The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-11


 actual experience in places where 1t has been adopted and enforced confirms the justice of the expectations enter tained in advance. 1t would appear to be a safe inference that it is an efficient means of preventing conditions of the prevalence of which most of us are sadly conscious, and to the mischief of which the criminal courts and the newspapers constantly given poignant testimony.
 New Haven is not the first of east ern cities to give attention to this west ern reformatory device. During the last summer three cities in Massachu- setts have adopted it, Cambridge, first, on July 27 and since then Chelsea and Waltham. Recently, after the ordi- nance had been enforced in Cambridge for two months, one of the city news papers testified in ardent language to the benefcence of it's operation, say ing that it had been easily carried into effect and had produced excellent re- suits. The Cambridge ordinance is shorter and simpler in its terms than the form which is recommended by Colonel Hogeland, probably because the ends the western ordinances have in view are already provided for In Massachusetts by other means. This Cambridge ordinance is as follows
 Section No child under sixteen years of age shall be, loiter or remain upon any street, highway, park or other public way or place in this city after the hour of 9:30 o'clock in the af- ternoon of any day, unless accompan- jed by, or under the control or care of a parent, guardian or other adult person, or performing or returning from em- ployment or from the performance of some duty, directed in writing by said parent, guardian or other adult person, and no such child, while performing such duty, or returning from the per formance thereof or from employment, shall loiter upon any such street, high way or other public way or place.
 Section 2-Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $5 for each offense.
 The western ordinances apply to children under fifteen years of age, the Cambridge ordinance to children under sixteen, The western ordinances make the curfew hour o'clock: the Cam bridge ordinance fixes it at 9:30. In 1 Massachusetts cities where public in- dustrial schools are established all un- der sixteen are of school age. In cities where there are night schools, boys clubs, and other opportunities of edu- cation or innocent recreation under proper supervision, it is not unreason- able to allow a half hour after the time of closing for children to return to their homes.
 As the practical conclusion of their investigation your committee makes one suggestion and one recommenda- | tion.
 The suggestion is, that, inasmuch as | the proper enforcement, if not the adoption, of such an ordinance will de- pend upon the support of public opin- | ion, steps be taken by this club to broaden the basis of any request or pe- | tition for action by the city council or by the legislature by securing the CO., 1 operation of other bodies of Christians and organizations of citizens. All the forces in the community that favor public order and morality may well be rallied and massed in such cause, no matter to what religious, political or social class they may belong.
 1 The recommendation Is that this sub- ject be referred to a special and larger committee for further investigation, not only of the merits of such an ordi- nance per SC, but of the proper form 1 if should have with respect to any pe- culiar conditions in this community, and the proper course to be pursued in bringing it before the city government, or, if need be, before the state iegisla- | ture. There are questions Clvolved which, in order that effort may not be | injurious and wasted, should have the consideration of men of legal knowl- edge and of wisdom in the conduct of public measures to successful accom- plishment
 Walter Allen, l Charles Ray Palmer,
 Cullen B. Foote.
 Henry G. Newton moved that further investigation and the work of bringing the ordinance before the consideration of New Haven be placed in the hands of the outlook committee with power to add to their number as they desire.
 This produced some discussion, but | the club passed the motion Rev. |