New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-20
DAY NURSERY CONFERENCE
REPRESENTATIVES, FROM MANY CITIES
DISCUSS SOCIAL PROBLEMS

At yesterdays session of the biennial conference
of day nurseries in Assembly Hall. Charities Build
Ing, Fourth-ave. and Twenty-second-st, three
topics which have a strong bearing upon social
problems were presented and discussed. Mrs.
Arthur NJ. Dodge presided and at the morning
session. which opened 1890 she introduced first
the Rev. y. 2. W Gawey, who read paper
What Shall Be Done With Nursery Children
Over Seven Years of Age?"
The purport Of his talk to the effect that
The question more serious than the unthinking
would realize, and he considered the best solution
of the problem found in what is styled neigh
borhood work" which IS a broad extension Of the
day nursery
LAS the child passed its seventh year" he said,
ut, rule ceases be eligible for the day nur-
sery's care, and as the parents probably out
at their DAYS labor the home is locked and there
is nothing left for the child but the street. Now.
the ueighborhood work. which includes the indus
trial. domestic and club or social features. viii
provide for child after it reaches its seventh
year
Miss Laltah B. Pingree. who represented Mrs,
Quincy A. Shaws five day nurseries in Boston, was
the leader in the discussion and spoke in detail of
the work carried there and OF the boys clubs,
which she encouraged, even # they started them
under shed. Miss Plngree felt the need of plenty
Of outdoor exercise in correct child training. She
said
than stay in poorly lighted and Hl-ventilated nur
series" This was corroborated by the representa-
tive of the West Side Day Nursery, Of this city,
who said that good work was accomplished
during the hours spent in Bryant Park than in the
room IN East Twentieth-st.
DELEGATES IN ATTENDANCE
Among the delegates from other cities who gave
their experiences and methods of work Mrs.
Henry F. Starr, Newark, n. J.; Mrs. Hugh Miller,
Kansas City; Miss Grace Dana. New-BedfOrd.
Mass; Mrs. J. Harris Metcalf, Providence, r. l.;
Mrs. Edward L. Kellogg, Orange, n. J.; Mrs,
Elizabeth o. Robinson and Mrs. George A. Lyon,
Richmond, Va. Mrs. NJ. l. Barr. Allegheny Penn;
Miss Frances c. Sturgis, Boston Mass. Mrs. c. P.
Walford, Richmond. Va; Miss Winchester, New
Haven Conn. and Mrs. Charles D. Hosley, Spring
field. Mass. The New-York women present in
GUIDED:
Mr. Mr. HsnTy Mzspa95 Ms S. snsnt s sTsand
Mrs. Samuel Sloane IT. Mrs Charles II. Wesson.
Mrs. E. c. Dudley who was to have read paper
''Matrons,' too III attend
At $50 Mrs. Dodge invited the out-ot-towu dele
gates TO her home at the AlbemarIe for luncheon,
where they held informal discussion on How
best to get at the mothers" In resumtng the
afternoon session Assembly Hall a $50 o'clock,
Mrs. William G. Smaller gave a detailed account
OF the successful results Of the Tenement Kitchen
Glasses in the Household Economic Association,
and J. Eugene Whitney. of the Peoples University
Extension Society, talked of its work IN the past
two years which included a reference to the seri-
GUS conditions which prevent the husbands from
accompanying their wives ard children on outings
for recreation. He stated that Germans when they
first arrive here. will with them they have
been accustomed do in their native land, but
they drift away from the habit
America he said rs unfortunately not sup
piled with family resorts. where take
his family for a smoke and a draught of beer.
IS the custom IN Germany Our saloons
Of the most Infamous institutions in existence,
where women excluded and men victims OF
the treating habit There left for these families
nothing but the parks. and those downtown are
small. while the lower East Slider hardly knows
the location Of Central Park"
AT the business meeting which closed the
sion il voted to continue the Federation of
Day Nurseries the years and the
following officers elected: President. Mrs.
Arthur NJ. Dodge. New-York: first ViCe-president,
Mrs z. C Dudley Chicago: second vice. president,
Mrs. W ". Frazier, Philadelphia; corresponding
secretary the Rev. y. 3. CiaIlwey. New York,
recording secretary and treasurer Miss Frances c.
StuTgis, Boston.
The executive committee is:
Miss Laah B Pingree. Mrs William P Conger
Mrs. I. H Mrs c, NJ. Woodward.