The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-19
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COLONEL HoGEnASD,s ADDRESS

COLONEL HOEELAND'S ADDRESS On "The Curfew Ordinance,' Before the
 Congregational Club, Last Night.
 The New Haven Congregational club met at the Plymouth church last even ing. An excellent supper was served in the social rooms at 6:30 D. m. by the ladies. A pleasant social hour was en- joyed until o'clock, when the regular business meeting began. Two new members were elected and resolutions endorsing the action of the Connecticut adopted. A short musical programme was given, in which the Plymouth quartet sang "The Sea Hath it's Pearls" Misses Raymond and Bat tersby sang 'The Curfew Bell.'' "The Old Stone walP' was sung by MT. Crabb.
 The address of the evening was de- livered by Colonel Alexander Hogeland of Louisville, Ky, who spoke on "The Curfew Ordinance' Colonel Hogeland has devoted the last twenty-five years of his life to the rescue of homeless boys and girls He is the president of the Boys and Girls National Home and Employment association. His work has heretofore been confined to the west, especially the Mississippi valley but he intends to devote the next month and a half to work in New Eng land. He was in Springfield yesterday and goes to Northampton tomorrow. Besides this lecture on the "Curfew Or dinance," which he gave last night, he has an illustrated talk on Twenty Years Among the Newsboys," which is said to be very interesting.
 w. M. Parsons. president of the Con- gregational club, introduced Colonel Hogeland, with a few admirably chos- en remarks.
 Colonel Hogeland said in part: I wish first of all to show you the value of the reform proposed. Many years ago the country with which we are at present being troubled, Spain, rang the curfew to prevent seditious plotting against the government. We have giv- l all boys and girls under fourteen years of age shall be at home by 8 o'clock on winter evenings and at g o'clock in summer. The prevention of crime is better than the cure. We have been laboring ever since the establishment of our government to cure crime through prisons. Instead, it has been increasing. Now I come to you with new methods I began twenty-five years ago in Louisville. For twenty five years I have been featuring and in the meantime endeavoring to find the cause of crime and to suggest a rem edy.
 One-third only of the people of this country live in cities. Of equal num- bers there were 415,00o arrests made within year in the cities, while dur ing the same time only 2500 were made in the country. This shows that we have to deal with the cities. Having discovered that churches, schools and the benevolent institutions could not accomplish the work. we decided that the state legislatures and municipal assemblies must do the work The law is to compel citizens who will not l uO SO Ol tIl6lE OWU dCCUGu tU TeSITdln their children.
 I spent ten years in trying to bring these laws before the various state leg islatures. Our law intends to prevent the impeachment of boys in the same apartment with old criminals. Anoth- CT will compel police officers to restore travelling boys to their homes. Usually they give the boys an hour to make themselves scarce. A third proposes to open intelligence offices in every coun- ty where boys and girls may go to find employment.
 The last is the curfew ordinance, which we have tested in over 400 towns and cities. The law applies as well to large cities as to small. Kansas City, Missouri, ( 8 city of 250000 inhabitants, has had it in successful operation for a number of years.
 Lincoln, Neb., was the first city to pass the ordinance. Omaha, St. Joseph Kansas City and Indianapolis soon fol- lowed. All the testimony is to the fact that crime has decreased 50 to 75 per cent. within short time after the passage of the ordinance. The state superintendent of reform schools in IN6DTdSkd Sdlu IIldJ tlle of boys from the towns in which this ordinance was in force decreased soon to nothing.
 Nothing compares to a good home There can be no substitute for it Nine ot of every 10 boys who are learn ing trades are of foreign parentage This is due to the fact that the Ameri- can boy is not restrained in his home and consequently issnot wanted by bus mess men. This law has no reflection upon the boys and girls who are obe- dient. He ended with an eloquent plea for the rescue of the boys who are left . destitute without homes or parents. At the close of the address o. A. Dor , man arose and recommended the lec- ture Twenty Years Among the News. boys'' saying that it was an excellent address and that any pastor of the city would do we'll to secure him at later date.
 The audience room was decorated l with several large United States flags The announcement that the cruiser Paris had been renamed Yale produced tremendous applause.