The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-26
Accomplishing Far Reaching Results in 8 Quiet
 Way.
IT IS NON- N-SECTARIAN
Self Government of the Boys Sought by the Man
 agement.

W tAAS NANg OL ANSW IIdNGll. OllOulu you doubt the saying or the efficiency of this particular boys club, drop in some evening along about S:3O, talk with the capable superintendent, look around you, and, according to the law of average, you will depart with a new impression
 The boys are alive, and they play their games without the assistance of drawing-room manners Aside from the fact that it is boisterous, you might mistake them, with your eyes closed, for a lot of Sunday school scholars. The spirit of the place breeds manliness, and every effort is toward that end, through intelligent direction of the boys inherent spirit of deviltry. Religion, as such, plays no part in the clubs work Boys of Hungarian, Slavish, Italian, Irish, Russian Jew parents are taught that they are American, regardless of their religion or percentage.
 Games from ping-pong to pool oc- cupy the attention of those boys who chance to be off the gymnasium floor.
 Nightly classes in gymnastics keep the boys off the streets and serve as an outlet for their surplus energy. A product of the club, a young Hebrew, an ex-bootblack, will be in charge of this department during the winter. Within the club are several secret so- cieties known as group-clubs among whom there is intense rivalry in ath- letic and other games. These partake of the nature of both the fraternity and the class spirit in college. Each group 1 is ballasted by college man, a vol- unteer to the work, but the societies elect their officers and are practically governing.
 Growing out of this is a new plan which is to be put into execution very shortly. Guided by law school students constitution has been drawn up and a system of self government similar to 1 that in practice at the George Junior 1 Republic will soon be inaugurated.
 There will be president with the munificdnt salary of ten cents per week, a cabinet appointed by the presi- dent subject to the senate's approval, and other offices necessary for carrying I on the regular business of government. Judges are appointed from the list. Ex-presidents with advancement on the basis of proficiency.
 l The supreme court holds jurisdiction in all serious offences, such as a fight in the club or unnecessary noise.
 In view of the excellent results se- cured from the working of the system in other clubs, the idea should yield excellent results
 The work of teaching the boys to l help themselves is one of the institu- tion's most important aims. Carpen- try, cane seating, drawing, shoe mak- ing and repairing are taught not az l trades, but rather to inculcate the habit of useful work in the boys mind. 1 Along this same line is the penny sav- | ings bank whose deposit limit Is $2. The habit of saving begun here Is continued in the savings banks of the city.
 Much has been heard in the imme- diate vicinity of the club of the drum corps, but relief has been obtained by permitting the boys to disport them selves in a subway under the building where they can drum undisturbed and undisturbing.
 To appreciate what the institution means to New Haven, it is necessity to get in touch with the leader him. self, the man who has brought 1t in two yeans from almost certain failure and placed it on a sure foundation, what might be called a paying basis" "a satisfactory income from the money invested.
 Though abstract, the income can be seen in the boys themselves, more per- haps in what they are not than in what they are. Hundreds of stories might be recounted of the boys brought from unhealthful homes and reformed in mind and body by the Edwin Ban crofts Foote Boys club.
 From the 600 boys handed yearly nearly two-thirds are of Hebrew par entage. Jacob Refs believes the boys club offers a remedy for a large share of the evils growing out of the immi- grafton problem.
 The board in charge of the club at present is constituted as follows
 Frederick M. Adler, J Quincy Ames William B. Bailey, Barnett Berman, Sidney P. Butler, Harry c. Booth, Charles E. Brown, Chester J. Copman Jeremiah F. Donovan, Edward E. Field, George A. Kilborn, Charles Kleiner, John E. Lomas, Edward E. Mix, John NJ. Marvin, Arthur v. Phillips, B. B. l Savage, Anson Phelps Stokes, jr., Charles P. Walker, Pierce N. Welch.
 The last annual report reads as fol- 1 lows;
 Receipts.
 January 1, 1906, cash balance on
 hand ........ ........,........S 9350 March 6, 'O6, balance 'O5 fund
 E. B. F. Ad. .................. 41.93 From Edwin Bancroft Foote
 addition .....,. .............. 1899. .92 From boys memberships .... 206,29 I From 235 new subscribers. .... S4S.S0 | From $40 old subscribers S55 K