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 CONTENTS. 
 
 I. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SETTLEMENT. 
 
 PAGES 
 
 History $ 
 
 The Neighborhood 6 
 
 Social Influence 10 
 
 Music IS 
 
 Education 16 
 
 . Probation Work 1 8 
 
 </) The Penny Savings Bank 19 
 
 ? Movements Initiated 19 
 
 a- Relation to Relief Agencies 20 
 
 4. The Library 21 
 
 '^ Other Affiliated Interests, not Supported by the Settlement 22 
 
 -5 Residents 22 
 
 Paramount Need 23 
 
 y-; Relation to the University 24 
 
 <d Application for Charter 25 
 
 J Charter 26 
 
 ji Constitution 27 
 
 <J Budget. 30 
 
 xvDirectors 30 
 
 Honorary Members 31 
 
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 II. THE SETTLEMENT LEAGUE. 
 
 Organization and Purpose 33 
 
 ( a Summarized Reports of Treasurers ... 33 
 Finances \ , J^ 
 
 ( o Proceeds from Benefits 34 
 
 Speakers before League 34 
 
 Officers, Past and Present 35 
 
 Membership List 36 
 
 \
 
 ORGANIZATION OF SETTLEMENT. 
 
 I. The University of Chicago Settlement, a cor- 
 poration organized under the laws of Illinois, 
 which carries on social and philanthropic work 
 at 4638 Ashland avenue. 
 
 II. The Settlement League, an organization of 
 women connected with the University, which 
 renders active and financial support to the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago Settlement.
 
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 MAP OF THE STOCK-YARDS DISTRICT. 
 
 i. Present home of Residents of U. of C. Settlement, 4638 Ashland A\e. 
 2. Former home of Residents of U. of C. Settlement, 4655 Gross Ave. 
 
 3. New Gymnasium, 4630 Gross Ave. 
 
 4. New City Bath-House No. 3. 4651 Gross Ave. 
 
 5. New Nursery, cor. Marshfield Ave. and 48th St. 
 
 6. 47th St. Methodist Church, cor. Marshfield Ave. and 47th St. 
 
 7. St. Joseph Church (Polish), R. C., cor. Paulina and 48th Sts. 
 
 8. SS. Cyrill and Methodius (Bohemian), Hermitage Ave. and soth St. 
 
 9. St. Martens (German Lutheran), Marshfield Ave. and sist St. 
 
 10. St. Rose of Lima (Irish), R. C.. Ashland Ave. and 48th St. 
 
 11. United Evangelical (German), Justine and szd Sts. 
 
 12. St. Augustine (German), R. C., Laflin and sist Sts. 
 
 13. St. John the Baptist (French), R. C., Peoria and soth Sts. 
 
 14. Church of the Visitation, R. C., Peoria St. and Garfield Blvd. 
 
 15. Publir School Seward, Marshfield Ave. and 46th St. 
 
 16. O'Toole, Bishop and 48th Sts. 
 
 17- Hedges, Winchester Ave. and 48th St. 
 
 18. Fulton, Hermitage Ave. and 53d St. 
 
 19. Buckley, Paulina and 43d St. 
 
 20. Sherman, Morgan and soth Sts. 
 
 21. Homer, Center Ave. and 47th Place. 
 
 22. Parochial School, St. Rose of Lima, Marshfield Ave. and 48th St. 
 
 23. South Branch, Chicago River. 
 
 24. Packing Town. 
 
 25. Stock Yards. 
 
 26. Railroads. 
 
 27. City Dumping Ground. 
 
 Within this district of four square miles there are 300 saloons.
 
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 SETTLEMENT. 
 
 HISTORY. 
 
 THE University of Chicago Settlement was 
 established in 1894 by the Philanthropic 
 Committee of the Christian Union of the Uni- 
 versity of Chicago, and was incorporated in 
 1898. 
 
 The Settlement began life in one small rear 
 flat, with a small store-room in front, which 
 was club-room, play-room, and general audi- 
 torium. Two fellows of the Department of So- 
 ciology of the University were the first residents. 
 In the fall of 1894 eight small rooms were 
 taken in the same building. A woman resi- 
 dent came to make a home, and soon two 
 others joined her. Two of these are still in* 
 residence. 
 
 In 1895 a larger hall was found necessary. 
 In 1896 four flats over a large feed store, 
 together with a store-room near by, were 
 rented in order to accommodate the clubs, 
 classes, lectures, concerts, etc. In 1897 four 
 lots on Gross avenue were purchased, on which, 
 two years later, a gymnasium was built. This
 
 6 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 new building is an auditorium as well as a gym- 
 nasium. It has a play-room for the younger 
 children, a manual -training room, shower 
 baths, locker rooms, and a small reading- 
 room. Here also is the public-library station. 
 Over fifteen hundred people come to the gym- 
 nasium weekly. 
 
 THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
 
 THE Settlement is located on Ashland ave- 
 nue, near Forty-seventh street, which is 
 the boundary between the twenty-ninth and 
 thirtieth wards, respectively Irish and German 
 in population. Lying east, in a square mile 
 between Ashland and Halsted, Thirty-ninth 
 and Forty-seventh streets, are the Union Stock 
 Yards and packing-houses. A short distance 
 west of the Settlement is the city garbage 
 dump for the lake-shore wards. On the north 
 is a branch of the Chicago River, into which 
 three sewers empty. This is known as " Bubbly 
 Creek, "because of the carbonic-acid gas which 
 is constantly escaping. These conditions, with 
 the smoke and smell from the packing-houses, 
 are driving -away .the people who formerly 
 owned houses here, and are leaving only those 
 who are unable to escape. 
 
 Of the twenty to thirty thousand people 
 working in the Stock Yards perhaps three- 
 fourths live in the vicinity of the Settlement.
 
 THE GYMNASIUM.
 
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 As long as work in the "yards" is plentiful, 
 the standard of life in the surrounding neigh- 
 borhood is comparatively high, but it falls 
 with the diminution of work. This is an indus- 
 trial community, and not a " slum ; " yet irregu- 
 larity and uncertainty of employment are 
 most demoralizing, and the question is raised 
 whether bad social and economic conditions do 
 not cause intemperance quite as inevitably as 
 intemperance breeds an unemployed class. 
 
 Since 1896 the number of women and girls 
 employed in the "yards," at an average wage 
 of 75 cents a day, has more than doubled. 
 The danger which thus threatens the home 
 life of the community is obvious. 
 
 There is a saloon for about every forty 
 voters. These saloons are political and social 
 centers, the saloonkeeper and the ward poli- 
 tician being the interpreters of American insti- 
 tutions. The saloon is often an employment 
 bureau and the bank where checks can be 
 cashed. It is the only place near the "yards" 
 which offers a comfortable seat at the lunch 
 hour. 
 
 Representatives of almost every national- 
 ity of Europe are citizens of this community: 
 Irish, Germans, Bohemians, Poles, Lithuanians, 
 Scandinavians, Hungarians, Finns, Welsh, 
 Scotch. The greatest centralizing power for 
 each of these nationalities lies in the church.
 
 8 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 The community is nominally Christian. Per- 
 haps more men attend church than in most 
 communities. At one Catholic church fifteen 
 hundred men have been known to attend a 
 two-days' mission. Within walking distance 
 from the Settlement house are two German 
 Lutheran churches, one Methodist, one small 
 Methodist-Episcopal mission, and four Catho- 
 lic churches. Each church, except the Metho- 
 dist, has its parochial school, with from six to 
 nine hundred children in attendance. 
 
 ideals of a nation are found its 
 
 strongest characteristics. Thus the Bohemi- 
 ans are chiefly interested in religious ques- 
 tions, the Poles are intense in their patriotism, 
 the Germans are occupied with social ques- 
 tions, while the Irish are busy with practical 
 politics. In a community of such widely dif- 
 ferent social and religious elements there is 
 need for a strong centralizing influence which 
 shall be non-partisan and non-sectarian, yet in 
 the deepest sense religious, drawing men and 
 women together on the basis of a common 
 humanity, emphasizing the fatherliness of God 
 and proving the brotherliness of man by social 
 service. 
 
