New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-13
RESULTS OF RED LIGHT DISTRICT
Mrs. Britton Says 1t Will Take Twenty
Years to Counterfeit Its Influence.

THAT Iammahy RED light district is now bear
inE frut IN 'me e'S parks. ard will for twenty
years to come MRS Nathaniel Britton said 10 the
Mothers Club yesterday at its evening rrea,n ..T,
ts not safe for mother and child =, -. - -.
parks after 10 o'clock at night nor decent for ,ber,
10 go to some of them on a Sunday afternoon
The assembled mothers gasped
As the wife oil the director OF tho Bronx Park
Botanical Gardens. could tell Won things that
would open your eyes. politically. a. ~, - -
icallv." said Mrs. 2ritton
Il think the club had hest return 70 lie subject
interposed Mrs Harry Hastings anxiousIv And
IL did.
Mrs. Britton's topic was Mature study NarAria,
Found in New-York City" hut she taILl5 on vari
Gus topics besides Among other things sis ridi-
culed President Roosevelt's hobby Of race suicide
statistics " she said. show that immigration 10
this country has deteriorated in aualitv morally,
physically and mentally within tho last decade
Where We used get Teutors and .,clo- one
we receive Turks. Syrians and the like w.
must look New-York as field for n,izsio1ar,.
labor. Through this infusion Of undesirabl.s We
are becoming as nation. more animal. II We
don't want 10 become the submerged tenth We
must do something. The President talks ~ race
suicide. Why. right here in Nev-York CITY there
IS room Tor orr NJ H., ialous@nd unmarried women
My teacher friends" she continued SAY they
OF Education. daughter The reaches ne We been
asked do such rubbish for years and so many
good to say Of the new scheme for nature stiidy
This scheme end here Mrs Britton read extracts
from the introduction) recommends that the com
mon and familiar be chosen for study "a ther than
the rare ana strange thoroughly approve Of
10 do with children whose only chance to sf1dy a
leaf is TO pluck one when the park guardian not
looking. and whose only opportunity observe
bugs is by acquaintance with certain very unde-
srebe species"
The problem facing this country is forestry.
Mrs. Britton said in opening her talk That's our
crying need We must stop the destruction of the
forests, II we 90 not want our country to he
denudic and bare Spain. One reason why
IS is hepa No hay y
no young men do the work There are no bovs
gradual ted from American colleges to take UP for
forestry are far reaching. underlying as they do
the commerce and agriculture Take for instance
one purpose which the forester mas in view is 10
experiment with plants till he finds perfect sub
The speaker said she thought one good that the
Audubon societies had accomplished was that PEG
gun aud that the small boy does not kill so
many with his bean shooter
We must teach our children unselfshness in
plucking wild fOwers-not 10 take a whole armfuI
OF azalea or gentian. hut 10 leave some. learn
arbutus and laurel used grow High Bridge
<aIputus sun IO"s IN Two or three places IN ne
should all he destroyed next spring Mr. Britton
has about made up his mind that he can't keep
wild flowers in the park The u runs right out
10 us now. By actual count many two hun
dred persons have got off in ten minutes IL will
be necessary 10 fence off the bowers and keep
people in the paths. BY the way. how many OF
you have never been in the Bronx Park"
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake was the only woman
present to confess she had never been Il always
around she explained
Then come next Saturday and I will show you
During October and November a series OF free
lectures are given in the Museum Building at 4:sQ
partment distributes plants to the Normal College
and Ma y teachers ;,C, .-..., -. ..o
The Mothers club will be represented at the
Mothers Congress in Syracuse by Mrs Hastings Hs
training at the November meeting