The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-02
CURFEW LAW ADOPTED.
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Associations arising from lettering on the streets.
 The state desires to have good citi- zens and it Is Its duty to hedge these children in by these protective meas ures. Such ordinances are on the books of great many of our cities. They set 9 o'clock as a general rule, but 10 was the hour chosen in this case to permit the boys of the Boys club to reach home without being affected by the law. The morning hour, he said, was left rather indefinite, it being left to the Committee to use its judgment in. this respect.
 There can be no objection, said the judge, except that it may affect the earning power of some families. But the ordinance is intended for the better ment of the children and the making good citizens of them.
 Chairman Loos> suggested a substi- ute ordinance cutting out the words land be upon the street" after loiter, as this would, he thought, work injury to many children who might have to be upon the street at such an hour, and fixing the age at thirteen instead of fifteen. The hour was changed to 9:S0.
 Mrs. Atwater suggested that an amendment should be introduced to keep children from selling papers late at night, and an amendment prohibit ing children under thirteen from sell ing papers or other merchandise upon the streets between the hours of 10 and was suggested.
 The women present were very strong against lowering the age below fifteen.
 pr, Lindsley, of the state board of health, also favored the proposed ordi- nance.
 Alderman Homan suggested that, while to an elderly person a boy of fif- teen appeared very young, to himself he appeared quite a parsonage, and that it was rather of hardship to Tor bid them from being out after o'clock on hot summers night. The sun has hardly set then. The age of fifteen is pretty high. 'I am in favor, said he, .'of anything that will properly take care of the children, but the hour should not be too early nor the age too high. do not, however, wish to ap- pear to take the position of opposing the ordinance"
 Alderman Smith suggested retaining the words 'be on the street" and in- serting a proviso excepting "errands of necessity"
 The proposed ordinance to prevent the use of hacks to carry bodies of de- ceased infants to the cemetery, signed by the w. H. Graham company ct al., was next taken up. No one appeared in support of it.
 Dr. Lindsley said he could not see what protection there was to the public in this ordinance. A body enclosed in tight coffin and swathed, according to the law, in disinfectants could not, so far as he could see, infect anything. This law, therefore, said he, is of no sanitary consequence. It affords no protection to the public.
 He suggested that it would be better to have an ordinance requiring that when any one who had been in an in- fected house and rode in a carriage in the same clothes ths carriage should be required to be disinfected before being used by the public again.
 Alderman Homan also opposed the ordinance. He said it looked to him like another case of a little more work for the undertaken, another little task for the cabinetmaker." When hack is used for hearse it is because the people are too poor to be able to afford the latter, or because the child is too young to require a hearse. We don't want any ordinances that have no vir- ture in them, that are aimed at noth- ing, and that are simply for personal gain.
 After a lengthy executive session the committee announced that it had pass ed a substitute clrfew ordinance pro- hibiting children under fourteen from lettering upon the streets between the hours of 10 and all the year round, and prohibiting the sale of newspapers or other merchandise during those hours. A compromise between the ages fifteen and thirteen was thus adopted, the hours made 10 and instead of 10 and 5. and the words ''or be upon the Street, omitted. A suggestion was made that the hours be made S:S3O in winter and 10:3O in summer, but this was not adopted. The ordinance as above stated will be favorably reported
 The petitioners for the otherI ordi- nance were given leave to. withdraw.