 /" The Settlement believes in taking the dif- 
 
 | ferent nationalities as it finds them, recogniz- 
 
 V ing that which is of universal value in their 
 
 various ideals, and through the consciousness
 
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 'of common social interests uniting them in a 
 new civic lifey And there are signs that the 
 times are ripe for such an awakening. A few 
 years ago the educational committee of the 
 Polish Alliance, wishing to learn on what sub- 
 jects its members desired to have lectures, put 
 the question to a vote. The majority voted 
 first for American history, next for constitu- 
 tional history, and then for Polish history and 
 literature, proving that these most clannish of 
 foreigners are transferring their patriotism 
 from the old to the new home. The first gen- 
 eration of young Americans of foreign parent- 
 age needs the social offices of the Settlement 
 more than do their parents. A little knowl- 
 edge of English, a crude idea of American 
 freedom, give these young people a notion 
 that they are superior to their parents who 
 cannot speak English and who still cling to old- 
 country ideas. Among the agencies employed 
 by the Settlement to counteract this tendency 
 are the celebrations . of national memorial 
 days. On these occasions the Settlement 
 choruses sing in English the national songs of 
 the various nations represented in the neigh- 
 borhood. The spring festival of national 
 songs given in 1899 under the auspices of 
 the Settlement Choral Society, with the co- 
 operation of the Polish and Bohemian s^ng- 
 ing societies, did much to strengthen the spirit
 
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 of brotherhood and sympathy among people 
 separated by race, education, and language. 
 It is expected to make this international festi- 
 val an annual affair. In meeting at the Settle- 
 ment on these social occasions, foreigners as 
 well as Americans learn to regard simple, 
 human fellowship in a new and different 
 light. 
 
 SOCIAL INFLUENCE. 
 
 A CENTER for fellowship that emphasizes 
 likenesses and ignores differences this 
 is the need in communities where racial, reli- 
 gious, and industrial conditions produce an 
 unsocial class. The Settlement tries to social- 
 ize all its activities, even its educational work. 
 A few of its agencies which are of special 
 social importance, however, may be men- 
 tioned separately. 
 
 The Christmas festivities are significant, as 
 are all the social occasions, for their unifying 
 effect upon different elements. At a recent 
 Christmas party each guest blew out a candle 
 on the tree and made a wish. It was a revela- 
 tion of the general attitude of mind to hear 
 the majority wish for cleaner streets, for a 
 public bath, public playground, new Settle- 
 ment building, better accommodations for 
 clubs, better conditions for the workers, and 
 that the Settlement might never go away.
 
 ON THE PLAYGROUND.
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement " 
 
 The playground has had a most wholesome 
 effect upon the social life of the children. The 
 mother, baby, big and little brothers and sisters 
 come together on summer days to the shelter, 
 where a kindergartner presides over the play, 
 talks with the mothers, and suggests to all 
 opportunities for work or amusement. During 
 the winter the gymnasium is the center of 
 work for boys and girls. There are five gym- 
 nasium classes for boys and girls from eleven 
 to fourteen years, besides one for working boys 
 over fourteen. The playground and organ- 
 ized activities have done more than anything 
 else to weaken " gang rule." A man who knows 
 the community well gives the Settlement credit 
 for having broken up the boy gangs in the dis- 
 trict back of the "yards." 
 
 The Settlement has a number of clubs for 
 boys and girls from eight to fifteen years. 
 Their programs vary widely, including natural 
 science, manual training, wood-carving, basket- 
 weaving, iron and leather work. Games, sto- 
 ries, and singing have their turn. All clubs 
 for older children have instruction in self- 
 government and simple parliamentary prac- 
 tice. 
 
 The Little Neighbors, a club composed of 
 children from six to ten, play games, make 
 scrap-books and picture frames, and do basket- 
 weaving and sewing. ^ gfr 
 
 tf
 
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 The Woman's Club is an association of 
 women of different creeds and nationalities in 
 a fellowship that has broadened their sympa- 
 thies and made them conscious of their social 
 power in the community. The club is five 
 years old, has 150 members, and is federated 
 with the State Federation of Women's Clubs. 
 A part of their program will give an idea of the 
 range of thought of these women : 
 
 PROGRAM FOR 1900-1901. 
 
 OCTOBER 4 Reports of Committees on Visiting Insti- 
 tutions. 
 OCTOBER 1 1 " The Democratic Platform." 
 
 MRS. CHARLOTTE HOLT. 
 
 OCTOBER 18 " The Republican Platform." 
 OCTOBER 25 " The Socialist Labor Platform." 
 
 MISS MARY E. COULSON. 
 
 NOVEMBER i " The Political Equality League." 
 
 MRS. MARY E. HOLMES. 
 
 NOVEMBER 8 "The Teeth." 
 
 DR. STELLA SIMMS. 
 
 NOVEMBER 15 Housekeepers' Day Led by Members 
 
 of Hull House Woman's Club. 
 NOVEMBER 22 Social Evening Stereopticon Talk : 
 
 " Evolution of the Factory System." 
 
 MRS. CHARLES HENROTIN, 
 President Consumers' League. 
 
 NOVEMBER 29 Holiday. 
 DECEMBER 6 "China." 
 
 (By Club Members.) 
 
 MRS. LLOYD. MRS. WHITE. MISS BASS. 
 MRS. PRIEB. MISS GRAVES. MRS. JACOBSON. 
 
 MRS. ROBERT GIVINS, 
 AfcTraveler in China.
 
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 DECEMBER 13 "Shakespeare." 
 
 MRS. W. SHERIDAN. 
 
 DECEMBER 20 Song Recital. 
 
 MISS MARI R. HOFER, 
 
 DECEMBER 27 Christmas Party. 
 JANUARY 3 " The Old and the New." 
 
 MISS CAROLINE BLINN. 
 
 JANUARY 10 "Parliamentary Drill." 
 
 MRS. JULIA B. SHATTUCK. 
 
 JANUARY 17 "The Injustice of Philanthropy." 
 
 MISS CHARLOTTE TELLER. 
 
 JANUARY 24 " What Colored Women Are Doing for 
 Humanity." 
 
 MISS FANNIE B. WILLIAMS. 
 
 FEBRUARY 14 "Abraham Lincoln A Recollection." 
 
 MAJOR MALCOLM MCDOWELL. 
 
 FEBRUARY 21 " Industrial Conditions in Chicago." 
 
 MR. ENGLISH WALLING. 
 
 FEBRUARY 28 Men's Day Evening Social. 
 
 PROFESSOR GRAHAM TAYLOR. 
 Guest of Honor. 
 
 MARCH 7 Mothers' Day. 
 
 (By Club Members.) 
 
 MRS. GREENLEAF. MRS. MALCOLM MCDOWELL. 
 MRS. RAMP. MRS. ANNIE MOORE. 
 
 MRS. AUGUSTA BECKER. 
 
 The Woman's Club, cooperating with the 
 Settlement, has secured a free public bath- 
 house for the neighborhood, as well as manual 
 training and kindergartens in several public 
 schools. A loan association has also been 
 formed by a committee of women from the 
 club. Under the supervision of the agent of 
 the Bureau of Charities small loans are made
 
 14 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 at 6 per cent, interest, the borrower repaying 
 in weekly payments. This is an effort to pro- 
 tect the poor from "mortgage sharks." 
 
