The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-25

Is I'm Charge of the ChfId-Sayipc
Society of Ontario, and Is on His
way to WinnipeE-Snys the
Work in Canada Is Being Con.
Quoted Successfully, and Doe.
Much Good.
j. j. kelso. of Toronto. Ont, passed
through the city yesterday on his way
to Winnipeg, where he will appear be-
fore a legislative committee of the
Province of Manitoba and explain the
chlld saving system in vogue in the
province of Ontario
Mr.. kelso is in charge of the WORK
OF the Child Saving society Of Ontario
with headquarters at Toronto. His
work is much Of the same nature as
mat which will be soon instituted in
chicago, under the supervision of H
II. Hart, Of the state board Of cor
rections and charities, of this state.
MI. Kelso is an Englishman Of ex-
cellent appearance with a wide range
or knowledge upon the work If his
choice, which is in operation in many
states and provinces
In discussing Child Saving Work.
yesterday, he said:
wor ihe system Ssat 1 under which we are now
early in the century. and is quite similar
to the one popular in this state.
TN australia, in 1865. a large institu-
homeless children: The matter received
considerable attention, and law was made
which abolished the institution and pro-
v1ded that every child should be placed in
congenial home even If the COLONY had
to pay for their board.
excellent results have been obtained
from TINS system of placing these little
homeless ones in private families, where
they enjoy the atmosphere of home with
az the amenities which go to make child
life perfect
and in places where 1t is adopted it has
been increasingly popular. In this state,
l., understand that you have a state pub
ciety. In Ontario we have no such insti
tuition. In every case where we come across
homeless. orphaned or half-orphaned chill
dispatch es possible.
No. we have very few foreign born chill
9ren TO care for In Ontario, and the chill
dren which we receive are uniformly of
hculty In finding them suitable homes In
the entire city of Toronto we have no
Sums, tenderloin districts or tenement
that our work has been for the most part
among children who have been left with
out parents by DEATH or who have come
10 us through a combination of unfortu-
nate circumstances.
In Ontario we have no separate boards
for our institutions. the government man
ages and directs the affairs Of each by a
central board.
Il have been engaged in the chiId-say-
Ing field for ten years. but only Ave years
ago did the government appoint me az its
agent to oversee the work of the forty
children aid societies in the province.
Tho parentage of the children which
come under our supervision are principally
Irish, Scotch and English; In other words
the native element is almost dominant
THE chiidren's aid society recently or
ganized in Chicago has patterned its new
organization after our system, and sew
eral states in the United States have also
copied the idea upon which our work is
founded.
81 believe Michigan was the first state
to actively take up the child-saving work.
but since then the movement has been
very rapid and has spread over many of
the states, and several societies are In the
process of organization.
Il do not know of a single city where
the field for the chiId-saving work is as
great as in the city OF Chicago. Overrun
with it's tenement houses and slums. from
which radate all kinds of vice and crime
there Is indeed a field for work unsur-
passed anywhere in the country executing
possibly in New York.
1.-THE child-saving work of the United
States. and even the whole world, Is max
ing rapid advances, and it will only be a
short time until every city In the country
has fostered a similar work. AS a rule the
work is first started by the benevolent So
Of Nit loo