenes bizarros, Y del sonante latigo el chasquido, Y el rodar de las ruedas de los carros. Ya los caballos con su blanca espuma Humedecen sus pechos espaciosos; Al ruido de las armas se recrean, Y el duro suelo escarban y golpean, Y estan inquietos por salvar los fosos. Sus cascos hollaran en Babilonia Las estatuas de dioses incensados, Hollaran a los nobles y soldados, Y yelmos y viseras y corazas, Y en gran tropel levantaran el plovo De las soberbias y desiertas plazas. Del palacio en los patios a cuchillo con su rey moriran tantos vasallos, Que en esta noche la caliente sangre A los frenos dara de los caballos. Mientras que Ciro con ardor se apresta A dar por fin el formidable asalto, LOS TROVADORES DE MEXICO 47 Pero si el labio calla, Con frases de los cielos Deja, mi vida, que tus ojos digan A mis humedos ojos.. ya os entiendo Deja escapar del alma Los ritmicos acentos De esa vaga armonia, cuyas notas Tienen tan solo el corazon por eco. Deja al que va cruzando Por aspero sendero, Que si no halla la luz de la ventura, Tenga la luz de la esperanza al menos. Callemos en buen hora Pues que al hablarte tiemblo, Mas deja que las almas, uno a uno, Se cuenten con los ojos sus secretos. Dejemos que se digan En rafagas de fuego Confidencias que escuche el infinito, Frases mudas de encanto y de misterio. Dejemos, si lo quieren, Que estallen en un beso, Beso puro que engendren las miradas Y suba sin rumor hasta los cielos. Dime asi, que me entiendes, Que sientes lo que siento, Que es el porvenir de luz y flores Y que tan bello porvenir es nuestro. Di que verme a tus plantas Es de tu vida el sueno, Dime asi cuanto quieras... cuanto quieras... De que me hables asi... no tengo miedo. Boston Mass Sep 10 2-30P 1914 Mrs. W. L. Garrison Jr 199 Temple Street West Newton Mass [*?*] West Newton Mass - Sep 11 - 1130AM MISS JANE ADDAMS is giving a course of Sunday evening lectures at All Souls' Church, Chicago, on "Democracy and Social Ethics." In the goodly audience each evening there are representatives of university faculty and classes, public school teachers, and professional and leading business men. Woman's Col [*Feb 10- 1900*] JANE ADDAMS WILL SPEAK AT THE WILBUR THEATRE, BOSTON on THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 17th at 3 o'clock on "Current Aspects of the Votes-for-Women Movement" MR. WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER, will preside. A small number of reserved seats at $1.00 are on sale at the office of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, 585 Boylston Street ADMISSION FREE The fortieth anniversary, the year 1890 was made ever memorable in American History by the admission of Wyoming to Statehood, with equal suffrage for women in its constitution. The last decade is full of victories for women—school suffrage granted in Illinois, Connecticut, and Ohio; bond suffrage in Iowa; limited tax suffrage in [*1914] National American Woman Suffrage Association Votes for Women on the Home Stretch! The Goal in Sight in 12 States. Another Field Day in Congress 1914 Campaign Rally for the benefit of the Campaign States and Pennsylvania Metropolitan Opera House Sunday Afternoon, April 19, 3 o'clock Doors Open 2:30 o'clock SPEAKERS MISS JANE ADDAMS Mrs. Desha Breckinridge Mrs. Stanley McCormick Mrs. Antoinette Funk Mrs. and Mrs. Jas Lees Laidlaw Mr. George Creel, ex-Chief of Police of Denver will answer questions about the working of Suffrage in Denver Come and Hear How We Can Win 7 New States in 1914 Pennsilvania in 1915 The United States by 1920 1914 Campaign States: Electoral Votes 1914 Campaign States: Electoral Votes Through referendum by legislature Through referendum by initiative petition* Montana . . . . . . . . 4 Missouri . . . . . . . . . . 18 Nevada . . . . . . . . 3 Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . 8 North Dakota . . . . 5 Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 South Dakota . . . . 5 (*Now being circulated) Total 67 Doors Open at 2:30 Admission Free Reserved Seats Held until 3:15 Tickets may be secured on application at Woman Suffrage Party Shop, 1721 Chestnut St. Collection will be taken Miss Jane Addams has been asked to be Honorary First Vice-President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She accepts in these words: "I shall be delighted to accepted to accept the position of Honorary First Vice-President if the Executive Council, which meets on Tuesday, wishes to appoint me to that office. I should not be willing to have this office created for me, but I understand that the constitution provides for it. I am happy with the broader policies adopted by this convention, and especially with the work done this year by Mrs. Medill McCormick and the Nation Congressional Committee" Jane Addams 1913 HULL- HOUSE YEAR BOOK January 1, 1913 Price [Twenty]-five Cents The Swarthmore College Peace Collection- A Memorial to Jane Addams By ELLEN STARR BRINTON Curator of the Collection A CHANCE call on Jane Addams in Hull House, Chicago, just when she was burning personal papers in her fireplace was the beginning of Swarthmore College Peace Collection. A horrified witness, member of the College Board of Managers, persuaded Miss Addams that such material really had historic value and offered hospitality and safekeeping in the building of the Friends Historical Library on the Swarthmore College campus, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The invitation was accepted and in 1930 Miss Addams forwarded personal correspondence and records of her peace activities especially those about the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom of which she was the International President from its founding in 1915. Included were some 500 books on peace, women’s rights, and labor problems. Sudden death in 1935 interrupted Miss Addams’ plans for “putting in order” these papers and others of like nature still in her possession. At Swarthmore, however, a loyal group of friends felt that the time was ripe to carry her ideas still further. Dr. Frank Aydelotte, the President of Swarthmore College, proposed that a world-wide peace collection be developed as a Memorial to Miss Addams, suggesting in effect:- “Let us gather here the records of peace activities from every country in every language. We will keep them for 100 or 500 years to come, so that future generations of research scholars might learn of the efforts that have been made over the centuries to create permanent peace. Sometime international war will be outlaws, perhaps not in our generation, or next, but eventually. And then the efforts of peace workers will be of great historic importance.” The proposal caught the interest of peace groups far and near and there started a flow of current peace periodicals, bulletins, news letters, leaflets, posters, reports in typescript, mimeograph and printed form. In sorting and arranging the incoming material it was discovered that over several decades a large quantity of peace material had already come to Swarthmore. The College was founded by the Society of Friends (Quakers), one of the three historic peace churches. It was thus only natural that the library building should be considered a suitable deposi- Reprinted from The American Archivist, Vol X, No. 1 January, 1947. The American Archivist tory of peace papers of individuals and groups. Items brought to light were fragments of records from peace committees that had long since ceased to function. These included some Minute Books of the Pennsylvania Peace Society of which Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) was once President; an original broad side of the "Declaration of Sentiments of the New England Non-Resistant Society" (1838) whose ideas greatly influenced the thinking and activities of both Tolstoi and Ghandi; a "Friendly Address from Women of Exeter, England to Women of Philadelphia" 1846, which was a written letter signed by 1630 names, and part of a successful campaign directed by Elihu Burritt to prevent war between England and the United States over the Canadian border question; and incomplete files of peace periodicals published in this country and abroad, dating back to 1815 the time of beginning of organized peace activities. Correspondence to build out the files of groups here and abroad was well under way when World War II broke out. This cut off mails from some areas and from others brought a greatly increased amount. Refugee pacifists in Europe sent books and precious papers to Swarthmore for safety and then fled to neutral countries. Anti-war organizations in various places asked that we take over their office records and historic papers. The activities of conscientious objectors in this country and abroad created many new agencies and many new peace publications. By the end of the war the situation at Swarthmore was similar to that at The National Archives - an enormous bulk of papers on hand that had gone far beyond the capacity of available space, or personnel, and tons of other records of war-time peace committees waiting to be arranged and permanently housed. The Peace Collection seemed too great a burden for a modest under-graduate college to support. A survey by Julian P. Boyd, Librarian of Princeton University, gave the Swarthmore College authorities renewed courage to face the problem. Mr. Boyd pronounced the accumulated papers of rare historic value, which should be preserved with care for future research purposes and urged the naming of an advisory body which could share come of the serious questions of finances, additional staff, and a much needed special building for expansion, as well as the equally important question of what to preserve and what to discard. Early in 1946 President John Nason of Swarthmore College asked the following persons to form such a committee: Devere Allen, of Wilton, Connecticut, editor of Worldover Press and author of books on history of the peace movement; Clement Biddle of New York, member of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College; Emily Cooper Johnson of Philadelphia, editor of Four Lights of the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom; Ray Newton of Philadelphia, director of the Peace Section, American Friends Service Committee; Ernest Posner, Washington, D. C., Professor of Archives Administration and History of the American University; Charles Shaw, 2 The Swarthmore College Peace Collection Librarian of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore; Frederick Tolles, Librarian, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore. With the technical advice of Ernst Posner a new impetus was given to plans for handling the papers according to modern archival practices. It was found that the material divided itself naturally into three categories: documents of individuals and peace organizations; a library of periodicals and books; and a small group of museum items long ago used for publicity purposes such as peace flags, bells, posters, tapestry and other objects. Publication of a printed guide is planned for the not too distant future. Perhaps the outstanding feature of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection is that it consists of the records of a social cause or movement and, therefore, lacks the hierarchical and organizational skeleton so familiar to usual archival collections. Regardless of origin, date, nationality, location, or language, peace organizations all over the world seem to have followed a common course. They were made up of strong- minded and independent thinking individuals. These persons, separately or as a group, were devoted to their cause, and this belief came first regardless of family, financial, religious, or political consequences. Sooner or later most of the leaders became outcasts from their pattern of society and suffered personally accordingly. Those who survived the repression of wartime, and had the courage to ignore attacks on person and reputation in peace time, often eventually became nationally and internationally famous, and acclaimed as public heroes. Our chief objective is to restore the record pattern of each peace group or committee of which we have any clue. Perhaps all that has come to our attention is a printed letter-head or a leaflet, bearing a name and an address, possibly no date. Around this single object we attempt to reconstruct the archives of which it was once a tiny part. Of non-current groups back of World War I, in nearly every case correspondence papers have long since disappeared. Minute books are extremely rare. Reports of Annual Meetings or of International Congresses can be found in some old libraries but seldom has a full series from peace organizations been gathered in one place. The problem then becomes a matter of search in hopes that is some attic, private library, or dealer's catalog, a stray pamphlet or some letters may come to light. Sorting and arrangement is by organization in chronological order. This method means that our emphasis as to respect des fonds is placed on imprint. The group that published the material is the important matter and not, as customary in most archival circles, the donor, or person who happened to have collected and held the items for a generation or two. Every lot of papers arriving at Swarthmore is searched with utmost care in hopes that a missing issue of some precious old peace periodical or some few more pamphlets of a known series may be found. It is notable that within the existing papers of practically all peace 3 The American Archivist organizations can be found records of action about nearly every controversial subject troubling mankind during the past two centuries. The program and activities of the different groups were widely diversified. The subjects changed from year to year, decade to decade. Some approached peace from a religious angle, some politically, and others devoted their efforts to the education of special groups such as women, children, labor, farmers, students, etc. Those most aggressive, variously termed at different periods as "radical peace groups," "non-resistant peace groups" and "pacifist groups," invariably are found to have been champions of the outstanding humanitarian causes of that era. Of currently active peace groups the problem is definitely of trying to decide what to save and what to destroy. Plans are under way now for consultation with all groups concerned with a hope that the Swarthmore College Peace Collection might share its experiences and collected information in some constructive way and, also, help guide the creation of peace records so that valuable items can be securely preserved and ephemeral material placed in temporary storage and periodically weeded out. Helen Chatfield of Washington, D. C., Record Officer, U. S. Bureau of Budget and Adjunct Professor of Record Administration, American University, has been assisting in local conferences with peace committees. We regularly inherit bulky reference collections along with record material. We use a mass-reducing process by amalgamating these reference collections and eliminating duplicates. As a result we have accumulated a series of clippings, cartoons, printed pamphlets, and mimeographed papers such as is known in library parlance as "Vertical File Material". These items carry no organization imprint but are on subject matter and causes which have been the serious concern of peace groups over many decades. So far the volume of papers from defunct peace organizations has not presented any serious problems. Too often it is a matter of mourning over known losses, and destruction by fire, water, war, and the usual upsets in family life caused by "house cleaning", "moving to smaller quarters", "relatives not interested in old papers", etc. etc. Sorrowful tales might be related of sleuthing expeditions to different sections to trace individuals and the papers they were once known to have held, only to learn that some one had "destroyed everything last week." Undoubtedly old peace papers are still lurking in cellars and attics and stables in various parts of the world and any clue to these will be welcomed at Swarthmore. 4 Hull-House January 1, 1913 Entrance to Hull-House Editorial Note For many years a Bulletin, either annual or quarterly, has been published at Hull-House announcing the current classes, lectures, plays and club engagements. It has seemed advisable to substitute for the Bulletin a Year Book which should present not only the current activities of Hull-House, but also a slight historical sketch of the foundation and development of each department. In response to many inquiries, something concerning the theories underlying these activities has been added. Table of Contents Page Adult Classes ……………………………….……. 6 Annual Exhibit …………………………….……. 6 Arts and Crafts …………………………...……..10 Attendance ……………………………...……….. 6 Benefit Societies Greek Benefit Societies ………………...….. 24 Greek Ladies' Charitable Association .. 24 Relief Society for Russian Exiles …….….. 23 Societa de Beneficenza Delle Italiane .. 24 Bowen Country Club …………………………. 43 Bowen Hall, General Uses of ……………… 30 Boys' Club ………………………………………….. 17 Afternoon Clubs …………………………………. 20 Bowling Alley ……………………………………… 21 Boys' Band ………………………………………….. 22 Boys' Record ……………………………………….. 21 Boy Scouts ………………………………………….. 19 Camp ………………………………………………….. 22 Library and Study Room …………………….. 22 Public Pool and Game Room ……………… 21 Savings Bank ………………………………………. 21 Social and Athletic Clubs ……………………..18 Technical Classes …………………………………. 17 Cafeteria ……………………………………………… 47 Chicago City Gardens Association ………. 49 Coffee House ………………………………………. 