 The Bohemian Woman's Club is a section 
 of the Woman's Club, paying its share of the 
 fee to the State Federation. It was organized 
 to benefit those Bohemian women who cannot 
 speak English. They meet once a month, 
 own their library, and have followed the pro- 
 gram of the Woman's Club, assisting as well 
 in all its social work. The social gatherings 
 of the Bohemian Woman's Club are character- 
 istic. Whole families attend ; the program 
 fills the entire afternoon ; men, women, and 
 children take part ; coffee and cake are served ; 
 and a genial, natural spirit of fellowship, sel- 
 dom seen in large gatherings of people, pre- 
 vails. 
 
 The Young Woman's Club is three years 
 old, and has twenty-five members. Its pro- 
 grams have included cooking and embroidery 
 lessons, talks on travel, household decoration, 
 and sanitation. The parties given by this club 
 have set a new standard for social entertain- 
 ments among the young people of the com- 
 munity. 
 
 The Girls' Monday Evening Social Club is 
 composed of young working-women, to whom 
 it furnishes the wholesome recreation which 
 they need above all else.
 
 PICTURE EXHIBITION AT THE O'TOOLE SCHOOL.
 
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 The Atlas Club is a club of young men, 
 devoted to the gymnasium and its interests. 
 They are doing good work in gaining the 
 cooperation of other clubs to secure a swim- 
 ming pool in connection with the public bath- 
 house, and they have also, in more than one 
 way, proved themselves to be the big brothers 
 of the Settlement. 
 
 MUSIC. 
 
 OINCE the first year of the Settlement it 
 W_y has found that the heartiest response of 
 the community was given to its efforts to pro- 
 vide music. The Children's Chorus, of from 
 one hundred to one hundred and fifty voices, 
 the Skylarks, graduates from the Children's 
 Chorus, and the Orpheus Choral Society of 
 adults, are all under the supervision of a 
 woman whose training and artistic talents 
 have made the music educational and uplift- 
 ing. The Mandolin Orchestra Club does faith- 
 ful work, and is always generous in giving its 
 services for social gatherings. 
 
 During the Christmas season of 1899 sixty 
 members from the Apollo Club sang the 
 "Messiah" to an appreciative audience of five 
 hundred people. Moreover, through the sale 
 of admission tickets for the benefit of music in 
 the Settlement, the Apollo Club rendered a 
 social as well as an aesthetic service.
 
 1 6 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 EACH year small groups of faithful stu- 
 dents under instructors from the Uni- 
 versity have been organized for study. Classes 
 in history, literature, psychology, Latin, Greek, 
 parliamentary practice, and mathematics are 
 included in this work. A scholarship in the 
 University, and another in the Chicago Manual 
 Training School, have been secured by the 
 Settlement for two young men from the neigh- 
 borhood. 
 
 WEEKLY PROGRAM FOR 1900-1901. 
 MONDAY. 
 
 P. M. LEADERS. PLACE. 
 
 4 :oo-Gi r ,s' Gymnasium Class ... 
 
 Hiss Ruth Vail, U. of C.. 
 
 7 to 8 Girls' Gymnasium Class . .. < Miss Cecile Bowman, " 
 
 Gymnasium 
 
 - Gymnasium 
 
 (Mis 
 ...]Mis 
 
 ( Miss Adams, Pianist, " 
 
 8 to 9 Young Woman's Club Miss Edna Bevans Gymnasium 
 
 Assistant Librarian Mrs. Sarah Clark Gymnasium 
 
 8 : oo Girls' Social Club j JJ|^ Johnso^i" 13 "' U * ?/ C " " I Settlement House 
 
 TUESDAY. 
 
 P. M. 
 
 2 : oo English Class Miss Emily Miladowski, U. of C. Settlement House 
 
 2 : oo Library Assistant Miss Helen Blumenthal, U. of C. Gymnasium 
 
 T - it i ^T vi- ( Mrs. Charles Leonard ... )<-< _ 
 
 3 : oo-Little Neighbors j Mrs _ Neidlinger) Pianist ( Gymnasmm 
 
 4 : oo Manual Training. ... Miss Elizabeth Jones Gymnasium 
 
 7 : 30 Savings Bank Mr. James Royster, U. of C Gymnasium 
 
 7 : 30 Atlas Athletic Club Mr. Charles Prieb, Pres Gymnasium 
 
 7 : 30 Manual Training Miss Elizabeth Jones Gymnasium 
 
 7 : so-Bohemian Woman's Club Mrs. Theresa Klecker, Pres. .. . Settlement House 
 First Tuesday in month.. . ) 
 
 . 8 : oo Mandolin Orchestra Mr. Alfred Broman Gymnasium 
 
 2 and 7 Probationers' Report Miss Caroline Blinn Settlement House
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 17 
 
 WEDNESDAY. 
 
 P. M. LEADERS. PLACE. 
 
 4:00 Manual Training Miss Elizabeth Jones Gymnasium 
 
 7 : 30 Working Boys' Gym. Class. Mr. H. G. Reynolds Gymnasium 
 
 Assistant Librarian Mrs. Sarah Clark Gymnasium 
 
 THURSDAY, 
 p. M. 
 
 2:00 Woman's Club Miss McDowell Gymnasium 
 
 2:00 Library Assistant Mr. B. Epstein, U. of C Gymnasium 
 
 4:00 Children's Hour Club Miss Blinn Settlement House 
 
 4 : oo Wood-Carving Miss Bollie Gymnasium 
 
 7 : oo Library Assistant Mr. Carl Heinrich, U. of C Gymnasium 
 
 7:00 Wood-Carving Miss Bollie Gymnasium 
 
 7 : 30 Literature Class Mr. Thomas H. Briggs, U. of C. Settlement House 
 
 8 : oo Young Woman's Club Miss Margaret Hoblitt Settlement House 
 
 7 : oo Junior Boys' Gym. Class . . . Mr. H. G. Reynolds Gymnasium 
 
 8 : 30 Young Woman's Gym. Class Mr. H. G. Reynolds Gymnasium 
 
 FRIDAY. 
 
 ( Mis 
 4 : oo Children's Chorus < Miss Margaret Hoblitt, [ Gymnasium 
 
 Miss Marie R. Hofer 
 
 ss Margaret Hi 
 
 Accompanist. 
 
 7 :oo-Skylark Chorus j gj gofer- ........ .......... j Gymnas ; um 
 
 fMiss Hofer ] 
 MiS Al a nf P Tnis^ 10W : gymnasium 
 Mr. W. S. Ransom, Pres J 
 
 {Teachers: 1 
 
 Mrs. Todd, U. of C . 
 Miss D. G. Tompkins, U. of C. . [-Settlement House 
 Miss Nina B. Weston, " 
 Miss Ada E. Jewell j 
 
 7:30 Manual Training Miss Elizabeth Jones Gymnasium 
 
 Assistant Librarian Mrs. Sarah Clark Gymnasium 
 
 SATURDAY. 
 
 A. M. 
 
 9:30 Saving Bank Mr. A. E. Hotle, U. of C Gymnasium 
 
 9 : 3 o-McDowellClub j ^rs. J. C.Jwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . j Gymnasium 
 
 9 : 30 Sewing School Miss Libby Day Nursery B'ld'g 
 
 10 : oo Play Hour Miss Isabelle McKinney, U. of C. Gymnasium 
 
 p. M. 
 
