New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-28
DIMINISHING CRIME AND VICE.
WORK OF THE CHILDRENs AID SOCIETY.

REPORTS SHOWING MUCH GOOD ACCOMPLISHED.
The annual meeting of the Chidren's Aid So
cicy was held yesterday in the American Exchange Bank
Robert Hoe IT,. Howard Potter L. P. Fabbr W. Bayard
Cutting and A. b. Stone elected trustees. The re-
port OF Charles L. Brace the secretary says OF the So
clety's thirty-onc years Of work.
over 10000 homeless children have been placed In
good homes I'm the rural districts; 100000 BOYS ana
girls have been sheltered, fed and instructed IN us sly
lodging houses; hundreds OF thousands have been care
for and trained IN its twcntyone Industrial schools OF
taught I'm It's fourteen night schools and many thousands
refreshed strengthened restored 10 healtn by It's ch
The frits in this city are seen in the diminished num-
Der Of petty thieves child vacrans young prostitutes
bcgan there are fewer chidren's faces behind prison
bars; less childish poverty bcggary ana crime sllc
cron Of young Offenders against the laws We en-
ablcd 10 say that child in New York at the present
living or want for meal II he will work for IT, or be
without a school wlere he get both industrial ana
work and home There is little excuse now for chill
denS ana CRIME Yo IN need I not she wish be
without shelter work or home for single night
In regard to the present needs the report says:
Two OF our lodging houses need better aecommo onc
oldest branches, and yet has a most ldelr n
Gent for the needs OF this charity could he put ny on two
lots somewhere in that quarter Of the city Tor SiOOyO
She other is the house at No 3ll East Thirty nth st
whose work has quite outglGWh me cnpacl'S VI ''
one Of the kind friends Of the Society, without sohca
ton has generously comclorward and offered the money
$40 OOO, for rebuilding the Elghlcchtn-st lUEIhS
house the society purchasing the lots. This building,
much needed for the poor children on the "esl sluc
Thirty st. and seventh ave, and j. to ne c9lcd
the %Wc.t side Lodging House Besides tn TWO
lodging houses mentioned above there Is great necd o
better doohls d"r our t " For Schools Ike the East
River NO BOG East Fortich-tD or the Crosby street.
an EXPENSE 100000 for eacn womb give theh illp
rooms, and places for their ,nnr,erle- klarrsarIen
r..rly-r md lufu u
quarter OF century doing most useful and excellent
T mr. hnnrsi Of suitable house, 10 these and others OF
our schools would be al unminglcd benciaction.
Statistics are given to show that the commitment OF
girls and women for vagramcy FELL of from III every
l}Slo persons In the city 1850 To in every GIL II
IN 49, and that the commitments OF petty gr-thicve'
fell from in every 739 in 1868. 70 in every 4llO III
1851 This Il is claimed shows the beneficial effects "
such reform work that Of the Society The decrease IN
all crimes within past eight years was Il per cent
"Thc decrease" the report says has gone on regularly
both in years of In incs depression and prosperity II
provcs Tint diminishing the supply Oi theN's'
burglars. Migrants ami roSuc,.
The report 10y it, figures proves that the Society has
been managed with much economy. The gruuudle--
of the attacks that have Zoe - made @ tHe WoI"
bly,. and Mr. Brace add-:
il i, not borne IN r'ad hy the worthy gentlemen who
have a--.cd thar work Is on an cuouAon. scale
and though the average Of failures J., small YET 10 any
given p-i-ou ~ certain spot ~ thg N'N l h''l o'
lion u member -. Paul reported that almost every
away from their place. N"T we h'Nr I!'o',' "i,n ILL.,, ."
radl, 400 mile, from -. Paul. more than l'oo chli
drcn. a proportion of yer crui among these yon,h.
who had turned ont badly woud NOT Ic rst' 1hu l', j.
Dad. pi these sixty children ht uilrl lhi" - ll amy
mciuhrr OF Charity Board IA that city would think That
the New York orphans were succeeding very bidiN.
The WORK Tor the year D, summed up thus; ~.
house. 1877 different boy aud .Tl.; ~ meals
ard 2tl2iJ i"'|in-~ were -upil'l ~ il-, "'hi! orc
.ai ", home. mainly In The West: 500 we're adrd with
a .Itt.I tTf