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Although nominally a gala occasion, the business of Hull-House continued uninterrupted. Before an audience of social-workers and socialites in Bowen Hall, Mary E. McDowell, director of the University of Chicago Settlement, was telling of old days at Hull-House, showering the founder with graceful praise which was received with terse, straight-faced nods of the head...
...settlement's 41 years, matronly, active Miss Addams is too busy to say much. The idea of taking care of a great city's poor came to her in 1883 when she watched an auctioneer in London's East Side selling a consignment of badly spoiled meat. She and her longtime friend, Julia C. Lathrop, went back to Chicago a few years later and started their charitarian operations in the home of one Charles J. Hull, at Halsted near Polk Street. It was a lively neighborhood. On one side stood a mortuary, on the other a saloon...
Married. Waddill Catchings, president of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Manhattan investment brokers; to Mrs. May Francis; in Reno, Nev.; 24 hours after being divorced by Mrs. Helen Werner Catchings. Mr. Catchings established Nevada residence; Mrs. Catchings sued. Reputed settlement (out of court): $1,000,000 cash, $50,000 a year alimony, $100,000 a year for maintenance of three minor children...
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Evelyn Marshall Field, Manhattan socialite, from Marshall Field, Ill, grandson of the late Chicago department-store tycoon; at Reno, Nev. A settlement out of court gives Mrs. Field a $3,000,000 town house in Manhattan, more than $1,000,000 a year alimony, custody of the three children: Marshall IV, 14; Barbara, 11; Bernice...
...purchase of a Ford station car for use of members of the society was also discussed at last night's meeting. The machine has been deemed necessary as a means of getting the workers to the settlement houses, and as a convenient way of taking confined children to the country. The project was recommended to the Cabinet by the Graduate Committee, but no definite action has been taken...