The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-30

from druggists. and nearly all are 70
Munyon I,505 Arch Street, Philadelphia
Pa. answered with free medical advice
fer an disease.
way paved for the establishment Of pure
kindergartens as a part Of the pubic
three public kindergartens in the city;
To-day there are t~wenty-one classes.al al
unde special supervision. TO secure pure
methods. II the State law could be al
tered TO allow children under five school
privileges. a tremendous reform could be
accomplished in the slums. especially
among the foreign population;
The work of the club in this direction
is now practically ended, as the Kinder
garten is now a substantial reality. n
students and teachers in the club have
technical lines, and the club proper is now
turning it's attention to the. establishment
of mothers clubs in the public schools, IN
the hope Of bringing the Homeland scheei
matters are thus taken directly into the
homes. A course of six lectures on the
Kindergarten will be given free TO the pub
lie this season. Eighteen months ago
every one preached hopelessness III Sc
curing public school kindergartens. To-
day our work in that direction is success
full and in the hands of the proper officials,
the Board of Education"
The Camden work was started, accord
ing to the report, a year and a half ago.
when several members of the Women.s
Club of Camden and some public and pri-
vate school teachers formed an assoefa-
ton. The association decided to expert
ment for three years. the Womenss Ilup.
Of Camden shouldering two-thirds of the
responsibility, the full amount being be-
tween five and six thousand dollars. The
public and private school teachers as
sumed the remainder. The business men
gave all the furnishing. Now, however,
the School Board furnishes room, heat,
b~lackboards and SO forth, and the work
is successful. In Salem twenty-five schol-
ars are taught in the free kindergarten,
and in Jersey City there is every prospect
for the continued success of the free kim
dergarten started there. A public meeting
will be held soon in the interest OF the
work. at which Hamilton Wright Mabie
and others have promised to speak.
Mrs. c. W. Butler, in beginning her re-
port on the Town Improvement and
Health Protective Association of New
Jersey, said.-.I cannot speak of this
work as a new departure for women,
when we have before us the statement
that in New York nearly two hundred
years ago a woman had sole charge OF
the street cleaning. According to a rec
ord dated June. Ill, the city government
Continues the widow OF Andreas DOM.
deceased, in the office of Scayenger of
Broad street. for one year, at a salary of
eleven pounds sterling l venture to say
her work gave satisfaction. Women have
engaged in no line OF work where they
have met with such encouragement and
help from ali sources as in this OF town
housekeeping From our long training
in the detail work of well regulated
homes. we have become eminentiy fitted
for finding fhs little foxes that destroy
the vines
-Our part in this work is largely sugges-
tive or cooperative. and We must first
arouse and educate public opinion. Chi
cago has the honor OF being the flrst city
in the world TO appoint women us sani-
tary inspectors, and our little state OF
work as any. Already it has a larger
number Of Health Protective and Town
Improvements associations than n other
Stale in the Union. Prominent on the
list is the Railway Town Improvement
Association, which in four months shows
a membership of la and nearly sec IN the
treasury and no indebtedness. The Vii
lage Improvement Society of lsambertyllie
the Improvement Society Of B0onton, and
the Plainfeld Town improvement Asso-
citation are each federated. and we nope
soon to welcome others. The Plainfield
and Crawford associations have aroused
the enthusiasm of any others to emulate
| Town Improvement Association. now in
its fifth year. is, l think. the Oldest or
ganization in the State. 1t has outgroWn
It's first constitution as a child does its
long clothes. and the revised constitution
proves to he a very satisfactory one for
the kind Of work necessary in a suburban
After Mrs. Butler had finished, Miss
Florence May OF Newark told Of the work
being done by the Women's Municipal AS
s~ociation Of Newark which it was an
GRAFTON. Miss May said that the ASSOC
ciation had been instrumental in having
a garbage ordinance passed, and assisted
| grounds in operation this summer al
which "a kindergarten. woman was in att
tendance for the Instruction OF the chill
dren who gathered and played on ths
Mrs. John Clifford of Princeton read a
circular letter giving a report. of the Conn
mittee. on Forestry and the Protection of
the Palisades. In it she said
THE forestry conditions of our own
state, are set forth in the various repogts.
priation has allowed this body to Prose
cate some preliminary and general inves-
LEGATIONS. Ar effort to have u State For
estry compissio appainted met with
| but the bill was vetoed by the Governor.
THE New Jersey Forestry Association
appears 10 have reached q stage Of sns-
| needed IL. Bring about necessary legisla-
| ton and progressive methods, and we
| wish to emphasize that resolutions are
| empty and Societies. may be mischieNous
unless inspired by serious and n~nf1agging
zeal. because the public is led to believe
| thar something is being done, whereas in
| reality orr minds are only confused and
ollr Knowledge vague and superficial.
I'm regard to Palisades protection the
| Joint commission appointed by New York
, already before Congress creating a Fed
erai reservation II. to be pushed 10 a defin-
the decision at The approaching session.
While awaiting the fate of this bill your
conmfttee recommends that meantime all
Should thoroughly familtarize themselves
With every aspect Of this subject"
IA After w MI, GIffo5 Mor laaa i 81 9sa t I1nYl re5
| States Military Park Commission. dis
! cussed the protection Of the Palisades. IN
connection Win ya 1ore sat9 Pc q q s " 16a