New-York tribune., 1880-04-07
SKETCHES OF TIE ROYS.

Following arc sketches of the boys consti-
tuilng the party tho facts given having been obanrd
for the NEST part directly from The boys
BANCROFT CHARLES clean. rosvcleckci youth, whose
white shirt was particularly com spiruous
through tho many rents III his Other gIrmonis had
quite long story To tell and hc managcd t0 give It
sixteen next T1ursday," ho sad My father am'l
mother are both dend my mother going four years
OIn, but don't know where. and that's nll there Is
belonging TO mo. Father wns nshpchnndlcr and
when he died mother aud had Z hard tlno. I"en
she cnt, and gentleman named Clayton IlOlings-
hoa kept me for IA me; lett him Tor place IN
After bring there eight months ! worked on II
farm ut Vincent Town for a couple Of months. but
didn't like It, 1ndeO came on 10 Newark, where went
into he iewclTy buainrss. "niy got - 80 u work,
and that was not endugh 10 Keep me- 50 THREE weeks
agO slipped out and came here. hnyc tried haid
to yet Job, and 10 have no chance, 20 thought
would Ike to go with these boys. | slnll be sure
Of work down there they oi me- Ca" read' but
BLESSER THOMAS. ragged yontl Of sixtecn years Of
mother ten years ago. ana john lpin, a fisher
man. brought him to this country socn aftcrward.
lie lived with u Young girl III some wny relaIed 30
the fisherman, and dh house Jobs one day the girl
was missing. 0n1 the boy Of twelve after cry
lug rOnnd the city for day TWO. went To IOboken
I,nrtnc tho voyage he was ennloyed os coal ,sser
and followed THIS vocation until s!X months since.
when he returned 10 The city. Since then lac has
earned precarI0lls slIslsenna by carving bnRgngn
AMI doing odd jobs. IN concluding: his tory lie a.d
" want 10 get out Of II. don't want 10 lock lk.
this any longer Ihayc not friend IN the word that
BURNS, 1IIOHAs j., ace nineteen. was Of the most
deccntly dressed boys III the crowd. lii father who
was ngnt watchnlin, dlrd three years ago. ard ns
mother he year following. He was the only enid.
He started elevator boy, and kept l~ position ;Or
three Years. Thon 10 became hall hoy ~ tne New.
York Hotel, but lately has become ambitious AID
believes that hc sBOuld have better cLairr Or max
ing man Of himself ont IN the country. Brsidcs, hc
was bon farm and II fond Of fGrm work.
CARROLL. DAVID. Ia strong. healthy youth of aeven-
tesn. whose lather Is book chuyasscr His mother
died thrcs years ago. lie said ln'I 40 to rchupl
much; neglected. that when had The Cl iLCr. AZ.
ter mother died used 10 work With ttihof, hnu
have dOuo ulil last week. ! have never done
anything else. lie dOe6n't pay mt anyIlng for II,
and afford even to keep me- for IL taEcsal no
can get 10 keep bin IN liquor. smoke tn him scv-
eral times about gong with these bOysand last week
he said h. didn't care where / w,nt." At THIS the
boys eyes moleened. and something Ike n sol es'
capped hilD. have one brother Older thuu me, "o
works IN u prutn1 office on P'ari.st., but he don't
care ANYTHING about neither
CONkLIS. THOMAS, axe Beycntccn. Is an orphln, his
iatGer dyln2 six years nRo, ana his mother thrcc.
The father WIS "A steady man. cook and until he
dicd they had pleasant home. Thomas Wns an
work ON farm 40 nehundred-andeglty-iO y-iOurill-st'
aud Trntliave for 80 q week Lately he asked Tor
IN increase Of pay, aud getting It he came 10 tho
city, believing That he would easily get another iob
He was uuabe 10 DO 20. nnd was glad 10 JON the
trip brcause he underatOOl all about farming a
DIXOS CHARLES, age sixteen, wns born Ia PhadelFi1,
and II the son OF ships cook. His father removed
TO tins city Twelve years aZO, anu Two years blboe
died. Tne mother went TO work In tue kitchen ht
the Grand Central Hotel, and tho boy, after spend
ing three years with his father ms cabin boy, re-
turned 10 his mother In this city For nine months
he worked in the oyster business but I'VE weeks ago
was discharged, and since then has had nothing
TO do
Donovan, JosEPH age 1fteen, has both mother and
father. The latter Ia sator, and Ia nov doing very
little work HiB mother Is weakly, and there are
three other cnidron younger tha Jo1eha' WIZ WI ioi M
earnlnRA With some pride he produced letter OF
Recommendation from his employer, BFookyr