New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-23
THE CHARITIES IN THE VEST.
Correspondence OF The N. Y. Tribune.

Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.
CHICAGO, May 10, 1885,
The West has certain great advantages in the nitia
ton Of humane enterprises. The country is new aud
the people are in the habit of making new combins
tons and experiments with view TO great results in
The distance. The sans original powers of mind which
have been applied to material improvements on such
vast scale in the Western cities may also be employed
on the problems of social reform and Improvement.
The trouble with the great proportion of our reforms
tory institutions in the sesbosrd States 49, that there
ia little application of original thought or advanced
principles Of treatment in them Trey are carried on
in the old humdrum European method. Few think Of
making cApciuonts of reform. It 10 not ramemhsrad
that the science of healing the human soul or OF pun
fyirg society of certain deepseated evils is as sus-
ceptble of Improvement the science of healing the
body, or of preventing masmstic diseases in crowded
city Each new moral physician may strike upon q
treatment as new and different from the old as the
modern treatment Of smallpox is from the ancient
The West unconsciousy admits this more than We do;
and though, in apparent theological dogmas more strict
than the older communities, they do in effect leave
greater personal liberty to the managers ofthe eiorma
tory institutions. There is now at Chicago an nsttu-
ton of reform of which shall speak hereafter, which,
in its principles Of and the ytem OF treat
ment, il decidedly the most advanced and humane of
any Of the modern institutions.
The West has especial need Of the very agencies and
societies which dong so much in New-York. In
all the great cities crowd Of poor Irish and German
)aboring people congregate, and the children OF the
lowest of them soon form class like that in
of vsgrants beggars and thieves. Juvenile crime and
beepary is very rife here in all the large cities. or
course the parents find work more eey, and the ehl
dren have baisr chances; stll intemperance the Big
otry of Catholicism more virulent than With u.s., and
the insane attractions Of city keep tens OF thousands
in poverty who ought TO be- end who might be they
chose, well employed by the farmers One OF our
rewsboys who is at present in Chicago, showing the
boys how papers ought to be sold, came TO Mr. Tracy
lately and said, Mr. Tracy, you ought to be here ana
start q Lodgug. House There's an awful lot OF
,noo.e,s herel' Snoozefs' should be explained
ia tae name for homeless boys who sleep or nap
aryw here in the Streets
The Observation-Disclosures tell Us the same thiag; and
al Indications in the streets show the existence OF Js'
such class az We have Of Migrants and sreet-chil-
dren The great encouraging fact hero Is, tbAt So'k
ia usually plenty. and that condition OF say class s
st oil fixed.
Before speskng Of the particular ins.itusors OF re-
form at the West, it may ne interesting 70 the lnoa
sands of your readers who sympsthize in cur own
movements 10 hear Of their working here. We have
been duIrg this merh whiting sad inqui'irg about
hundreds Of poor children whom Mr.. Tracy has p'aesd
in homes IL Ohio and Michigan. If thote men and
women in NeyY York who labor year after year 10 PICK
ON, miserable little ere .ures from ths gutter, could
only once see the change in their pr0ftSs 10 thelr
coun,rv homes. they wsuld feel forever rewarded.
Every one knows them in the c:ty-rsSged, dirty YER
min bt.en-sleepipg in boxes or cs,.ars, hungry anu
lonely. In the farmers homes you WILL hrd them usu-
sly sdoped a. children of the family; rudy, heithy
clean going TO school and working On the farm per
haps eech one having pony or steer or d'S u DE
own-csIlng the elders father mother ara E" s'o''
ing I'd a, children Of Christianity, instead Oh nPenHs
into city beatheu Two years ago the VISITOR oi Jul
Fourth Ward School found little SRI Of about niue
yeers leeppg behind doorway IN tenement nous'
She had bseD supporting herself for iou' "on'.s "
begging and pcedirg, without s,nge friend d fea.'e
whom she knew, her psreuts haViSg sucae'iy ue'
When taken to the school she was nl'oy III Va" CA
trsne; her hair 80 matted with dirt q. 70 reqS"s Gu
tire cutting CT and her clothes mere rcg' we Vssd
her On Ills Journey in her Michigan home eae was o.
school and the good people told Us they h.d maze he
oua O: thar own children. When asSed 'or her -
the school nest, pretty well dressed lt'ie gil 'pfans
out and slmo.t Jumped upon my teck, with her eyes
filed with tesrs. l. was most asecaDg experience
even to Us who have becsne somewhat hA'oeneu,
She ,pot. with great affection Of her ne" home An'
frie nds.
s. Of hundreds of Others. Boys who were gays %
our streets, children Of drankHds or r1hAns afe now
N. sous Ct hearted farmer, growing up w'ta
E, good eh.rc.s as any lsds il The West NamDsf,
ia.m we hear Of, .s already inaa=nced BY his Re
vivsl. W..
Your reader. Vi n remember our enterprise is', VIM
ter 20 rd homes for seamstresses as serVsnss 70 'ne
Wes.rp States. We visired ssve'a OF those sent out
by u. Childr,r. Aid Society, who we're all dong well
H.mcrs others, Tsry intelligent l.dy.r.s German
- :. ,., .s.mstress and servant IN clergy
s a family 81. 81. !. tn. same table :'s. in the
choir with ne daughters, and s~Sssd Us i0r 20 even