46 Co-Operation ……………………………………… 51 Charities of Chicago ……………………………. 51 City Welfare Exhibit …………………………….. 54 Consumers' League …………………………….. 53 Council for Library and Museum Extension ……………………………………………… 54 Health Department ………………………………. 51 Immigrants' Protective League …………….. 52 Juvenile Court ………………………………………. 52 Juvenile Protective Association ……………. 53 Practical Housekeeping Center ……………. 53 School of Civics and Philanthropy ……….. 55 Dancing Classes …………………………………… 31 Domestic Arts ………………………………………. 11 Door Service …………………………………………. 33 Federation of Chicago Settlements ………. 55 German Lodge of Good Templars ………… 23 Girls' Clubs …………………………………….……… 41 Domestic Arts ……………………………………….. 11 Kindersymphonie ………………………………….. 41 Play Clubs ……………………………………………… 42 Gymnasium ……………………………………………. 25 Athletic Contests ……………………………………. 26 Handbook of Settlements ………………………. 55 Investigation and Research …………………….. 49 Cocaine …………………………………………………… 51 Infant Mortality ……………………………………….. 50 Study of Children's Reading ……………………. 51 Study of Greek Colony ……………………………. 50 Typhoid Fever ………………………………………….. 49 Jane Club …………………………………………………. 36 Kindergarten ……………………………………………. 41 Labor Museum ………………………………………… 9 Mardi Gras ………………………………………………. 32 Mary Crane Nursery ………………………………… 47 Miss Starr's Bindery …………………………………. 11 Men's Clubs …………………………………………….. 23 Electrical Club ………………………………………….. 23 Greek American Athletic Club …………………. 23 Mercury Club …………………………………………… 23 Russian Social Economics Club ……………….. 24 Music School …………………………………………… 34 Christmas Concert …………………………………… 35 Masque of the Seasons …………………………… 35 Orchestra …………………………………………………. 36 Playgrounds and Small Parks …………………… 47 Postoffice, Station No. 10 …………………………. 36 Public Concerts …………………………………………. 36 Public Discussions …………………………………….. 23 Public Lectures …………………………………………… 6 Public Services …………………………………………… 48 Purpose of Hull-House ………………………………. 5 Reading Room ……………………………………………. 24 Residents ……………………………………………………. 5 School of Citizenship …………………………………. 24 Shops …………………………………………………………. 10 Shower Baths ……………………………………………… 27 Sketching Class …………………………………………… 13 Social Clubs …………………………………………………. 28 Airdmore Social Club …………………………………… 29 Chicadee Club ……………………………………..………. 29 Dr. Yarros' Social Club ………………………………….. 28 Eldorado Social Club …………………………………… 28 Greek Woman's Social Club …………………………. 26 Hawthorne Club ……………………………………………. 28 Homiliontes ………………………………………………….. 29 Ida Wright Club …………………………………………….. 29 Italian Cirocolo ………………………………………………. 32 Italian Girls' Progressive Club ………………………… 28 Merry-Go-Round Club …………………………………... 29 Nancrede Social Club …………………………………….. 28 People's Friendly Club …………………………………… 33 Young Girls' Friendship Club …………………………. 29 Young Italian Social Club ………………………………. 28 Social Club Parties …………………………………………. 30 St. Patrick's Cotillion ………………………………………. 31 Studio …………………………………………………………….. 12 Summer Outings …………………………………………….. 43 Theater ……………………………………………………………. 35 Children's Dramatics ……………………………………….. 40 Christmas Play …………………………………………………. 41 Foreign Plays ……………………………………………..……. 38 Hull-House Players ………………………………………….. 37 Junior Dramatic Association ……………………………. 39 Trade School ……………………………………………………. 12 Trades Unions ………………………………………………….. 23 Trustees ……………………………………………………………. 5 Tuberculosis Roof Schools ………………………………. 47 Visiting Day ………………………………………………….……. 6 Visiting Kindergarten ………………………………………… 48 Women's Club …………………………………………………… 14 Chorus ……………………………………………………………….. 15 Graduates' Day …………………………………………………… 16 Library …………………………………………………………………. 15 May Party …………………………………………………………….. 16 Neighborhood Parties …………………………………………. 14 Old Settlers' Party ………………………………………………… 14 Outing ………………………………………………………………….. 15 Visiting ………………………………………………………………….. 15 Young People's Parties ………………………………………….. 15 HALSTEAD STEET SCALE OF FEET BLOCK PLAN OF HULL HOUSE Hull-House Year Book Purpose of Hull-House Hull-House, one of the first American settlements, was established in September, 1889. The original two residents, as they then stated, believed that the mere foothold of a house easily accessible, ample in space, hospitable and tolerant in spirit, situated in the midst of the large foreign colonies which so easily isolate themselves in American cities, would be in itself a serviceable thing for Chicago. There was no legal organization for the first five years, but at the end of that time Hull-House was incorporated with a board of seven trustees. The object of Hull-House, as stated in its charter, is as follows: To provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago. Hull-House Trustees The trustees are a self-perpetuating bode of seven members, each of whom is elected for a period of seven years. Quarterly meetings are held at Hull-House at which the monthly accounts are presented and interests of the House discussed. The following are the trustees: Miss Helen Culver, Mr. Chas. L. Hutchinson, Miss Mary Rozet Smith, Mr. Julius Rosenwald, Mrs. J. T. Bowen, Treasurer; Mr. Allen B. Pond, Secretary; Miss Jane Addams, President. An executive committee of three passes upon the Hull-House bills each month and prepares a budget. A certified public accountant, Mr. M. S. Kuhns of the Safeguard Account Company, certifies the monthly accounts, a quarterly report is made to the trustees and an annual report to the Subscriptions Investigating Committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce. Hull-House Residents No university qualification has ever been made in regard to residents, although the majority have always been college people. The expenses of the residents are defrayed by themselves under the direction of a house committee on the plan of a co-operative club. The women occupy quarters in the original Hull-House building, the men are housed in the Butler building and in the Boys' Club building, while the families in residence occupy space in the Hull-House apartments. The following is a list of the residential force for the past year: Miss Addams, Miss Starr, Miss Benedict, Miss Waite, Miss Gyles, Miss Alice Hamilton, Miss Gertrude Smith, Miss Hannig, Miss Nancrede, Miss Landsberg, Mrs. Addams, Miss Elsie Smith, Miss Binford, Mrs. Pelham, Miss Anderson, Miss Large, Miss Abbott, Miss Grace Abbott, Miss Breckenridge, Miss Dewey, Miss Ford, Miss Norah Hamilton, Mrs. Kohn, Miss Hall, Miss Preston, Dr. and Mrs. Britton, Mr. and Dr. Yarros, Dr. and Mrs. Urie, Mr. Hooker, Mr. LeMoyne, Mr. Stern, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Lavery, Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Yeomans, Mr. Hauer, Mr. Forstall, Mr. Szold, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Cuniberti. Living in the Boys' Club - Mr. Johnson, Mr. Lindin, Mr. White, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Satt, Mr. Blagg. When vacancies occur applicants for residents who promise to be of value in the settlement are received for six weeks, and at the end of that time are voted upon in residents' meeting. Residents defray their own expenses of lodging and board and are pledged to remain for at least two years. the force of fifty men and woman are engaged in self-sustaining occupations and give their leisure time to the House. Very few salaries are paid and those only for technical services. Others who live in the apartment house 6 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK the Misses Uchtman and Mr. and Mrs. Keyser, have been most generous and constant with their services. The residential force is divided into twelve committees. These committees are expected to meet at least once a month and to report at residents' meetings. At the latter meetings the general activities and policies of the House are discussed and proposed changes are voted upon. One hundred and fifty people come each week to Hull-House, either as teachers, visitors, or directors of clubs. Many of these non-residents give much time and valuable service. Visiting Day Visitors desiring to see the activities of Hull-House are requested to come on Saturdays, between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. Total Attendance Nine thousand people come to Hull-House each week during the winter months, either as members of an organization or as parts of an audience. This attendance varies from year to year only as it is limited by available space. The group of buildings on the block bounded by Halsted street on the east, Ewing street on the South and Polk street on the north are all used to their utmost capacity. The old homestead of Mr. Charles J. Hull was the first home of the undertaking, the Butler building was erected in the second year, the Gymnasium and Coffee House buildings in 1893 and other buildings have been gradually added. The last one, the Boys' Club building, was formally opened in January, 1907. In each case the new building housed activities which had been organized and tested in smaller quarters for months or years. The residents, however, are convinced that growth, either in buildings or numbers, counts for little unless the settlement is able to evoke and attract to the House valuable resources of moral energy and social ability from the neighborhood itself, and that the success of the undertaking is largely in proportion as this is accomplished. Annual Exhibit An annual exhibit is held each year the first Friday and Saturday in May, presenting the work of the Studio and all the technical classes. During the same two days recitals are given by the Hull-House Music School, plays by the Dramatic associations, exhibitions of the gymnastic work, concerts by the Boys' Club band. All the friends of Hull-House are cordially invited to attend this exhibition, which is in the nature of a yearly festival. Public Lectures The college extension courses were established at Hull-House before the University Extension movement began in Chicago and are not connected with it, although University Extension courses are constantly given at Hull- House, and for ten years the Extension Department of the University of Chicago furnished a number of the lecturers for the Sunday evening stereopticon talks. These were attended by large audiences, chiefly of men. The lectures at present are more popular in character and varied by an occasional concert. Recent lectures have been on the "Trojan War," illustrated by moving pictures; one on the "Message of Count Tolstoy," by Prof. Eugen Kuhneman of Germany. A series of lectures is to be given later by Mr. Jerome Raymond. Adult Classes Classes for adults coming together first upon a social basis and then finally organized for the acquisition of some special knowledge have met at Hull- House for three terms a year during the twenty-three years of its history. A lesser number of classes are also continued for a fourth term every summer. The most popular and continuous courses have been in literature, languages, history, mathematics, drawing and painting. A helpful supplement of the College Extension courses was the Summer School, which was held for ten years in the buildings of Rockford College, at Rockford, Ill. The sum of three HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 7 Consulting the Hull-House Bulletin Board dollars a week paid by each student for board covered the entire expense of the school; the use of the buildings, including gymnasium and laboratories, was given' free of rent. A Summer School was held one year at Chautauqua, N.Y., where special rates were obtained through the kindness of the management. "During the latter years the College Extension classes have been modified, for while classes of a purely cultural character are still carried on, such as Miss Starr's reading classes in Browning and Dante, and Mrs. Richardson's literature class, for example, the residents of Hull-House feel increasingly that the educational efforts of a settlement should not be directed primarily to reproduce the college type of culture, but to work out a method and an ideal adapted to adults who spend their time in industrial pursuits. They hope to promote a culture which will not set its possessor aside in a class with others like himself, but which will, on the contrary, connect him with all sorts of people by his ability to understand them and by his power to supplement their present surroundings with the historic background which legitimately belongs to them. Courses of lectures, illustrated by material from the Labor Museum, have also been adopted. Miss Clara Landsberg and Miss Ethel Dewey, who are in charge of the educational work of Hull-House, interview each new student and each is carefully placed according to his attainments and later is graded upon reports made by the teachers. This grading is especially important among the adults who are studying English. The registration for 1912-1913 in the evening English classes numbered 300. In the technical classes - cooking, dressmaking, millinery - there were 205 registrations. In November, 1912, a committee of residents arranged for a series of monthly social evenings in which the members of all evening classes are brought together for an entertainment and dance. On each occasion a program of music, a dramatic entertainment, or a lecture with stereopticon, was followed by a dance. Between two hundred and four hundred young people are present at each of these parties, and strong class spirit has been developed. 8 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK BEGINNERS' CLASSES Beginners in English--Tuesday and Friday, 7:30 p.m. Miss Preston. Beginners in English B--Tuesday and Friday, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Kaplan. English I--Monday and Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Miss Williams, Miss Hall. English II, A--Tuesday and Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Levinson. English II, B--Tuesday and Friday, 7:30 p.m. Miss Spauling, Miss Starr. English II, C--Tuesday and Friday, 7:30 p.m. Miss Mueller. English III--Monday and Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Miss Elsie Smith. English IV--Friday, 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Ransom. English Grammar--Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Miss Arnold. English Composition--Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Miss Dewey. Arithmetic--Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Miss Stewart. Reading--Monday, 7:30 p.m. Miss Large. ADVANCED CLASSES History of Art--Tuesday, 7 p.m. Miss Starr. Browning--Tuesday, 8 p.m. Miss Starr. Classic Drama--Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Richardson Current Topics--Friday, 8 p.m. Mr. Yarros. Civics--Tuesday, 8 p.m. Miss Spooner. English Composition (Advanced)--Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Mrs. Quan. Class in Citizenship--Tuesday and Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Mack. Class in Advanced Literature This class has met continually for five seasons each Thursday. The membership the first year was about twelve, most of whom still remain in the class. Each season has witnessed an increase in membership until now there are thirty-eight on the roll, with an average attendance of about thirty- two. The courses offered have been as follows: 1st year--Leading English authors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 2nd Year--Two sections: I. A general survey of English literature. II. Hebrew literature. 3rd year--The modern drama, with special attention to Tolstoy, Ibsen, Maeterllinck, Hauptmann, Sudermann, and Rostand. 4th year--The classic drama, with special attention to the Greek tragedies and the classic plays of France and Germany. 