 2 : oo Embroidery Class Miss Helen Brandis, U. of C. . . Settlement House 
 
 7 : 30 Atlas Athletic Club Mr. A. W. Place, U. of C Gymnasium 
 
 2 : oo Library Assistant Mrs. H. W. Brewster Gymnasium
 
 1 8 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 FEES. 
 
 Literary and School Extension Classes, 50 cents per 
 ten lessons. 
 
 Gymnasium, boys and girls, 5 cents a month. 
 
 Gymnasium, young men and women, I o cents a month. 
 
 Orpheus Chorus, 20 cents a month. 
 
 Manual Training, i cent a lesson. 
 
 Children's Chorus, I cent a lesson. 
 
 Teachers from the University of Chicago give their 
 services. 
 
 All fees go toward payment for light and printing. 
 
 RULES ADOPTED BY CONGRESS OF CLUBS. 
 
 1. No person shall become a member of more than one 
 social club. 
 
 2. Each club shall have some educational aim in view 
 and shall have a purely social evening not oftener 
 than once a month. 
 
 3. Each club shall pay, the last of each month, its share 
 of the expense of lighting, as determined by the 
 Congress of Clubs. 
 
 THE PROBATION WORK. 
 
 ONE resident of the Settlement is a proba- 
 tion officer of the Juvenile Court, and has 
 ninety boys and girls in her care. Of these 
 forty-two are in school and thirty-four are at 
 work. The effect of the probation system 
 upon truancy is marked. Boys who were hab- 
 itual truants last winter, with the prospect of 
 becoming confirmed criminals, are now in 
 school and are bringing good reports from their
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 19 
 
 teachers. The result of the oversight and care 
 both of the truant and of the working boys is 
 evident in their regular weekly reports, and in 
 their energy and resolution in finding work and 
 keeping it. 
 
 THE PENNY SAVINGS BANK. 
 
 THE Pejiny Savings Bank, which is open 
 twice a week, is of great value in a com- 
 munity so far from the down-town savings 
 banks. There are two hundred depositors ; a 
 single book, however, often represents the 
 savings of an entire family. 
 
 MOVEMENTS INITIATED. 
 
 ONE function of the Settlement is to prove 
 a need, and then work to have that need 
 supplied bythe city, school, or church. It 
 never wishes to do what other institutions can 
 do as well or with greater economy. The 
 success of the Seward Vacation School of 1896 
 proved the need of manual training in the 
 schools near the Settlement. A petition to 
 the Board of Education secured it. Shower 
 baths at the Settlement one summer proved 
 that the people wanted a public bath. The 
 Settlement Woman's Club, by petition and 
 hard work, secured the Public Bath No. 3. 
 Twelve thousand baths were given in August, 
 1900. It was so overcrowded that a move-
 
 20 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 ment has been started to secure a swimming 
 pool in connection with the bath-house. The 
 following are a few other institutions for- 
 warded by the Settlement : -vacation schools, 
 Bureau of Associated Charities, Clerks' Asso- 
 ciation, the South Side Woman's Club, work- 
 room for needy women, and public-school 
 kindergartens. 
 
 RELATION TO RELIEF AGENCIES. 
 
 Settlement cooperates with the Bu- 
 J- reau of Associated Charities, the Relief 
 and Aid Society, the Catholic Visitation and 
 Aid Society, the Children's Home and Aid 
 Society, and other organizations. In brief, 
 the Settlement aims to use all existing organi- 
 zations that have proved helpful, and to be- 
 come a center for cooperative work. Through 
 it the various churches, clubs, and circles on 
 the south side are given an opportunity to 
 express their altruistic spirit, and to gain a 
 specific, sympathetic knowledge of social con- 
 ditions which otherwise seem mere fiction. 
 
 After living six years in a community so 
 heterogeneous in its social make-up, one comes 
 to feel that its only democratic institution is 
 the public school, which is becoming more and 
 more a social and educational center for adults 
 as well as for children. The Settlement has 
 participated in this movement in one case by
 
 EVENING AT THE SETTLEMENT.
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 21 
 
 instituting a course of university- extension 
 lectures, and in another by cooperating with 
 the Public School Art Association in the 
 annual picture exhibition. 
 
 THE LIBRARY. 
 
 DURING the first three years of the Set- 
 tlement's existence a library of 1,300 
 volumes was gathered together from various 
 sources. This was opened several times a 
 week, and the books were at the disposal of 
 the neighbors and their children. Library 
 hours were made the occasion of a pleasant 
 gathering, when children were at liberty to 
 handle and select their own books, and were 
 encouraged to talk of what they had read. 
 Story-telling, music, and talks on art were 
 also a part of the library afternoons and 
 evenings. 
 
 When the circulation reached 800 volumes 
 a month, a library station was secured for the 
 Settlement from the Chicago Public Library 
 Board. The circulation for the year 1899 from 
 this station was 16,000 volumes. Carefully 
 grrded lists have been prepared for the school 
 children, and as much help as possible is given 
 to adults in the selection of reading matter. A 
 reading-room is open at all hours. The origi- 
 nal Settlement library is reserved for the use 
 of clubs, classes, and for special cases.
 
 22 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 OTHER AFFILIATED INTERESTS, NOT 
 SUPPORTED BY THE SETTLEMENT. 
 
 THE University Settlement Day Nursery 
 was organized at the same time and under 
 the same roof with the Settlement. They lived 
 together two years, when the Nursery Associa- 
 tion built a home of its own two blocks away. 
 Here is held the kindergarten, which was 
 started by the Settlement, but which is now a 
 public-school kindergarten. The Settlement 
 residents assist in the kindergarten mothers' 
 meetings, and cooperate with the Day Nursery. 
 
 The Dispensary is in charge of two women 
 physicians, who started the enterprise under 
 the supervision of the Settlement, but who 
 have been independent of it for several years. 
 The number of patients, mostly women and 
 children, averages thirty a day. Eye and ear 
 clinics are held twice a week. 
 
 The Visiting Nurse, supported by the Visit- 
 ing Nurses' Association, cooperates with the 
 Settlement, and is of invaluable service to the 
 sick of the community. 
 
 RESIDENTS. 
 
 DURING the six years of the Settlement's 
 life the average number of residents, 
 men and women, has been six the smallest 
 number at any time being two, and the largest,
 
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 ten. Two women have been in residence for 
 six years, one for over five years, two for two 
 years, and several for one year. The shortest 
 periods of residence have been for summer 
 months. Residents pay their own expenses, 
 and are expected to remain at least six months. 
 The present residents at the Settlement are : 
 
 Miss MARY E. MCDOWELL. 
 Miss CAROLINE BLINN. 
 Miss ELIZABETH B. JONES. 
 Miss LAURA S. BASS. 
 Miss MARGARET HOBLITT. 
 Miss HELEN A. DENNISON. 
 MAJOR MALCOLM MCDOWELL. 
 MRS. MALCOLM MCDOWELL. 
 MR. HANSON MCDOWELL. 
 MR. EDWIN D. SOLENBERGER. 
 
 THE PARAMOUNT NEED. 
 
 THE paramount need of the Settlement is 
 the completion of the buildings on Gross 
 avenue, of which the new gymnasium is the be- 
 ginning. The building that has been planned 
 includes reading-rooms and club-rooms to be 
 open nightly for men and boys, suitable quar- 
 ters for the cooking classes, which now are 
 turned away for lack of room, and a home for 
 the residents, of whom there are at present 
 nine in quarters which are comfortable only 
 for five. Twenty-five thousand dollars will
 
 24 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 complete the buildings and supply the needed 
 rooms. It is hoped that the near future will 
 see this plan become a reality. 
 
