The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-05-10

or, after which they filed past the desk, aud, |
receiving their bed-cheoks,. proceeded up TO |
the dormitorics. Before following them /
hunted for the explanation OF those singular
ly clean faces and feet and found II In huge
wash.room with bath rooms across one side,
long row Of hand basins across another, while
along third stood formidable line Of deep
foot baths, where the boys washed their grimy
feet on coming in from the days work, and
again Just before introducing them TO the spot
less bedding up stairs. The larger dormlto-
rles contain about $50 beds each, arranged in
two tiers on neat iron bedstesds, with ample
space between, and were as tidy and comfort
able as any tired man need ask. The large
rooms front on three streets, are high ceiled,
and far more airy than many n pretentious
city mansion. These beds cost their occupants
six cents night. A smaller room cited with
seventeen beds, broader and little higher
toned can be enjoyed for ten cents by the
urchin who has done an unusually good days
work and wants to
-4. ROLL AROUND LIKE A LORD
and hug for one night at least the notion that
he 10 rising in the world. This room Is known
as the "Fifth Avenue, . while tho ''slx center"
On an upper hoor lie tbs gymnasium, fitted
with the usual appliances, whore the young
sters now challenge each other to the mortal
chances Of a walking match, two nlghtsin the
week. Breakfast and supper are furnished In
the house to those who wish, Mt six cents
meal for all boy can eat. Lads who are un-
BILE to pay are temporarily lodged and fed
free of charge. On Sunday evening the boys
assemble in the school-room and hold relig-
ious services, clergymen and business men al
ways being at hand to address them. A saw
| ings bank is in this room, consisting Of broad
table with numbered slits opening into boxes
beneath, from which the money is gathered
every week, and deposited at Ave per cent,
The house contains about 200 boys, and costs
about 81, 900 month to run, of which the lads
pay about one halt the balance being made
up by the ChIldren's Aid Society, which owns
the building, and is sustaining five similar
but smaller Institutions four for boys and one
for girls, in other parts of the city. This So
ciety has agents throug hout the West who
fnd situation for the boys, and every week
colony is sent off, ranging in number from 20
| to 100. In some cases as high as l50 have gone
at time. Needy families also are gathered
in from the tenement house districts and sent
to the West as fast as situations can be found
for them. Notwithstanding this wholesale
shipment, the lodging houses can scarcely
keep room enough open for the homeless lads
and girls who crowd in upon them. Only the
better class of children are really reached by
this noble society, the worst classes being too
bad and vicious to submit to even the few
wholesome regulations inseparable from a
judicious system of caring for them. While a
blessed work is thus being done whose fruits
no man can estimate, yet the awful fact re-
mains that thousands more are not reached
and cannot be by any private means. Only
the strong arm of legal compulsion can draw
them from the slums.
RIVAL TO EDISON.
An irrepressible genius down in Elizabeth,
N. j., has been inventing new electric light
which, experts say, is superior to Edison's and
likely to supercede 1t. His name is Philip
Diehl, mechanical expert, employed by the
Singer Sewing Machine people. Your cor
respondent was waited on by Mr.. Dlehl last
week with specification and drawings of the
patent Just issued for the invention, and with
out deigning to ask any oral explanations the
| task was boldly undertaken OF unraveling the
mysteries thereof and displaying them to the
delighted vision of the newspaper world.
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