5th year--The English classic drama. The Pre-Shakesperean dramatists, Shakespeare, other Elizabethan dramatists, Goldsmith, and Sheridan. This is distinctly a study class. Every member is expected to do a good deal of reading each week and to give a special report of some kind about once a month. There are some half dozen reports each evening. The work is carefully outlined. At the end of each year a searching oral examination of the year's work takes place. In the present season the class has purchased a library of about thirty volumes in English drama for study and reference. The leader of the class is Mr. W. L. Richardson. Good fellowship has always been observable in the class, and each season several social events, outings, etc., have been arranged. The class has also tried amateur dramatics. They successfully presented "The Hour Glass," by Yeats, and Sudermann's "Far Away Princess." HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 9 In the Hull-House Labor Museum--Italian Spinning Labor Museum Several of the Hull-House educational enterprises have developed through the efforts made to bridge the past life in Europe with American experiences in such wise as to give to them both some meaning and sense of relation. The Hull-House Labor Museum was in the first instance suggested by many people in the neighborhood who had come directly from country places in southeastern Europe in which industrial processes are still carried on by the most primitive methods. It was not unusual to find an old Italian woman holding a distaff and spinning with the simple stick spindle which had certainly been used in the days when David tended the sheep at Bethlehem. In the immediate neighborhood are found at least four varieties of these most primitive methods of spinning and at least three distinct variations of the same spindle put in connection with wheels. It was possible to arrange these seven methods into historic sequence and order, and to connect the whole with the present method of factory spinning. The same thing was done for weaving, and on every Saturday evening a little exhibit is made of these "various forms of labor" in the textile industry. Within one room the Syrian, the Greek, the Italian, the Slav, the German, and the Celt enable even the most casual observer to see that there is no break in orderly evolution if he looks at history from the industrial standpoint. As the occupation itself is cosmopolitan, adapting itself merely to local conditions and materials, so it is possible to connect this old-time craft with the garments of the department stores, quite as the simple human experience of the immigrants may be made the foundation of a more inclusive American life. The young people who work in the factories are also given some knowledge of the material which they constantly handle. The museum contains carefully arranged exhibits of flax, cotton, wool and silk, and, in addition to the textile implements, it exhibits the earlier products in various countries. Much valuable material has been presented by the Field Columbian Museum. The 10 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK ———————––——————————————— classes in dressmaking, millinery, cooking, and embroidery are held in the exhibition room. Their interest in this historic background has been most gratifying, and certainly the best education cannot do more than constantly to reconstruct daily experience and give it a relation to the past. Arts and Crafts Closely identified with the Labor Museum and the classes in pottery, metal work, enamel, annd wood carving is the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society which organized at Hull-House. Several members of this society are living in the buildings on the Hull-House Quadrangle. These artists find something of the same spirit in the contiguous Italian colony that the French artist is traditionally supposed to discover in his beloved Latin Quarter. Hull-House Shops An outgrowth of the Arts and Crafts classes, although not directly connected with them, are the Hull-house shops. these are self- supporting and are quite distinct from the museum although occupying the same space. The textile shop is under the direction of Mrs. Addams and at present it employs the entire time of Mrs. Brosnahan, Mrs. Olivete, Mrs. Molinari and Miss Sorenson. The spinning and weaving are both in flax and wool, the products including woolen blankets and drapery, towels in patterns, and rugs. Classes in weaving are taught by Miss Susanna Sorenson of Askov, Denmark, every Friday and Saturday from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m., and 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. A course of ten three-hour lessons for $10. Special courses for the blind have been established through the activities of the Philanthropy Department of the Chicago Woman's Club. The force of the other shops includes Mr. Friedman, who works in mental and enamel, and Mr. Giuseppe Montenegro, who works in wood. The pottery shop In the Hull-House Labor Museum—Irish Spinning HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK ———————––——————————————— Millinery Class at End of Kitchen is under the direction of Miss Uchtman. The most constant worker is Herr Franz Schmall. Miss Starr's Bindery. The bindery is occupied by Miss Starr for her personal work and for her private pupils. The time necessary for acquiring proficiency and the expense of the equipment and material makes its impracticable to teach handicraft bookbinding in classes on the basis of shop instruction. DOMESTIC ARTS From the classes in domestic arts at Hull-House a most successful school in sewing and dressmaking has been established averaging more than two hundred pupils each year. The annual exhibitions in the Spring show most creditable results in white wear, in summer gowns and suits, occasional an entire trousseau has been made in school. The following classes are carried on at present: Dressmaking (elementary) — Textile Room, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, Friday, 3:30 p. m. Mrs. Keyser. Fee, $1.00 for ten lessons. Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Miss Clark. Dressmaking (elementary) — Textile Room, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, Friday, 3:30 p. m. Mrs. Keyser. Fee, $1.00 for ten lessons. Dressmaking (advanced) — Shops, Monday, Thursday, 3:30 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. Miss Weinheimer. Fee, $2.00 for ten lessons. Millinery—Shops, Monday, 7:30 p. m. Miss Mackay. Fee, $1.00 for ten lessons. Cooking—Kitchen, Tuesday, Friday, 7:30 p. m. Miss DeLang. Fee, $1.00 for ten lessons. Plain Sewing (for girls from 14 to 16) — Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Miss Mattison. Weaving — Saturdays. Miss Sorenson. Embroidery–Tuesday, 7:30 p. m. Miss Dessent. 12 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Hull-House Labor Museum--Potter's Wheel Trade School For Dressmaking Hull-House has had for many years large classes in dressmaking which meet once or twice a week, an din which the instruction was designed for the personal and domestic use of the pupils. In addition to these, however, a trade school has been opened for young girls who would otherwise enter unskilled factory work in which there is no future. A three- month's course makes it possible for a girl to enter a dressmaking establishment at a wage of four dollars a week or more with an opportunity for promotion in a well-paid and skilled trade. The classes meet daily from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and are taught by an experienced trade dressmaker, Mrs. O'Donnell. The school attendance averages fifteen, the ages of the girls ranging from fourteen to seventeen. Once a week the pupils receive a cooking lesson, once a week a dancing lesson, and every day at the lunch hour calisthenic exercises. Twenty-three of the graduates are now working at dressmaking, seven fill positions where there skill and dexterity is used. Miss Mary Preston, who is in charge of the school, works in constant cooperation with the Bureau of Employment Supervision for boys and girls which has its headquarters at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. Miss Davis, who is in charge of the Bureau, has been most generous in aiding the new undertaking as well as a class in typewriting and office work which has recently been established for girls at Hull-House meeting every Monday and Thursday, at 7:30 p.m., under the direction of Miss Mathews. Hull-House Studio Miss Benedict, one of the earliest Hull-House residents, has been in charge of the studio since 1893. Successful classes in drawing, modeling, painting, and lithography are continued year after year. The studio occupies the entire top floor of the Smith building and is lighted from above. Classes are sometimes in charge of teachers who have had their earlier training at Hull-House. The studio is also used by advanced students during the HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 13 hours when it is free from classes. One of these, Mr. S.D. Linder, during the past year has shown work both in the Exhibition of Chicago Artists and in the Exhibition of American Artists. He has recently received the American Artists' Scholarship for European study. Several artists use the Studio, availing themselves of the opportunities of models afforded by the contiguous immigrant colonies. Miss Emily Edwards, who works in the studio every day, receives those who wish to undertake serious work there. Occasional exhibits have been held at Hull-House and the response to excellence in matters of art has always been gratifying. ART CLASSES Following is the list of classes offered last year: Drawing--Monday, 7:30 p.m. Miss Chamberlain. Friday, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Linder. Lettering--Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Block. Design--Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Miss McCracken. Painting--Saturday, 1:30 p.m. Miss Benedict. Clay Modeling--Monday and Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Miss Fromen. Children's Drawing--Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 3 to 5 p.m. Miss Edwards. Sketching Class During the latter weeks of the Spring term, the Saturday afternoon panting class frequently has its lessons out of doors in some nearby country place or suburb. A very successful day was spent at the Bowen Country Club when the apple trees were in bloom. In the Studio 14 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Some of the students have attended the art classes at Hull-House for a number of years. In the exhibit last spring, it became evident that a number of them had taken the entire list of classes offered and had worked regularly in the studio, four nights a week. Several of them exhibited creditable work in drawing, painting, lettering and clay modeling; although the later class is held in the Boys' Club many of the art students atten dit. A number of these students eventually find their way to the classes in the Art Institute and others to employment in the commercial arts. HULL-HOUSE WOMAN'S CLUB The Hull-House Woman's Club, organized in February, 1891, with twelve members and now numbering three hundred and fifty, has completed its twenty-second year of work. The club is housed in a building of its own in which it has exclusive control of a library and sewing room, although the large hall which seats eight hundred people is used for many other purposes. The average attendance every Wednesday is about one hundred, and an attendance of two hundred and fifty to three hundred women is not unusual on a social occasion. The Year Book, which is issued in advance each September, shows a full programme of lectures on current topics by well-known speakers, discussions by club members, and musical attractions by the club's own chorus. The programmes have been varied and interesting, and out of the thirty-nine given last year, twenty-two programmes were furnished by members of the club. The activities of the club are systematically divided into committees. Among its public-spirited enterprises is the support of a linen chest which was established after the death of Mrs. Stevens, a former president, as a memorial to her, and, as such, it is kept filled with all sorts of garments for the sick and poor of the district. The club contributes to the School Extension Committee, to the Juvenile Protective Association, to the Children's Home and Aid Society, to the Gardeners' Association, and to the Wendell Phillips Colored Settlement. It sends delegates to the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, to the Cook County League of Women's Clubs, to the Mothers' Congress of Illinois, and to various other organizations. In order to raise money for these public charities, benefit entertainments which are always largely attended and greatly enjoyed, are given each year by the entertainment committee of the club. Old Settlers' Party The Woman's Club has co-operated for many years in arranging for the Old Settlers' Party which as been held at Hull-House every New Year's Day for twenty years. At the party held January 1, 1913, Miss Addams presided and there were speeches from many of the old settlers. Mrs. Pelham as usual recited "Shamus O'Brien," and pictures of early Chicago, loaned by the Historical Society, were shown, followed by the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" and an hour of refreshments and social intercourse. The attendance was one of the larges of the twenty-three Old Settler parties which have bee held on New Year's Day at Hull-House. Neighborhood Parties Very early in its history the club formed what is called a "Social Extension Committee." The club, acting through this committee, gives a party to those neighbors who for any reason are without much social pleasure. During the last year this committee has held five neighborhood parties, and at these parties more than fifteen hundred people (no guests under sixteen are invited) were entertained. Music and dancing, followed by refreshments, always make up the programme. HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 15 Polk Street View of Hull-House, Looking East Boys' Club in Foreground--Facade of Woman's Club--of Building for Shops and Gymnasium--of Building for Theater and Coffee House and of Smith Building Outing During the summer of 1912 the Outing Committee gave a picnic at the Joseph T. Bowen Country Club, Waukegan, attended by three hundred and fifteen members of the club and their families. The guests were shown over the grounds and buildings and a light lunch was served. Club Chorus The Hull-House Woman's Club Chorus, under the direction of Mrs. Hume, as thirty members. They have given during the past year several musical afternoons at the club and one or two evening entertainments. Library Club The club library has 2,377 volumes, to which many new and valuable books have been added this last year. A magazine department has been begun and the current weeklies and monthlies are to be found in the library and are loaned to members of the club. The library is managed by a library committee with an exact although simple library system. Club Visiting The Visiting Committee, which looks after those who are ill, has made fifty visits and, in many instances, sent delicacies and flowers. The House Committee has served refreshments twelve times during the year and served altogether 2,876 people. Young People's Parties A committee consisting of women of the club was organized in February, 1909, called the Young People's Recreation Committee, its object being to give dancing parties for young people in Bowen Hall. This committee gives such a party every two weeks, with an average attendance of about two hundred and fifty. The club members chaperone these parties and every effort is made to give thorough-going pleasure free from objectionable features. 16 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Woman's Club May Party The first Wednesday in May of each year is known as the Children's May Party, and is one of the happiest occasions of the club. Only members and their children are bidden, and seven or eight hundred are always provided for. An entertainment of songs and magic or some other diversion is followed by the Maypole Dance which is the feature of the day. The club has celebrated its fifteenth May Day and it is certain that whatever customs lapse the May Party will endure. Graduates' Day For several years at the last meeting in June the club has held a reception for those of its sons and daughters who have been graduated from the grade schools, public or parochial, or from the public or private high schools. First, second, and third prizes are offered to those young people who present the best records for attendance and punctuality throughout the school course. These prizes of course are given upon the certificates issued by the schools. The music for the day, always furnished by members' children who have had musical training, is much enjoyed by the club. The current programme is appended. Copies may be obtained by application at the club library. PROGRAMME Oct. 2 - Opening Social. Oct. 9 - The Work of the Immigrants' Protective League. Miss Grace Abbott. Oct. 16 - The Child. Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Allott, Mrs. Richardson, Miss Addams. Oct. 23 - Our Compulsory Education Program. Mr. Lester Bodine. Oct. 30 - The Work of the Society for Mental Hygiene. Miss Eleanor Thompson. Nov. 6 - Reciprocity Day for the Eighth District - Social. Nov. 13 - The Colored Population of Chicago. Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett. Nov. 20 - What Shall We Do With Our Children After School Hours? Mrs. Barrett, Mrs. Schoenheer, Mrs. Kehoe, Mrs. Manson. Nov. 27 - Report of Delegates to the State Federation--Musical Programme. Dec. 4 - Social--Chorus Day. Dec. 11 - Songs of Yesterday (by request). Mrs. Laura Dainty Pelham, assisted by Mrs. Katherine de Bray and Mrs. Margaret Daniels. Dec. 18 - The Advantages and Disadvantages of Women Becoming Wage Earners. Mrs. Fyffe, Mrs. Jacobs, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Fucik. Dec. 25 - Christmas Day; no Club meeting. 