 RELATION TO THE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 r I ^HE Settlement brings to the University 
 -I- the problems of real life vital problems 
 that need the thinker as well as the doer to 
 solve them. It introduces the student of the- 
 ories and principles to the laboratory of human 
 experience, and hence is of great value to the 
 student of social science. It also offers a 
 valuable supplement to the theological train- 
 ing of the divinity student, for it affords a 
 school where he meets all kinds of questions 
 and people, and where he must learn to deal 
 with them with the tact and love of his Master. 
 The official connection between the Univer- 
 sity and the Settlement is recognized in the 
 appointment by the trustees of the Head Resi- 
 dent as assistant in the Department of Sociol- 
 ogy. The unofficial Interest taken by members 
 of the Faculty of the University in the Settle- 
 ment is indicated by the following list of mem- 
 bers who have lectured at the Settlement : 
 Professors Charles Zueblin, John Dewey, J. L. 
 Laughlin, E. H. Lewis, F. J. Miller, Frederick 
 Starr, H. H. Donaldson, W. D. MacClintock, 
 F. A. Blackburn, R. D. Salisbury, F. B. Tar- 
 bell, J. P. Iddings, H. S. Fiske, G. E. Vincent,
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 25 
 
 J. R. Angell, R. G. Moulton, Camillo von Klenze, 
 Myra Reynolds, Alice Freeman Palmer. The 
 interest of the students in the enterprise is 
 shown by the fact that twenty-three are doing 
 regular work at the Settlement. 
 
 APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, 
 COOK COUNTY. 
 
 To JAMES A. ROSE, Secretary of State : 
 
 We, the undersigned, William R. Harper, Edmund 
 J. James, and Adolph C. Miller, citizens of the United 
 States, propose to form a corporation under an Act of 
 the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, entitled, 
 "An Act concerning Corporations," approved April 1 8, 
 1872, and all acts amendatory thereof; and for the pur- 
 pose of such organization we hereby state as follows, to 
 wit : 
 
 I. The name of such corporation is UNIVERSITY OF 
 CHICAGO SETTLEMENT. 
 
 f 2. The object for which it is formed is to provide a 
 center for educational, religious, and philanthropic 
 work. 
 
 3. The management of the aforesaid UNIVERSITY OF 
 CHICAGO SETTLEMENT shall be vested in a Board of 
 Twelve Directors. 
 
 4. The following persons are hereby selected as the 
 Directors to control and manage said corporation for 
 the first year of its corporate existence, viz.: William 
 R. Harper, John M. Coulter, Charles R. Henderson,
 
 26 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 Adolph C. Miller, E. Hastings Moore, George C. How- 
 land, Myra Reynolds, Edmund J. James, F. T. Gates, 
 Rho Fisk Zueblin, Louise Palmer Vincent, and Mary 
 E. McDowell. 
 
 5. The location is in Chicago, in the County of Cook, 
 State of Illinois. 
 
 Signed : WILLIAM R. HARPER. 
 EDMUND J. JAMES. 
 A. C. MILLER. 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, 
 COUNTY OF COOK. 
 
 I, George C. Howland, a Notary Public in and for 
 the City, County, and State aforesaid, do hereby certify 
 that on this 26th day of January, A. D. 1898, personally 
 appeared before me William R. Harper, Edmund J. 
 James, and Adolph C. Miller, to me personally known 
 to be the same persons who executed the foregoing cer- 
 tificate, and severally acknowledged that they had 
 executed the same for the purposes therein set forth. 
 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my 
 hand and seal the day and year above written. 
 
 r -, GEORGE C. HOWLAND, 
 
 Notary Public. 
 4605 Drexel Boulevard, 
 Chicago. 
 
 CHARTER. 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF STATE. 
 
 JAMES A. ROSE, SECRETARY OF STATE. 
 
 To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: 
 WHEREAS, A certificate, duly signed and acknowl- 
 edged, having been filed in the office of the Secretary 
 of State on the 28th day of January, A. D. 1898,
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 27 
 
 for the organization of the UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT, 
 under and in accordance with the provisions of "An Act 
 concerning Corporations," approved April 18, 1872, and 
 in force July i, 1872, and all acts amendatory thereof, a 
 copy of which certificate is hereto attached ; 
 
 Now, therefore, I, JAMES A. ROSE, Secretary of the 
 State of Illinois, by virtue of the powers and duties 
 vested in me by law, do hereby certify that the said 
 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SETTLEMENT is a legally 
 organized corporation under the laws of this state. 
 
 IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I hereto set 
 my hand and cause to be affixed the 
 great Seal of State. Done at the City of 
 Springfield this 28th day of January, in 
 [SEAL] the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
 hundred and ninety-eight, and of the 
 Independence of the United States the 
 one hundred and twenty-second. 
 JAMES A. ROSE, 
 
 Secretary of State, 
 
 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNIVERSITY 
 SETTLEMENT. 
 
 ARTICLE I. Name. 
 
 The name of this association shall be the University 
 of Chicago Settlement. 
 
 ARTICLE II. Object. 
 
 The object for which the association is formed is to 
 provide a center for educational, religious, and philan- 
 thropic work.
 
 28 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 ARTICLE III. Members. 
 
 SECTION i. The members of this association shall 
 be the members of the present Board of Directors of 
 the University of Chicago Settlement to the number of 
 twelve, representing the original incorporators ; or such 
 persons as may hereafter be chosen in their places. 
 
 SEC. 2. Of these twelve, three shall be members 
 ex officio, to wit : the President of the University, the 
 Chaplain of the University, and the Head Resident of 
 the Settlement. Of the nine remaining members, two 
 shall be representatives nominated by the Settlement 
 League and elected by the Settlement, and one a rep- 
 resentative nominated by the executive committee of 
 the Christian Union of the University of Chicago, and 
 elected by the Settlement. Members so chosen on 
 nomination shall serve until their successors are elected. 
 
 The remaining six members shall be elected by the 
 Settlement at its annual meetings, to serve for three 
 years from the date of election. The Settlement, as at 
 this date constituted, shall in such manner as it sees fit 
 divide the present six elected members into three 
 classes of two members each, of which classes one shall 
 serve until the first Wednesday in January, 1901, one until 
 the first Wednesday in January, 1902, and one until the 
 first Wednesday in January, 1903. All members there- 
 after chosen at the annual meetings of the Settlement 
 shall serve for three years from the date of their election, 
 or until their successors are elected. 
 
 SEC. 3. Vacancies in the membership of the Settle- 
 ment may be caused by death, resignation, or by unani- 
 mous vote of the members present at any regularly 
 called meeting. Such vacancies occurring between two 
 annual meetings may be filled by the election of mem- 
 bers to serve out the unexpired terms of their prede- 
 cessors.
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 29 
 
 ARTICLE IV. Honorary Members. 
 
 All officers of contributing associations, and such 
 persons as contribute not less than five dollars annually, 
 shall be honorary members of the Settlement. They 
 shall be entitled to receive, free of expense, the publica- 
 tions of the Settlement, and shall be invited to attend 
 the annual meeting. 
 
 ARTICLE V. Meetings. 
 
 The Settlement shall hold its annual meeting on the 
 first Wednesday in January, as provided by the charter. 
 Other meetings shall be held at the call of the president, 
 and at such times as the Settlement may hereafter 
 specify. Notice of all meetings shall be given by the 
 secretary five days in advance. Five members shall 
 constitute a quorum. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. Officers. 
 
 SECTION i. The officers of the Settlement shall be 
 a president, a secretary, and a treasurer, elected for the 
 term of one year at the annual meeting, on the first 
 Wednesday in January. They shall perform the func- 
 tions usually pertaining to their several offices, and such 
 other duties as the Settlement may direct. 
 
