New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-20
r,vr-poTYTs HOUSE OF INDUSTRY.
a.. s,c,rintendent for August, 1888.

NJ, ,;,es since we connencedour labor in this locality
have found our means entirely exhausted debt hanging
us and scores of needy helpless ones looking TO US Tor
1 and shelter But seldom have things looked darker Or
- desponding or success in enterprise more distant
and diff ult. than at the beginning Of this month
The crv o, the helpless always heard here having be-
came more earnest and frequent and our sympathy having
e,ba mastered our judgment we had continued 10 re-
.so ,he most needy and hopeful of the applicants until
wa found some 100 hands and the lnstuuon from
$500 to e. 900 in debt
;. .,.e If things was unparalleled in the history OF our
work was occasonod partly by the enlargement Of our
n, misses OH the LIST of May last and the increase OF our
rumbers and partly by depending entirely upon volun
rv contributions for support being so occupied with the
affair Of the institution that could moi find time to 90 out
70 t aid We could not 60 on so What was to be done
Mus these ahoress and motheress little ones be turned
out upon the street Must the poor widow with her help
less children be thrown upon the world again without
shelter Must say 10 the poor SHINING ana snned
again, unfortunates coming with penten and hoping
heart, mporing prOtecion-we have no help lof you
Must we hear tie cry of the hungry and have no bread TO
ofer' we can bear toll can endure prvaton we can
breathe by day and night the pesenal ar oil TINS ioul
.bk of our Civ but to abandon these little ones to cast
ont The helposs widow Hagar like, and her children TO
bscome the shmae OF this great CITY to remove the last
faint hone of the unfortunate and turn her back !" prey
AGAR on the virtue and peace OF Society th-s more
an We can do Such were our prospects on he hrst OF
The list month.
That God who hears the young ravens when they cry
has heard and answered the prayer OF the needy hee
has been sent through the secular press OF our tiiy LII
e Katy and other stories published in The TrbuRc Incl
dets Of Day in The Times and Walks about the Five
Points in The Courier and Enquirer have awakened pub
he attention and called forth sympathy ana aid ihanhs
10 the kind editors for remembering them in their lost
tate freely given and gratitude Is et IN hundreds oil
crushed hearts in this locality. Who would not rather
plead the of the poor and oucast than talk learned
" and eloquen,ly ON the political topics of the day
What may we not expect for the cause of humanity when
we find the secular press taking me ieau IN an humane
and moral enterprise and their editors leaving their pens
and desks and vending their way TO the a6odes 81 power
w. wroichednoss and went giving relief to the destitute
speaking words of kindness TO the afflicted kneehng by
tie bedsdes of the sick and whispering peace and com
for TO the dying Some such we have in this city May
God in mercy multiply them here and all over the land
until the great heart of this city and country shall beat
with kindly feeling toward the poor and the ouicast by
which liberal provision for their rescue and comfort VIII
be insured ,
10 situations or otherwise disposed of seventy three OF the
poor destitute creatures of this locality
MANY sad tale has been told s-many dark history
have we learned As have become better acquainted
with The evil Influences which clustered around the early
path of the unfortunate have learned TO blame them
hess and pity them VIII you allow me space in your
crowded columns to relate two three little histories
Here is one of NJ an Irish girl of fourteen. She
had lost both her parents when but child and soon
after landing in this country. She had been leIt
IN care of the only friend she had here, VIZ: a
sister who being Of a different temperament from
NJ had not comprChonded the warm and loving
heart OF her little charge but had coldy held her at dis
lance visiting each childish derelicon with the rod until
little had come both TO fear and hate her Thus they
lived till Nj eleven years old, most of which time, day
and evening had spent on the associang with
such as she met with there, mbibng their spirit and hab
rs and going home at night only to receive another beat
Ing at the hands of her sister Large of her and
Usually progressing in her personal appearance with
sympathy affection and love- pent up in her young heart
without object TO lavish them upon what wonder thai
she fell victim, and perhaps easy the seducer
ws and at that tender age took up her abode in den of
mhmy Three years spent in the midst of such
socaticns and here doubtless she would have remained
huger had not the Filth Ward Police found and taken her
GU delivering her to one of the Magistrates of the Lower
tctee Court by whom she institution
lection In strsicb, forward truthful manner she told
he story Of her wrongs firmly declaring that she would die
before she would back to live with aud be beaten by her
sr hen angry she most fearfuiy violent vet IN the
nacst OF her paroxysns OF wrath few kind words would
sance to alay her passion and make her as gentle
EMO Almost any little story of suffering, told 10 the
tden would cause her eyes TO I'LL with tears and often
a she joined in singing some beautiful hymn her tender
eehngs would get the of her. and she would sob
secd Such was NJ after spending three years in
eoo Of vice What might she not have BEEN surrounded
the genial influences which encrcle thousands Of our
Nc ones She with six eight weeks manifest
- no desire to return to her former course but often
ssg wish 20 away TO the country where she would
M be frequently reminded of the past That wish il
sihed and she is now member OF Christian family in
peasant rural district some hundred miles away May
s amer above bless the young prodgal returned and
YEP her feet from wandering again in those dark forbidden
ft Before she len for the country her sister having
"nere she was came, but NJ. would not see her lhe
ssr remarked that NJ: had always been stubborn yrl
- That she did not see how twas that she was 50 bad
S had beat her and beat her great many times TIL she
- tired and she would not be good This is a lesson
rsfing mothers
tpm several Of those sent to situations from the Inst
.saon We have recently heard NJ and H. sen, to fac
20 IN Connecticut some months since delighted with
fr situation and have desire to return again the
w The former OF these, born the Five Points. aad
ted in the midst Of that hos bed OF vice had passed IN
9ned to womanhoOd With younger sister eEngng 10
or Protection she had been left orphan al the age
Fel'e Three years after, her sister turned to life Of
ssNhg and she be inmate OF the House Of In
S~ty and has been under charge ever since Ohen
seen her weep her erIng sister, anu expostu
- with her on her life of wrong often lave we Known
70 share with her the last dollar OF bey owa hard earn