Show settlement settlement ett lement house observes golden jubilee uhl lee of of fountin founder Rent remains As lone director for 50 year span to the people of cleveland ohio hiram house is with good citizenship for the past 50 years hiram house and its founder george A bellamy have labor labored ed to build for cleveland the finest kind of citizens possible now the institution which Is supported by the community chest Is celebrating the anniversary of its founding this year also marks the golden anniversary of Bell amys connection with the institution ile he has the distinction of being not only the founder but also the first and only director Bell amys philos philosophy oili was developed in the backwoods of michigan where he was born in bringing his ideas and ideals to one of the coun arys larger cities he became the first of his family to pioneer in a large community all previous moves by his family had been back to the land founded in 1806 1896 Clev elands first settlement ho house use founded as such grew out of a cliance chance remark made in 1808 1890 jn n a hiram college classroom south end house was under discussion and someone said why not a hiram house for cleveland that someone was george bellamy A few months after his graduation lie he went to cleveland and 4 S 4 XV 1 I 11 INA A DAYS DA TS ir A game of checkers cheel cers provides diversion I 1 f for yoking fry at hiram house Clev elands settlement house tho th 7 program all play however opened his first settlement settle menti house at orange street the first few months were hectic there was very little money the first furniture furni and for a time the only furniture was a baby crib and table loaned by a neighbor the purchase of a quarters worth of soap brought hat half a dozen metal spoons as ai a premium within a few months the landlord gave notice to vacate because too many young people were com coin las ing to the house and he feared for its foundations the struggling little settlement house was moved to io another orange street location where it operated for or two years by 1899 1809 there was enough money to start building a new structure the move to the new quarters at 2723 orange avenue was made irk in 1800 1900 teaches americanism men women and children came to hiram house in droves from its arx w 1 1 4 A 6 M oak I 1 44 GOOD CITIZEN N just out of college george bellamy founded house in 1890 1896 for half a century he has remained as the first and only director of the in ution known for its promotion of good citizenship in cleveland first day of operation they came to learn how to be good americans for or help in burying their dead mar crying the living and co the wayward gradually hiram house began to build a reputation as a model settlement house its founder and director a man with extraordinary vision foreign countries began to send their representatives to the cleveland settlement to study its program more Mor ethan than scientists interested te themselves in bellamy Bell amys Is seven point program for the growth and development of the child when in 1900 hiram house opened progress city a model community with its own boy judges V 11 I 1 1 5 nf q Z for or children also are taught the rudiments rad indents of sewing giving and other household arts As j 8 summer time birne comes the sewing basket is discarded when policemen engine engineers drs and mayor various cities studied its program with the thought of incorporating its best ideas in their own planning two representatives of the pr president aident of czechoslovakia later lived at hiram house for months studying g progress city Allt A little tle model cot cottage tago was built on the sand dunes of cairo egypt pat berned after the model cottage at hiram house japan 20 years ag ago of studied hiram house with the view oi of copying its is best points hiram house and george bellamy have chalked up many 11 firsts in their 50 y year ear association it was the first settlement in the world having a year round lighted playground with trained workers this settlement inaugurated summer camping for healthy children who had never seen a woods or a farm animal it had among the first cooking sewing and anan manual ual training classes in cleveland stud studies les made by hiram house workers resulted in public bath houses for the city and improved standards for or its public dance halls aids other projects bellamy has become famous for his association with move movements ments designed to make cleveland a better place in which to live ile he was one of the original committee which organized the babies dispensary a and nd hospital I 1 he helped organize the juvenile court the legal aid society citizens bureau and cleveland community chest tile the first community fund in the world and since adopted by more than american cities because of the early help he be received from them bellamy always has cherished a deep at affection for country people and small town churches in his struggling early years at allram louse house it was the little churches chui chea surrounding cleveland whose pennies nickels and dimes helped keep the city settlement houses going the people in the small towns near his bis camp for well children at chagrin falls gave him his original opportunity port unity to introduce poor boys and girls from the cites streets to the joys of country living when hiram house was opened in 1800 1896 Clev elands population was 1 today the city boasts a population of a million persons among that ilat million are many thousands whose lives were influenced during their early years by contact with hiram house these include some of Clev elands outstanding business and professional men more than thai persons in all have been associated with hiram house clubs and classes during the settlements hall half century many of these persons made scores of visits to the house annual registration running as high as to A the date arrives for the iet annual summer camp at ChaTin Falls here boys and girls joyfully joy lully bid farewell to co horts leav irig in the first bus |