 SEC. 2. The officers of the Settlement together 
 with the head resident shall constitute an executive 
 committee, which shall have powers as hereafter speci- 
 fied in the by-laws. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. Relation to the University of Chicago. 
 
 The Settlement is, in origin, the Philanthropic Com- 
 mittee of the Christian Union of the University of 
 Chicago, and its incorporation in no way invalidates its 
 obligation to act as such. Accordingly, in its membership 
 shall always be included a representative nominated by
 
 30 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 the Christian Union, as provided in Article III. The 
 officers of the Settlement shall hold themselves ready to 
 make such report and furnish such information on the 
 condition of the Settlement as may be desired by the 
 executive committee of the Union. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. Amendments. 
 This constitution may be amended by a two-thirds 
 vote of the entire membership of the Settlement at a 
 meeting held for the purpose, notice of which has been 
 given one month in advance. 
 
 BUDGET. 
 
 The budget for the year beginning May i, 1900, 
 is as follows : 
 
 ESTIMATED INCOME. EXPENDITURES. 
 
 Faculty subscriptions. .$1,000 Rent $480 
 
 Vesper collections 400 Fuel 500 
 
 Lookout Club 144 Light 300 
 
 Board of Education. . . 324 Wages 855 
 
 Settlement clubs ill Laundry and sundries ..125 
 
 Telephone subscription 175 Miscellaneous 100 
 
 Outside subscriptions. . 50 Telephone 175 
 
 Settlement League .. . 1,500 Head Resident 800 
 
 Repairs and furnishings. 150 
 
 rP3>74 . 
 
 #3,530 
 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
 
 President, JAMES R. ANGELL. 
 
 Secretary, ROBERT M. LOVETT. 
 
 Treasurer, FRANK B. TARBELL. 
 
 WILLIAM R. HARPER. MRS. EDWIN O. JORDAN. 
 
 CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON. ADOLF C. MILLER. 
 
 MARY E. MCDOWELL. CAROLINE BLINN. 
 
 CHARLES R. HENDERSON. CHARLES R. BARNES. 
 MRS. HORACE S. FISKE.
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 W. M.-Arnolt. 
 Mrs. F. P. Bagley. 
 Mrs. Alfred Baker. 
 Lewellys F. Barker. 
 Clifford W. Barnes. 
 Mrs. Clifford W. Barnes. 
 Miss Mary M. Bartelme. 
 Mrs. Fred Becker. 
 Mrs. William Benton. 
 Miss Edna Bevans. 
 Mrs. Emmons Elaine. 
 F. M. Blanchard. 
 Miss Helen Blumenthal. 
 Oskar Bolza. 
 Thomas H. Briggs. 
 Clarence Buckingham. 
 W. R. Burke. 
 
 E. D. Burton. 
 
 Mrs. Florence H. Callender. 
 Edward Capps. 
 
 F. I. Carpenter. 
 Miss Christine Caryl. 
 C. F. Ca'stle. 
 
 T. C. Chamberlin. 
 
 C. M. Child. 
 
 S. H. Clark. 
 
 Mrs. Coolidge. 
 
 John M. Coulter. 
 
 C. E. Crandall. 
 
 Mrs. Charles R. Crane. 
 
 S. W. Cutting. 
 
 C. B. Davenport. 
 
 John Dewey. 
 
 Mrs. Wallace De Wolf. 
 
 Henry H. Donaldson. 
 
 Miss Naomi Donnelley. 
 
 Mrs. R. R. Donnelley. 
 
 T. E. Donnelley. 
 Joseph W. Errant. 
 Mrs. Joseph W. Errant. 
 Livingstone Fargo. 
 Marvin A. Farr. 
 E. G. Foreman. 
 G. B. Foster. 
 Ernst Freund. 
 David Gamble. 
 Mrs. Edward Gaylord. 
 G. S. Goodspeed. 
 Miss Eva Graves. 
 Mrs. S. E. Gross. 
 George E. Hale. 
 Mrs. Burton Hanson. 
 Robert F. Harper. 
 Henry R. Hatneld. 
 G. L. Hendrickson. 
 Mrs. Charles Henrotin. 
 William Hill. 
 Mrs. William Hill. 
 G. M. Hobbs. 
 Miss Amalie Hofer. 
 Miss Mane Hofer. 
 Bayard Holmes. 
 Mrs. Bayard Holmes. 
 E. B. Hulbert. 
 S. H. Kurd. 
 J. P. Iddings. 
 E. O. Jordan. 
 H. P. Judson. 
 Mrs. Milo Kellog. 
 Miss Kinnard. 
 Gordon J. Laing. 
 Mrs. Eben Lane. 
 J. L. Laughlin. 
 Felix Lengfeld.
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 C. T. Leonard. 
 
 Mrs. Charles Leonard. 
 
 E. H. Lewis. 
 J. Lindgren. 
 Mrs. J. Lindgren. 
 Jacques Loeb. 
 
 F. O. Lowden. 
 Mrs. C. H. Lytton. 
 W. D. MacClintock. 
 Mrs. Charles A, Mallory. 
 Miss Frances Marder. 
 B. C. Marsh. 
 
 H. Maschke. 
 S. Mathews. 
 Mrs. Otto Matz. 
 
 G. H. Mead. 
 Albert A. Michelson. 
 F. J. Miller. 
 
 J. W. Moncrief. 
 
 Mrs. F. H. Montgomery. 
 
 E. H. Moore. 
 W. H. Moore. 
 R. G. Moulton. 
 Mrs. A. R. Munger. 
 A. F. Naylor. 
 
 J. U. Nef. 
 Henry M. Norton. 
 Mrs. O. W. Norton. 
 Mrs. O. W. Noyes. 
 Miss Anna Oakley. 
 
 F. B. Orr. 
 Mrs. F. B. Orr. 
 Mrs. A. Paddon. 
 Miss T. Paemoller. 
 Mrs. Elia W. Peattie. 
 Dwight Perkins. 
 Mrs. Dwight Perkins. 
 Mrs. Howard E. Perry. 
 Mrs. Charles B. Pope. 
 Miss Florence Pride. 
 W. S. Ransom. 
 Norman B. Ream. 
 Miss Myra Reynolds. 
 
 Dan Riordan. 
 
 Martin A. Ryerson. 
 
 Mrs. J. Y. Scammon. 
 
 H. Schmidt-Wartenberg. 
 
 Mrs. George Seaverns. 
 
 Mrs. J. C. Sevan. 
 
 Paul Shorey. 
 
 Albion W. Small. 
 
 C. P. Small. 
 
 Alexander Smith. 
 
 Byron L. Smith. 
 
 A. G. Spalding. 
 
 A. A. Sprague. 
 
 O. S. A. Sprague. 
 
 A. A. Stagg. 
 
 Julius Stieglitz. 
 
 S. W. Stratton. 
 
 Miss Clara Sturges. 
 
 Mrs. George Sturges. 
 
 Miss Helen Sturges. 
 
 Mrs. J. C. Swan. 
 
 Miss Marion Talbot. 
 
 O. J. Thatcher. 
 
 J. W. Thomas. 
 
 W. I. Thomas. 
 
 Mrs. George Thome. 
 
 J. H. Tufts. 
 
 George E. Vincent. 
 
 Mrs. A. V. H. Wakeman. 
 
 Miss Elizabeth Wallace. 
 
 English Walling. 
 
 Willoughby Walling. 
 
 Mrs. J. C. Walter. 
 
 Mrs. Lydia A. Coonley Ward. 
 
 Mrs. William Washburn. 
 
 Mrs. A. I. Watson. 
 
 Franklin H. Wentworth. 
 
 Mrs. Franklin H. Wentworth. 
 
 Miss Florence Wilkinson. 
 
