HULL-HOUSE 
 
 A SOCIAL SETTLEMENT 
 
 < *■». 
 
 AT 
 
 335 SOUTH HALSTED STREET 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 78 s; m 
 
 SEP 2 3 1931 
 or mrao, s 
 
 AN OUTLINE SKETCH 
 
 FEBRUARY 1, 1894, 
 
LIST OF 
 
 RESIDENTS WHO FI A YE BEEN IN RESIDENCE 
 FOR SIX MONTHS OR LONGER. 
 
 Jane Addams, 
 
 Ellen G. Starr, 
 
 Julia C. Lathrop, 
 Florence Kelley, 
 
 Mary A. Keyzer, 
 
 Anna M. Farnsworth,* 
 Agnes Sinclair Holbrook, 
 Josephine Milligan, M. D. 
 Wilfreda Brockway, 
 
 Margaret M. West, 
 Jeannette C. Welch, 
 Enella Benedict, 
 Clifford W. Barnes, 
 Alex. A. Bruce, 
 Edward L. Burchard,* 
 Henry B. Learned,* 
 Chas. C. Arnold,* 
 
 John Addams Linn.* 
 
 * No longer in residence. 
 
 The settlement, February i, 1894, nuinbers eighteen, including those who 
 are in residence now, but have not yet resided for six months. 
 
HULL-HOUSE WITH READING ROOM AND STUDIO BUILDING. 
 
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HULL-HOUSE. 
 
 A SOCIAL SETTLEMENT. 
 
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 The two original residents of Hull-House are 
 entering upon their fifth year of settlement in the 19th 
 Ward. They publish this outline that the questions 
 daily asked by neighbors and visitors may be suc¬ 
 cinctly answered. It necessarily takes somewhat the 
 character of a report, but is much less formal. It 
 aims not so much to give an account of what has been 
 accomplished, as to suggest what may be done by and 
 through a neighborhood of working people, when they 
 are touched by a common stimulus and possess an in¬ 
 tellectual and social centre about which they may group 
 their various organizations and enterprises. This 
 centre or “settlement” to be effective must contain 
 an element of permanency, so that the neighborhood 
 may feel that the interest and fortunes of the residents 
 are identical with their own. The settlement must 
 have an enthusiasm for the possibilities of its locality, 
 and an ability to bring into it and develop from it 
 those lines of thought and action which make for the 
 “ higher life.” 
 
 The original residents came to Hull-House with a 
 conviction that social intercourse could best express 
 the growing sense of the economic unity of society. 
 They wished the social spirit to be the undercurrent 
 
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of the life of Hull-House, whatever direction the 
 stream might take. All the details were left for the 
 demands of the neighborhood to determine, and each 
 department has grown from a discovery made through 
 natural and reciprocal social relations. 
 
 THE COLLEGE EXTENSION COURSES 
 
 grew thus from an informal origin. The first class 
 met as guests of the residents. As the classes be¬ 
 came larger and more numerous and the object of the 
 newcomers more definitely that of acquisition of some 
 special knowledge the informality of the social relation 
 was necessarily less, but the prevailing attitude 
 toward the House of the two hundred and fifty 
 students now enrolled is that of guests as well 
 as students. Many new students, attracted and 
 refreshed by the social atmosphere, come into 
 the classes who would not be likely to under¬ 
 take any course of study at an evening high 
 school or any school within their reach. These 
 students, the larger proportion of whom are young 
 women, represent a great variety of occupations. 
 Among them are teachers in the public schools, em¬ 
 ployes of factories and shops, typewriters and cashiers. 
 The College Extension Course aims not to duplicate 
 but to supplement the advantages offered by evening 
 high schools and business colleges. Hence in these 
 classes the emphasis is laid upon the humanities, and 
 no attempt is made to supply means for earning a 
 livelihood. The most popular and continuous courses 
 have been in literature, languages, music, art history, 
 mathematics and drawing. The saving grace of all 
 good things and the developing power of the love of 
 
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LIBRARY IN HULL-HOUSE. 
 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 in 2019 with funding from 
 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
 
 https://archive.org/details/hullhousesocialsOOhull 
 
them has been proved to the satisfaction of the resi¬ 
 dents of Hull-House. A prospectus of the College 
 Extension classes is published at the beginning of each 
 term for ten weeks. These classes are arranged in 
 four groups for easier reference. The current term is 
 given as typical. (See pages 6 , 7, 8 , p.) 
 
