| Show WOMAN WRITES i OF PACKING TOWN Miss Mary McDowell Author of Letter Made Public 7 I by President v T FRANTICALLY CLEANING GLEAMING UP UPI Tt I f f Two Tun Commercial Ol Organization Plan to Make Operative Co e tJ oaI oa- oa lieu lion I of Stock Yards r r I Ir I tL r Chicago June 9 A A Chicago weman woman wo- wo t. man known throughout tho the entire I land ns os a settlement worker proves r. to have been time iho author of the now rf k famous letter on The Awakening o of given by President Roo Roosevelt evelt to congress yesterday ay without without with with- Io out disclosing the tho I Identity of tho time I i. j. j writer The Time President described the theauthor author lUthor of the sensational missive as asa asE E a un Chicago correspondent in whom I 4 repose perfect confidence The writer It II dev developed loped today was Miss Mary McDowell head of oC the University of Chicago settlement workers I I During recent strikes Miss McDewell McDowell Mc Mc- Ic- Ic L' L Dowell Dewell gained national fame through h F her hem work worl In behalf of or the tho wives Ives and children of ot who were wele in dire straits r f ft Written rH to to Reynolds I i admitted admitted admit admit- J. J Miss McDowell reluctantly ted she was surprised that her letter eller h had liati been made public b by the President dent as the communication was con- con red b by her ler a private and arni one ono to James B. B Reynolds a aLs I Ls personal friend fIend She excused its Us publication pub pub- publication by Mr Roosevelt on the thet t ground that an emergency had arisen ft making use of oC the time letter leller necessary I 1 had hoped to bo ho able to lo I keep ep 1 entirely out of tho the stoc stockyards ards controversy controversy con- con said ll Miss 1 McDowell 1 lI and j I I consider 11 Jl unfortunate that my letter should have ha been made madeL L public I am sorry Orl also because Its Us publication puts me In Iii an embarrassing embarrass embarrass- ing position with tho the managers of I 1 company yards ards whom I told lold I was m. m making an Investigation for my own I- I purposes and not for public use After HArtel I receiving recel m my letter leller Mr MI wrote for fOI or permission to at make use uso of it il publicly if Ir an nn emergency 1 ency arose bul but before I could answer time the request the time correspondence wasi was made I confident i public am he would not miot have taken the letter to Mr Roosevelt unless a crisis arose t. t That crisis I ta take e it it was In lii a challenge chal dial lenge of oC the time Reynolds Neill s report by R 0 Mr Wilson f la Takes es Issue 1 I suo With Hh Wilson Vilson c Miss McDowell raised an Issue of or truth with Manager Thomas 13 g. Wilson Wit Wil son son of oC Morris Co who said in Washington that the cleaning up be beIng being being be- be t ing dono done at the stockyards Is one o of the re regular annual repairs She declares de tie- dares clares that never before has there been any such awakening and redemption re- re 1 from from and immoral im- im moral conditions ond as aa i Is going on omi in the e now lOIn In justice to If- If Uw the packers rm I must r mk j s say 7 somo changes Tinni nc for fr i th tho better betler l inthe inthe in In the condition of It If th time the working people J at the yards were ere made two years a ago o. o but most of ot them have come since the time Reynolds Neill-Reynolds report was made sal said Miss lIss McDowell Armours chipped beef room t I tol told Mr Reynolds I I 1 consider a a. amodel model workroom for tor women It IL has jl lockers Jockers a a. toilet room with modern facilities s and arid a rest room In charge of or ofa a Oa a woman The Morris company coman had a good restaurant for started after afler the strike two years cars ago Since the recent agitation the Armour company compan has moved move Its sail EaU sage girls Irs to a top floor where thero there Is light and amul ventilation |