 J. W. A. Young. 
 
 Otto Young. 
 
 Charles Zueblin.
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 33 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 SETTLEMENT LEAGUE. 
 
 ORGANIZATION AND PURPOSE. 
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement League was 
 formed by the ladies connected with the University 
 Faculty at a meeting held in October, 1895, at the invita- 
 tion of Mrs. W. R. Harper. The object of the League 
 is to arouse interest in the University of Chicago 
 Settlement at the Stock Yards and to give it regular 
 financial support through the University of Chicago 
 Settlement Board. The study of sociological questions 
 and the promotion of social intercourse are also purposes 
 of the League. 
 
 Those qualified for membership are : members of 
 the Faculty, or fellows and graduate students, of the 
 University of Chicago ; members of the immediate 
 families of (i) members of the Faculty, (2) fellows or 
 graduate students, (3) members of faculties of affiliated 
 schools of the University of Chicago, (4) members of 
 the Quadrangle Club. 
 
 The League will also receive as honorary members 
 persons not connected with the University who are 
 interested in Settlement work. The dues of honorary 
 members are five dollars a year. These dues, together 
 with the membership fees of the League (initiation fee 
 one dollar, and annual dues two dollars) and benefit 
 proceeds, are used for the support of the Settlement. 
 
 SUMMARIZED REPORTS OF TREASURERS. 
 
 1895-96 $ 271.87 
 
 1896-97 - - 892.95 
 
 1897-98 971.22 
 
 1898-99 i, 611.86 
 
 1899-1900 - 3,300.00 
 
 Sum total $7,047.90
 
 34 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 PROCEEDS FROM SETTLEMENT BENEFITS. 
 Lecture, February, 1896: 
 
 Gross receipts - - $ 68.00 
 
 Net receipts - 57- 
 
 Vaudeville, March, 1897 : 
 
 Gross receipts - 792.78 
 
 Net receipts ----- 624.78 
 
 French and German Plays, February, 1898: 
 
 Gross receipts - 811.44 
 
 Net receipts - - 675.22 
 
 First Comic Opera, March, 1899 : 
 
 Gross receipts - 2,250.00 
 
 Net receipts - 1,600.00 
 
 Second Comic Opera, May, 1900 : 
 
 Estimated gross receipts 7,630.09 
 
 Estimated net receipts 3.525.07 
 
 Total gross receipts $11,552.31 
 
 Total net receipts - 6,482.07 
 
 SPEAKERS BEFORE THE LEAGUE. 
 
 Dr. E. R. L. Gould " The Purpose and Value of Univer- 
 sity Settlements." 
 
 Mrs. Kodis "The Poles in America." 
 
 Miss Mari Hofer "Folk Songs." 
 
 Mrs. J. Humpal Zeman "The Life of the Bohemian in 
 Chicago and Abroad." 
 
 Mr. George L. Schreiber "Art in the Settlement District." 
 
 Mrs. Florence Kelley "Child Labor." 
 
 Mrs. Charles Zueblin "A Visit to William Morris' Fac- 
 tory." 
 
 Miss Jane Addams "Settlements and Educational Meth- 
 ods." 
 
 Professor Shailer Mathews " Progress at the Settlement." 
 
 Professor Graham Taylor "Social Problems of the Day." 
 
 Miss Josephine Locke "Art and an Appeal for its Recog- 
 nition." 
 
 Mrs. Candace Wheeler " Industrial Art." 
 
 Mr. Wallace Rice "The Poetry of Reform."
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 35 
 
 Mr. John P. Gavit "Municipal Playgrounds." 
 Professor E. O. Jordan "Municipal Hygiene." 
 Mr. Henry W. Thurston "Playgrounds in Hyde Park." 
 Miss Ellen Starr "Public-School Art Movement." 
 Professor O. L. Triggs "Art at the University." 
 Mrs. Charles Henrotin " Consumers' League." 
 Mr. Dv/ight Perkins " Problems of Tenement-House 
 Architecture." 
 
 Mr. John Graham Brooks "Consumers' Leagues." 
 Mr. Charles Francis Browne " The Western Artists." 
 Miss Mary E. McDowell "A Summer at the Settlement." 
 Miss Charlotte Teller "The Injustice of Philanthropy." 
 
 OFFICERS 1895-1901. 
 
 1895-96. 
 
 President MRS. HARRY PRATT JUDSON. 
 Vice- President MRS. WILLIAM D. MACCLINTOCK. 
 Recording Secretary MRS. ROBERT MORSS LOVETT. 
 Corresponding Secretary MRS. CHARLES ZUEBLIN. 
 Treasurer MRS. ELIAKIM HASTINGS MOORE. 
 
 1896-97. 
 
 President MRS. GEORGE EDGAR VINCENT. 
 Vice- President MRS. FRANK JUSTUS MILLER. 
 Recording Secretary MRS. WILLIAM HILL. 
 Corresponding Secretary MRS. JAMES ROWLAND 
 
 ANGELL. 
 Treasurer MRS. ELIAKIM HASTINGS MOORE. 
 
 1897-98. 
 
 President MRS. CHARLES ZUEBLIN. 
 Vice- President MRS. JAMES WESTFALL THOMPSON. 
 Recording Secretary MRS. HORACE SPENCER FISKE. 
 Corresponding Secretary MRS. SHAILER MATHEWS. 
 Treasurer MRS. HARRY PRATT JUDSON.
 
 36 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 1898-99. 
 
 President MRS. CHARLES ZUEBLIN. 
 
 Vice- President MRS. ADOLPH CASPAR MILLER. 
 
 Recording Secretary MRS. FREDERIC IVES CAR- 
 PENTER. 
 
 Corresponding Secretary MRS. HORACE SPENCER 
 FISKE. 
 
 Assistant Corresponding Secretary MRS. EDWIN ERLE 
 SPARKS. 
 
 Treasurer MRS. HEXRY RAND HATFIELD. 
 
 Assistant Treasurer MRS. WM. MORTON WHEELER. 
 
 1899-1900. 
 
 President MRS. EDWIN OAKES JORDAN. 
 Vice- President MRS. JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL. 
 Recording Secretary MRS. JACQUES LOEB. 
 Corresponding Secretary MRS. CHARLES PORTER 
 
 SMALL. 
 Treasurer MRS. CARL DARLING BUCK. 
 
 1000-1901. 
 
 President MRS. HORACE SPENCER FISKE. 
 
 Vice-President MRS. CHARLES RICHMOND HENDER- 
 SON. 
 
 Recording Secretary MRS. JACQUES LOEB. 
 
 Corresponding Secretary MRS. JAMES ROWLAND 
 ANGELL. 
 
 Treasurer Miss SUSAN WADE PEABODY. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP LIST. 
 
