New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-28
A BELIEVER IN BOYS.
MRS ESTHER HERMAN ADDRESSES
THE YOUTHS OF TEMPLE EMANUEL.
PLAN OF THE GILL SCHOOL CITY EXPLAINED

PLAN OF THE GILL SCHOOL CITY EXPLAINED
THE MOVEMENT ABOLISHED IN MIL
wAUKEE MAY BE REINsTATED.
At a meeting of the School Board in Milwaukee
last week It was decided to abolish the GIL School
City system, although seven hundred families were
In favor OF its continuance These did not. how
ever declare their preference for the plan uHtl II
had been ruled out. Tine matter Is TO be brought
up at the meeting OF the Board of Education this
week. when it Is hoped another decision Will be
arrived at
In New-York this movement has proved most
successful as was newly demonstrated at meet
ing last week OF boys belonging to the GIL School
city Mrs. Esther Herman gave them an address
at the Temple Emanuel.
Mrs Herrman's phanthropic work throughout
the city has endeared her to all who have come
under her influence. The boys greeted her with
delighted enthusiasm. After few Introductory
words she sad
There are three words wish you would write I'VE
down and never never forget. Pin them up on the
out They are Industry honesty and kindness kin
These three words hold the qualities that VIII aSe
You are here to grow up in a glorious: county:
where man that sets his foot on tae where
poorest and the humbest has his chance WIN tns s
Choose to make it So One writer has said very
truly that the world is locking hiss own own face
II You frown at it 1t will in turn. look sour upon
YOU laugh At IT, and is o5 O and K the one who
strongest TO resist ,nat which S saw that You
must T not cS Set into habit of living for yourself
alone Forget yourself. .. 60 nrac-
tisc Kindness Speak kindly cultivate regard lg lDr
the opinions Of others, and never iet .ae ton ~
loye and the doing Of kind deeds is all the proof
there is OF love- Be kind TO animals ana meyer yonp
needless pain to anything that has lie. ru. SGa
fellows always have a smile and an encouraging
word. j.. .,, 70 Won
When you little boy every time you ta AL aVw c,
YOU get up again don't VOW M Si be- arm on your
feet So, IN your moral life and in business II you
fan that need no, be the end get up and Try 10 10
There is man in NewYork who keeps saying SAYING
to be Industrious unless we give them something , 70
be Industrious with and show them now 20 De IN
way for exercising their honesty all the time and
constantly show them how and help them 10 De
of constantly encouraging them to be kind ne mas
been doing this for so many years That that at last We
lie that for THOUSANDS sN. Of Years 1o Sna
have n been hut teng o0Ss o 5e o os
wandering over the country tens Of thousands S Of
are e bad enough 10 be- there Most likely every one
OF these thousands OF bad men has been told wnen
the matter with them? This man keeps, saying
that nothing is the matter with them NJ Ihey ARE are
%ere boys and II we don't want tramps criminals
and contemplate men deal with in business we
must stop manufacturing boys into bad men.
Now, most persons who talk that way do nothing 3th
about It but talk. try TO find ways for Furnishing
the bad men or for trying to get them TO be good:
but this man that have been telling you about
was not contented until he found way to give the
boys and girls constant exercise in honesty and
kindness. and in which good men and women who
are their teachers can easily guide them into lives
OF industry honesty and kindness. He called his
way the School City and some Of us insisted on
calling II the "Gill School City"
Mrs. Herman described the workings of the Gill
plan. beginning with Its starting In Norfolk-st.,
where of the boys she talking to
pupils. She closed by telling the children to ask
their teachers permission have a school city Of
their own, where the habits of industry needful
10 acquire would be practlsed.