The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-07-09
RATES OF ADVERTISING,
CRUELTY TO CHILDREN:

ChUELlI ~ OhAADAUANe
Degradation, Deception, Brutality -Curios
ties ot the New York SOciety's Head
quarters.
The New York Commercial Adoertiscr
says The work Of preventing cruelty
to children is extending. Already
there are twenty-four societies In this
country actively engaged in protecting |
the young, and in various parts OF Eu-
rome there have been established insti-
tutions for the same purpose. Nearly
one thousand children are yearly re-
moved from homes of degradation,
where they are brutally treated, and
are placed among the charitable institu-
tons. Children are snatched from
positions where their health and morals
would suffer, and general lookout is
kept over the young ones in our midst.
An important labor has been done In
connection with the padrone system,
which has abolished this infamous pro-
cedure. The Rev. Cowley was shown
up and punished little acrobats have
been removed from painful positions,
and young girls have been rescued from
vile dens where they we're enticed.
In the reception room of the soclety's
building (which was lately purchased
and fitted up handsomely and convent
ently) there is gallery of photographs,
where the most interesting cases are
pictured. These tell story Of crime
and misery and depravity that is fearful
to contemplate. The brazen, hard fea-
lures of Eliza Clark may be seen just as
she was taken from den in Thompson
street. She is but thirteen years old /;
was found dancing and intoxicated, and
was addicted to chewing tobacco, smok-
ING and swearing. Some of the victims
of the sanctimonious Cowley are photo.
graphed, among these the child reduced
to q skeleton. There is picture OF be-
hind the scenes in circus, where the
little acrobat lies bleeding and wounded
from a fall, and the clown and cory
phees are weeping about him. The
Hungarian band, group OF children
musicians, who were defrauded, ane
whom the Society sent home to thei
native land, are in this gallery. TIT
collection Of impostors signs in posses
sion of the society reveals curious Tea
ture Of the practices Of beggars. On
tin badge is marked on one side "Pars
lived since Doth Of December" and o.
the other side reads "Bhnd since '52,
showing that the impostor altered hi
ailments according to circumstance
Among these signs hangs apotato mast
r. which was used by a woman to cast
gate her child; there are also barre
hoops with nails in them used to beat
little fellow and there are whips an
straps, knives and stones, all taken frol
brutal parents who were found using thel
when arrested. In glass case, know
as "The Bar" are the whisky bottle
taken from minors purchasing liquo
These are labeled with the name
the child, the seller, and how the cour
punished him. Ten cents worth
whiskey almost fills one flask, whit
was found in the hands of a boy seyt
years old who had Just boughtit. Amor
these walls is the nursing bottle co
tanning some of the mixture served
Maggie McCloskey, the 'angel maker
to the infants confded to her keepln
This fluid looks as if it would so
make an angel Of the most healt
baby. !.
The walls Of one Of the receipt
rooms are hung with musical instl
ments taken from italian boys, W
were SO cruelty treated by the padroi
There are tambourines and castine
yiolins and bows, and harps which
call the days when little imps as tn
as flies would in summer fiddle IN
distracted pedestrians would fee tn
to desist.
The upper story Of the society bui
ing is where the children rescued
kept until good homes are found
them. The bath and wash Erooms
where they are first made wholeson
fine play-roomS adjoins this. Tn
are very neatly kept dorn1itories G
tanning twelve cots and cribs, an
clothes room containing garments OF
kinds and sizes for children. There
pleasant yard fronting ON Fou
avenue where the little ones can p
and where they apparently enjoy tn
aelves heartily.
III ~
How Davis Received News Of /
Surrender. e
e.,Ss Sr nv hot haste from Appor1a