 A 
 
 Mrs. Philip S. Allen 602 West Sixtieth place 
 
 Mrs. Galusha Anderson Morgan Park 
 
 Mrs. James Rowland Angell 5825 Kimbark avenue
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 37 
 
 B 
 
 Mrs. David Baker 5744 Washington avenue 
 
 Mrs. E. A. Balch 710 East Fifty-eighth street 
 
 Mrs. George H. Ballon 5832 Rosalie court 
 
 Miss Susan Helen Ballon 5832 Rosalie court 
 
 Mrs. Charles R. Barnes 220 East Sixtieth street 
 
 Miss Mary Barrett 4750 Lake avenue 
 
 Mrs. A. G. Beaunisne 5222 Hibbard avenue 
 
 Mrs. H. H. Belfield 5738 Washington avenue 
 
 Mrs. Oskar Bolza 5810 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. James Harrington Boyd 5823 Madison avenue 
 
 Mrs. James H. Breasted The University 
 
 Mrs. Carl Darling Buck 57 1 6 Washington avenue 
 
 Dr. Sara Buckley 301 East Fifty-sixth street 
 
 Mrs. Ernest DeWitt Burton 5524 Monroe avenue 
 
 Miss Annice Bradford Butts 40 Forty -seventh street 
 
 C 
 
 Mrs. Edward Capps 5717 Madison avenue 
 
 Mrs. Frederic Ives Carpenter 5533 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. Frank Cary 2935 Indiana avenue 
 
 Mrs. Clarence F. Castle 54&8 Ridgewood court 
 
 Mrs. Ralph C. H. Catterall 6018 Stony Island avenue 
 
 Miss G. I. Chamberlin Beecher Hall 
 
 Mrs. Thomas C. Chamberlin Hyde Park Hotel 
 
 Mrs. Charles Manning Child 6024 Ellis avenue 
 
 Mrs. John Merle Coulter 341 East Fifty-third street 
 
 Mrs. Starr W. Cutting 514 East Fifty-third street 
 
 D 
 
 Mrs. Charles B. Davenport 5725 Monroe avenue 
 
 Mrs. Charles Davis Fifty-ninth -street and Rosalie court 
 
 Mrs. John Dewey 6036 Jefferson avenue 
 
 Mrs. Henry Herbert Donaldson 5740 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Miss Gertrude Dudley Kelly Hall 
 
 E 
 Mrs. George Eckels 5535 Woodlawn avenue
 
 38 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 F 
 
 Miss Elizabeth Faulkner 98 Oakwood avenue 
 
 Mrs. George E. Fellows 5336 Ellis avenue 
 
 Mrs. N. M. Fenneman 344 East Fifty-seventh street 
 
 Mrs. Horace Spencer Fiske 344 East Fifty-seventh street 
 
 Mrs. George B. Foster 5535 Lexington avenue 
 
 G 
 
 Mrs. John J. Glessner 1800 Prairie avenue 
 
 Mrs. George S. Goodspeed 5537 Lexington avenue 
 
 Miss Eva B. Graves 4526 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 H 
 
 Mrs. William Gardner Hale 5757 Lexington avenue 
 
 Mrs. William Rainey Harper. . .Fifty-ninth street and 
 
 Lexington avenue 
 
 Mrs. Henry Rand Hatfield 6024 Ellis avenue 
 
 Mrs. Charles R. Henderson 5736 Washington avenue 
 
 Mrs. George Lincoln Hendrickson . . 5515 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. John C. Hessler 5756 Madison avenue 
 
 Mrs. William Hill 5728 Madison avenue 
 
 Mrs. Glenn M. Hobbs 6045 Jefferson avenue 
 
 Mrs. George E. Howland 4605 Drexel boulevard 
 
 Mrs. C. L. Hunter 5753 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. E. B. Hutchinson 5708 Monroe avenue 
 
 J 
 
 Mrs. Edmund J. James The University 
 
 Mrs. Franklin Johnson 222 East Fifty-third street 
 
 Mrs. Frank Asbury Johnson 5817 Monroe avenue 
 
 Mrs. Edwin Oakes Jordan 5720 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. Harry Pratt Judson 5828 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 K 
 
 Mrs. Paul O. Kern 5475 Ellis avenue 
 
 Mrs. S. H. Kirchberger 3624 Grand boulevard 
 
 Mrs. Clara von Klenze 5338 Washington avenue
 
 The University of Chicago Settlement 39 
 
 L 
 
 Mrs. James Laurence Laughlin 5747 Lexington avenue 
 
 Mrs. Kurt Laves 5558 Drexel avenue 
 
 Mrs. Jacques-Loeb 5754 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. Robert Morss Lovett 546l Cornell avenue 
 
 Mrs. E. P. Lyon 6153 Ellis avenue 
 
 M 
 
 Miss Mary E. McDowell 4638 Ashland avenue 
 
 Mrs. William D. MacClintock 5629 Lexington avenue 
 
 Mrs. Charles Riborg Mann 544 2 Ridgewood court 
 
 Mrs. John S. Marshall 48 Groveland park 
 
 Mrs. Heinrich Maschke 5810 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. Shailer Mathews S73& Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. Adolph C. Miller The University 
 
 Mrs. Frank J. Miller 357 East Fifty-eighth street 
 
 Mrs. Newman Miller 5803 Madison avenue 
 
 Mrs. Charles F. Millspaugh 5748 Madison avenue 
 
 Mrs. Clifford Mitchell 6030 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. John W. Moncrief '." 5717 Monroe avenue 
 
 Mrs. F. H. Montgomery 5548 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. Addison W. Moore 5827 Kimbark avenue 
 
 Mrs. Eliakim Hastings Moore 5538 Washington avenue 
 
 Mrs. Richard Green Moulton Hotel Windermere 
 
 N 
 
 Mrs. Theodore L. Neff .5827 Kimbark avenue 
 
 Mrs. George W. Northrup, Jr 5835 Kimbark avenue 
 
 O 
 Mrs. William B. Owen The University 
 
 P 
 
 Mrs. J. C. Parsons 5714 Madison avenue 
 
 Miss Susan Wade Peabody Kelly Hall 
 
 R 
 
 Mrs. Joseph A. Raycroft 6109 Greenwood avenue 
 
 Mrs. W. D. Rice 6345 Ingleside avenue 
 
 Miss Luanna Robertson Kelly Hall
 
 40 The University of Chicago Settlement 
 
 S 
 
 Mrs. Francis W. Shepardson 5515 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. Paul Shorey 5516 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. G. C. Sikes 215 Jackson Park terrace 
 
 Mrs. Herbert E. Slaught 5535 Madison avenue 
 
 Mrs. Albion Woodbury Small 5731 Washington avenue 
 
 Mrs. Charles Porter Small 5727 Madison avenue 
 
 Mrs. Edwin Erie Sparks 57*6 Washington avenue 
 
 Mrs. W. R. Stirling 1616 Prairie avenue 
 
 T 
 
 Miss Marion Talbot Green Hall 
 
 Mrs. Benjamin S. Terry 5525 Monroe avenue 
 
 Mrs. James Westfall Thompson .... 5747 Washington avenue 
 
 Mrs. Albert H. Tolman 5750 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Miss Trirmfiingham 5237 Cornell avenue 
 
 Mrs. J. G. Carter Troop 228 East Fifty third street 
 
 Mrs. James H. Tufts 5549 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Miss Ruth Tunnicliff 394 Marshfield avenue 
 
 V 
 
 Mrs. George Edgar Vincent 5737 Lexington avenue 
 
 Mrs. Clyde W. Votaw 437 East Sixty-first street 
 
 W 
 
 Mrs. S. A. Walton 5737 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. F. A. Wells 6704 Stewart avenue 
 
 Mrs. Wardner Williams 5822 Drexel avenue 
 
 Y 
 
 Mrs. J. W. A. Young , 5758 Washington avenue 
 
 Z 
 
 Mrs. Charles Zueblin 6052 Kimbark avenue 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 Mrs. Joseph Bond 2733 Michigan avenue 
 
 Mrs. Orville T. Bright 6515 Harvard avenue 
 
 Mrs. R. R. Donnelley 4609 Woodlawn avenue 
 
 Mrs. J. G. Levy 5477 Ellis avenue 
 
 Mrs. O. W. Norton 4815 Lake avenue 
 
 Miss Schoenmann 6028 Kimbark avenue 
 
 Mrs. John E. Woodhead 5016 Ellis avenue 
 
 Mrs. John E. Zueblin 6052 Kimbark avenue
 
 MADE IN U.S.
 
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