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(See The Survey, April 15, 1904 pp. 112-113. Article states that West Virginia and Pennsylvania, of all the states, did not exempt children under 16 from night work after 9 o'clock. Evils are especially great in the glass industry.)

( This collection of clippings covering the years from 1904 through 1913 gives excellent insight into the history of the campaigns for humane legislation in behalf of children employed in the backward states of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The leading issues involved were those of securing proper working hours for children sixteen and under (not to exceed eight hours a day), of obtaining sanitary and decently healthful working conditions, and for laws designed to free children in school from night work. Many of the 13,000 children employed in 1913in the glass industry trudged home at three in the morning, then struggled to keep awake during school hours. The collection contains marvelous cartoons, "Child-Exploiting-Industry," showing the fat industrialist ruthlessly sitting a-top the monied rocks, below, the children shown are being crushed under these, as they struggle to make the pile higher. There are prints of boy coal-breakers, and glass factory boys on strike. The clippings reveal the social work attitudes of the times and refer to various labor union policies. The reporters and editorial writers of the day were frequently (and delightfully) crude while defending the "poor" industrial capitalists against the "sentimental do-gooders'" persecutions. Unfortunate amendments were added to the famous Walnut Child Labor Bill, (Pa.) which would have effectively hampered its usefulness had it gone through. Mr. Walnut worked with sincere fervor, aiding the Pennsylvania's Child Labor Association and Mr. Chute to push the bill through. We are hardly prepared, however, to read in the morning press of June 28th that "Representative Walnut, sponsor of the bill fainted when announcement was made to the House that the bill was doomed." Another quotation from the press of the day in opposition to the whole campaign, adds to our respect for the sturdy persistence the pioneers in this field maintained when the very fundamentals of thinking in this field of education must have seemed abysmal. "There are doubtless a great many children employed in our factories who ought to be in school, but many of them if compelled to go to school would be wasting their time and forming habits that might ruin their lives." Description of the Clippings by Audrey S. Chute)

Leaves legacies to church for Charity school, to corporation for relief of widows and children of clergymen, and to College of Province of New York. To wife Margaret Leasehold house and land at Corlears Hook and 1/4 of estate, rest to children George and Mary. Mentions--Samuel Bayard Jr., Cadwallader Colden, James De Lancy, George Gosking, (?) Heseltene, Samuel Jones, David Judson, J. Lamarkee, Cary Ludlow, (?) Lushington, John Marston, Nathaniel Marston, Rachel Marston, George Ogilvie, Mary Ogilvie, Henry Stevens, James Townley, Thomas Tredwell, Augustus Van Cortlandt, John Wigglesworth. Includes Signatures of--George Gosking, Henry Stevens, James Townley, John Wigglesworth.

Side A: Initial experiences in acting, growing up in Ireland, early education: elocution class, family: siblings, parents' occupation, decision to become an actress, joining the Gary Olden Players, Annie Doulton Players, MacMaster Company, working with other actors: Harold Pinter, Ken Haig, Barry Foster, playing Queen of Ireland in a pageant on Tara Hill, joining the actors' union, moving to United States: job with Shakespeare Under the Stars, work with Shakespeare, love for theater, difficulty finding work, thoughts on 'career', family life: children, working with children, moving back to Ireland, moving to New Jersey, most fulfilling experiences: 'Ulysses in Nighttime' with Burgess Meredith and Zero Mostel, Sean O'Casey, Antioch Shakespeare, advice for young actors.

[Charcoal pencil and wash]. Cartoon in: The New Yorker, 20 June 1970; 15 x 13 in. NY 094. Parents/Children/Generation gap.

(1904 A. Motives of Social Reform. Critique of Socialism. Stammlet (critique) Biological Society (critique) Definition of the concept Society. Order and law. Genius. Chinene, Greeks, Persians. Definition of telos - ethical end. Analogy and induction. Education of children and adults. Giddings.)

(Concerns the issuing of employment certificates. Mr. Chute states, "There is little if any cooperation between this Bureau and any other enforcing authority and children are not kept track of in any way after obtaining certificates." )