New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-09
Asylum for FriendIess Boys-Public Msetn1

A meeting in behalf Of this praisevw-
thy Institution was held last night in the Merosra.
Presbyterian Church. very large audience Ush
fed the friends OF the Society by their symp lthies
and contributions.
After the usual preliminary exercises the fra 40.
nual Report Of the Society vas read. 1. is - b.
lows:
In the spIiEg OF 1919. fex benevo ut indvidasls.
stimulated by the desiFe OF improving the c0n1islon
OF Juvenile Migrants, determined to esao ish Boys
Sunday Meeting IN the Etshth Ward Of our CIV.
room suitable for the purpose mo. % WoostsrmJ
was obtained, aud opened on the first Sto0 Al v
April, with religious exercises, las DoJs beias
present
Feeling that the instruction cor munic .iei oacaS
week might be render ed more taoI Dug eGcscuas
by daily efforts for their good, ID vas IhoBsn seus
bic TO select some person whose whole time sh0ea
be employed 10 laboring exclusively among thees
boys. A Missionary was therefore hired, aud deoa.
lions received TO the amount Of 1853 for rns sup.
pert OF this Missionary and the uuherance Of secA
plans as II should be ceemed expedent 10 carry iots
operation. II was soon found, that many Of TIE re-
ular attendants at the Sunday Meeting. had no hooe
or fIieLds, and that the associations With whsh tsey
were surrounded were Of such a cODtaminatng chafs
acier as to render their Immediate renewal fo sun
hluIts OF vice necessary, or II would De inposfSs
far any human insirumentality to save them hon
coSLuctlCn.
Since comparatively little good could be seson-
rlnhed for them in their present situation, ~
ara supported the Sunday Meeting, advised tass
hey should be placed 10 circumstances more
favorable 10 a complete reformation Accordingly,
early In the year 1850, six destitute boys 49,
Iecei ed into the family Of this missionary, Where
mere cireci AID sanitary II fuence could be eyenee
over them. Such was the success attending ihs
experiment, and such the desire 10 rescue oA9
"tIanos hom the burning" that the affair vas mses
sNl more public, and association OF ladies sss
OTeaBlstd, ia November Of the same year, wsee
o'Jectn vas to provide with Temporary homeS
ILany OF these outcasts as the contributions 81 -
beaesoient would snable them to instruct 1mD
port, until suitable situations could be obtain6c ~
tfem elsewheTe. This Association consisted ~
Board OF ibrty Managers, and nine Trustees feesses
Htl), Hh0 should act as an ADVISORY COMMUNIST
al cases referred 70 them by the ladies'. TAw q
gar'zed, the house No. 100 Bank-st being sufkeDe
y connooIOus to accommodate between my -
SKY boys at time, was hired for one yea,
cslltd the Asylum for Fnencless Boys OhU
fret Of March, 1851, the Superintendent, with go
teen boys, removed TO the Asylum-since VI
tine III boys have been received into the Ihse)
ton, 30 have been sent to places, % restoredt01
rents, seLt to the House OF Refuge, 4 dischsn6p4
2 gone to sea, rent to Blackwel's Island, O rl1e
way, 30 remaining IN the Asylum OF the wheo
lumber, q were Americans, 100 Foreigners
To prove that these abandoned ones we're not -
trey lost 10 AL improvement thee or four OF nsDy
instances Will be inserted
BOY q. r. came to the Asylum OF his Own q.
cold. lie Was an American about fourteen ye4D
Of age, entirely destitute of either parents or lrsno
had not slept In bed for ten months and was 10 -
mtsI IoflcTn, cesfaoed and hithy condition ia w1.p
L was possible TO la agile 4 human beng ~
I4Scec BeIg properly cleansed, and arfsSt1 i
Decent apparel, he was allowed 20 IN ngle with -
resi-. Alter remaining there for ,so months, p1so
YES procured for him In the coun.ry, and hs ms19
wires ihat ne Is good boy, wishes TO star, -"
vi Ing TO be hound.
Another an Irish boy, named J G hieBdles', 49,
expert tbiei. who generally slept IN srocers sssS
Soal coxts, empty croctery crates, and ot'aSS~
nae places, was constant attendant a: hs ~ ~.
sue ay Meeting. No. 20 Wcos,erst. Having ~
festeo for stealing our SuperIt dent proc.'
discharge and after laborious trial (fsf re ILL.,
several hmes) succeeded, by II power Oh hus.
kndness, IN inducing him TO foIs axe swe ~ ~
ne constantly practiced, and obtained NJ
nm IN the county, where he is doing weL 80
employer says he Is smart boy, AM desfe'S
him. -
'hiId q. NJ an orphan, asei about ~ ~
Yeas. was brought 10 US by Kind gen'lsmas, "a
the Five Points In such a coDdiion thss ns~~sa
difficult matter to ascertain the difference ,s~asf.
him and the brute creation His hltby asa - -
ing appearance added to a very bad ,enpsr, ass,d
influence Of an exceedingly wicke,. hear, fee.ssfea
him almost an ~ sufferable Duisance. bns rSies
and Kindness have made him erlfely anoe's' a
quiet peacesb!e, orceTiy--in short, ss eoiss ~
department as sny Of the present numoer ~. "a
the premium some few weeks since io' Ss's
beet boy in abe Institution. 5000.
fourth. u. s. al American boy, &DouI ~ - l.
the upper part Of the CRY. When isssa 70 ~