 The College Extension classes are so called 
 because the instructors are mostly college men and 
 women. These classes were established at Hull- 
 House before the University Extension movement 
 began in Chicago and are not connected with it. The 
 faculty numbers thirty-five, mostly college men and 
 women, some of whom have taught continuously for 
 three years. No charge is made for the teaching, 
 which is gratuitous on the part of the faculty, but the 
 students pay fifty cents a course, which covers the 
 printing of the prospectuses and other incidental 
 expenses. Any surplus is expended upon lectures 
 and reference books. Three • 
 
 UNIVERSITY EXTENSION COURSES 
 
 have been given at the centre formed at Hull-House— 
 two in the drawing room and one in a neighboring 
 church. The lecturers were from the University 
 Extension Department of the University of Chicago. 
 
 A helpful supplement of the College Extension 
 Courses has been 
 
 THE SUMMER SCHOOL, 
 
 held for two years in the buildings of Rockford Col¬ 
 lege at Rockford, Illinois. Half the students were 
 able to attend. The sum of three dollars a week 
 paid by each student for board covered the entire 
 
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 Gymnastic classes for women will be held on Tuesday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 o’clock. 
 
 Gymnastic classes for men will be held on Monday and Wednesday evenings at 7:30 o’clock. 
 
 Fee for the classes, including the use of locker and baths, twenty-five cents a month. 
 
 A dancing class will be held on Saturday evenings, at half-past eight o’clock, in the Hull-House Gymnasium. 
 
expenses of the school, the use of the buildings, 
 including gymnasium and laboratories, having been 
 given free of rent. Much time was devoted to out¬ 
 door work in botany and the study of birds, and the 
 month proved a successful combination of a summer 
 vacation and a continuation of the year’s study. The 
 esprit de corps , fostered by the intimacy of the month’s 
 sojourn in college quarters, bore its first fruits in a 
 students’ association formed at the close of the 
 summer’s term. 
 
 THE STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
 The Students’ Association, now including a good 
 proportion of the attendants of the classes, is divided 
 into the Literary, the Dramatic, the Musical and 
 Debating sections. The society meets once a month, 
 and each section in turn is responsible for an even¬ 
 ing’s entertainment. The program is followed by 
 an informal dance in the gymnasium. Each term’s 
 course is opened by a students’ reception given by the 
 residents. 
 
 READING ROOM. 
 
 A Reading Room in the lower floor of the Hull- 
 House Art Gallery is maintained by the Chicago Pub¬ 
 lic Library Board. Two city librarians are in charge 
 and the room is supplied with English and foreign 
 magazines and papers, as well as several hundred 
 books. All the books of the Public Library are acces¬ 
 sible to the neighborhood through the excellent system 
 of sub station delivery. 
 
 EXHIBITIONS OF PICTURES. 
 
 Owing, partly, to the limited space available for 
 the purpose the picture exhibits have necessarily been 
 
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STUDIO, WITH VIEW INTO ART EXHIBIT ROOM. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
small. An effort has been made to show only pictures 
 which combine, to a considerable degree, an elevated 
 tone with technical excellence, and at no time can 
 a very large assortment of such pictures be obtained. 
 There is an advantage on the side of a small exhibi¬ 
 tion carefully selected, especially - to an untrained 
 public. The confusion and fatigue of mind which a 
 person of no trained powers of selection suffers in 
 passing his eyes wearily over the assortment of good, 
 bad and indifferent which the average picture exhibit 
 presents, leaves him nothing with which to assimilate 
 the good when he finds it, and his chances of finding 
 it are small. Frequently recurring exhibitions of a 
 few very choice pictures might do more toward 
 educating the public taste of the locality in which 
 they occur than many times the number less 
 severely chosen and less often seen. Hull-House has 
 had two exhibits every year since the gallery was 
 built, which were well attended. They were omitted 
 during the World’s Fair and an effort was made 
 to supply their place by assisting as many people as 
 possible to see the pictures of the Fair intelligently. 
 Parties formed for the purpose were conducted 
 regularly by a resident. 
 
 The first residents of Hull-House held strongly to 
 the belief that any compromise in the matter of excel¬ 
 lence in art was a mistake. They hung their own 
 walls only with such pictures as they felt were helpful 
 to the life of mind and soul. Very much of the in¬ 
 fluence of the House they believe to be due to the 
 harmony and reasonableness of the message of 
 its walls. One of the residents has been much 
 interested in 
 
PICTURES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
 
 and hopes to have aroused sufficient interest in the 
 subject to result in providing good sets of pictures for 
 several schools in the poorest localities. With the 
 means at her disposal she has been able to put a 
 number of good pictures into each room of the school 
 nearest Hull-House and one or more into five of the 
 public kindergartens. 
 
 The same principles the House is striving to carry 
 into effect in regard to the music it provides. 
 
 WORKING PEOPLE’S CHORUS. 
 
 The director of the World’s Fair choruses has 
 undertaken the training of a chorus of 500 working 
 people. He believes that working people especially 
 need the musical form of expression, their lives being 
 shorn on the art side. He further holds that musical 
 people need for their art’s sake the sense of brother¬ 
 hood; that art is hollow and conventional unless it is 
 the utterance of the common and universal life. 
 
