New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-04


BLACKS SocKrr-with such muddy streets, with
such thousands of unemployed men and boys, with
such prevailing fashion of polished boots and such
adspostiou ofgentlemen to keep clean understandings
Is it not wonder that we have not irnpcred-as we
hive almost everything else-the fashion from London
Of regularly organized society Of boot-backs Every
trave Ger who visits London notices the shoobacks in
their red shirt uniform with ready implements of trade
in every street Many the etter-wrer, who visited
the Worlds Fair spske Of this class, and il may be
remarked th.s ever since the opening Of the Hyde
Park Exhibition in 81, the Shoe Blacks Society
has been carefusy managed by company OF highly
respectable gentlemen and its success has exceeded
the snticpations ct its most sangsine friends Not
only are the red-coaed and polite boys pstronized
even by TIE merchants, bankers and all the higher
classes of the people, but their interests jealousy
guarded by the police, and they have the protection
of the higher municipal authorities. No outsider
irregular dares to occupy in any way intrude upon
the several stations appoiated in the different Streets
which is done "by authority, upon the Societys APP
plication TO the Chief of tie Police The receipts of
the Society during last year amounted to frelre han
dred pounds sterling Now who doubts that very
large number of coppers might be picked up in New
York by well-arranged company of boot-blacks
Little if anything be accomplished by crowd of
impudent and filthy fellows who not possessed OF
judgment enough to distribute themselves about tho
city. There is art in blacking boots which it
needs little study and experience 20 understand.
Applicants for membership Of the London Society,
have to 60 through a regular drill before they
secure admission.
There has been no effort made for any regular
organization of this class of honest though humble
labor in this City, but If the fact of the Of the
London Society were generally known, we have no
doubt that many who read this article would feel at
once how mxch better twoud be for thousands of the
idle boys of our streets to be trained in such band
of industry than to live the idle life thoy now lead
ing.
We are satisfied that such organization would
be haed with satisfaction by this community Why
cannot we have regiment of coored boys engaged
in this business, and the whole City distrcted and
each assigned his beat
Tie first element Of success will be organization
discipline and the uniform by which the regular boot
black can be distinguished at distance. AS thor
business is to make others look neat they must them-
selves be neat end always ready for small chargeto
fit any gentlemans boots in the street, after muddy
walk for appearance in a ady's parlor.
We have lately seen some Of the offshoots, perhaps
outcasts of the London Society in this City. About
Trinity Church pavement and the head Of WalI-st.
the cry of Black your boots Sir r. occasionally comes
up with foreign accent but it does not come from the
neat London boys Those see here are not even
tolerebly good limitations They are rough looking,
coarse and filthy in their apparel The red jacket
looks as though it had no change and had grown
familiar with the black box at their feet which con-
tains the implements of their trade and upon which
the gentleman rests his foot while is cleaned. If
ii Liz 10 otto
10 will set the ball in motion he may without expense
accomplish great good. Perhaps it would be tit
field for the Childrens Aid Society, though should
prefer to see the business given TO the black popua
ton many of whom sorely need employment, and all
of them are willing to work. AT any rate let us have
a regularly organized Boot-Backs Society. We can
furnish all the regulations of the London organization.
RAGGED School HoLIDAY.-Miss BOWS Ragged
School in Sixth-av visited the Crystal Palace last
week and like all children enjoyed the holiday ex-
oeedingly. Their conduct on the occasion adds an
otter witness to the many TO prove how easy the
lowest grade Of humanity may be disciplined by
gathering such children daily in room where they
are instructed by teachers who work only for human
ty. Many of these children never went voluntarily to
any school, and would have gone to this ii they
had not been gathered Ike the guests TO the ancient
wedding; from the highways and byways and hedges
and bitches of the Twenty-second Ward Of the City.
NJ. de Sartgee, the French Minister at Washington,
on his tour to the Exhibition at Paris arrived on Sat
urday at the St. Denis Hotel.
Curious CoaPLAINT.--A father complains that his
neighbors buy papers of his son, a mere boy OF IL
wears old ut work in one OF the newspaper offices,
although they must know that they stolen. He
hopes that they viii no longer encourage him in dis
honesty and theft. 1t is rather curious to see man
exposing the guilt of bis son.
SUIcIDK.-Mrs. Ellen j. Lebee, a German woman
% wears of age committed suicide Saturday night
at her residence, No 1913 Delancey-st., by taking
laudanum. She had attempted suicide by taking
laudanum five months ago, but her life was then
saved. Coroner Wilhelm held an inquest on the body
and tie usual verdict rendered The deceased had
been married five years and lived happily with her
husband. The cause Of the fatal act was unknown
GRoUNDLEss COMPLAINT
To Tie Editor of The " y. Tribune
SIR: In Saturday mornings edition Of The TRID-
uSE we notice a complaint purporing to be taken
from the Mayors book alleging that young men in
our en- poy are in the habit of standing the side
walk and insulting respectable females they are re-
turning from their daily ayocations That this aega
ton hos the slightest sembance of truth we do most
unequiyocaly deny. That such article should have
appeared i'm your paper clothed in language detrimen-
tai TO us is entirely beyond comprehension; that
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