New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-27
FREE KrypERGARTENS IN BROOKLYN
FOURTH REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATION NJ" i''
CoRPoRATED AS THE FREE KINDER
GARTEN SOCIETY

GARTEN sOIibii'
The fourth annual report OF the broohiSn ffee
kindergarten Association has just been ostrioueu'
covering the work OF the association LOT the year
ending June 1895 One OF the features OF tne report
is the first public announcement OF the hhahciaI
result OF the loan exhibition given at the Pouch
Gallery last spring by the Rembrandt CluD TOT the
benefit OF the association. The exhibition was
opened on April 20. and lasted for five days Inc
statement OF the committee having II IN charge VI
which Mrs. Ellen T. Brockway was the chairnan'
shows that the total receipts were $3.50 80 and the
expenditures 1856 S. leaving balance to the credit
OF the association OF sl.22i 70.
The directory OF the association shows that there
twelve kindergartens under its care last year
but all OF them entirely supported Dy IL
One or two OF these have since been abandoned Out
the work OF the association has been enlarged by
the establishment OF two new kindergartens Ohe
OF these is In the York Street Methodist Episcopal
Church and is designated the Hoagland kinder
garten in honor OF DR.. Hoagland, who furnishes
the money to support II. The second Is at Fourth
and Butler-st. II has not yet received specia
A third new kindergarten is about to come
under the direction OF the association. whose aim Is
to raise the standard OF all those which II ex-
ercses full control and make them. II possible
ideal kindergartens Something in that direction
has already been done this year In providing regu-
lar paid assistants cooperate with the directors
in caring for the children and conducting the games
and exercises.
The report contains in full the admirable address
by Miss Caroline b. lie Row The Real Meaning
OF the Kindergarten" which delivered at
meeting held In the interest OF the association at
the Polytechnic Institute January a. 1895. This
paper deserves to be widely read, as II Is calculated
10 dlspel popular ignorance regarding the kinder
garten which Still exists to a deplorable extent
Miss lie Row Is the secretary OF the association,
and her summary OF the years work presented at
the annual meeting last May is also included IN the
report 1t contains accounts OF the meeting IN jan
uary. already referred to- and OF the specially In
terestng meeting held In May, 1894. In Memorial
Hall
An interesting note is that on account OF an
article appealing for financial aid for the associa-
tion printed in Eleanor Kinks Idea last Decem-
Der. two contributions were made to the assoca-
ton: one in a letter dated Philadelphia and contain
ing % cents in stamps. with these words: Please
accept this mite toward your noble work" and the
other a gift OF 800 from some one who gave no
name but wrote merely. "A Friend TO the Chill
dren"
The yearly report OF the Socum Memorial Kin
dergarten one OF the most interesting enterprises
OF the association. is given in FULL It was written
by the director OF the kindergarten, MISS Margaret
There is also given the text OF memorial pre-
Pabd Esueson apponted BY Mayor
urging the Importance OF introducing the kinder
garten into the public schools and suggesting the
best method in which this could be accomplished
The memorial was prepared by committee CON
sisting of Frank L. Babbott. Charles y. Chadwick
and Miss lie Row. This document has never before
been printed but Il will be remembered that the
Advisory Educational Committee approved the pan
OF establishing kindergartens in the public schools
practicable, Substantially on the plan
recommended in the memorial.
Miss lie Rows report further mentioned that
plan was under way incorporate the association:
This perfected last week and the certificate OF
incorporation fled on THURSDAY lac incorPora'eit
being found advisable TO discard the name assoca-
ton because there is already in Brooklyn an in
corporated institution called the Brooklyn Kinder
garten and High School Association, wnich IS the
legal OF the corporation controlling the Free,
bel Academy, well-known school IN the hiI
region. "a, . go,
.hc annual subscribers number about three hun
smaller than the needs OF the work demand. ana
those interested are greatly .esrous OF increasing
the number OF annual subscribers and the regular
income OF the association. The annual membership
fee is only 50, but gifts OF larger sums VIII be ac-
The officers OF the association follows
President Frank L. Babbott; first vice-president.
W. Maxwell; treasurer, Frederic B. Pratt; secre-
tary Miss Caroline B. lie Row; assistant secretary
Professor George NJ Whether; po,r,er chair
man; Mrs Albert II. Br Ekway, Professor Walter
B. Gunnison Mrs. Charles II. Shepard, Miss Alice
General Commit;ee-Charles y. Chadwick. chair
man; Dr. J. Coleman Adams. Mrs. Frank l.. Bah
Harris Mrs Otto Heinze. Mrs. ". 3. Kendall Mrs
Allan McNaughton. Mrs. Frederic 3. Pratt. Mrs. T.
: sampson. Mrs. J. s stanton Mrs. Lyman Abb
Esther 5. Hunter. Mrs. F B. Marsh, Miss Hannah
Sharpe. H. W. Wheeler. Mrs. II. o. Wood. James
Hyde Young. $50 - -
man; Or. William II. Maxwell Mrs. John s. Nc
Kay Miss Mary Sharpe, Mrs. William F. Wamsley
Auditing Committee-Hayden W. Wheeler James
Hyde Young.