1913 Jan 1 - Reception to Old Settlers. Jan. 8 - New Discoveries in Medicine. Dr. James Britton. Jan. 15 - Our Give and Ten Cent Theatres. Mrs. Deach, Mrs. Hallowell, Mrs. Stiles, Mrs. Bowen. Jan. 22 - Recent Developments in Government. Mr. John Kennedy. Jan. 29 - The Work of the Visiting Nurse Association. Mrs. Arthur Aldis. Feb. 5 - Social. Feb. 12 - The Ten Hour Law. Miss Agnes Nestor. Feb. 19 - Lincoln. Miss Addams. Feb. 26 - Children's Music. Miss Eleanor Smith. Mar. 5 - The Effect of Bad Housing on Human Life. Miss Edith Abbott. Mar. 12 - The Disposal of the City's Waste. Miss Anna Nichols. Mar. 19 - St. Patrick's Day Celebration. Readings--Mrs. Urie. Chorus and social. Mar. 26 - What To Tell Our Girls. Dr. Yarros. Apr. 2 - The Practical Working of the Funds to Parents Act. Miss Rose McHugh. Apr. 9 - Social. Apr. 16 - Public Care of Neglected Children. Miss Breckinridge. Apr. 23 - Some Remarkable Pictures of Our Own Day. Miss Ellen Gates Starr. Apr. 30 - The Work of the Woman's City Club. Mrs. W. I. Thomas. May 7 - May Party. May 14 - Nomination of Officers. May 21 - The Work of the Legal Aid Society. Mrs. Boyes. May 28 - Election of Officers - In Memoriam. Mrs. Rose Thornton, Mrs. McWade, Mrs. Hallowell. June 4 - What the Club Does for Me. Mrs. Myrtle Thornton, Mrs. Bolland, Mrs. Enders, Mrs. Kakuska. June 11 - Equal Suffrage. Mrs. Bowen. June 18 - Some Simple Remedies for Childhood's Ills. Miss Lund. June 25 - Reception to Graduates. HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 17 Boys' Club Library BOYS' CLUB The Hull-House Boys' Club has an enrolled membership of fifteen hundred and occupies its own building, a five-storied structure, equipped with bowling alleys, pool room, game rooms, a library and study room, a band room, class rooms, and shops for instruction in wood working, forging, brass moulding, tinsmithing, machine work, electric wiring, cobbling, photography, clay modelling, printing, telegraphy, and office work, including telephony, bill and letter filing, and typewriting. The house also contains a few bedrooms usually assigned to members who are in charge of the building. The roof and the rear third of the upper story are utilized for an open air school for tuberculous children. The club house is open to members every week day from 3 to 10 p.m., and the cooperation of the members themselves is enlisted for its preservation and to maintain order. Membership is obtained upon simple application to the librarian and on the payment of a fee of five cents monthly membership tickets are issued. The club is open to the smaller school boys from 3:30 to 6 o'clock and to high school and working boys evenings from 7 to 10 o'clock. The various opportunities offered by the club are presented to each boy upon joining and he is advised to take advantage of one or more of them though membership does not depend upon his doing so. Dr. Urie is the chairman of the resident's committee in charge of the Boys' Club. Technical Classes Boys' Club Woodwork, three nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Miss Uchtman Woodwork, two nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Daniel Siegel Mechanical Drawing, one night a week . . . . . . . . . Mr. MacDonald Brass Moulding, two nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. MacDonald Blacksmithing, two nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Sullivan 18 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK In the Boys' Club Foundry Tinsmithing, two nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Schundt Machineshop work, two nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Burnell Machineshop work, one night a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Ederheimer Metal work, one night a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Friedman Cobbling, two nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. De Salvo Photography, two nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. C. Nemic Printing, two nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Lavery and Mr. Fairbanks Clay Modeling, two nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miss Fromen Typewriting, two nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miss Pickham Telephone, one night a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miss Pickham Applied Electricity, one night a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Keyser Telegraphy, two nights a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Gleason Sign Painting, one night a week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Sentore Social and Athletic Clubs Current Topics Club, 10 members, Director, Mr. Alt; Robert Emmet Club, Dramatics and athletics, 25 members, Mr. Smith; Alpine Club, literature, 10 members, Mr. Goodman and Miss Simon; First Aid Class, 30 members, Mr. Freilich; Charter Oaks, 10 members, adults, Mrs. Urie; Circle 17 Club, 15 members, Mr. McCarn; Hull-House Jolly Boys, athletics, 10 members, Mr. Johnson; Boy Scout Club, 24 members, Mr. Backhoff; Imperials, athletics and curren topics, 10 members, Mr. Crosby; New Club, 10 members, Mr. Dixon; members, Mr. Aaron; Forquer Street Club, literature and bowling, 10 members, Miss Pressley; Young Italians, technical workers, 10 members; Andrew Jackson Club, debating, 6 members, Mr. Schwartz; Greenwoods, athletics, 20 working boys, Mr. Earle. HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 19 Hull-House Boy Scouts with the Red Cross Cup Boy Scouts A branch of this organization was started in the Boys' Club in January, 1911, Mr. Simmons, Mr. Linden, and Mr. Johnson in charge. Its present membership is one hundred and two, of which seventy-eight are afternoon boys and twenty-four are evening boys, with the following classification: First class scouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Second class scouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Tenderfoot scouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Not yet classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Members evening scout club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 20 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Electrical Club Learning How to Wire a House Uniforms are supplied for nearly the full number, and the boys present a smart appearance as they march off on their hikes. Some of them are very proficient in their drills and in the city championship competition in 1912 the troup ranked as the second best in Chicago. Five of the troup competed in the National Red Cross Tournament in Washington, D.C., in 1912, and won the first aid medals and trophy. Mr. Linden is scout master. Afternoon Clubs for Boys Monday Club - Boys under 12 years, average membership 40. Occupied in the following handicraft: Scrap books, Miss Campbell; hammock making, Miss Kribs; rope mat making, Miss Bowen; free play and games, Miss Perkins. Wednesday Club (school boys over 12 years) - Brass pounding, Miss Rosenthal; basket work, Miss Reynolds; ink color work, Miss Fischer. Thursday Club (boys over 12 years) - Pottery, Miss Mallen; brass pounding, Miss Hall; scrap books, Miss Treadwell; rope mat making, Miss Downing, literature, Miss Foreman. On Monday and Friday all boys over twelve years attend the gymnasium. On Wednesday the boys under twelve have an afternoon gymnasium period. On Saturdays no special program prevails. The library and a game room accommodating forty boys are open every afternoon for those not taking part in the club or gymnasium work. The club meetings are conducted on the usual parliamentary lines and are presided over by their own officers. The meetings are called to order at 4 o'clock, roll is called, minutes read, announcements made, and adjournment made to class rooms. At about 5:10 o'clock the club reassembles in the original meeting place and plays charades for the remainder of the afternoon. From one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty boys come to the club every afternoon. HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 21 Public Pool Room and Game Room The large room on the second floor which in former years was used as a general game room was changed in October, 1912, into a public pool room for the boys over eighteen years old and for men. The front end of the room is equipped as a lounging room and supplied witrh facilities for writing, reading, and playing checkers, chess, and dominoes. The fees charged for pool and billiards are small and the number of young men who find recreation here is sufficient to cocupy all the tables with an overflow waiting their turn in the lounging space. Two other rooms are maintained as game rooms for boys under eighteen years, and in these opportunities for checkers, chess, dominoes, crokonole, and baby pool is furnished. The public pool room is in charge of Mr. Moler who enlists the services of some of the members longest identified with the club as assistants. Frank Rito and Tony Trelka, both members of long standing, supervise the game rooms. Bowling Alleys The bowling alleys are open evenings during club hours and are under the direction of volunteers from the Mercury Club and others of the older members. Some of the social clubs bowl as a group and to these the alleys are assigned for specified times, and the formation of other teams is encouraged with the object in view of stimulating competition. Savings Bank Receives deposits from club members. These are largely accumulated for summer vacations, and many of the boys who go to camp save the money for this purpose through the bank. Hull-House Boys' Record A periodical, edited, published, and printed by members of the Hull-House Boys' Club. It deals largely with athletics and club news, although other Hull-House departments are often reported in its columns. Some In the Boys' Club Cobbling Class [Left Page] 22 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Hull-House Boys' Camp at Muskegon very creditable productions, both in prose and poetry, are contributed by club members. Mr. Lavery is the supervising director of this enterprise. Library and Study Rooms for Boys These rooms occupy the front of the third floor and are open every afternoon and evening. The library is furnished with fifteen hun- dred volumes which are issued for the use in the library room. The room is also furnished with periodicals, a large proportion of them being juvenile magazines. The study room is designed for the use of school boys who need a quiet place in which to study or special help in their lessons. Mrs. Rice is the librarian and also has charge of the club registration. Hull-House Boys' Band The brass band was organized when the club moved into its new building six years ago under the leadership of Mr. Steers. The boys made a good beginning and under that later leadership of Mr. Sylvester the band has been developed into an organization of sixty pieces. It meets for instruction and practice every Tuesday and Thursday evening in the band room and plays creditably both classical music and standard band music of the day. The members are equipped with an attractive uniform - blue trousers and red coats - and the land which has become a recognized feature of all holiday occasions, makes a fine showing as it marches to the neighboring halls and theaters, where it is often invited to play. It furnishes music for all the Boys' Club entertain- ments and in the summer gives open air concerts in the Hull-House court and at the Boy's Club camp at Muskegon. Two afternoons a week a small band of younger boys meets for practice. Boys' Club Encampment For the past two years the Boys' Club has pitched its camp on the outskirts of Muskegon, Michigan on the shore of Lake Michigan. The site is an especially attractive one and offers many features that makes camp life so gripping to boys - bathing, boating, and space for out-of-door games. Between two hundred and two hundred and fifty boys enjoy a two weeks' stay in this camp each year at a cost of $1.50 to $3.50 per boy; boys under twelve years paying the lesser rate, from twelve to sixteen years $2.50, and over sixteen years paying $3.50. Through the courtesy of Mr. Thorpe of the Goodrich Com- pany free transportation was furnished. The camp was under the supervision of Mr. Mills and Mr. Johnson in 1911, and of Mr. Linden and Mr. Johnson in 1912. [Right Page] HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 23 HULL-HOUSE MENS' CLUBS The Mercury Club A Hull-House Men's Club was organized in 1893, and was incorpo- rated under the state laws. Its quarters were furnished with billiard and pool tables, a meeting room, shower baths, and a reading room with periodicals and a small library. The aims of the club were both recreative and educational, but as a large majority of the members were of voting age, from the time of the club's organization it has taken an interest in politics. At present the rooms and library of the Men's Club are in possession of the Mercury Club which is composed of sixty young men who have long been iden- tified with the Gymnasium at Hull-House. They carry on the old activities of the Men's Club but give much more time and energy to athletic interests. One of the largest rooms in the house, decorated with its numerous trophies of ath- letic victories, has been assigned to it for its exclusive use, and equipped with a billiard table, and a library of two hundred books. The club has a social side and gives occasional dinners and banquets during the winter. The members of this club take an interest in the general work of the Boys' Club and do volunteer work as directors in the gymnasium and club building. Greek-American Athletic Club A club of Greek young men who have the exclusive use of a room for club purpose. This is also an athletic club and its room contains the trophies of many victories. Its memberships shows a falling off from other years owing to the return of some of its members to Greece to participate in the Balkan war, as many young Greeks left for the Balkan States when war was declared. A very impressive ceremony was held in Bowen Hall on a Sunday evening when Father Pegaas blessed two hundred young men who were to leave for the Blakan States. Hull-House Electrical Club The membership consists of men who are occupied in electrical occu- pations. The club occupies a room of its own, is open every evening and equipped with some valuable apparatus purchased by the mem- bers. The club has been most generous with its services in teaching the Hull- House Boys' Club and in operating the electrical stereopticon. Public Discussions From the earliest years of Hull-House, various organizations have ar- ranged for public lectures and discussions. The first of these, the "Working People's Social Science Club," was organized at Hull-House in 189-. Its discussion of social problems was always animated and good natured, al- though every conceivable shade of social and economic opinion was represented. From those early conferences the residents of Hull-House were convinced that so long as social growth proceeds by successive changes and adaptations, such free discussion is most valuable. Trade Unions Closely connected with such discussions of economic subjects has been the formal connection between Hull-House and organized labor. Every year some trade unions have always held their regular meetings at Hull- House. During the last year those that have met here are the Electrical Workers' Union the Necktie Workers' Union, and the Garment Workers' Union, Locals 39 and 96. A Relief Society for Russian Exiles Meets on Sunday afternoons and gives an occasional benefit for rais- ing funds for Siberian exiles. The Germania Lodge of Good Templars Composed of men and women of German descent. Has met for many years at Hull-House every Thursday evening, upholding the cause of temperance in this part of the city. [Left Page] 24 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Greek Ladies' Charitable Association A membership of fifty Greek women meets monthly at Hull-House, where they discuss cases of need which they have found among their own countrymen. They organized at Hull-House with the assistance of Miss Neukom, with whom they have studied the various charitable agencies of Chicago. The Greek Woman's Social Club The St. George meets the first and third Sunday afternoons of each month in Smith Hall with sixty members. Tanias meets the second Sunday afternoon of each month in Smith Hall with one hundred and sixty mem- bers. Panhellenis meets the fourth Sunday afternoon of each month in Smith Hall with five hundred members. Societa di Beneficenza delle Donne Italiane Was organized by philanthropic ladies of the Italian colony two years ago. The society has had various meetings at Hull-House and has had two benefit entertainments during the year, which were very successful. This society is also in cordial co-operation with the many mutual benefit societies in the Italian colony. The Russian Social Economics Club A Russian Social Economics Club was organized about two years ago by a number of new immigrants of Russian nationality. Several Russian provinces are represented in it-Little Russia, Finland, Lithuania, etc. The membership has steadily increased and is now over a hundred, including a few young women. All degrees of education and literacy, and several classes, from the farmers to the liberal professions, con- tribute to the membership. Three times a week lectures, for the most part in Russian, are given by members on American history, politics, industry, etc. A general debate usually follows. Twice a week tea is served in "Russian style." A class in English, taught by Hull-House residents, has been organized for the benefit of the newest of the members. The club receives many Russian papers, periodicals and books. School of Citizenship During the Presidential Campaign of 1912 it became evident that many immigrants were much bewildered in regard to their citizenship papers. As a result of this experience an evening school of citizenship was opened in November at Hull-House. Mr. Charles P. Schwartz and Mr. Wm. J. Mack instruct the immigrants every Tuesday and Wednesday evening, helped them to secure their first papers and preparing them for the examination on the final papers. From the number of immigrants who apply it is obvious the school is meeting a genuine need. Foreign Reading Room As an outgrowth of the Russian Social Economics Club, the Cafe- teria was supplied with foreign newspapers and magazines and turned into a reading room for every afternoon and evening. Periodicals pub- lished both in America and Europe are supplied in French, German, Yiddish, Russian, and Italian. Tea and light refreshments may be served at any time during the evening and the general aspect of the room is that of a European cafe. Fully one-half of the reading matter is supplied by the Chicago Public Library. The room is in charge of Mrs. Marie Hansen. [Right Page] HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 25 Public Reading Room HULL-HOUSE GYMNASIUM Gymnasium instruction with the help of limited apparatus was given from the