 SUNDAY CONCERTS. 
 
 A free concert is given in the gymnasium every 
 Sunday afternoon. These concerts formerly alter¬ 
 nated with lectures of general interest, which were 
 unconnected as a course. The concerts, at first 
 given with the motive of entertaining, are now con¬ 
 ducted with the development of musical taste and 
 understanding as the object in view. This may be 
 illustrated by selections from the program. 
 
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SUNDAY CONCERTS, 5 P. M. 
 
 BEETHOVEN CONCERT .... Mrs. H. L. Frank 
 
 (Beethoven’s Birthday.) 
 
 CHRISTMAS MUSIC—Songs and carols of Eleanor Smith 
 Reineke, Cornelias and others. 
 
 Miss Eleanor Smith and the Senior Singing Class 
 
 MUSIC—From Wagner’s Opera of Lohengrin, with 
 
 interpretations .... Mrs. James Hunt 
 (In preparation for the music Miss Starr will read 
 Tennyson’s Holy Grail, at 4 o’clock.) 
 
 CONCERT—Choral . . . Led by Mr. W. L. Tomlins 
 
 Solos and choruses from The Messiah and Elijah. 
 
 CONCERT—Organ and String Quartette. 
 
 To be given at the house of Mrs. John C. Coonley, 
 
 620 Division street (and Lake Shore Drive), by 
 
 Mr. W. Middelschulte and The Spiering Quartette 
 
 SINGING CLASS. 
 
 The oldest singing class is now pursuing its third 
 year of study under the instruction of a composer and 
 teacher of vocal music who has never compromised 
 her severe musical standards here or elsewhere. The 
 comparatively small number of students whose intel¬ 
 lect and perseverance have survived the test, have had 
 the advantage of an unusual training. 
 
 CHORAL SOCIETY. 
 
 A Choi'al Society , composed of members from the 
 Hull-House Men’s Club, meets every Sunday after¬ 
 noon for practice with its leader. 
 
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THE PADEREWSKI CLUB. 
 
 A club of twenty- children, calling themselves the 
 Paderewski Club has had a year of instruction on the 
 piano, together with Sunday afternoon talks by their 
 teacher on the lives of the great musicians. Six of the 
 most proficient have obtained scholarships in the Chi¬ 
 cago Conservatory. 
 
 THE JANE CLUB. 
 
 The Jane Club, a co-operative boarding club for 
 young working women, had the advice and assistance 
 of Hull-House in its establishment. The original 
 members of the club, seven in number, were a group 
 of trades union girls accustomed to organized and co¬ 
 operative action. The club has been from the begin¬ 
 ning self-governing, without a matron or outside 
 control, the officers being elected by the members 
 from their own number, and serving for six months 
 gratuituously. The two offices of treasurer and 
 steward have required a generous sacrifice of their 
 limited leisure as well as a good deal of ability from 
 those holding them. This being given together with 
 a considerable esprit de corps in the increasing number 
 of members, the club has thriven both substantially 
 and socially. The weekly dues of three dollars, with 
 an occasional small assessment, have met all current 
 expenses of rent, service, food, heat and light after 
 the furnishing and first month’s rent was supplied by 
 Hull-House. The club now numbers fifty members, 
 and the one flat is increased to five. The members 
 do such share of the housework as does not in¬ 
 terfere with their daily occupations. There are vari¬ 
 ous circles within the club for social and intellectual 
 purposes, and while the members are glad to procure 
 
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JANE CLUB PARLORS. 
 
the comforts of life at a rate within their means, the 
 atmosphere of the club is one of comradeship rather 
 than thrift. The club holds a monthly reception in 
 the Hull-House gymnasium. 
 
 THE LABOR MOVEMENT. 
 
 The connection of the House with the labor move¬ 
 ment may be said to have begun on the same social 
 basis as its other relations. Of its standing with 
 labor unions, which is now “ good and regular,” 
 it owes the foundation to personal relations with the 
 organizer of the Bindery Girls’ Union, who lived for 
 some months in the House as a guest. It is now 
 generally understood that Hull-House is “on the side 
 of unions.” Several of the women’s unions have held 
 their regular meetings at the House, two have been 
 organized there and in four instances men and women 
 on strike against reduction in wages met there while 
 the strike lasted. In one case a strike was successfully 
 arbitrated by the House. It is most interesting to note 
 that a number of small and feeble unions have, from 
 the very fact of their weakness, been compelled to a 
 policy which has been their strength and has made 
 for the strength of their cause. In this policy it has 
 been the privilege of Hull-House to be of service to 
 them. The stronger unions, such as the carpenters’ 
 and bricklayers’, trusting in their own strength and 
 the skill of their members have too often adopted a 
 course of exclusiveness and self-centered effort. The 
 weak ones, as those in the clothing trades, finding it 
 impossible to accomplish much alone, betook them¬ 
 selves to the constant urging of concerted action. 
 The most important illustration of this highly useful 
 policy is in the action of the unions in urging the 
 
