Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-08
PLAYGROUND FOR
PASADENA URGED
KNoTTY PROBLEM DISCUSSED
BY SHAKESPEARE CLUB
"what the City Should DO for Its
Boys" Brings Out Various sug-
qestions-Theatrieal Inter-
ests to Fight Ordinance
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, Jan. 7--"What the Cit
Should Do for Its Boys" was the sub
tect considered this afternoon by two
prominent women; one of Los Angeles,
the other of Pasadena, before the
Shakespeare club. Miss Bessie Stod-
dard, we'll known for her philanthro-
pic work in the Los Angeles settle
ment and the Juvenile court, was one
of the speakers, and Miss Virginia
Pease of this city the other. Miss
Stoddard told of the new playground
recently established in the seventh
ward by the city of Los Angeles, which
will be opened for the general use OF
the children in a couple of months
more. Miss stoddard strongly urged
for Pasadena a public playground
where, under supervision, the boys es-
pecially may have something whole
some and beneficial sports to fill their
idle time.
Miss Pease, principal of the Garfield
school last year, spoke for the seeming
infringement by the city of the home
rights. The right of the municipality
to interfere between the neglected child
and it's home, was based upon the fol-
lowing reasons: Poverty, domestic dis
order, total ignorance of parents as to
the conditions under which the chill
dren are growing up, and utter indif-
ference of the parents. Even here In
Pasadena, where conditions are excep-
tionally good, she said, the proportion
or neglected children is large, and there
is work for the municipality to do to
guard and save the boys. Miss Pease
emphasized especially the great need
of protection for the boys of the city
against the all too-prevalent tobacco
habit. Even school children smoke
habitually, constantly and increas-
ingly," said the speaker, land there
is not another habit which children
have so commonly which is so harm |
full to the mental, moral and physical
development of young person. There
is a state law against the sale of to-
bacco to minors, but it is done, even |
here, every day. The municipality
owes it to its boys to make it impos-
sible for tobacco to be purchased by
any under eighteen years of age. I'm
pure literature" was another common |
evil which should be dealt with more
Fl; mly by the law, thought Miss Pease
but the city should undertake syste-
matte measures to counteract these
tendencies by providing wholesome and
pure conditions and pleasures as anti
dotes. Among these should be first and
always manual training in every
then public Fairgrounds, even
ing boys clubs under suitable super
vision, and the use of school buildings
as social centers for the district, as
Is being done in the east. Larger
school grounds was also one of Miss
Feases pleas for the boy.
Reports were given by the various
standing committees; the Riis lecture
committee reporting $36067 as the re-
,eipts from the lecture, the full amount
being at once put into Club House
stock. Mrs ]. G. Rossiter reported
s152.T as the proceeds of the club
lunch at Tournament park last Mon
lay and $500 was transferred from the
,lub treasury to the Club House as
scciation for club shares of stock. This
makes the club own now, $19S0 of the
club house stock, against $3,015 held
by individuals.
For the remainder of January the
meetings of the Shakespeare club
promise to be of more than ordinary
interest. The programs of both the
l4th and 21st are Parsifal, the 14th be-
ing a literary study of Wagner and
Parsifal, while on the afternoon of the
21st a Parsifal recital will be given
by Miss Alice Coleman. To both of I
these programs outsiders will be al ,
lcwed the entrance fee of fifty cents g
for both being applied to the club house f
fund. January 2S will be devoted to T
an exhibition of arts and crafts.
Barrels of Cement Cause Accident
Walter Ankeny, a salesman in the y
lumber yard Of the Ganahl company, =
was seriously injured yesterday after ;,
noon by two heavy barrels of cement !,
falling on him while he was at work in !
The yards. -Four Of his ribs were frao- =
-ured and he was otherwise internally :,
injured. He was at once taken to his =
lome at 1913 Park street, where DR.. !,
Newcomb attended him. 1t was found g.
hat four of the ribs on the right side :,
we're broken at a dangerous point, :,
which made complications possible. ;,
Theater People Will Fight Ordinance $
When last Saturday evening during r
he playing of isis Hopkins" to a C
crowded house, Chief Of Police Freeman n
-ound the front doors of the theater "
not only closed but locked, in violation
% the city ordinance, he at once caused
he arrest of the tnanarar n,,h lonnA. .