first years of Hull-House, but was not adequately provided until 1893, when the present gymnasium building was completed. The original building occupied nearly its present site and contained a coffee house, kitchen, baths, a Men's Club room, and the gymnasium. A stage occupied the south end of the gymnasium, as it was used for audience room, theater, and concert hall, and in it for several years on Friday evenings Mr. Tomlins con- ducted his chorus of five hundred members. In 1896 the first basketball team, consisting of seven members, was formed. Mr. Albert Clausson was elected captain; James Murphy, John McManus, Michael O'Connell, Edward Patera, Edward Hall, Frank McLoughlin, Bert Peary, and Thomas Burnett comprised the other members of the first team. During the summer of 1900 the building was enlarged and remodeled, equipped with twelve new showers, a new running track, and an apparatus room. Since then it has been used exclusively for a gymnasium purposes. Miss Gyles has been in charge of the women's and children's classes, and the men and boys have been taught by Mr. E. B. deGroot, Dr. White, Mr. Norton, and others. The director, from the opening of the gymnasium has carefully guarded its professional side, but basketball has always been the favorite recreative game. 26 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK A Group of Greek Wrestlers - Hull-House Gymnasium The gymnasium membership varies from six hundred to eight hundred and fifty, the largest number attending from October to February. Visitors are allowed on certain class evenings and at games on Saturday evenings. The season of 1912 and 1913 was opened October 2. The classes offered were as follows: CLASSES Juniors-Monday and Friday, 4 and 5 p.m. Juniors-Wednesday, 4 and 5 p.m. Juniors-Monday and Wednesday, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Intermediate-Monday and Wednesday, 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. Senior-Tuesday and Friday, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Senior-Tuesday and Friday, 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. Basketball-Six teams. Greek Athletic Club-Sunday morning. The Women's Class in the Gymnasium meets every Thursday evening under the direction of Miss Rose Gyles. The class is limited to members over sixteen years of age. The lesson hours are from 8 to 10 p.m., and during these hours the class has exercises in calisthenics, fancy marching, light apparatus, rings, bars, horse, and games, finishing with a game of basketball. Athletic Contests Indoor athletic contests are held every month for the athletic championship of the gymnasium. Hull-House not only retained its former reputation but made a remarkable showing in the athletic and basketball championship this season. In April, all of the Hull-House gymnasium classes end the season of their activity with a very successful gymnastic festival given by both women's and men's classes. The programme consists of dumb-bell, wand, Indian club and free drills, fancy steps and figure marching, gymnastics and games. There is HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 27 usually an electric-lighted Indian club drill by the Leaders' Class, as well as many novel sports. CONTESTS 1912- Three representative basketball teams: First Team, Mercury, Premiers. First Team defeated Billins, Montana, champions of three states; Ephiphany Church, champions of Chicago; finished third in Chicago Championship Tournament. Made a trip to Dayton, Ohio, lost three games and won one. G. Trampas of Greek American Athletic Association won wresting championship amateurs of Chicago. The three and five mile road races given by the Cardinal Athletic Club and Hebrew Institute were won by members of the Greek American Athletic Association. Silver cups awarded. The championship of the West Side Indoor and Outdoor Baseball League was won by the Mercury Athletic Club. Silver cup and individual medals awarded. CONTESTS 1913- Two representative teams: First Team, Premiers. First Team defeated Armour Institute and Milwaukee All Stars. Made tour of Wisconsin, defeated Neenah and Ripon. Lost to Fond du Lac. Premiers defeated the Illini Athletic Club, the Austin Methodist Church, lost to the West Side Y.M.C.A. Browns. Shower Baths The shower baths are open during the winter from one to six p.m. on Saturdays and from nine to twelve on Sundays, and are constantly used by the men of the neighborhood. In summer baths are open ever day from five to nine p.m. on week days, from twelve noon to ten p.m. on Saturdays, and from nine to twelve a.m. on Sundays. Over five thousand paid baths were taken last summer. Greek Cadets in the Hull-House Court. 28 HULL-HOUSE YEAR YEAR BOOK ------------------------------------------------------ SOCIAL CLUBS The social clubs which meet weekly at Hull-House are composed of young people who elect their own officers and prepare their own programmes under the approval of their "directors." The average membership is twenty-five. These clubs are social in character, but have occasional literary programmes and some of them also give plays and hold debates. Many of the present club members were formerly connected with the kindergarten and afternoon clubs for children, and have passed from one social organization to another with the changing requirements of their ages. These clubs usually devote one evening a month to an open meeting, and once or twice a year give a ball to their friends in Bowen Hall. The following is the list of social clubs at present meeting at Hull-House: Hawthorne Club A literary and dramatic club, composed of twenty-five young men. Meets the first Monday in each month. Director, Miss Mary Smith. This club was organized in 1898, when the members were all school boys. For many years they have enforced very stringent anti-smoking and anti-gambling rules. Each winter this club presents a play in the theater. Last autumn they gave a repetition of Hauptmann's drama, "The Weavers," which they had played with much success the previous year, and in the spring they produced most credibility a play by Gogol, "The Inspector General." The club has also given two or three very pretty dances and cotillions during the winter. Nancrede Social Club A social club composed of forty young men and girls of mixed nationality. It has met every Monday evening for five years. Director, Miss Nancrede. They gave last spring in the theatre a production of "The Land of Heart's Desire," by Yeats, and "The Jackdaw," by Lady Gregory. They have given also two parties this winter, one at Hallowe'en and a dance at Christmas. The Italian Girls' Progreesive Club A group of twenty young Italian girls, chiefly garment workers. Meets every Tuesday evening. This club, while largely social in character, is a junior branch of the Woman's Trade Union League, and its main purpose is to foster Trade Unionism among working girls. It has prepared a program of folk dances for performance at the general meeting of the Woman's Trade Union League in January. Dr. Yarros' Social Club A social and musical club of twenty-four Polish girls. Meets alternate Tuesday evenings. Director, Dr. Yarros. The meetings are partly devoted to singing in chorus. This club has given two most successful dances during the past year, one in February and one in May. Eldorado Social Club A social club composed of Jewish young men and girls. Meets every Wednesday evening. Director, Miss Hall. This club gives a dance in Bowen Hall each year, held a mock trial last summer at the Hebrew Institute, and is at present preparing a "Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works" party. Young Italian Social Club A social club of about thirty young men and girls, all Italians. Meets every Thursday evening. Director, Mrs. Urie. This club gave a large party last spring, a Hallowe'en party and cotillion, and is at present preparing a Valentine dance and cotillion, with distinctively Italian favors and decorations. HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 29 --------------------------------------------------------- [image] Hull-House Interior The Young Girls' Friendship Club A small social club of young Russian Jewish girls. Meets every Thursday evening. Directors, Miss Lovejoy and Miss Hopkins. The meetings of this club are given to basketball, dancing, games, and informal dramatics. Ida Wright Club A social and charitable club of young women of Grace Episcopal Church, which has met regularly once a week at Hull-House since 1895. Meets every Friday evening. Director, Miss Ratcliffe. The club has given two or three parties during the past year. "The Homiliontes" A social and dramatic club of twenty-four Jewish young men and girls. Meets alternate Friday evenings. Director, Mrs. Urie. Though some of the club members have taken part in a number of plays produced in the House during the past year, the club as a whole has given no dramatic performance since its very successful production a year and a half ago of "Esther," and original Purim play, written and staged by Hull-House residents. The Chicadee Club A small social and dramatic club, composed of young men. This club does not meet regularly. It was originally founded for the purpose of taking country walks and camping trips, and gives three or four dances during the year. The decorations for these dances, always charming and appropriate, are done by the club members themselves. The club gave last spring a very successful production of Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," and is now rehearsing Moliere's "Miser." Airdmore Social Club A newly-formed social and dramatic club of twenty-four young men and girls. Meets every Friday evening. Director, Miss Foran. Merry-Go-Round Club A dancing and dramatic club, composed of twenty-six boys and girls of mixed nationality, from fourteen to eighteen years of age. Meets every Saturday afternoon. It has been in existence over four years. Director, Miss Nancrede. This club has given two or three charming parties during the 30 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK -------------------------------------------------- [image] A Girls' Club in Bowen Hall past year, the last of which was a Christmas cotillion, with gay red and green decorations, and favors made by the club members and their director. They gave a very successful performance of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" last spring and repeated it in the autumn. The special feature of this play was the scenery which all the club helped to make. Social Clubs' Parties An innovation this year is a large party in Bowen Hall, given on an average of once a month by the Hull-House Social Clubs' Committee for the benefit of all the Social Clubs in Hull-House. The purpose of these parties is to enable the clubs to become acquainted with each other and with the Hull-House residents, and to give them a sense of real relationship to each other and to the House that in their small separate groups they sometimes miss. Two members appointed from each social club, together with the House Social Clubs' Committee, are provided with badges and constitute a reception and floor committee for each party. At the first of these parties a group of Russians, who had been practicing for some weeks in the House upon the Balaleika (a Russian musical instrument), gave a short concert of Balaleika music and Russian songs and dances. General Uses of Bowen Hall On the two nights each week that Bowen Hall is not reserved for the use of the Hull-House clubs, it is rented to neighboring associations and societies, of which the following are typical instances: An annual ball, given by the employees of Bradner, Smith & Co. A course of lectures in the Greek language, illustrated by stereopticon. An annual ball given for the young women employees of the Crane Co. Meetings of co-operative associations and of the Brotherhood of the Unemployed. Balls are given by trades union locals and many receptions under the auspices of social organizations of young people. HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 31 ----------------------------------------------- During the course of the year many general meetings are held there, such as a rally by the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association to celebrate the extension of Woman's Suffrage to three new states, when music was furnished by the Hull-House Boys' Band and speakers from all over the city. The Society for the Advancement of Colored People held one session of its annual meeting in Bowen Hall was addressed by Abdul Baha and others. A rally of Boy Scouts from various parts of the city, which met in Bowen Hall on Washington's Birthday, was addressed by Colonel Roosevelt; on Lincoln's Birthday a celebration for the Greeks was held. Lincoln's life was illustrated with stereopticon slides and an original poem was read by a young Greek poet from Athens who was passing through the city. Dancing Classes Dancing classes have been maintained at Hull-House from the earliest days. For eight years the dancing classes were in charge of Miss Mary Hinman, assisted by Miss Louise Zerr. They are now in charge of Miss Elsie Mulligan. The classes are held in Bowe Hall, on Monday evening for the advanced pupils, on Tuesday for beginners. A class for girls from fourteen to eighteen years of age is in charge of Miss Courtright on Friday evening. The class membership is limited to two hundred, and the rules of conventional society are enforced. The instruction received at the dancing classes has set the standard for the various parties and balls given at Hull-House. Saturdays from 1 :30 to 2 :30 p. m. thirty boys and girls from 6 to 10 years of age are taught folk dancing. Saturdays from 2 :30 to 4 p. m. thirty boys and girls from 10 to 16 years of age are taught folk dancing and the beginnings of conventional dancing. Director, Miss Nancrede. Each year the dancing classes close with a cotillion, and on these occasions the hall is gayly decorated and favors are provided for the various figures. The residents of Hull-House are increasingly convinced of the value of dancing as a recreative pleasure to young people engaged in the monotonous work of modern industry too often entirely sedentary or of a character which calls upon the use of only a few muscles. The well-regulated dancing party not only offers a substitute to the public dance halls, but is obviously a wholesome exercise and affords an outlet for the natural high spirits of youth which have been repressed through the long day. On the same basis as opportunities for serious study are offered to young people who are hungry for knowledge, so Hull-House endeavors to give opportunities for healthful recreation to those who are hungry for pleasure. The temptations of vice in the crowded quarters of the city are largely associated with the efforts of the young people to secure amusement. The residents of Hull-House are convinced that the love for recreative amusement is stronger than that for vicious pleasure. Every city is full of vice, which merely a love for pleasure "gone wrong," the illicit expression of what might have been not only normal and recreative amusement but an instrument in the advance of a higher social morality. This is true not only concerning young people, but of older people as well, especially of those from countries in which public recreation is a feature of village and city life. The cotillion form of party, with its valuable alternative of group dancing, is a leading feature of the dancing classes and of the festivities influenced by the residents. Twice a year the residential force itself is responsible for two dancing parties, one for the Italians at the Mardi Gras and one for those of Irish descent on St. Patrick's night. The St. Patrick's Cotillion The St. Patrick's Cotillion, the annual dance given by the residents to their Irish friends of the neighborhood and to Irish members of the Hull-House social clubs. The music is furnished by Johnny Hand, who has 32 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK ------------------------------------------ played Chicago's dance music for half a century. The favors, in green and white, are designed by the artists in the House, and the grand march partakes of the character of a pageant. Mardi Gras Of those festas which link immigrants with their old homes and life-long customs, the Mardi Gras is celebrated at Hull-House by a Ballo Mascherato Italiano, an occasion for which the invitations read, "You and your family," and which is attended by almost the entire Italian colony. The costumes are sometimes very beautiful importations from Italy and sometimes made of trifles, with true Latin imagination and cleverness. The evening is always marked by a high-spirited dash and swing. The Italian Circolo Is a club of Italians, meeting weekly on Wednesday evenings from 8 :30 to 10: 30 o'clock in the dining room. Hostess, Miss Starr; secretary, Mrs. DiGiovanni. Dancing, conversation, and music are the usual diversions. The membership is perhaps less uniform than that of the ordinary social clubs. It comprises young men and girls, young married couples, and older people, some of whom speak no English. One of the great charms of Italian character is the simplicity with which different ages mingle. Sometimes it is impossible for parents to come without their children. One often sees at the Circolo a young man dancing with a tiny child--teaching the child to dance--with the perfect unconsciousness of the Italians. [image] Friendly Club--Originally Composed of City Gardeners HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 33 ------------------------------------------ [image] At the Frond Door of Hull-House The People's Friendly Club This club is the one social organization in the House to which entire families belong. The dues, five cents per month, admit father, mother and all the children, and every member of the family over twelve years of age has a vote. The club meets every second and fourth Friday night of each month in Smith Hall, and has at present a membership of 125 families representing eight different nationalities. A very brief business meeting is always held, followed by a programme of some sort, often given by the members; games, in which all join; dancing, and, occasionally, refreshments. An interesting feature of the meetings is the singling by the members. From thirty to fifty gather around the piano and sing with a genuine enjoyment that is inspiring to see. The club celebrates three especial days during the year--an annual picnic in July, a children's party with Maypole dance and other appropriate ceremonies in the spring, and a holiday dinner on New Year's Eve. This dinner is the great occasion of the year and is attended by nearly the entire membership. Door Service Closely allied with the social organizations of the House is the reception of the many people at the front door. During the day this office, long in charge of Miss Grace Murphy, is performed by Miss Mary Sullivan and Mrs. Bettman, Miss Waite and occasionally other friends of Hull House receive those who wish to visit the House. The demands during twenty-four hours are constant and as varied as possible. Every evening the large reception hall is filled with groups of people in informal social gatherings and with those who are waiting to register for classes. Through the service on the door it is possible to form many neighborhood friendships and affiliations. 