the Chicago Kindergarten Training School (now known as the Kindergarten College), having served a practical apprenticeship for six previous years in the newspaper work, including every department of the same. The Misses Hofer were the sole owners and publishers of the KINDERGARTEN MAGAZINE, as well as the Child-Garden (which was first published in December, 1892), until the 1st of January, 1893, when the entire plant was transferred to the present Kindergarten Literature Co. This company is capitalized to the amount of $25,000, with shares at $25 each, divided variously among a score of stockholders, all of whom are vitally and broadly interested in the Kindergarten work, representing the states of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Iowa, Missouri, and Massachusetts. A few shares of the stock are still open for sale. The board of directors of the company is as follows: Andrea Hofer, Mary Boomer Page, Arnold H. Heinemann, Anna N. Kendall, Martha Allston Moses. The business of the company is operated by the following working force: Managing editor, Amalie Hofer; secretary and treasurer, Martha A. Moses, formerly of Columbus, O.; superintendent of printing and binding, Andrew J. Mouat, who has had large experience in all branches of the business in some of the best printing houses of Chicago; subscription and book department, Esther S. Jacobson; business manager, Andrea Hofer. The Kindergarten Literature Co. opened its own printing and publishing establishment in January, with a complete outfit, comprising a composing room which accommodates fifteen compositors; a press room with four presses; a bindery with complete equipment, including a smasher, cutter and trimmer, folder, and stitcher; and a mailing room. Both men and women are employed in this establishment, and the so-called Kindergarten principles of order and righteous daily work pervade every department. The employees receive for their work as good wages as prevail in Chicago, and have been carefully selected; conse quently the company has at its command a conscientious, hard-working force, which can be depended upon to do its work in the best possible manner. The views shown herewith will give those unable to visit the plant some idea of how the work is carried on, and what an important part the Kindergarten idea is playing in the active business life of the age. The equipment, made up of the best material and most modern machinery, is especially calculated to do such work as is required for periodical literature, bookwork, pam phlets, etc. The presses are kept constantly supplied with all the work they can carry, including besides our own two monthlies, other weekly, quarterly, and monthly periodicals, and a considerable amount of miscellaneous job and bookwork. The KINDERGARTEN MAGAZINE and Child-Garden are fair examples of the artistic and correct periodical work aimed at by the company, and the reputation it has already established in that direction is showing itself in the increased amount of work being done by it. The printing plant of the Kindergarten Literature Co. is to be found on the fifth floor of the Springer Building, lo |