The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-12
ERrE MEDITERRANEAN.

Interesting Reports by Miss LiVermore
 and Mrs. COgsweI.
 The annual meeting of the Elm City Tree Kindergarten association held this week was of more than usual interest, 1t is not generally known that a kinder garten and normal training school are conducted on Oak street, where l25 of the poorest children of the city have during the past year received very best of instruction. These are for the most part children whose home training is either entirely neglected or is of such a character as to start them in the wrong way of life. It is a difficult mat ter to straighten a crooked man up, but it is comparatively easy to start him so that he will stay straight if he is taken in hand soon enough. The free kinder garten movement is for the purpose of giving these neglected children the same chance in life, so far as Is possi- ble, as those born into a more favored condition. 1t is believed that this sys- tenn, successfully carried out, will re- suit in good citizenship for this part of the coming generation, instead of the usual quota of loafers and jailbirds.
 Believing that this subject will prove ot deep interest we give the address of the president, Hon, Henry F. Peck, also those of the corresponding secretary. Miss M. c. Livermore. and Mrs. F. H. Cogswell of the visiting committee.
 EX-NIAYOR PICKS ADDRESS,
 The question is often asked why there r,r0;yK ton. in our city. Why not reduce the num- ber and concentrate our efforts on such as claim our greatest attention, and drop out the lesser? But who shall say which is the lesser? What right has your organization to live? Do not our public schools include kindergarten work? Yes but we take those children who are not old enough and those who are old enough, yet not found in the Iublic schools but are on the streets because the public schools cannot ac- commodate all of school age. Then this organization does a large omunt of mission work in families of those whose children attend these schools.
 The citizens of San Francisco, where more has been done in this line than Ill ally CIly III IllG ulllOIls lOOh UpclA ttlV work as a question of political economy. Does it not cost less to mould the mind of the child in kindergartens, training them to become useful citizens than to build reformatories, jails and aims houses to receive them because of a lack of the training in childhood?
 In recent paper prepared by c. L. Brace and read before the Children's S Aid association of New York he said: ''The sociological problems of New York are especially complex by reason of the ignorance and helplessness of the great numbers of immigrants from Europe who throhg into certain quar- ters of the city. Each ward pre- sents different problems, and as the number of these people increases the struggle of life becomes more intense. The breaking of the home ties with the mother country has bad moral effect. They find the police iess strict, the wealth about them far greater and the boys are learning that it is possi- ble to live by their wits. The public schools do not meet this problem. It is not grammar schools with aristo- cratic courses of study turning out boys and girls fitted for nothing but shop clerks that we most need; it is the Kindergarten and the primary school, with good play grounds around them, that we must have at frequent intervals in the tenement districts with bodies of intelligent trustees who are interested in the individual children, and after this is done we should have I 1Je, e., aIl T girls MT. Brace declared that tene- ment house life under proper condi- tions Is not in itself necessarily degrad- ing. If the regula tions of the board of health are energetically enforced with sufficient schools where the children will receive painstaking attention, with reading rooms and libraries in school basements for the people in winter and parks for recreation in summer, with play grounds at every school which the children may use the year round under proper supervision, and with the kindly influence of the churches and benevolent societies as at present, the people of the tenementS will work out thir own redemption, drunkenness de- bauchery and vice are diminishing the iISNtAS honest and virtuous, and all they need is chance to rise"
 One of the active ladies If this as- sociation prepared paper to be brought before the chamber of commerce, but it being near the time of the discontin- uance of the meetings preceding the summer vacation it was not presented. l take the liberty of reading it here
 Referring to the annual report of the president of the .. of c. of the city Of New Haven for 1893, the honorable pres ident of that body draws the attention of it's members to the beautiful natural environments of the city, points with pride to the educational advantages. the various manufacturing interests, and the several charitable institutions, and concludes with begging that all endeavor to make New Haven homes as famous as possible and that all stand by the town.
 In December 1893, New Haven added
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