New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-21

-, the beginning OIL 'lV '0''N' - ~ -,
Nys..;gcd in good time 20 relieve many VINO
@gau'i"t, destitute bv the yellow fever, which
Weie scoureed this CIV aud Palafelphla
90 Ictose of the century lis 5enetclarles for
s1rssr as. (the last report accessible 10 u.s.
Wv 5Ie,pd 3sS widows WITH V5} small chi dfel.
BUZZ c Uovse If Refuge for the reformation OF
nJe Offenders. was established 10y private
s'nSb,crip,iop. rs beneficial acuon was soon so
ss,ious. that It was recognized by the CouftSi
"a 70 II were consigned Youthful prisoners
CIV in vice-whom ~ was reasonably hoped
=. rsclsin bv secIudiug them for time from
vi sssociations and temp aG0ns, and giving to
hem education and trade.
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
Do. Uouses of Refuge. and Houses of BenevO-
t.rce Penitentiaries, Prisons an1 Penal Laws,
s,e ali powerless, comparatively, without PoPu-
IL, Education. This truth Was deeply ieit as, IN
,be early swell Of our commercial prosperity at
ne commencement OF the century, AMI the
amid growth of our population, Crime ana lg-
torrance increased too The Society OF Friends
-alwa,s earnest and forward IN good works
were largely instrumental IA measures Tor wioe,
.nread popular education; and they were well
and success siully aided by De Wltt Clinton, on so
many grounds entitled 90 tie lasting gratitude
of his native State Thro1gh his potent CO.
operation the Ptlbbc Sctooi Society was moor
porated IN 1865 TINS Society Immediately
caused schools 10 be openei m different parts Oi
the City, and actually employed persons % go
about and seek out chi dfcn whtn they might
educate, either gratuItOUsiy or at a cost sOsnaii
:. handy 10 constitute a cons aeratlOn Tor any
ts,oily They were successful, eminently, ana
mill The year 1912 had the Reid 70 them.elVeS,
eYcept IN the parOchlal and sunday schools kept
mn by different religious denominations. In
1870. from considerations winch tbs PES not the
occasion 10 discuss, the system OF " ard Schools
81. s.rtrfs f..rrltr Orq
,uitous instruction, was author by the Legs
i,ture. and these two educating bodies go on IN
their respective spheres, harmOnlOusy, and. II is
boned. bfneicially. The number OF schools in
charge OF the Society is ll5; that OF the W ara
schools. As; the latter, however, accommodating
more pupils than the former.
There is still another class, the Corporate
Schools, or those connected ~itn CohegeS' Or,
nban Asyums or incorporated Academies and
benevolent Associations, al which receive aid
from the State IN proportion TO the number OF
their pupils ,o.o e.
all those schools by the Board of Education was
500 1888, of which SIS, 1853 was received from the
State. lhe bssnce Of $lGO,6OO was raised oy
taxation on the real and personal property OF the
citizens of New-York The whole number
taught in these schools for 1889 was $3.50.
THE MECHANICS SOCIETY.
And | may fad no more fitting opportunity
than this 10 say Oi your Society, MI fresluenl,
that it, too, has molly done It's part toward pub
lie instruction Founded at first simply as an
institution OF benevoence for the exercise OF
charity toward less fortunate brethren or their
widows and children-ycu mot tail soon topper
ceive that Charity, which hOpeih all things and
becveth all things, might be most benehcaly
employed ia eduratIng as well ss supporting the
children of unsuccessful or unfortunate MEM
beIs and thence the step Was easy and natural
10 a school for the gratultOus education OF the
children OF the INDECENT, and Tor the establish
ment OF an Apprentices Library and Reading
Room The success of the school led to a fur
ther enlargement OF il, and now IN addition to
the children of INDECENT members, II receives
pay.pupis, and thence derives funds for the
library and readlng-room; hence the nounShlng
condition of the school, the library and the lee
ture.roOm of the Society. II is proud thing Tor
YOUR Society to be able TO say that you have a
school of $40 scholars, IN two departments, about
equally divided as to numbers of boys and girls,
taught by 10 teachers and that the instruction.
IN addition to sound English education, includes
the French language, pdiunng, drawing aud
uusic-the true humaGitlcs, which refine the
mind while adding 10 It's resources and Its
powers.
Your library, too, of some $4,000 volumes,
which, am reoced TO see by the last annual re-
port is freely and largely a.alied OF by the
apprentices, Is all the while sowing good seed,
which cannot fail of yielding IN after tlme
precious harvest Thus II is that the Mechanics
OF New-York are trained, and thence II Is that
as body they are not eXceiIed IN intelligence,
in character and IN real and substantial value
10 the community and to the country which they
adorn, by any other class Of citizens.
| cannot but remember, moreover, standing
where do that the building IN which we are
now assembled was originally erected by an
association of which had the honor to be
member, for a high school, and that II prospered
well for several years under the charge OF Prof.
Griscom, who, at a great age, still survives.
This school aimed 10 give, aud dld give, In ooth
departments, male and female, higher education
than was then attainable generally at the con-
mon schools but these now are equal TO the
BEST and the High School Association was DIS
solved and its property so!d-r-turnlng, as tar
as can remember to its stockholders nearly
the whole OF their original investment, besides
the satisfaction OF doing, as may be hoped, some
good in the cause OF Education.
That property purchased oy your Society, and
rendered more accessible as well as more valu-
able by the purchase of lot on Broadway,
through which an entrance Is effected from that
great thoroughfsre, inst, ad OF being, as orig
inally, from Crosby.st., Is stll sacred 10 educa-
ton and knowledge, and In hands now that iciH
see to It's prospecting aud progressing In that
uOiy cause REQ &c 10 sldni again IN tniS we'll
hled hall. as was wont 10 stand occasionally
long years ago, In my visits to the High School,
and to bear anew my testimony, 10 which the
flight of years and the mature observation of
men and events should Impdrt some added
weight. that no man can 60 auiss, In this our
day and generation. who lends his aid AMI lnAu-
ence, however feeble they may be, 10 advance
the cause OF sound knowledge, founded upon
sound morals. The world around u.s. on our
Southern Continent, aud in Europe, is heaving
with The throes OF peoples struggling for the
common rights OF humanity here ENJOY
mem al, and all ENJOY them and while we are
mindful 10 train up The Young, alike BY precept
sho oy example, 10 coed knowledge and good
mofals-he only sure foundations OF rational
Aoer'y-,we shall preserve, and deserve TO pre-
serve, those nights.
THE CROToN AQUEDUCr.
pu''ee crowning glory aud sarpassng achieve
Sel' OF The latter par, OF the hsf-Century is the