New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-04
MORE ABOUT THE FOURTH.

CELEBRATION BY TIE CHILDREN BELONGING
TO TIE FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY.
The children Of the Five Points House of Industry
School taken by Mr. Peasc up to the farm which has
been purchased for them in Westcheser Comfy sixteen
miles from the City Hall where they enjoyed the very
great, 10 them, contrast between dirty Streets crowded
houses very small, pentup yards and broad, smooth
meadows and Deep shady groves, in Of which they
had their sports their songs and their dinner. Here half
o dozen young climbed the tall trees and affixed
strong ropes for swings which great sources Of en-
joymen 10 these poor souls who have known but
little Of amusement.
Here their music teacher, Rev. Mr. Van Metre from
New-Orlesns met them after dinner and they sung Let
"he old forest ring, and number OF their pretty songs
greatly the delight of several families from the neigh
borhood who had had opportunity of seeing the
effect Of moral and religious training upon the city poor.
Short addresses made by several but the which
most interested the audience upon the caraerO of
the Indian that filed these woods and how they
have faded away. This delivered by Mr.. Eels of
Brooklyn in the Pottowoome dialect with ell the orao-
rcal gestures peculiar to that people, and though only
dersood by person present. the writer Of this elicit
ed much appreciation before it rendered into
English by the speaker.
After these pleasing exercises and when the ardor of
the rays little moderated children and adults
began to rumble over the fields visiting springs and
brooks, and climbing rocks gathering wild roses, flowers
mosses green branches ct cetera, TO bring with them
their city home; little thinking poor souls how they
will fade and witcr and in sunny only serve
to add another item to the Of decaying vegetation in
the CUTTERS sending its pestilentia masma into
habations. At night the wagons leaving for the
railroad station with the visitors struck with the
manifestation Of that strong love of home which nearly
all ofthc human family feel, however humble miserable
that home may be- Nearly all of the children present
who do not belong TO the House of Industry at the Five
Points but only attend school there in the day time and
I've in the surrounding holes and dens of their parents in
the neghborhood began to cry to so home few of the
most homesick gro6ed in the morning, but some
two hundred will remain until Friday Saturday.
This fam consists Of some sixty seventy acres of
lard Of the fair average qualy OF Westcheser, with
"orchard and woodland, tillage, moving and pasture
the of farms that change the
meadow pasture to tillage. 1t bought by dona-
tons for that purpose last winter at $3.50 aero and
probably will be worth any less. It contained
building being only portion of the old homestead of
the Morgan family who have occupied it or five gen.
eratons Mr.. Pease first built large board hanee for
the woikmen and has got large frame house. two
stories, With basement and atc-no being able to d.
vest himself Of the bynecessiy city notion Of going down
into the earth and up into the air for room instead of
spreading out the surface OF cheap land lie has
also erected good small barn and buildings
Upon the sweet hay in the NOW the boys found lodging
place where they slept sweely upon the fragrant new
mown hay while the girls enjoyed the same pleasure in
their eampteds in the chambers and upon the parlor
carpet. Their evening and morning songs and PRAYERS
go up from the shade Of thick ioaged spreading hickory
Taken all in ALL there portion the nhabit-
ants Of New-York probably, that had moro joyful cce-
braton of the late anniversary than those from the Five
Points.