The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1852-11-20

win the exception OF an attic chamber Tor the |
assistants. The first room was long, clean one,
where ten or twelve boys were sitting round
table, working at their states under the inspection
of their students. It appears that their time is
divided off into so many hours for outdoor work,
so many for play and for study, and that this
was the schoo-time The lads were all clean,
comfortable,and cheerfully busy When wretch
ed little vagrant from the gutter is sent in here,
he is not at once thrown into mass of boys, TO
work himself out to ruin or TO goodness as he best
can; 10 be kicked and cufed; to grab what he can
get, and to either teach others or TO learn from
others, all the vile things which boys are certain
to know The little stranger is put with few
other newcomers, into separate house (the
novitiae honse) where two or three young men
have constant charge Of him. He eats at their
own table with his few comrades and has enough
The overseers study his disposition, and set him
either at trade or at garden or Framework, as he
seems best fitted. He has his play, and paymates,
and free, fresh air, and friends to care for him,
who hold it labor Of love, to do for the father
less one, in feeble manner, as Christ did for
them.
He must work hard, but there is variety, and ii
is healthy work. After time he is introduced
into one of the regular famllrs, and there in SIMPLE
quarters, under kind care, spends the five or six
years, No wonder that it comes 10 be such
home TO them al-and the apprentices, whom the
Rauhe llaus has sent out SO pleAlully through
Germany, are so glad TO come back and work IN
the shops on the place.
Besides, in This house, the room have men.
toned. there were seeping-room room FIR the
sick, little kitchen, and two bedrooms for the
s;udents-al plain, but extremely neat and com
Portable. aa .u....
After this, we went round 10 the various work.
shops-for shoe-making, tailoring, joinery, pattern
making, spinning, baking, &c.-n al these the
boys working very bandily. In addition, there
were other buildings, where the boys, in company
with workmen, who were busy at book. binding,
printing sereotyplng, and wood and stone engra-
wing. few were employed out Of doors, at the
regular farm-work. There seemed to be one good
sized building, where washing, ironing, and wash.
ing OF dishes, and sewing work were done by the
girls, for there must be some thirty or forty girls
here. There is the same general arrangement fol-
them as for the boys. They are usually taught all
the branches of housekeeping and are expected
toenter service. The boys are generally appren.
ticed to masters, And it is said, from the number
of affiliated schools started by the students of this
through Germany, and from its many friends, thai
no apprentices on their journeys, find better re-
ception than these from the Rauhe Haus. wa.
pleased 10 see, when we visited the chapel that i
had just been decorated by the boys, for some fes
tival which they wished to celebrate.
Perhaps the most remarkable feature about tn,
whole institution, to me, was the practical powe
displayed in it. 1t is so rare for man, with tn
moral enthusiasm which would raise Up the help
less and outcast from their degradation to have a
the same time, the business talent for such
scheme as this Herr Wichern has shown that h
uniics both. His first step, after establishing
few Of the family groups and common work
shops, was to set up printing presses, where tn
boys could strike off, under the direction Of tn
master workman, the tracts and little boo,
needed in the school, and the reports of the Rauh
Haus. They succeeded so well at this, shat tn
works were enlarged, and now do conslderabl
, business without, and 60 far towards supportin
the other parts of the establishment. Many {
4 the boys are apprentced here, instead of ben
placed with masters.
In addition, commercial agency (agentur) ht
4 been formed to sell the various articles made b
0 the boys. This is separate from the school, an
1 its losses will not fall upon that. The profits al
: to be devoted to meeting the general expenses
the children Connected with ii are the lithograp
: and stereotype shops, ,he wood engraving and ii
n book-blndlng. All these last have proved veI
S successful, and the business done by the agenc
/. is already quite extensive 1t is expected tn
with The printing and the agenry, the institutio
expensive as it is, will in few years support itsel
a OF course, all this complicated mass of detail nee
e clear head to manage it, and for this Mr.. "
!. chem appears to be the man This, however
/ only small part of his labors. He is powerf
d speaker, and has great faculty of influencing al
! one with whom he is thrown in contract. Heb
d plead the cause Of his vagrant Home well throu;
y Germany, and has ganedbera aid, even from Il
II princes OF his labors for wider object, ha
IS already previously spoken in this Journal That
l. did not exaggerate when said tins Institution
J, not its counterpart in other countries must be
d parent.
. A Home among the Flowers, ,'where the vagra
il the child nolrshed amid filth and squaor-
ie The dark cellars Of "a great city, and should
IN length see something of Coils beautiful wor
% where, among friends, in the midst of orehar
" and coIn.helds, he could grow Up, invigorated
re healthful labor, to manhood, all thiswould set
ID more like the dream Of philanihropic Frsn
N novelist, than the reality But still farther, III
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