The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-29
THE CATHOLIC PROTECToRY.

A Reporters Visit to the Great Orphan.
age in Westchester COunty-Fiteen
Hundred Boys and Girls Learning the
Means Of an Honest LfvelihOod-Three
Hundred Girls At Work-The Hour Of
Angelus-The Boys Chapel and Their
Choir.
A visit to the ruins OF the recently burned Cath
Ole Protectory showed the rapid improvements
which are being made to accommodate the little
ones who have lost by the confagration many OF
the comforts OF their late home. temporary
wooden building has been erected TOR the orphans
use. 1t Is divided into Compartments DOR
mitory, dining hail. workshop and recreation room.
This building adoins the little Convent Of the Sis.
tiers of Charity. The Convent is literally crammed
with articles saved from the flames, so that the
nun who acted as guide emphatically remarked,
1--WE have no reception room now.n
Entering the spacious workshop the whirring and
clicking Of a hundred sewing machines bespoke
business on an extensive scale. The uppers Of
boots and shirts were the principal items Of
facture In this department. During the reporters
stay, at twelve O'Clock the bell for the "Angeus,
ringing, the noise Of the sewing machines subsidized
and the girls, old and young, arose, fell into line
prayer by the nun in charge. Alter the prayer
they moved slowly and in order to the refectory,
where q substantial repast awaited them.
THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY GIRLS
seated themselves at two tables extending through
out the length OF the dining hall. According to a
strictly observed rule the most austere silence pre-
vailed during the meal. Dinner consisted OF excel
lent soup, fresh meats tomatoes, apples bread and
potatoes. Rigid discipline seemed to have been
exercised over the keeping OF the dormitories so
clean and orderly did they appear. Destitution,
orphanage or an unruly disposition constitutes
sufficient ground for admittance into the Catholic
ProtectOry.
The large building of the Protectory faces the
euvirons of West Farms and stands upon rising
prOund- the nOblpat for miles around This
building Is occupied by 1900 boys whose ages range
from five years TO seventeen. They were all In the
presented to them. They had just finished their
dinner and were enjoying themselves Their time Is
disposed Oh as iolows:Mfve Honrs ior stuay, nVe
and sleep. Five hundred OF the boys are learning
the shoemaking business, under the supervision OF
expert shoemakers, who are paid a high salary for
their time. 1t novel sight to witness these 500
Crispin nOvces laundering through their daily ap-
a macoe nose e
sends out about six hundred pairs OF boots and
THE PRINTING DEPARTMENT
nfty.six boys are acquiring that trade under the
guidance OF efficient comp0siters. Competent
tradesmen also have charge OF the tailoring estab-
lishment, which IL amply equipped In every par
ticular. About nifty youths are serving az appren-
tees to this trade.
The boys dormltories, though immense In size
are thoroughly ventilated, furnished with complete
heating apparatus, and scrupulously neat and
clean. Eduidistant through the domltories are
their respective portions Of the sleeping rooms. ON
the top story Is handsomely furnished chapel
WatIon The bows have formed choir which bossss
OF several tenors, contraltOs and sopranos far
above Ordinary merit.
The male institution Is under the Immediate care
OF company OF Christian Brothers. whose private
monastery Is situated on the first corridor Of this
building. DR.. Anderson, President OF the Catholic
Onion OF New York, upon whom the Pope has re-
Gently conferred high personal compliments is also
President elect OF the entire Catholic PrOtectory
Institution whose object II the advancement OF the
spiritual and temporal welfare Of ntend]ess and
orphaned boys and girls