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factory inspection law passed by the Legislature of 
 Illinois during the spring of 1893. The initiative 
 toward the introduction of the measure in the Legisla¬ 
 ture was taken by a resident of Hull-House, and a 
 Committee of Investigation sent from Springfield to 
 inspect sweat shops and decide upon the necessity 
 for legislation, was piloted by her upon its tour. The 
 same resident, who was at that time conducting in 
 Chicago a so called “slum investigation” for the 
 Department of Labor at Washington, was, after the 
 passage of the law, appointed Inspector of Factories 
 in the State of Illinois. The work of the Inspector 
 and her assistants and deputies during the first six 
 months of their office can be found in the official report 
 of the Illinois State Factory Inspector now in press. 
 
 Hull-House is situated in the midst of the sweat 
 shop district of Chicago and it was natural that the 
 first effort of the House to procure legislation against 
 an industrial evil should have been directed against 
 the sweating system. 
 
 WARD BOOK AND MAPS. 
 
 A ward book has been kept by the residents for two 
 years in which have been noted matters of sociological 
 interest found in the ward. Many instances of the sweat¬ 
 ing evil and child labor have been recorded as well as 
 unsanitary tenements. A resident has charted the 
 information collected during the slum investigation in 
 the form of two sets of maps, one set on the plan of 
 Charles Booth’s wage maps of London and one set 
 showing the nationalities of the district. The latter 
 indicates nineteen different nationalities within the 
 third of a square mile lying east and south of Hull- 
 House. Arrangements have been made for the publi- 
 
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cation of these maps with a series of papers written 
 by the residents. 
 
 After the passage of the factory and workshop 
 bill, which includes a clause limiting women’s labor 
 to eight hours a day, the young women employes in 
 a large factory in the near neighborhood of Hull- 
 House formed an 
 
 EIGHT-HOUR CLUB 
 
 for the purpose of encouraging women in factories 
 and workshops to obey the eight-hour law. This club 
 has maintained its position and done good missionary 
 work for the cause. They have developed a strong 
 sense of obligation toward employes in shops 
 where the wages are low and the employes much less 
 favored than themselves. Their enthusiasm has 
 carried them across a caste line. This club meets 
 twice a month at Hull-House and makes full use of 
 the social factor so essential in fusing heterogeneous 
 elements. 
 
 THE WORKING PEOPLE’S SOCIAL SCIENCE CLUB 
 
 was formed during the first year of residence at Hull- 
 House and has met weekly ever since, with the excep¬ 
 tion of the two summer months. Last summer, 
 however, owing to the number of interesting speakers 
 to be secured from the World’s Fair Congresses, the 
 club met without interruption. The purpose of the 
 club is the discussion of social and economic topics. 
 An opening address of forty-five minutes is followed 
 by an hour of discussion. The speakers in the latter 
 represent every possible shade of social and econo¬ 
 mic view. Working men and women are in the 
 majority, although professional and business men are 
 
to be found at every meeting. The attendance aver¬ 
 ages seventy-five, the discussion is always animated 
 and outspoken. The residents believe that one of the 
 offices of the settlement is to provide that people of 
 various creeds and class traditions should meet under 
 a friendly and non-partisan roof and discuss differences 
 fairly. Following is a list of ten speakers and their 
 subjects selected from the last six months’ program: 
 
 “THE ENGLISH LABOR MOVEMENT.” 
 
 Mr. Wm. Clarke. 
 
 “WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE.” 
 
 Miss Susan B. Anthony. 
 
 “THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF INDIA.” 
 
 SUAME VlVACANANDAR. 
 
 “THE UNEMPLOYED.” 
 
 Dr. Charles R. Henderson. 
 
 “THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.” 
 
 Mr. Percy Alden. 
 
 “THE NEW TRADES UNIONISM.” 
 
 Mr. Robt. A. Woods. 
 
 “CHARITY ORGANIZATION.” 
 
 Dr. Seth Low. 
 
 “THE NEIGHBORHOOD GUILD.” 
 
 Dr. Stanton Coit. 
 
 “THE CONSCIENCE OF THE STATE.” 
 
 Dr. Bayard Holmes 
 
 “THE CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL. ’ 
 
 Mr. Wm. T. Stead. 
 
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The Arnold Toynber Club meets monthly at Hull- 
 House. 
 
