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ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE DIRECTORY OF NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE ALBANY BKA.VCH Founded 1H(>(>. 1'resident, Dr. M. Schlesing-er; Secretary and Treasurer, Julius Laventall, S. Pearl and Hudson Av. Members, about 35. Income of last fiscal year, $68. Meets Sunday of Passover week. BALTIMORE BRANCH Pounded June 10, ISSN. President, Dr. A. Friedenwald; Vice- President, Rev. Dr. B. Szold; Treasurer, Dr. A. B. Arnold; Secretary, B. H. Hartogensis, 204 Courtland. Directors: Rev. Drs. A. Guttmacher, William Rosenau, S. Schaffer, ('. A. Kubeiistein, and H. W. Sehneeberger, Ilev. A. Kaiser, Dr. Jos. Blum, Dr. Harry Friedenwald, Messrs. M. S. Levy, Simon Dalsheimer, Jacob Herman, Leon Schiff, Benjamin Cohen, Silas M. Fleischer, L. Kaufman and F. Fuechsl. Members, 97. Income of last fiscal year, $20:".Nil. Meets annually on the Sunday preceding- Purim. Remitted in 1899 to the Central Committee of the Alli- ance Israelite Universelle at Paris $200; an equal sum will be remitted in 1900. In answer to a special call issued by the Baltimore Branch, $1105 were collected for the famine sufferers in Bessarabia, of which $500 were sent to Baron Giinzberg, and $605 to the Alliance Israelite Universelle. IJIVEW YOKK BRANCH President, A. S. Solomons; Treasurer, David de Meza; Secre- tary, Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes, 1 W. liltth. Members, 100. Annual income, $200 to $400. PHILADELPHIA BRANCH Founded October 11, 1868. President, Moses A. Dropsie; Treasurer, A. M. Frechie; Secretary, D. Sulzberger, :s:!<i y. 3d. Trustees: Horace A. Nathans, Tsaac P. Hunt, David Teller, Raphael Brunswick, Mayer Troutman. Abraham M. Kohn, Rev. Dr. Marcus .lastrow, Rev. Dr. H. Iliowizi, Rev. Dr. H. Berkowitz. Members, 245. In- come of last fiscal year, $600. G8 AMERICAN ^JEWISH YEAR BOOK PITTSBURO BRANCH Cremieux Society, founded 1875. Custodian and Superintend- ent, Rev. Dr. L. Mayer, 928 Western Av., Allegheny. Members, -JO to 50. Annual income, from dues and a collection, 350 to 400 francs. COLLECTIONS Collections are taken up, usually at Purim, in Chicago, Indian- apolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, St. Louis. THE AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY Organized at New York, June 7, 1892; incorporated December 19, 1898, in the District of Columbia. President, Dr. Cyrus Adler; Vice-Presidents, Hon. Simon W. Rosendale, Mendes Cohen, Prof. Chas. Gross, Hon. Simon Wolf; Treasurer, Prof. Richard Gottheil; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. Herbert Friedenwald, 915 N. 16th, Philadelphia; Recording- Sec- retary, Prof. J. H. Hollander. Executive Council: Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Dr. B. Felsenthal, Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., Hon. Mayer Sulzberger, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Prof. Morris Loeb, Max J. Kohler, Esq., John Samuel, Esq., Rev. Dr. David Philipson, Rev. Henry Cohen. Members: 5 honorary, 14 corresponding, 4 life, 200 regular. Annual income, about $1100. Organization meets usually in December. Objects: The collection, preservation and publication of mate- rial having reference to the settlement and history of the Jews on the American -continent. The meetings of the Society are devoted to the reading and discussion of papers; 8 publications have been issued; the Society owns a number of books, manu- scripts and portraits. BARON DE HIRSCH FUND1 45 Broadway, New York City. Deed of trust executed in March, 1890, by Baron Maurice de Hirsch for the benefit of Russian and Roumanian Jewish immi- grants. Capital, $3,288,000. Annual income, about $125,000. President, M. S. Isaacs, New York; Vice-President, Jacob H. Schiff, New York; Treasurer, Emanuel Lehman, New York; Sec- retary, Eugene S. Benjamin, 39 Lafayette Place, New York. 1 The account of the Baron de Hirsch Fund activities here given, though not official, is authentic. BAEON DE HIRSCH FUND 69 Trustees: Henry Riee, New York; Abraham Abraham, Brooklyn; William B. Hackenburg, Philadelphia; Mayer Sulzberger, Phila- delphia. General Agent, A. S. Solomons; Agricultural Agent, Arthur Reichow; Superintendent Agricultural School, H. L. Sabsovich. Chairman of the Philadelphia Committee, William B. Hacken- burg; Chairman of the Baltimore Committee, Dr. Aaron Frieden- wald; Chairman of the St. Louis Committee, Elias Michael; Chair- man of the Boston Committee, Jacob H. Hecht. Co-operates in other cities with existing societies when circum- stances warrant. SYNOPSIS OF THE WORK The work of the Baron de Hirsch Fund of America may be treated of under the following headings: I. Reception of immigrants. II. English education. III. Mechanical education. IV. Productive work of the Baron de Hirsch Fund in its agri- cultural and industrial department, with its leading educational feature, the Woodbine Agricultural and Industrial School. In the last two departments, the Jewish Colonization Associa- tion has latterly enabled the Baron de Hirsch Fund to carry out its program effectively, as appears from the last report of the Colonization Association. I. RECEPTION OF IMMIGRANTS.