Public meeting at Carnegie Music Hall
Subtitle: January 28, 1895, 8.30 p.m., under the auspices of the National League for the Protection of American Institutions to promote legislation on behalf of a biennial school census for the state of New-York Hon. Joseph H. Choate will preside. ...
Contributors: Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917; Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.); Council of Confederated Good Government Clubs; New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1895
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Education; Poor children; Public schools; School census; Schools
Notes: "New-York, January 12, 1895. To the Board of Managers of the National League for the Protection of American Institutions. Gentlemen: In pursuance of our several special efforts for the public welfare we are convinced of a marked inadequacy of common school accommodations in this city ... We therefore ask your further action in obtaining by state legislation a mandatory law which shall provide for a biennial school census, to be taken in every town and city in the state of New-York of 10,000 inhabitants or over ..."

Signed: The Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. R. Fulton Cutting, president. Children's Aid Society. Charles Loring Brace, secretary. Council of Confederated Good Government Clubs. J. Augustus Johnson, president.

Letter on p. [3] dated January 24, 1895, from the Board of Managers and Law Committee of the National League for the Protection of American Institutions, acknowledging receipt of the letter reproduced on p. [1], and announcing a public meeting under auspices of their organization on January 28, 1895.