YOUNG CHICAGO.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4808, 25 August 1894, Page 2

YOUNG CHICAGO.

| Mr Albert G. Lane, Comity Superintendent of Public Schools, in an address before the Chicago Methodist Union, 23rd January, '94, said: There are between 3000 and 4000 boys and girls in Chicago that may be practically called waifs, so far as homo influences are concerned; they are not in tho schools, but are out on the streets, arid aro finding their way to the county gaol and to tho Bridewell, A compulsory educational law was passed in expectation of effectually dealing with this problem of the care of the waifs, and yet Inst year 743 children undersixteen years of ago wore sent to the Bridowell, and 1,641 others, between the ages of sixteen andtwenty-one years, imprisoned. By letting these children remain outside of the school and on the streets, wo ore training them for the future criminals of this great oity, The State or city should take hold of them and compel them to attend school. If they aro incorrigible, an institution should bo provided wliero they could bo placed and kept until they become submissive. There is absolutely nothing 1 beiiu» done to-day for these waifs, and it is the duty of every citizon to insisttlmt tho State take hold of this great problom that now confronts us.