New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-07

games. At 4:3o supper is served. and at o:SV
school begins. To a stranger this Is probably the ho
girls file INTO their respective and sit with folded
arms unnl the books are ordered ont peculiar Tea
votes itself TO single topic Geography Tor instance
studied one afternoon and fractions the next IL is
claimed that by this means the pupils advance mueh
more rapidly and get a more thorough knowledge OF
study than they would one hour were devoted TO one
topic aud the next hour b. another. The greater part
OF the children neither read nor write Whtn
they enter the House. and yet they maS'
perts At frs.-hand map drawing, and struggle
heroicaly and successfully with startling problems ~
mental arithmetic. To l1ok the boys when they are
on the playground one would think that books would
be very diStaseiul to them The policy OF tue nstitu
without thorough elementary education, ana MANI oi
maintaining a good rank Another incentive 10 sudYls
the fact tnat bows standing has much TO do win
his release. One little fellow with son. bright eyes ana
a pleasant frank yet modest face, mad reached nearly
the highest class. He was said % he very clever ~ ms
studies and curious part Of that he had been
in the House only and had been sent there from
Albany for playing truant. Many OF the BOYS naNe
strange histories. Some Of them have led veIj wild
lives and several have served terms In the penentary
When set free care T. taken that they are ae
in good surrounding. many or them going on farms
In the majority Of their experience in the House
OF Refuge 70 awaken IL them new view OF me-
Among the girls in the school there are several with
wonderful memories. one girl, seventeen years old.
who mas beer in the House nearly three years Is sara 10
repeat long from and speeches after
hearing them delivered tired the school Commit
dav by repeating forty or fty pages ~ Coz
Task" which she had committed 10 memory. one OF
the teachers formerly inmate " The House lne
girls like the BOYS study reading writing geograby
and other branches and devote ,he session from 300 10
y. ~. 10 single topic. They are taught 10 be- orderly
and neat, and not discharged unit they are wen
educated and able help themselves After the SchOol
session closes both the boys and girls 90 to their re-
spectIve dOrmitOries and 60 TO bed.
The superintendent Israel c. Jones. who has been al
the head Of institution for years, In speaking
recently about the future Of the boys after they lett the
House. said The thing IL To keep them from the assoc
cations and companions they had when they were
sent u the II 900 5000 acres Of land could
be secured in part OF Central Long Island
At present with bushes and unculyated. ana II Ihls
land could be cut mp lots OF from five to twenty
acres hundr,d Of boys when we send out every
year could apprenticeship on these ttle farms
and be absorbed thence into country e would nave
ordinary farm-houses hut few n the lots, ana lei
man aud ais wife take two three OF these BOYS ana
bring them NJ Just other bows are. They could DC
taught work would have their holidays would go 20
church with ms children and IN time would 30 from
this other farms would buy farms for themselves
".