New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-22
USED IN A GOOD CAUSE.
TRIBUNE POSTERS ILLUSTRATE TEN
PERANCE LECTURES.
HOW A coNEY ISLAND sUNDAY-scHooL SUPER
INTENDENr UTILIZED POLITICAL PICTURES
IN THE INTERESTS OF soBRIETY
AND GOOD MORALS.

AND GOOD MORALS.
Tribune posters Nos. and 2, when nave pee"
placed I'm conspicuous places all over tho CITY
have done plenty OF good work In showing inc
people at a glance. the effects OF sound money anu
nrotection ON the one side, and reputation ana
free trade on the other But that has not eN-
hausted their usefulness. and on Sunday through
the Ingenuity OF a progressive Sunday school SUI
nerintendent they were made TO do good service
in another moral cause.
The Brighton Chapel OF the Coney Island Con-
rregatlonal Church. at Neptune-ave. ana west
Fffth-st Coney Island. has opened us doors io'
the fall and winter session The superintendent
C. c. Overton, Is a firm believer IN teach'ns O"
drcn by means Of pictures. especially coiored pc'-
ures lie has arranged TO have a set or nthosraP"s
renresenting the scenes described In the various
lessons OF '"rhe Pilgrim Quarterly sent 10 ',i'
school, but none has yet arrived Tn ou"u''S WI
Over,on WAS confronted with important lesson
one Of the most important that could be taught
AT Coney Island, for 1t was on temperance anu
with no pictures to Illustrate H.
The regular teacher of the infant class H. anu
NJ Overton asked his seventeen-y ear-old daugh-
ter Florence 10 take the teachers place o"e u'
INJURED at first for there are over Sixty Sou's
sters in that infant class. but she nhany as'eeu
on condition that papa would help her out Win '"e
pictures. 49, ~ A,
rrsssed with the convincing way In whlch they
nic,ured a home OF plenty and home OF want
7, they carried such conviction "heh useu ~
the interests Of financial honesty argueu MI W.
ton they would be equally effective IN the O'u''
~ temperance So he told Miss Florence "
ahead with her preparations for teachlhs' anu
10 would attend TO the pictorial end. He then
ob,a,ned comics OF the two posters cut OFT the e'-
,arine and on Saturday presented them 10 MS
daugbter He wanted TO up to tho infant
class and see how the experiment. worheu' ou'
Miss Florence told him that her pla'io''" p
,nitted no government interference IN locdi "i"',
and that he must stay down stairs with inc o''''
scholars. 10, ,bosa
masters were too good thing 10 be cohnieu u
on infant class and laid his plans accoru'''s's'
rIa ,,,ited the pastor the Rev. w r. Si1lech' u
80 - tho sunday-school prepared 10 speaA oi'
~ tonic which rosts need airing at Cohey l'i""u'
ord Mr. suleck came. Upstairs MISS FLORENCE ~
engaged I'm depicting the evis Oh '".e'P .
"a her Young charges. with frequent reference
rho home OF the prosperous "o'A'"e T.,
,,r.ed IN Poster No. l, and the nome Vi NC "
temperate workinsinah' ~ pm
casion only-n No 2. .uso.
nj ,os,roa OBJECT was produced The ch''u'ei
,.ara nrofoundv impressed. and wneh MES
d,srnissed the class for the day II was i, nc ;.
scfousness that she-and the posters
success. - had gone he
When Mr. Overton knew that she nau e.. y,
-..odd % carry out his scheme. he marcneu
,ba school and MI Silleck up 10 the Ia a's ~
room and. bidding them gather arounu ''o ,rha
he delivered a stirring temperance TEE crowded
children were deeply INTERESTED. IN with won
erornd the pictures and stareo ~ h,,, aa IN
Scin1 eves while Mr.. Sieck IN snoi 49, o on the
usi1-s Tointed out what lay before thyit "a A.
address, trodden every day at Coney Island a
pa insa ., his address seeing the enc. ~
~ he asked every child Wh0 ~, "a h
ni5ga himself or herself against treain -. & 60
10 raise a hand. and every chiu IA NJ Overton felt
- Tribune posters IN addition 10 'e - a.
Syork for sound money. had sIruch tii1. '
cst,.a hlow for temperance ana HoraIIsi ba "a ia
- sbould have felt much disappo;;hVeH nraach-
yesterday III such an occasloH a., ~ without a
H., a temnerance lesson had gone py W Sorsv
It ~ 20 -, bring X home by pictures lot o,,h
1sIand children need all the preachls olanIy nd
@ ~ ~ ~. can get ] investigated recehtIS' %
Sornd that one-third OF the chhdren ~ shons
80 ,ne S,nday-scnool 90 nome 10 rum ~,
I.dr" surroundings il Is hard TO bring up cniuter
r,h. nm strange 10 say, the parentS, tn IN
ii7mor-deslers or not are anxious 10 Hd'. I'm 90.
IT,, ,9upht religion and temperance any 80 ~,
oner,e with us in every way 10 nav ". ,,a "a
lon, from drink II Is an uphlI nsre .. 1sIo,d Z,
-, 90 cod in and in such place as OoneS o.,
49, 5ard ~ crow up into good men ana women, is
,.ber COney Island child does loIloM d - hos
~, rows no into better man IMAM many -, ii,no
~ 80 tnoUn nothing but gOod all '1fli w.
III a. 10 negative morality, for ne mas nau -
ms - ~ ',7c si,rroundings from childhood ana
Ia ,,oraii,v has been tried by nre. anu cdhlIOt oS
dostroved one OF the best Christldh "oiIct. a.
'.t',o5 r.orkcrs | know is the daughter OF NoileS
r.iard saloonkeeper who gre" up ann. ano 80
rolndinEs So whatever can 40 ~ iad beIieve
children toward good | want 70 40 ahi &c "
.iii'N sank deep IN tnelr nedfAS.