34 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Waiting in the Music School for Lessons MUSIC SCHOOL The Hull-House Music School was started in the fourth year of Hull-House although Miss Eleanor Smith and Miss Hannig who are its heads, had from the earliest days held classes here. The Music School is designed to give a thorough instruction to a limited number of children. Some of the earlier pupils in the Music School are now professional musicians, and the group as a whole has contributed much to the understanding and appreciation of music in the neighborhood. The following classes were held last year: Monday and Thursday afternoons and evenings, singing, Miss Eleanor Smith; Tuesday and Friday afternoons, Miss Mall; piano, Miss Amalie Hannig, Miss Gertrude Smith, Miss Cornish, Miss Sopkin, Miss Edmondson; violin, Mr. Woolett. The Music School from the beginning has given public recitals and concerts, which have always been attended by serious and attentive audiences. It occupies a suite of rooms, one of them containing a music library. As the windows open into the quadrangle, the school is insured a certain measure of quiet. Four or five recitals are given each winter, of which the following is a typical programme: 1. Sonate Op. 30, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beethoven Violin and Piano. Allegro assai. Tempo di menuetto, ma molto moderato, Allegro vivace. 2. a. Hie Thee Birdling . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dvorak b. Waldtrost . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Westmeyer 3. a. Gondoliera . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liszt b. Polonaise in C # min. . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chopin 4. a. The Wanderer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Signe Lund b. Wenn der Fruhling kommt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Signe Lund 5. a. Two Intermezzi, B. min., F. maj. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schumann b. Fourth Barcarolle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rubinstein 6. Hour of Dreaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hahn 7. The Snow (Obligato for two violins) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elgar HULL - HOUSE YEAR BOOK 35 A Violin Lesson Christmas Concert and Tableaux For the last two years the Christmas Concert given by the Music School on the Sunday before Christmas Day has been accompanied by a series of tableaux illustrating the Christ Child's story. A small stage was arranged above the Concert platform and as the Music School sang the Humperdinck Christmas Cantata, the pictures illustrating each song appeared above them; the Annunciation, the Wise Men, the Shepherds, the Nativity, and the Adoration of the Magii. The people were grouped so as to reproduce well- known paintings of old masters, and the illusion was fairly complete in spite of the joyous movements of the baby. The parts of the Magii, Shepherds, and Angels were taken chiefly by Italians and Greeks, to whom this method of representing the Christmas story seemed quite natural. Masque of the Seasons Last autumn the Masque of the Seasons was given by the Hull- House Music School, assisted by the Merry-Go-Round Club. The Masque, in four scenes - Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter - was compiled and composed by Miss Eleanor Smith, the scenery was designed and executed by Miss Benedict, Miss Nancrede and Mr. Hazenplug. The spirit or mood of each season was expressed in verse, song, and dance. As there was no plot in the Masque, merely a succession of incidents, some one figure was needed to bind together the component parts, and Father Time was used for this purpose. An effort was made to express in the four seasons of the year the corresponding four seasons in a day: Spring, dawn; Summer, high noon; Autumn, evening; Winter, night. A symbolic color was chosen for each scene, blossoms, naturally suggesting pink and white for Spring: yellow, orange, and red for Summer; purple and brown for Autumn; grey, black and white for Winter. Two hundred and twenty-five people took part in the performance. The Masque was given several times at Hull-House and repeated at the Coliseum during the Child Welfare Exhibit. 36 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Hull-House Orchestra An orchestra, organized in the fall of 1912, has rehearsed weekly under the direction of Mr. Alfred B. Yeomans. It has appeared at various entertainments at Hull-House and has given one concert. Among the composers represented on the programme were Mozart, Grieg, Mendelssohn and Goldmark. The average attendance at rehearsals is fifteen, all the string parts and the usual wind parts being represented. Public Concerts In 1904 a beautiful memorial organ was erected at Hull-House. Public concerts were given every Sunday afternoon for nineteen years in the weeks from November to May. During the last few years these have been reduced in number. Several are given every year by artists who kindly offer their services, and others are arranged for by the Hull-House Orchestra. STATION 10 POSTOFFICE For many years Station 10 of the Chicago Post Office has been located at Hull-House. It was applied for in the first instance because many foreigners of the vicinity who sent money to their relatives at home through money brokers and unauthorized agents, were often subjected to great loss and hardship. Occasionally $1500 foreign money orders are sent in one day and the average is above $600 daily. In addition to the full equipment of a Sub-Station, a parcels post has lately been added. Miss McManus and Miss LeFevre are the clerks in charge. JANE CLUB The Jane Club, a co-operative boarding club for young women, was established in 1891. The club has been, from the beginning, self governing, the officers being elected by the members from their own number, and serving six months gratuitously. The two offices of treasurer and steward require a generous sacrifice of leisure time as well as a good deal of ability, from those holding them. The weekly dues of $3.25, with an occasional small assessment, have met all current expenses of rent, service, food, and heat. There are various circles within the club for social and intellectual purposes and the atmosphere of the house is one of comradeship rather than of thrift. The Jane Club twelve years ago moved into a house built expressly for its use. This provides bedroom space for thirty members, twenty-four of them single rooms, with a library, a living room, and a dining room large enough to use for social gatherings. The rent paid by the club to Hull-House serves as part of the endowment fund. HULL-HOUSE THEATER A method of education which has been gradually used more and more at Hull-House is that of dramatics. The first dramas at Hull-House were produced by groups of young people in the gymnasium. Their success and educational value seemed to justify the erection of a well-equipped theatre. Gradually the Hull-House Theater has made a place for itself in the life of Chicago. A large number of children come regularly to the plays given by the children, and still another group may be counted upon for any performance presented by the Hull-House Players. An excellent system of electric lighting has been placed upon the stage, which was presented by the Hull-House Players, as was the asbestos curtain. A scene shifter and an assistant are employed for each performance. HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 37 View of Hull-House Theater--Mural Decorations--Tolstoy and Lincoln Hull-House Players Officers and members, limited in number to fourteen persons: Laura Thornton, Helen Silverman, Laura Criddle, Debrah McGrath, Maud Smith, Paul Grauman, Edward Sullivan, Louis Alter, A. Rubenstein, Joseph Marsolais, Stuart G. Bailey, Frank Keogh, Sydney A. Hale, William Z. Nourse. Director, Laura Dainty Pelham. Business Manager, L. Carter Lucas. This organization celebrated its eleventh birthday in February, 1912, with four of the original members identified with the company. Their performances are given with professional accuracy and care, comparing favorably with the work of good stock companies, and they attract the attention of lovers of what is best in the drama throughout the entire city. In May and June, 1911, ten performances of Galsworthy's "Justice" were given, the first time the play was presented in America. The sincere, direct, and conscientious work of the company was received by both press and public with serious consideration. The play was also presented in Lake Forest and in Evanston. Beginning in September, 1912, a number of performances of a group of Irish plays were given: "Spreading the News," "Rising of the Moon," and "The Workhouse Ward," by Lady Gregory, and "Riders to the Sea," by Synge. Possibly the fact that eight of the players are Irish contributed to the marked success of the players with these charming little dramas, and it was a source of great pride and pleasure to be able to produce them on two different occasions for Lady Gregory and her company and to know her approval had been won. A very warm friendship sprang up between the Hull-House Players and the Irish Players and the influence of the artistic work of the visiting company upon the work of the Hull-House group has been marked. Two revivals followed the Irish plays: "The Silver Box," by Galsworthy, and Pinero's "Schoolmistress," and in March, 1912, a very interesting original play was produced, "The Walking Delegate," a dramatization of Leroy Scott's novel of the same name, by Hilda Satt who had been for many years a student in the Hull-House classes. 38 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK In April Mr. John Galsworthy visited Hull-House and met the players. By his direct permission "The Pigeon" was put in rehearsal and given late in May. In the fall of 1912 the players gave "Grania and "Devorgilla," two folk plays founded upon Irish history, followed by Masefield's "Tragedy of Nan." Plans are made to give one play each month for eight months. It is a cherished plan of the players to make a trip to Ireland during the summer of 1913. At the present time it seems quite possible this dream may come true, as their traveling fund is increasing. The Hull-House Players appeared for a week at the Fine Arts Theater down-town under the auspices of the Chicago Theater Society. They have also played for renumeration before schools and dramatic clubs outside of the city. In reply to an inquiry most frequently made, a list of plays given by the Hull-House Players during their eleven years of work is added: A Mountain Pink....Morgan Bates and Elwyn Barron Engaged....Gilbert Fanchon, the Cricket....(From the German) An Arabian Night........ School.....Robertson Pygmalion and Galatea....Gilbert Our Boys....Robertson The Sad Shepherd....Ben Jonson Kerry....Boucicault You Never Can Tell....Bernard Shaw The Liar....Samuel Foote The Slave...Henry Twose The Palace of Truth....Gilbert The Magistrate...Pinero The Devil's Disciple....Bernard Shaw Trelawney of the Wells...Pinero Arms and the Man....Bernard Shaw The Pillars of Society...Ibsen The Amazons....Pinero The Silver Box....Galsworthy The Schoolmistress....Pinero Justice....Galsworthy The Workhouse Ward....Lady Gregory Spreading the News...Lady Gregory Rising of the Moon....Lady Gregory Riders to the Sea...Synge The Walking Delegate....Hilda Satt The Pigeon.....Galsworthy Grania....Lady Gregory Devorgilla....Lady Gregory Tragedy of Nan....Masefield By the courtesy of Miss Margaret Illington the Hull-House Players will present "Kindling" in February, 1913. Foreign Plays Another use of the theater lies in the opportunity it presents to the foreigners of the vicinity to present plays in their native tongues and to reveal to some extent life as it has presented itself to their own countrymen. In the immediate vicinity of Hull-House is a large colony of Greeks, who often feel that their history and background are completely ignored by the Americans in Chicago and they therefore welcome an opportunity to present Greek plays in the ancient text. Two of these plays were carefully staged by HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 39 Joseph and HIs Brethren Miss Barrows, when several years ago, the "Ajax" of Sophocles was a genuine triumph to the Greek colony. During the past year the Greeks have given plays in modern Greek, which have been attended by enthusiastic audiences of their own countrymen. A group of Italians have presented plays in their own tongue, several of these having been written by Signor Frederico Amato, who lives but a few blocks from Hull-House. One of his plays, "The Son of the Immigrant," embodies certain experiences which almost every older immigrant has had in relation to his Americanized children. Half a dozen Russian plays are given each winter, usually dealing with aspects of the Russian revolution, although occasionally Russian translations of Hauptmann and other German dramatists are rendered. Lettish plays are similar in character to those given in Russian, although the Lettish societies exhibit unusual dramatic ability and freedom of expression. The national costumes which they wear upon the stage afford beautiful examples of peasant embroidery and charm of color. The large Lettish audiences are always responsive and enthusiastic. Several Yiddish plays are given each winter. The Hull-House theater is always crowded in response to the announcement of a Yiddish play. The most successful one given, perhaps, was on of Gordon's, entitled, "Money and Life," rendered by the Progress Dramatic Club. Lithuanian, Hungarian and Bohemian plays are given at Hull-House during the winter. The Hull-House Theater is also rented for many evenings during the winter to dramatic clubs identified with a settlements and social organizations, significant of the increase of amateur companies. Junior Dramatic Association There are several junior dramatic associations, through which it seems possible to give a training in speech and manners more directly than through any medium. The original Junior Dramatic Association consisted of twenty boys who have give a series of plays, and some of them have acquired a distinct dramatic ability. Among them they plays of Shakespeare have always been astonishingly popular. These boys have since grown up and scattered, by their place has been taken by the Hawthorne Club, a club of boys who this winter celebrated their 40 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK fourteenth anniversary as a Hull-House club. For the last eight years the Hawthorne Club has given one play a year, beginning with Shakespeare's "King John," followed by Tennyson's "Foresters," "Joseph and His Brethren" (composed by the directors and the club), Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors," "Twelfth Night," Sheridan's "The Rivals," Hauptmann's "Weavers," and Gogol's "Inspector General," and other plays. Children's Dramatics For many years at Hull-House children's plays have been given in the theater. In many cases these plays have been written especially for a given group of children. It has been a uniform experience at Hull-House that training in dramatics has a high educational value, not only in making the children more expressive, but in giving them decision and freedom in the use of English, which in the case of man of the children is not their native tongue. The plays are in the nature of a school exhibition, and are in no sense a violation of the child labor law. Care is taken to distribute the training over as many children as possible, also that the rehearsals may not interfere with the health or school work of the performers. The result of this sort of