New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-23

she came 20 our Office, she says she had been three
dsys rtsout food, a1d at iergth in despair she went
out aod begged for sxpence Of the nt gentleman she
met for bread toest" He pointed her to house OF IL
fame where she could cam breaienoughw Saeturned
away bitterly wounded, when the man Offered her
money, which she aDgry refused asd then went bsck
to her lodgings almost IN despxr. The news Of our
enterprise the first ray Of hope TO her. She pesks
row with the deepest religious feeling OF the good
Providence over her through all her keen poverty.
Would not this alone reward the mary lsbors and
selfdepisls which sustained our Branch Office last
Winter
Amo5g the children, our est. ns.e thus far IA, ths.
no. than ts0 out Of Hundred of those under
sixteen turn cut badly; and of those between sixteen
srd twenty not more than four per cent These Won
deru results are TO be ascrbed especially 10 great
fact-;hst the Corinisnty of the West has taken up
this matter ard il IS carrying it out SIS serious duty
Among the Charities of the West there are none
more noble more selfdsnyiDg and more useful than
these suet st home tossrd the poor and endess
Of our cl:ies.
CLEVELAND.
One of the pleassptest rewards 10 those who have
been aborrg in the often thankless efforts for eleva,
re the children of the poor in New-York, would be TO
how the principles of these efforts have spread and
been adopted though the whole country. Tae ntei-
gent communities Of the West peculiarly quick 70
perceive the value Of the elucahona and reformaory
labCrs for the lower classes such have been inaugu
rated in New-York Cleveland already has the honor
of possessing the first Irdustral School in Ohio and
she has opened a Chldren's Aid Society 10 iuta-
ton OF the similar organization in our city. Some
two or three years ago, the Hon. John A.
Fcoe was appointed Committee by the
Legislature of Ohio TO visit and obtain plans Of
reforms.ory institutions in Eastern cities, with
view to the establishment of a State Reform School.
In the course Of his Investigations he examined our
Industrial Schools Lodging houses, and the work OF
the Childrens Aid Society in New-Yosk and returned
to Cleve and with plans for similar institutions there
This beautiful city greatly overrun in certain parts
with the poorer off-shoot of the foreign immigration.
Crimes OF children had become common; begging was
q pubic nuisance, and it was discovered that num-
befs of boys and girls were literally homeless,
Sleeping in lime kins and boxes and growing
up to make the dangerous Proletaire elass. Mr..
Foote presented these facts to the Common Council
Of the city, together with his plans for the best RENE
dies for the evil. This body is evidently very differ.
ept one from any We are accustomed to in New-forS,
for they responded at once 10 favor OF his project aud
app pointed a Committee to examine the subject And,
in general ore sy say that it is in the public admin
stration of the cities ha. the West hsve such advan
tsges over rs in any plans for general improve
ment There were some natural objections felt 10
these plms. 1t was urged that the opening of
Industrial Schools might tend to keep the poorer
classes out OF the excellent public schools and to
press them down as permanent class. Bat to
this it was replied that the Iudustrsl School would
be made kind of Primary School TO the Public School
ana would ft scholars in habits and discipline and dress
for tbat-and furthermore. thu great t-ee vos mged
that hese poor creatures did not 90 TO any school, and
yet for the public welfare, they must BIO educated
The Common Council finally adopted thep lsn proposed
provided an old school building and offered to pay the
salaries of the teachers. practical plain man, very
much interested in the work, was placed over the
school with his two daughters as ASSISTANTS When we
visited it. there ~ or 80 scholars in attend
spce, whole number 3l4 evidently OF the same class
ard nationaltes with those in New-York. The only
Observable difference WAS the presence Of two or
three colored boys and girls, a. with us the
coored race is seldom reduced to such poverty as
70 need q Charity School They informed me that
these children quick TO learn as the white, but
more reses. ard unsettled. The industrial branch in
the school was brush making. The children were fed
much as ours are in similar schools in New-York. As
wa. expected the school has been means Of intro
ducon TO the public schools, come fry children hay-
pg been cent to them in the past year.
Il will show the public interest in the enterprise, that
out Of the 81 900 expended for the school, at least
sl,7OO were appropriated by the Common Council.
The point where the school is inferior to those in New
York in the want OF corporation 81 tho i.dios
of the city in the instruction Of those child
rem. It should be remembered that /. is not
ich .Ar
children need the most. They ara especially
destitute morally; and the influence Of refined women
laborng d.interestedy to improve and elevate them
is Gee of the best means Of iedeemhg them from vile
habits. Then the whole eifor. 10 peculiarly q
deuocratizpg and Christian influence connecting in
bonds of the lowest and the highest that no
city society should be without it.
No doubt thi1 revival, 80 far I'D it is genuine and
permanent, will call forth numbers of the Western
wome Of the bsttsr classes to this field Of labor.
Let US remember that the Jesuits, when they
opered their lsbors with heroic and sslf-sacrfcing
spirit, before The guile and pride Of craft
had corrupted them, gaaed Possession OF the
European mind by instructiDg thu neglected
youth Shah rot the Protestant lay missionary be as
wise in his own generation Christian and Protestant
cb arty s laying foundation now among the poor and
ignorant and Gepraved Of America, which no iutuie
assaults of ignorance or bgotry shall ever overthrow
Nav grand structure Of intelligence sDi character
rise upon it.
DETROIT.
We found here one Of the largest los ustal Schools
of the West Th. has been founded entirely BY pf-
yate enterprise without aid from the city; and the
impulse ana plan were given BY ladies who had taken
part IN the schools Of NewYork It seems the favor
lie charity Of the city The beat ladies' take part
in Il; provisions and presents Of ell sorts come III