—Upon the arrival of immigrants at United States ports an agent sees to it that they reach their destinations, provided they have determined to leave the city; if not, as many as possible are sent out of town to places where employment has previously been found for them. The policy is to scatter them throughout the country, so that they will not congest in large cities. Whenever necessary, their expenses to their new homes are paid, and they are supported en route. Those who remain in New York, and need advice and assistance, are directed to the Labor Bureau of the United Hebrew Chari- ties, supported in part by the Fund, and employment is found for them when possible. If absolutely necessary, support is given to immigrants for a short time, until they are able to earn a living. Occasionally they are established in trades, and in extreme cases temporary relief is afforded to families. Not more than five per cent, of the number thus assisted has made application for additional help. II. ENGLISH EDUCATION.—Immediately upon arrival the immi- grant children are taught English in large, well-ventilated class- rooms, by college graduates, who prepare them to enter the 70 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK public schools. As they are taught according to the method employed in the public schools, and are noted for their rapid advance and exact attainments, they are welcomed with eager- ness by the principals. There are now about 400 children in the day classes. There are also evening classes, composed of 400 workingmen and women, most of whom come to their classes direct from the workshop. In some cases of students of Russian or Roumanian birth who have entered colleges, and have made creditable progress, loans are advanced to enable them to complete their studies and be graduated. III. MECHANICAL EDUCATION.—In 1890 the Baron de Hirsch Trade School was established in a building rented for the pur- pose at 225-227 East Ninth Street, in New York, wherein two classes have been graduated each year since. On January 1, 1899, through the munificence of the late Bar- oness de Hirsch-Gereuth, a new building, constructed upon the most modern principles, was opened. Two classes, the second on July 11, 1900, each of fifty-five young men, have been gradu- ated. (See BABON DE HIBSCH TKADE SCHOOL under NEW YTORK in the DlRECTOBY OF LOCAL OBGAJFIZATIONS.) The trades are carpentry, plumbing, house, sign and fresco painting-, and machine work: English is taught to those who are deficient; also drawing and the technical branch of each trade. There are two school terms a year, of five and a half months each. No pretense is made of turning out finished mechanics; sufficient is taught, however, to enable the graduates to become " helpers " in their respective vocations, and in most eases good positions are obtained immediately upon leaving the school. The graduates earn from $7 to $15 a week, and in proportion as their experience enables them to do better work, their com- pensation is increased, some of. them receiving now $22.50 a week. Each graduate is given the tools of his trade. Tuition is free. Though the school is open to any Jewish boy, preference is given to natives of Russia or Roumania. The point of view is that, essential though it be that a boy learn a trade, it is important that his earning powers be de- veloped as quickly as possible. Anything that helps to train his mind and hand, and promotes rapid progress, is desirable. On these thoroughly practical lines the school is conducted. On the other hand, the idea is constantly kept before the pupils, that when they become skilled mechanics they are entitled to the wages of skilled mechanics. Thus the Trade School, by exciting the ambition to excel in the minds of the pupils, tends to reduce the danger of close competition in other directions. BARON DE H1ESCH FUND 71 The aim of the school, then, is to reach the three following results: 1. To teach a boy as quickly as possible the fundamental prin- ciples of some trade, together with as much arithmetic and mechanical drawing' as is indispensable in a given line of work. 2. To teach him to do well what is required of the class of help whose place he is fitted by age and attainments to fill. 3. To teach him unquestioning obedience. To accomplish these results he is placed under the care of a skilled mechanic, who has no more pupils than he can faithfully teach, for five months and a half, eight hours a day, five days in the week, holidays excepted. A longer period would be more desirable, but it would entail a sacrifice of time, which would be difficult for pupils to bear, as no support whatever is allowed them by the Fund. IV. PRODUCTIVE WORK OF THTE BAEON DE HIRSCH FUND.—The Agricultural and Industrial Department of the Baron de Hirsch Fund was organized as an agency to promote the economical interests of Kusso-.Tewish immigrants: 1.