 The objects of the club are: i. To offer lectures 
 upon economic subjects. 2. To ascertain and make 
 known facts of interest to working people in the 
 fields of economics and legislation. 3. To promote 
 legislation for economic and social reform, especially 
 for the collective ownership of those industries which 
 are already monopolies. Membership is by invitation. 
 Members of the club offer a list of free lectures on 
 economic and social questions. It is especially 
 desired to aid in the educational work of trades’ 
 unions and young people’s societies. 
 
 THE CHICAGO QUESTION CLUB 
 
 meets in the Hull-House Art Gallery at 2:00 o’clock 
 every Sunday afternoon. The club was fully formed 
 before it asked for the hospitality of Hull-House. 
 They are well organized and each meeting is opened 
 by presentation of two sides of a question. Occa¬ 
 sionally the various economic clubs meet for a common 
 discussion. The last and most successful was led by 
 Father Huntington on the subject, “Can a Freethinker 
 Believe in Christ?” An audience of 400 people 
 followed closely the two hours’ discussion which 
 was closed by Mr. Henry George. 
 
 THE NINETEENTH WARD IMPROVEMENT CLUB. 
 
 The 19th Ward Improvement Club meets at Hull- 
 House the second Saturday evening of each month. 
 The president is the district representative in the 
 Illinois State Legislature and one of the ward aider- 
 men is an active member. The club is pledged to the 
 
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improvement of its ward in all direction. It has 
 standing committees on street cleaning, etc., and 
 was much interested in the efforts of the Municipal 
 Order League to secure public baths. Through the 
 solicitation of the League the City Council a year ago 
 made an appropriation of $ 12,000 for public baths. 
 Hull-House was able to offer the use of a lot which 
 had been given it by the owner rent free for two 
 years. He transferred the lease to the city with a 
 satisfactory arrangement for its sale at the expiration 
 of his lease and a free public bath house has been 
 erected upon it, which is now in daily use. It con¬ 
 tains seventeen shower baths, a swimming tank and a 
 tub. The igth Ward Improvement Club has formed a 
 
 CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, 
 
 the first officers of which are the same as its own. It 
 has opened a co-operative coal yard near Hull-House. 
 The purchaser of a ton of coal becomes a member of 
 the Co-operative Association. At its first meeting 
 the members voted that their dividends be employed 
 in establishing a bushel trade to meet the wants of 
 the poor people of the neighborhood. The purchaser 
 of each bushel receives a ticket, six of which entitle 
 him to a rebate in coal. The Association hopes in 
 time to deal in other commodities. It is too soon to 
 predict concerning its future. 
 
 The very active and efficient 
 
 HULL-HOUSE WOMEN’S CLUB, 
 
 which now numbers sixty of the most able women in 
 the ward, developed from a social meeting for purposes 
 of tea-drinking and friendly chat. Several members 
 
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HULL-HOUSE INTERIOR. 
 

of this club have done good work in street and alley 
 inspecting through the Municipal Order League. The 
 club has also presented to a public school in the 
 neighborhood a fine autotype of Millet’s Knitting 
 Shepherdess and hopes to do more in future for the 
 Art-in-schools movement. They have been active in 
 the visiting and relief work which has taken so large a 
 share of the energies of the settlement during these 
 hard times. Last winter they purchased a ticket to 
 the lectures given to mothers in the Kindergarten 
 College. One member attended each week and re¬ 
 ported to the club. They are in touch with some of 
 the vigorous movements of the city and have frequent 
 lectures on philanthropic and reform questions. 
 
 A RECEPTION FOR GERMANS 
 
 has been held every Friday evening in Hull-House for 
 three years. Two hours are spent in singing, reading, 
 games, etc., and the habituees have all the com¬ 
 radeship of a club. They give an occasional coffee¬ 
 drinking and entertainment. They are a good illus¬ 
 tration of the social feeling too often wasted in a 
 cramped neighborhood for lack of space and encour¬ 
 agement. 
 
 During the first two years of Hull-House the 
 residents held 
 
 RECEPTIONS FOR ITALIANS 
 
 each week which were largely attended. These have 
 been discontinued, as their success depended largely 
 upon an Italian philanthropist who has since started 
 an agricultural colony in Alabama. While he was 
 able to do much to ameliorate the condition of his 
 
countrymen in Chicago, he was convinced that they 
 could only be valuable to America upon the soil where 
 their trained and patient habits in the raising of silk and 
 fruit might supplement the somewhat wasteful meth¬ 
 ods of American farming. The residents of Hull- 
 House often view with a pang of regret an Italian 
 woman picking up coal along the railroad tracks in 
 Chicago when she should be picking olives in Southern 
 California, or a sickly Italian girl balancing a load of 
 refuse timber upon her head when she should have a 
 basket of oranges and the background of the country. 
 Immigration societies, such as are successfully oper¬ 
 ated in London, are needed properly to place the 
 Italian immigrants, who might do much for the devel¬ 
 opment of the Southern States as they have done for 
 South America. Hull-House has not been able to 
 inaugurate such a society, but sincerely hopes that 
 one may be formed, as well as an association for 
 improving tenement houses, those occupied by the 
 Italians being overcrowded and unsanitary. 
 
