THERE HAVE NOW been a hundred years at HulbHouse, a hundred years since the day, September 18, 1889, when Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr, fashionable young ladies fresh from a cultural tour of Europe, moved into a dilapidated mansion in the heart of Chicago's slums determined to be "good neighbors." The repercussions of that simple act spread from the neighborhood around Halsted and Harrison to take in the city of Chicago, then the United States, and ultimately the world, and they are still being felt. By 1910, the HulbHouse settlement had attracted the largest collection of social reformers in American history, women and men of various persuasions united in the belief that America had paid too heavy a price in human suffering for its astonishing industrial growth and that the time had come to put matters right. The HulbHouse reformers were not responsible, of course, for all turnobthe'Century reforms—the abolition of child la^ bor, the regulation of working hours and conditions lor women, em forcement of safe working conditions, reforms of juvenile law, and a