training is an exact reversal of the exploitation which the child labor law was designed to prevent. Last year the experiment was tried of giving a play every Saturday afternoon, to which audiences of children were admitted for five cents. Seven little children's plays were given in succession, fifty-five different children taking part who were over five to fourteen years old. An effort was thus made to protect any one child from too much effort. The plays given were: "Where Love Is," dramatized from Tolstoy's story by the Francis Parker School, given by five Greek children. "The Shoemaker and the Elves." "Katinka and the Witch." "Beauty and the Beast." "The Goosehead and the Goblin." "The Christmas Guest." "The Bird with a Broken Wing." The children in the audiences were eager and delighted with the performances, another proof, perhaps, of the keen imaginative life which children lead. Puss-in-Boots Deceiving the Rabbits HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 41 Christmas Play Every Christmas for many years a group of children have entertained others by an entertainment which is presented first to the groups of children, and in the evening to the parents. The plays are usually composed b y the children themselves, with the help of the residents. This year was given a quarrel between Winter and Summer. The scene opened with Winter upon his throne, guarded on one side by two thermometers, and on the other by two icicles. The snow queen, who had not been invited to a party, out of revenge had all of the guests frozen into ice. Their release through the machinations of the sunbeams formed the plot of the play, the sunbeams on one side against Jack Frost and snowflakes on the other. KINDERGARTEN A kindergarten was one of the first organized activities at Hull-House and was sustained for many years in the Hull-House nursery. When the Mary Crane building was erected next door the Hull-House kindergarten was discontinued. It was happily reopened by Miss Edith Blair in its old quarters in the Smith building a few years later. It is sustained by Miss Blair, a graduate of Miss Fisher's School in Boston, who also acts as its director. She is assisted by Miss Foran and Miss Bull. The children from the immediate neighborhood are largely of Greek and Italian parentage. GIRLS' CLUBS After school hours each day, all the available room in Hull-House are occupied by children's clubs and classes, fifty-three in number, with sixty-seven directors, and an average weekly attendance of 765 children, chiefly girls. Because of the parents' desire for useful occupation for their children, the sewing, cooking and housekeeping classes far outnumber the others. But the underlying purpose of the directors is to foster a social and recreational atmosphere among all the different groups. The children in the domestic science classes are encouraged to join dancing classes, studio, gymnasium, or play clubs, and are gathered from time to time to practice singing together. In addition, groups of sewing class children are chosen in rotation to prepare under special directors, small impromptu plays, charades, or pantomimes, done after one or two rehearsals without costumes or properties or anything to mar the quite free and spontaneous character of the performance. These little plays (or parties, as the children call them), to distinguish them from the more finished children's plays produced in the theater, are given at intervals of about a fortnight, each time by a different group, for the entertainment of all the other classes meeting on that particular day. These parties, ending with games, marching, dancing and candy all around, are very merry affairs. They give the children an opportunity for simple and unconstrained dramatic expression; they break down the barriers between the small (and often over-serious) individual groups, and encourage social feeling among the children with the desire to contribute toward one another's pleasure and entertainment. Kindersymphonie With a similar end in view, one of the play clubs has organized a children's orchestra, with drums, bells, cymbals, triangles, etc., which is preparing a little "Kindersymphonie" for performances at the club parties. With the same idea of reciprocal service among the children, one of the studio classes has devoted itself in part to making designs for use in embroidery in the sewing classes. The classes all meet between 3:30 and 5 p.m. 42 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK In a Cooking Class Play Clubs The two Play Clubs are intended for school children under ten years of age, and for the younger sisters and brothers of those "Little Mothers" who, burdened by their small charges, could not come to clubs or classes at all, save for the friendly aid of these Play Clubs, which release them for the time of their responsibilities. There are four dancing classes, one basket-ball and gymnasium class, and one story-telling class and four different groups in dramatics under as many directors. Domestic Arts There are thirty-three sewing classes, meeting Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; four cooking classes, one housekeeping class, one crotcheting class, five studio classes; two of these are beginners' classes, two advanced and one a class in designing. An effort is also made to continue to work of the afternoon classes for the benefit of the girls who must leave when they reach the school age limit o ffourteen and are obliged to go to work. There is a flourishing evening sewing class conducted for these young working girls, who are no longer free in the day time. They are also encouraged to join other Hull-House social and educational clubs and classes. Mrs. Kohn, who is in charge of the Girls' Clubs, holds quarterly conferences with the directors of the groups of children. The following people form the volunteer corps for the winter of 1912-1913: Sewing: Mrs. Briggs, Mrs. Van Valkenburgh, Miss Wampold, Miss Kirkman, Mrs. Coburn, Miss Bowen, Miss Mayer, Miss Mills, Miss Mehlen, Miss Collins Miss Chambers, Miss Simms, Mrs. Bull, Miss Foran, Miss Theobald, Mrs. Gerstley, Miss Chase, Miss Jennings, Miss Bradford, Miss HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 43 Raymond, Miss De Lange, Mrs. Schefler, Miss Cathcart, Mrs. Lynch, Miss Buttolph, Miss Clarke, Miss Ingwerson, Miss Kennedy, Miss McKay, Miss Chandler, Miss Huncke, Mrs. Taussig, Miss Scoville, Mrs. Levinson, Miss Bonheim, Miss Gaskins, Miss Trainor, Miss Doyle, Mrs. Stein, Mrs. Hahn, Miss Oliver, Miss Silsbee, Miss Dreier, Miss Carter. Studio: Miss Edwards, Mrs. Paxton, Miss Warshauer, Miss Dixon, Miss Weddles. Play Clubs: Miss Magan, Miss Apple. Housekeeping and Gymnasium: Miss North, Miss Raymond. Dramatics: Miss Nancrede, Miss Jennie Hall, Miss Burns, Mrs. Urie. Cooking: Miss Hewitt, Miss Winchester, Miss Woodward, Miss Mitchell, Miss Barber, Miss Lippert, Miss McGinn, Miss Trowe, Miss Nelson. Dancing Teachers: Miss Nancrede, Mrs. Savage, Miss Keefe, Miss Patrick, Miss Lee, Miss Munn. Some of the successful classes during the preceding winter were conducted by Miss Williams, Miss Fuller, Mrs. Rogers, Miss Carruthers, Miss Loeb, Miss Wilson, Miss Butler, Miss Spencer, Miss Coffin. Summer Outings The summer outing work of Hull-House consists of two principal divisions, that of entertaining groups of people for one day at a time and that of arranging for the entertainment of individuals in private homes, summer camps, etc. from one to six weeks. In addition to miscellaneous picnics and parties, a special street car takes children to the parks, where they stay during the day, with a picnic lunch. The real outings, which last one week or more, are in places like Holiday Home, Geneva Lake, Wis., Forward Movement Camp at Saugatuck, Mich., and Camp Good Will at Evanston, Winnetka and South Haven, Arden Shore and Palos Park. JOSEPH T. BOWEN COUNTRY CLUB In Marck, 1912, Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, long a trustee of Hull-House, presented to Hull-House Association, seventy-two acres of land on a ridge overlooking Lake Michigan north of Waukegan, as a memorial to her husband. The thirty-two acres of land situated along the Sheridan Road consists of wooded knolls and contains a transverse ravine of much beauty. On the forty acres south is an old homestead with its orchard, garden and open fields; to the west is a high point of land lying between two ravines, wooded with white birch trees and overlooking the lake. Mrs. Bowen has endowed the club so that the services of a gardener may always be had and its taxes and repairs assured. The club is thirty-five miles from Chicago, accessible on the Northwestern Road, by a combination of trollies and also by boat. Through the courtesy of the Northwestern Road the children are also given free transportation. Mrs. Bowen also remodelled the existing house which affords rooms for a care taken and a dozen guests. It is heated by furnace and thus made available for winter use. Three other buildings have been created for a summer colony. The central one built by Mrs. Bowen, called The Commns, contains an ample kitchen and a dining room opened upon a broad screened piazza, and the space upstairs is occupied by fourteen beds. A cottage housing thirty girls was erected as a memorial to Orrea W. Lansingh by her son and daughter, and another very attractive cottage designed for the use of the children of the Hull-House Music 44 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK In the Orchard--Joseph T. Bowen Country Club School was built by Miss Mary Rezet Smith. The cottages are placed on the edge of the ravine so designed that the large piazza of each has a fine view of the lake. The original garden has been enlarged and contains both vegetable and flower beds, its long grape arbor dividing it from the field beyond. A half acre of small fruits was presented by Miss Wald of the Nurses' Settlement of New York. A circular swimming pool was given in memory of their father by Miss Colvin and her sister, and both the pool and wading pond are fed by a native stream. These with their surroundings of shrubs and vines add greatly to the charm of the place. A playground equipped for small children, also a tennis court, and croquet ground were presented by Mr. Rosenwald. The present housing facilities accommodate ninety people. Plans have already been drawn for a house which will be given by Mrs. Julius Rosenwald. Unlike the other cottages this will be plastered and fitted for the winter use of twenty-five convalescents. Groups of seventy-five girls spent two weeks each from the time the cottages were completed in the middle of July, until school opened in September. Mrs. Laura Addams is the resident in charge of the Country Club. Each cottage also had its own director who planned the day's program for the children, Miss Olga Hunke, Miss Dai Smith, and Mrs. Crenshaw. A club of older girls was responsible for the dining room; each cottage prepared its own Sunday supper and usually ate it out doors on rough tables under the trees. Every group had its lessons in house-keeping and nature study in addition to the picnics, hay-rack rides and excursions to the lake. Ever since the Joseph T. Bowen Country Club has been opened, various Hull-House groups have gone there for day's outings and occasionally for week ends. In May the Jane Club celebrated its twentieth anniversary there with the HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 45 Hull-House residents and the trustees, later two hundred members of the Friendly Club, the students in the Hull-House evening classes, as well as many of the young people's clubs, held their annual picnic there. On an exceptionally beautiful day last June the club was formally opened with a simple ceremony in which Mr. Bowen's old friends took part; the quiet words of the speakers voicing the kindly deeds of a good man harmonized with the rare beauty of the place itself which was "to be held as a perpetual memorial and to bless with simple pleasures the lives of many children." In October when the swimming pool was completed and formally presented, an afternoon tea was given to the many friends of Hull-House who had known Mr. Colvin, for years a trustee of Hull-House. The Bowen Country Club, although new, is already securely linked to the traditions and affections of Hull-House. In the Ravine at the Joseph T. Bowen Country Club. 46 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Hull-House Coffee House COFFEE HOUSE The Coffee House was opened in 1893 on the basis of a public kitchen. An investigation of the sweat-shops of the neighborhood had disclosed the fact that sewing women during the busy season paid little attention to the feeding of their families, for it was only by working steadily through the long day that the scanty pay could be made into a day's wage. One of the Hull-House residents had made an investigation, at the instance of the United States Department of Agriculture, into the food values of the dietaries of the various immigrants, and this was followed by an investigation made by another resident, Miss Hunt, for the United States Department of Labor, into the foods of the Italian colony, disclosing the fact that the constant use of imported products bore a distinct relation to the cost of living. The result of these various studies bore a distinct relation to the cost of living. The result of these various studies led to the opening of a public kitchen, modeled after the New England Kitchen of Boston, for the sale of cooked foods. This, however, has never been popular, though it has been maintained during the nineteen years and every noon many orders of soup and coffee and hot meat sandwiches are carried out into the neighboring factories. From the very first year, however, the restaurant aspect of the Coffee House developed rapidly, and has become something of a social center to the neighborhood. Business men from the adjacent factories and school teachers from the nearest public schools use it constantly, as do the social clubs in connection with their party refreshments and banquets. It is also a great convenience to the residents of Hull House, the directors of clubs, and the teachers of evening classes. The Coffee House has been self-sustaining from the beginning, and of late years has been able to pay an adequate rental to Hull-House. HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 47 Cafeteria In the Cafeteria the service is more informal that that of the Coffee House proper. It is sustained on the lower floor of the Smith building and is opened only during the noon hour. The Coffee House and the Cafeteria are under the management of Miss Elizabeth McManus, assisted by Andrew Gabriel, with a staff of twenty people. Day Nursery The humanitarian activities of Hull-House grew quite naturally as an attempt was made to respond to the simple needs of the neighborhood. On this basis a day nursery was opened in the spring of 1891, first in a small cottage on Ewing street and later in a building called the Children's House which was built with special reference to the need of the Day Nursery and Kindergarten. In 1908 the Hull-House Day Nursery was merged into the one maintained by the Chicago Relief and Aid Society in a large and commodious new building by the family of Mr. R. T. Crane in a lot on Ewing street, directly west of the Jane Club. Mary Crane Nursery This enterprise, which is conducted by the United Charities of Chicago, is perhaps one of the most interesting charitable undertakings in the city. The building accommodates 100 children segregated in separate floors so as to avoid the disadvantage of caring for so large a number together, and provision is made for a laundry, a sewing room, and a domestic science equipment, where the most untutored and bewildered mothers receive rudimentary instruction in the methods of American housekeeping. There is also a playroom for school children whose mothers do not reach home until long after school closes. A baby dispensary, where the care of children is taught and sick babies are cared for, is maintained throughout the year. The Nursery is in charge of Miss Myra Brockett. A school has lately been opened to train young girls in the care of children under the supervision of Miss Loring. A wing is at present being added to the Mary Crane Nursery in order to accommodate its growing activities. Tuberculosis Roof Schools An open air school for delicate children was opened in November, 1909, upon the roof of the Mary Crane Nursery. It is under the auspices of the United Charities who administer an annual gift from the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund. The roof is equipped with a school room in charge of a public school teacher with open tents for sleeping which accommodate twenty-five children. In the fall of 1911 the school was enlarged and the roof of the nursery was connected by a bridge with the roof of the Hull-House Boys' Club which in addition to the school and sleeping space has a play space as well as lockers and shower baths. The children are divided into two schools of four grades each with an average attendance of fifty-five. Last summer the adjacent roof of Bowen Hall was utilized for gardens where both vegetables and flowers were successfully cultivated. Playgrounds and Small Park In the summer of 1893 Mr. William Kent very generously loaned to Hull-House the use of a piece of land on Polk Street for a public playground, which was maintained for a number of years with Officer Murray in charge. The Small Parks Commission took over the care of the ground in the spring of 