 CHILDREN’S CLUBS. 
 
 Since its foundation, Hull-House has had numer¬ 
 ous classes and clubs for children. The fortunes and 
 value of the clubs have varied, depending very much 
 upon the spirit of the leaders. An effort has always 
 been made to avoid the school atmosphere. The 
 children are received and trusted as guests and the 
 initiative and control has come from them as far as 
 possible. Their favorite occupation is listening to 
 stories. One club has had a consecutive course of 
 legends and tales of chivalry. There is no doubt 
 that the more imaginative children learn to look 
 upon the house as a gateway into a magic land and 
 
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get a genuine taste of the delights of literature. One 
 boy, after a winter of Charlemagne stories, flung him¬ 
 self, half crying, from the house and said that “there 
 was no good in coming any more now that Prince 
 Roland was dead.” Three boys’ clubs meet every 
 Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock and four clubs of 
 little girls come on Friday. The latter are the School¬ 
 girls’ Club, and the Pansy Club, the Story-telling Club, 
 and the Kindergarten Club. They sew, paint or make 
 paper chains during the story-telling and play games 
 in the gymnasium together before they go home at 
 5:00 o’clock. A club of Bohemian girls, called 
 “Libuse,” meets every Monday and studies the heroic 
 women in history. 
 
 A CHILDREN’S DINING ROOM 
 
 has been opened by “The Young Fortnightly” 
 in a cottage opposite the Hull-House coffee house. 
 Dinners are served to school children upon presenta¬ 
 tion of tickets which have been sold to their mothers 
 for five cents each. Those children are first selected 
 whose mothers are necessarily at work during the 
 middle of the day, and the dinner started with children 
 formerly in the Hull-House creche. While it is 
 desired to give the children nutritious food, the little 
 diners care much more for the toys and books and the 
 general good time than they do for the dinners. It 
 has been found too that the general attractiveness 
 performs the function of the truant officer in keeping 
 them at school, for no school implies no dinner. The 
 House has had the sympathetic and enthusiastic 
 co-operation of the principal of the Polk Street Public 
 School. 
 
 23 
 
A SEWING SCHOOL 
 
 of 120 Italian girls meets every Monday afternoon in 
 the gymnasium. It is managed by a superintendent 
 and fifteen teachers. The children make garments, 
 which they may purchase for the price of the material. 
 An effort is made to follow up each new garment with 
 lessons in tidiness. There are smaller classes in 
 darning, knitting and simple embroidery among the 
 English-speaking little girls. 
 
 COOKING CLASS AND NATURE CLASS. 
 
 The cooking class for Italian girls has been very 
 gratifying in its results. There is also a cooking class 
 every week for American children, and a nature class 
 which meets every Saturday morning. The young 
 members are very happy when the weather permits 
 them to go with their teacher to the park in pursuit 
 of their subject. When it does not they are most con¬ 
 tent with the simple microscopes at their disposal. 
 
 SUMMER EXCURSIONS. 
 
 A systematic effort is made during the summer to 
 have each of the 400 children connected with the clubs 
 and classes spend at least one day in the country or 
 parks. Excursions in small groups are more satisfac¬ 
 tory than the time-honored picnic method. Each 
 summer from 50 to 100 children are sent trom Hull- 
 House to the fresh air homes and country houses. 
 The residents were able this summer, through the 
 generosity of World’s Fair enthusiasts to assist 1,500 
 children to see the Fair. 
 
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NURSERY. 
 
PLAYGROUND 
 
 During the last year the use of a piece of ground 
 near Hull-House measuring 326x119 was given rent 
 free for a year and in case it should not be sold in the 
 meantime for a longer period. The owner permitted 
 the houses upon it, which were in bad sanitary condi¬ 
 tion, to be torn down; the ground was graded, fenced, 
 provided with swings and other enticing apparatus, an 
 officer was supplied from the city force and a playground 
 was thrown open to the juvenile public. Through the 
 summer evenings many parents came with their chil¬ 
 dren. Several of the residents spent much time there 
 teaching the children games and regulating the use of 
 the fifty buckets and shovels which were active in the 
 sand piles. The music furnished by an organ grinder 
 every afternoon often brought forth an Italian taran¬ 
 tella or an Irish jig with curious spontaneity. The 
 residents tried in vain all summer to establish outdoor 
 band concerts. 
 
 FREE KINDERGARTEN AND DAY NURSERY. 
 
