The age-herald., 1900-11-25
IN THE INTEREST
 D OF LITTLE TOTS
Noble Women of Kindergarten
 Association at Work
THEY ASK A MERE PlTTANCE
Petition Board of Mayor and Aldermen to Enlarge Plans of West End Park Building So as to Suit Their
 Purposes-A Good Idea.

The following petition was presented at the last regular meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen:
 Birmingham, Ala. Nov. 13, 190O To the Honorable Mayor and Board of AL dermen of Birmngham:
 Having learned that your committee in charge of West End Park has in contempla- tion the erection of a building which will be useful to the citizens a bandstand and shelter for women and children against rain and sun, the Kindergarten Association hereby earnestly petitions your honorable body to enlarge the character and useful ness of the building contemplated so that 1t will be available for the use of clubs, cieties and organizations composed of wom- en, girls or young boys, under such control and direction as the committee parks should from time to time see fit to order and allow. This association also and especially pe- tiuons, if you should decide to erect such building, that they be permitted to have the temporary use of the same at such hours in the morning as might be satisfae- tory to your park committee for free kin dergarten training of the children.
 This association respectfully urges upon you the great value that such a building would be to the people residing near the park.
 They also and especially urge upon you the adviSability of your honorable body CO., operating In every possible legal and flnan- cial way with this association in extending our usefulness and help to the smaller and poorer children who are now under the law barred from the privileges of the public schools.
 We respectfully represent to you that this association is at present unable to se- cure suitable place for opening their Northside school owing to the high rents. The temporary use by us of such build ing above petitoned for would therefore be of great aid to and to the children who would be committed to our care as soon as it was ready for use. Very re- spectfully,
 MRS. J. H. PHILLIPS,
 President.
 MRS E. K. CAMPBELL,
 Secretary.
 JULIA WILLIAMSON,
 Treasurer Mrs. D. J. McCrossin, Mrs. Cunningham Wilson, Mrs. A. O. Lane, Adah s. Bowron, Isabel Dangaix, Mrs. T. M. Rubel, M V. Joseph, J. A. VanHoose, J. H. Phillips, Edith M. Woodruff, Mrs. s. M. Adler Miss W. M. Allen, Mrs. c. B. Spencer.
 The need of just such a building in Bir- mingham has long been felt, and its erec- tion would, without doubt be the occasion of forming classes in sewing, in cooking, and in other phases of manual work. Such a building, wisely planned and well con- structed, would be an ornament to any park. F..
 In addition to the other purposes for which it could be used it has been suggest ed that 1t could serve a museum. Before presenting the petition a commit tee of ladies from the Kindergarten Asso- citation and the gentlemen of the advisory board called in person upon the Mayor. The gracious hearing granted them by the Mayor and his assurance that the matter would receive his immediate attention, made them feel that they might hope for his cooperation.