New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25
NEW ETNDERGARTEN VENT RE.
THE DOWNTOWN METRIC DIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCHES WILL RE UTILIZED ON
RTHATF OF THE CHILDREN


TIE church Extension Missionary Society will
start new kindergarten scheme this season. and
one that probably will Se pregnant with more
notable results than Il has hitherto under
taken II deals chiefly with the abandoned down
town churches which belong 10 the society. and II
is proposed 10 establish sort OF ring OF KINDER
sartens.
The matter was brought into some shape NJ an
informal meeting week ago. at the ONCE Of the
secretary Or Frank Mason North. AZ No $50
Ffth-ave Dr North. several other ministers
and Mrs T. Adams Cutten. principal ~ the Froebe
Normal Institute Of the Metropolitan Church. NJ
Fourteenth-st. and Seventh ave. being the plan
Two Methodist Episcopal churches. one the Peo
pies Home Church. AT Eleventh-st. and Avenue Il.
and the other the Cornell Memorial. on Seventy
sixth-st between Second and Third ayes. were
declared ready for organization. and given over
into the hands OF Mrs cutten. who Will probably
make them a training neld for her Normal girls
who will teach gratis
Several Of Mrs Cutten's graduates Of last June
are doing credit 10 the church's institute. the
Misses Christie and Weaver being about to take
charge Of the kindergarten TO be opened In
the Peoples Church Of East sixty-nrst-st., on
October B.
Located In the midst OF overpopulated quar-
tor where the children live the street and
speak an alien language and follow alien customs
the kndergartens VIII on larger and more sys-
tematic scale begin the Americanizng work earlier
IN life than does the average college settlement.
said ~ the workers yesterday.
TWENTY CHURCHES INTERESTED.
DR. North states that there are twenty churches
In the society and efforts being made 10 in
the number. Some OF the churches are
suburban ones and amply able to look after the
philanthropc work Of their parish. But the
majority are downtown churches. without perma-
ncnt congregations. and these the society has con-
tinually on It's hands Dr. North says that be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 spent In this work last
year. Several OF the churches had kindergartens
already but they were not successful. and much Is
hoped from the hands In which they will he
placed. There Ii some talk OF following the ex-
ample OF the overcrowded public schools and hav-
Ing two kindergarten sessions day in such
lions Will furnish more children than he
accommodated In the morning.
Four kndergartens are the Immediate steps tow
ard perfect ring OF the baby schools two OF the
four being the Cornell DR. J. d. Faust pastor
which opened Wednesday. and the Peop.e's
Home Church. Dr. Fox. pastor, which opened
Monday. Probably four or i've Will be opened
little later. when the necessary funds accrue.
The Church Extension Society has the only Ita-
ian kindergarten I'm the country. 1t is attached TO
the Italian Mission at No. 301 East One hundred
and-t welfth-s st, and is I'm charge Of Mrs j. b.
Brown. who has two assistants as interpreters for
the little ones. The - hool has nifty children on
the roll. and Is welcome aid TO the poor Italian
mother who knows her baby Is being taken good
OF while she Is working for a livelihood