 From the first month of its existence Hull-House 
 has had a free kindergarten and for three years a day 
 nursery, where mothers who are obliged to work leave 
 their children for the day, paying five cents for each 
 child. The creche averages in summer fifty children 
 and in winter between thirty and forty. A friend of 
 the House, who makes herself responsible for the finan¬ 
 cial support of the creche, gives largely of her time 
 in directing and assisting in the work. This nursery 
 is like others in most respects, differing chiefly, per¬ 
 haps, in the attention paid to the matter of pictures 
 and casts. The Madonnas of Raphael in the best and 
 
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largest photographs are hung low that the children 
 may see them, as well as casts from Donatello and 
 della Robbia. The children talk in a familiar way to 
 the babies on the wall and sometimes climb upon the 
 chairs to kiss them. Surely much is gained if one 
 can begin in a very little child to make a truly beauti¬ 
 ful thing truly beloved. An experienced kindergartner 
 is in charge of the nursery. She has the constant 
 assistance of two women. 
 
 GYMNASIUM. 
 
 The last building added to the equipment of Hull- 
 House includes a public coffee and lunch room, a 
 New England kitchen, a gymnasium with shower 
 baths and men’s club room supplied with billiard 
 and card tables. The use of the gymnasium is 
 divided between men and women, girls and boys at 
 different hours. The'evening hours are reserved more 
 especially for men. The gymnasium, being now the 
 largest room in the possession of the settlement, it is 
 necessarily used on certain evenings as an audience 
 room and as a reception and ball room by the various 
 clubs. 
 
 THE HULL-HOUSE MEN’S CLUB 
 
 holds a reception there once a month and an occa¬ 
 sional banquet. This club, which rents a room in the 
 front of the building, is composed of 150 of the abler 
 citizens and more enterprising young men of the 
 vicinity. Their constitution commits them, among 
 other things, to the “cultivation of sobriety and good 
 fellowship.” They are not without political influence 
 in the ward and are a distinct factor in its social life, 
 as all of their social undertakings have been remark- 
 
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MEN’S CLUB ROOM. 
 
ably spirited and successful. They are in sympathy 
 with the aims of Hull-House and are prompt to 
 assist and promote any of its undertakings. 
 
 THE LINCOLN CLUB AND OTHER CLUBS. 
 
 The Lincoln Club is a debating society of young 
 men whose occasional public debates are always heard 
 by a large and enthusiastic audience. In their weekly 
 meeting they have a carefully prepared debate 
 usually upon current political events. They meet 
 once a month with the Hull-House Social Club. 
 This is composed of young women of the neighbor¬ 
 hood, many of whom have met every week for four 
 years. Their programs are literary and social. 
 They give an occasional play. The last one presented 
 was the court scene from the Merchant of Venice. 
 
 Among the other clubs of young people The Young 
 Citizens boasts the oldest club life. Their pro¬ 
 grams alternate between discussions and readings. 
 An effort is made in both for civic and municipal 
 education. 
 
 The Anfreda Club of thirty young girls meets the 
 same evening. After the literary program is con¬ 
 cluded the two clubs have half an hour of dancing or 
 games together before going home. 
 
 The Learned Club and the Jolly Boys are clubs 
 which meet one evening a week. The boys in both 
 have come from the afternoon clubs when they left 
 school and went to work. The Shamrock Club is 
 composed of both boys and girls and has proved an 
 interesting experiment. 
 
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THE HULL-HOUSE COFFEE HOUSE AND KITCHEN. 
 
 The Hull-House coffee house has been open for 
 six months. The room itself is an attractive copy of 
 an English inn, with low, dark rafters, diamond windows 
 and large fireplace. It is open every day from six in 
 the morning to eleven at night. An effort has been made 
 to combine the convenience of a lunch room, where well 
 cooked food can be sold at a reasonable rate, with 
 coziness and attractiveness. The residents believe 
 
 f 
 
 that substitution is the only remedy against the evils 
 of the saloon. The large kitchen has been carefully 
 equipped under the direction of Mrs. Ellen Richards, 
 with a New England kitchen outfit, including a num- 
 
 i 
 
 ber of Aladdin ovens. The foods are carefully 
 prepared and are sold by the quart or pound to 
 families for home consumption. Coffee, soups and 
 stews are delivered every day at noon to the neigh¬ 
 boring factories. By means of an indurated fiber 
 can it is possible to transport and serve the food 
 hot. The employes purchase a pint of soup or coffee 
 with two rolls for five cents, and the plan of 
 
 NOON FACTORY DELIVERY 
 
 is daily growing in popularity. The kitchen has been 
 supplying hot lunches at ten cents each to the 200 
 women employed in the sewing room established by 
 the Emergency Committee of the Chicago Women’s 
 Club. This room supplies work to unemployed 
 women during the stress of the winter. Hull-House 
 has also superintended a 
 
 TEMPORARY LODGING HOUSE 
 
 for the use of unemployed women for some months. 
 