1906, and placed three attendants in charge. For four years it was filled to overflowing with the children of the neighborhood, and in March, 1910, the apparatus was moved to a new playground attached to the Dante School. The West Side Park Commissioners have purchased the ground surrounding the Andrew Jackson School situated five blocks west of Hull-House, and are now clearing the ground for a completely equipped playground and social center. West Park No. 5, as it is to be called, will differ from other small parks in the 48 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Kindersymphonie--Hull-House Dining Room city in that it is to be managed in connection with the public school building, using the fine public hall of the Andrew Jackson School which is on the ground floor, as well as the school gymnasium. Swimming pools, playground apparatus, out-door gymnasiums, and all the other equipment of the small parks are to be provided. As West Park No. 3 is but eight blocks south-west of Hull-House, the neighborhood will be fairly well equipped with recreational facilities. Visiting Kindergarten and School Children who are chronically ill, or those too crippled to attend school, are visited in their respective homes by teachers. An attempt is made to give the children who are too advanced for kindergarten work lessons in manual training, looking forward, as far as possible, to self- supporting occupations. During the last five years from fifteen to twenty-five children have been visited on an average twice a week by the director and her assistants; the enterprise which originated in Hull-House is in charge of Miss Kathryn Chase. Public Services From the beginning a constant effort has been made to hand over to public authority as many of the activities which Hull-House had initiated as was found practicable. We had maintained three shower baths in the basement of the House for the use of the neighborhood, and they afforded some experience and argument for the erection of the first public bath-house in Chicago which was built on a neighboring street and opened under the care of the board of health. The reading room and public library station which was begun in the House was continued only a block away. The lending collection of pictures has become incorporated into the Public School Art Society of Chicago. The summer classes in woodwork and metal, formerly maintained at Hull-House, are discontinued because they are carried on in a vacation school maintained in the Dante public school. Hull-House has always held its activities lightly, as it were, in the hollow HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 49 of its hand, ready to give them over to others, for there is among the residents a distrust of the institutional and a desire to be free for experiment and the initiation of new enterprise. So far as Hull-House residents have been identified with public offices, it has been in the attempt both to interpret the needs of the neighborhood to public bodies and to identify the neighborhood energies with civic efforts. This has been true of one resident as a member of the State Board of Charities, with the work of another resident as a member of the Chicago School Board, and with the efforts of four other residents in their official connection with the Juvenile Court of Cook County and in various other positions. The Chicago City Gardens Association This organization came into existence in February, 1909, and has been carried on ever since by a small group of people who are constantly in touch with destitute families in the most crowded city wards. The purpose of the association is to secure vacant lots for cultivation, each family paying a nominal sum in rental for its portion--$1.50 per year for one-eighth of an acre. The success of the enterprise has surprised the most sanguine of its promoters. In 1912 two hundred and eight families carried on their little farms and it is hoped that 1913 will set twice this number. The most important tract is known as "The Harvester Garden," named for the International Harvester Company which generously donates the land from year to year. The annual meeting is always held at Hull-House in February. The officers are: Laura Dainty Pelham, President, Hull-House. Graham Romeyn Taylor, Vice-President, The Chicago Commons. Amelia Sears, Secretary, United Charities. Harriet Vittum, Treasurer, North Western University Settlement. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH An investigation into conditions is often a preliminary step toward the reforms a settlement attempts to inaugurate in a neighborhood for which many reasons has failed to keep pace with the rest of the city. The moral energy of the community is aroused only when the people become conscious of the neighborhood deficiencies and realize that they may become part of those general movements which make for reform. It was an indirect result of a careful investigation into the sweating system which resulted in the first factory law for Illinois, which dealt largely with the conditions of the sweat-shop and the regulation of the age at which a child might be permitted to work. Mrs. Kelley, who was then a resident of Hull-House, was appointed the first factory inspector with a deputy and a force of twelve inspectors. Hull-House has naturally been most eager that the child labor law should be enforced and residents have from time to time made supplementary investigations looking toward an extension of the law or its more effective enforcement. A housing investigation, under the auspices of the City Homes Association, was carried on from Hull-House in 1901. Typhoid Fever As an illustration of an investigation which led to subsequent reforms may be cited the one into the causes of the epidemic of typhoid fever in Chicago in 1902. The epidemic was oddly concentrated in a small area of the nineteenth ward, in which were found more than one-seventh of all the fatal cases, although the ward contained but one thirty-sixth of the city's population. An investigation into the housing conditions and the defective sewage disposal was carried on by Miss Howe and Miss Gernon of Hull-House, who visited two thousand dwellings. Dr. Hamilton, after an extensive bacteiological 50 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Children in Hull-House Court logical examination, made a report showing that living typhoid bacilli were found on the bodies of flies caught in the kitchens of houses which were near open vaults. The publication of this report led to a final reform in the methods of sanitary inspection, and to a cleaning out of the infected neighborhood, so that a recurrence of an epidemic from the same causes is now impossible. Hull-House Research--Infant Mortality Hull-House under the direction of one of its residents, Dr. Alice Hamilton, undertook a study of 1,600 working-class families, almost all of them with foreign-born parents. It was found that child mortality increases proportionately as the number of children in the family increases. The Italians had the highest death rate and the largest families; the Slavs came next in both respects. The Jews and the American-born had the lowest mortality, the Irish and Germans taking middle place between these two groups. Hull-House Research -- Study of Greek Colony Appreciating that its neighborhood contained the largest Greek colony in the city and that little was known of this new element in Chicago's complex population, a study of the Greeks was begun by Hull- House in the summer of 1908. In this preliminary investigation 350 apartment or tenement houses in which Greeks lived were visited and schedules filled for 1,467 persons. In the spring of 1909 a special study of the Greek boys who work in the "shoe-shine parlors" and fruit stores in the loop district was made by the House in co-operation with the League for the Protection of Immigrants. HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 51 Reception Hall - Hull House Hull-House Research-- Study of Children's Reading A study was made by Mrs. James A. Britton of Hull-House into children's reading. With the co-operation of the principals and teachers the children in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the nearest three public schools carefully filled out blanks as to the books they had read and as to the places where they had been secured. Cocaine Investigation The work carried on by Hull-House and by other organizations against the illegal sale of cocaine was for many years greatly handicapped by the weakness and inadequacy of the existing laws against such sale. A new state law passed in 1907 has greatly helped the situation. CO-OPERATION Co-operation with Health Department Miss Elsie Smith, a resident of Hull-House, has held for two years the position of sanitary inspector under the Chicago Department of Health. She has made some interesting research into the condition of bakeries in the vicinity, and this direct connection with the health department has been valuable in many ways. with the United Charities of Chicago The residents of Hull-House were identified with the early efforts in Chicago to organize the many charities of the city into a central association. Hull-House has always co-operated cordially with the West Side office of the United Charities, comparing its monthly budget of relief and making out a mutual list for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. The House is represented in the weekly advisory meeting of the West 52 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK View of Hull-House Drawing Room--Used for Social Clubs Side office by Dr. Urie and Miss Edith Abbott, whose experience in the Londn Charity Organization Society is of great value, by Miss Lucia O. Ford and Miss Mary Preston. with the Juvenile Court Since the opening of the Cook County Juvenile Court in 1899 Hull- House in common with many other volunteer agencies has endeavored to study and serve the interests of the children for whose protection the court exists. Most of the time since the opening of the court a probation officer has resided at Hull-House and has utilized its clubs and gymnasiums for his charges. with the League for the Protection of Immigrants Since the opening of Hull-House, twenty years ago, the residents have keenly realized the need of more systematic and centralized efforts on behalf of the immigrants living in Chicago than the settlement was able to afford. Every year the residents have seen the exploitation of the newly-arrived immigrant by his shrewd countrymen in league with unscrupulous Americans and many other evils which they could not effectively remedy although they might be able to alleviate hardship in individual cases. The work of the League for the Protection of Immigrants has shown the great advantage of a central office. The league is fast proving one of the most effective instruments for social amelioration in Chicago with which Hull- House and all the other settlements are able to co-operate. Miss Grace Abbott, the director of the league, is in residence at Hull-House, and several other residents are members of the Board of Trustees. HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 53 Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago On the first of January, 1910, the Juvenile Protection Association opened an office at 816 South Halsted Street, with Mrs. James A. Britton, who has been for many years a resident at Hull-House, as superintendent. Every Friday the officers of the association meet with the executive committee at luncheon in the Hull-House dining room previous to the weekly reports which are made in their own rooms. The Juvenile Protective Association developed from the Juvenile Court Committee which paid the salaries of probation officers and carried on a place of detention for children before the authorities of Cook County assumed these public functions. As its name indicates, its purpose is to afford protection for the children of the city and to remove as far as possible the temptations and dangers which carelessness and greed place about them. Owing to constant co-operation Hull-House has been able to turn over to the association many cases with which it formally dealt directly, such as securing legal protection for helpless girls, complaints concerning dance halls, saloons, etc. During the past year the association dealt with 4,618 cases in which the welfare of children was concerned. The city has been arbitrarily divided into fourteen districts in each of which there is a paid officer and a local league of interested citizens. The work of the association is constantly growing and fills a genuine need in the city. Practical Housekeeping Center Four years ago in a building opposite the Jane Club an apartment was opened by four young women to be used as a model in homemaking. It has grown into a practical housekeeping center with a membership of ninety. Miss McClevey is in charge and lessons are constantly given in cooking, laundry work and all the household arts. Lectures are given from time to time on hygiene and sanitation. Consumers' League The residents of Hull-House have long felt the wrong of the long hours for the clerks in the West Side department stores, and have united their efforts with those of the Retail Clerks' Union and the Consumers' League in an attempt to regulate the matter. Several years ago one of the neighborhood stores led the movement for closing Wednesday and Friday evenings, and later also closed on the Sundays of July and August. Last summer the same proprietors were interested in the general movement of a Saturday half holiday, and were represented in general conference arranged by the Consumers' League. Co-Operation with Various Societies Through their representation on the Board of the Juvenile Psychopathic Institute, the Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene, the Illinois Committee for Social Legislation, the American Vigilance Association, the City Club, the Woman's City Club, and various other organizations, the residents of Hull-House are able to aid many local undertakings. An interesting example occurred last year when in co-operation with the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association a woman was placed as watcher at every polling place in the nineteenth ward, when the preferential primary vote was taken upon the extension of suffrage to women. The vote cast in the nineteenth ward in favor of suffrage compared most favorably with the other wards of the city. For many years the Hull-House drawing room has been used by the election commissioners as a polling place. 54 HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK Entrance to Hull-House Quadrangle--Showing Jane Club in Distance. The City Welfare Exhibit of the Woman's City Club and the Health Department was brought to the Nineteenth Ward under the auspices of Hull-House and the Andrew Jackson School. It was made successful by the assistance of the other public schools, the Mary Crane Nursery, the Hebrew Institute, and St. Ignatius College. The exhibit was somewhat modified to meet the needs of the neighborhood, and Yiddish and Italian speaking young men and women connected with the House explained the charts and moving pictures which demonstrated the relation of neighborhood needs to the city government. Council for Library and Museum Extension Three years ago Hull-House joined with the Art Institute and other educational institutions in a monthly publication of classes and lectures open to the public. A wider audience is thus reached and the council also affords a forum for the constantly changing needs of Chicago. HULL-HOUSE YEAR BOOK 55 Federation of Chicago Settlements For many years the Chicago settlements united in a federation called the Federation of Chicago Settlements. Two years ago they gave up their separate organization, merging into the Social Service Club. The relations between the various settlements in Chicago have always been most cordial. There is also a national association which has recently published a Handbook of Settlements giving both the history and the theory of the movement, which may be obtained at Hull-House, for fifty cents. Relation of Hull-House to the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy The school is the fruit of Professor Graham Taylor's determined and courageous efforts to maintain in Chicago a center for practical, yet professional training in civic, social, and philanthropic work, a field in which the need for professional standards is becoming constantly more evident. Prof. Graham Taylor is the president of the school and takes direct charge of the training department. In the autumn of 1907 a new department of social investigation was established by the Russell Sage Foundation in connection with the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. The first inquiry undertaken was in connection with the work of the Juvenile Court of Chicago; the second had to do with Chicago housing conditions. As the school was at first unable to provide headquarters for this department and as its directors were residents of Hull-House, and the subject matter of the inquiry was in both instances of neighborhood interest, meetings of investigators were held at the House and much of the earlier work was done from Hull-House as a center. The present directors of the department of social investigation--Miss Breckenridge and Miss Abbott--are in residence at Hull- House. View of Hull-House Quadrangel THE HALE-CROSSLEY PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO 434 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.