In 1900, Alice Willard Solenberger was given charge of the Central District of the Chicago Bureau of Charities, a territory in the South Side of the city where a large number of applicants were homeless men. Recognizing the inadequate treatment of these men, Solenberger devised a new plan of treatment, adapted largely from the methods used in the treatment and investigation of families, calling for greater care, greater skill, and greater sympathy in dealing with applicants. This book presents the methods behind the new plan of treatment.

ALICE WILLARD SOLENBERGER, Central District of the Chicago Bureau of Charities

Carrying Out the City Plan presents the practical variations in different parts of the United States in acquiring land for public purposes and the distribution of cost for public improvements. Particular focus is placed on the design and execution of such municipal improvements as parks, playgrounds, public squares, parkways, streets, the placing of public buildings and the improvement of their grounds.

FLAVEL SHURTLEFF, Boston Bar

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects

This report, published in 1908, is made up of two articles. The first explores the problem of the decreasing population in rural areas, resulting in lowered social and health conditions and making these areas unhospitable for raising children. The second is a guide for organizing and carrying out a Field Day or Play Festival in country districts.

MYRON T. SCUDDER, principal, State Normal School, New Paltz, N.Y.

This report is the result of a survey of the health and housing conditions in Ithaca, NY in February 1914.

FRANZ SCHNEIDER, JR. was sanitarian at the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.

The Newburgh survey project was undertaken by the Foundation's Department of Surveys and Exhibits in 1913 in order to learn significant facts of living conditions in the community, to make recommendations where corrective action is needed, and to acquaint the general citizenship with both facts and needs.

ZENAS L. POTTER, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

CONTRIBUTORS: Franklin Zeiger, Zenas L. Potter, Franz Schneider, Amy Woods, Frederick W. Jenkins, Margaret F. Byington, Edward F. Brown, D. O. Decker.

A survey of evening public lecture programs held at U.S. schools, carried out by the Foundation's Department of Child Hygiene in 1910.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation

A 1912 report on the results of a schools survey taken to obtain data on evening "social center" activities hosted.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A volume of the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Work Series, written in 1918.  The book is primarily a home economics study of how low-income households of the time managed money.

FLORENCE NESBITT was director of the food conservation section of the Cleveland Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense.

Paper presented in part at the Indianapolis meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Correction in May 1916.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Reports published by the foundation's Department of Recreation in 1913.

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.