 A physician is in residence at Hull-House and 
 
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COFFEE HOUSE AND GYMNASIUM BUILDING. 
 
another who lives near is most constant and gener¬ 
 ous with her professional services. A nurse of the 
 Visiting Nurses’ Association has her headquarters and 
 receives her orders at the House. 
 
 A PUBLIC DISPENSARY 
 
 was undertaken this fall. It is open every day from 
 3:00 until 4:00 and every evening from 7:00 to 8:00 
 o’clock. A small charge is made when possible for 
 drugs, and services and an effort is made to put it 
 upon the mutual benefit plan. In the same house, 
 247 Polk street, is the 
 
 HULL-HOUSE LABOR BUREAU, 
 
 necessarily small at present from the extreme difficulty 
 of finding work for men or women. Hull-House has 
 always undertaken a certain amount of relief work, 
 the records of which are kept with those of the Labor 
 Bureau. One of the residents served for a winter as 
 a visitor on the Cook County staff, all the cases of 
 destitution within a certain radius of Hull-House 
 being given to her for investigation. She has also 
 established and maintained with all the charitable 
 institutions of the city a cordial and sympathetic rela¬ 
 tionship which has been most valuable to the neigh¬ 
 borhood. She has more recently been appointed a 
 member of the State Board of Charities. The House 
 has been active in the movement to organize the 
 charities of Chicago and has recently united its relief 
 office with the ward office established by the new 
 organization. 
 
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 TK limT! OF THfr 
 SEP 2 3 1931 
 
 UNJVfcrtainy OF ILLINOIS 
 
RESIDENTS. 
 
 No university nor college qualification has ever been 
 made for residence, although the majority of residents 
 have been college people. The organization of the 
 settlement has been extremely informal, but an attempt 
 has been made during the last winter to limit the num¬ 
 ber of residents to twenty, although the household, 
 augmented by visitors, has occasionally exceeded that 
 number. Applicants for residence are received for six 
 weeks, during which time they have all privileges, save 
 a vote at residents’ meeting. At the end of that period 
 if they have proved valuable to the work of the House 
 they are invited to remain, if it is probable that they 
 can be in residence for six months. The expenses of 
 the residents are defrayed by themselves on the plan of 
 a co-operative club under the direction of a house 
 committee. A limited number of fellowships has been 
 established, one of them by the Chicago branch of 
 the Inter-Collegiate Alumni Association. 
 
 All the residents of Hull-House for the first three 
 years were women, though much valuable work has 
 always been done by non-resident men. During the 
 last year men have come into residence in a cottage 
 on Polk street, dining at Hull-House, and giving such 
 part of their time to the work of the settlement as is 
 consistent with their professional or business life. Only 
 one man has been able to devote his entire time to 
 settlement work. 
 
 It is estimated that 2,000 people come to Hull- 
 House each week, either as members of clubs or 
 organizations, or as parts of an audience. One hun¬ 
 dred of these come as teachers, lecturers, or directors 
 of clubs. The house has always had much valuable 
 assistance from the citizens of Chicago. This voluntary 
 
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response to its needs, perhaps, accounts for the fact 
 that it has never found it necessary to form an asso¬ 
 ciation with chapters in colleges, as other settle¬ 
 ments have done. It is about to be incorporated with 
 a board of trustees. 
 
 FINANCES. 
 
 No rent is paid for the use of Hull-House, nor for 
 the adjacent lots. Two buildings have been built 
 upon these by friends of the House. The superin¬ 
 tendence and teaching of the settlement are volun¬ 
 teered by residents and others, and are unpaid. The 
 running expenses of the settlement proper are there¬ 
 fore reduced to a minimum. Large sums are con¬ 
 stantly needed, however, for the initiation of new 
 departments and the expenses of those branches, such 
 as the nursery, which can never be self-supporting. 
 These are constantly defrayed by generous friends 
 of the House, many of whom are active in its serv¬ 
 ice. No public appeal for funds has ever been 
 made. 
 
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 56388 
 
 HULL HOUSE, Chicago. 
 
 Hull-house, a social settlement... An outline 
 sketch, February 1, 1894. cChicago,1894? 3 
 31p. 
 
 Published by the two original residents of 
 Hull-house, Jane Addams and Ellen G.Starr.—cf. 
 p.3. 
 
 NL 34-7336 
 
Hull-House, Chicago. 
 
 97518 Hull-House, a social settlement 
 ary I, 1894. [Chicago, 1894.] 
 31 p. 8 pi. 20x i5i cm . 
 
 307.5 P400 
 
 An outline sketch, Febru-