Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-07
NEW HAVEN, CONN. FRIDAY MORNING, D
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Friday, December ., 1883.
A NOBLE WORK.

There are great many bad things in New York, so many that it has the reputation of being very wicked city. But there are a great many good things there, and though they are not so constantly before the public as the bad ones they are constantly exercis- ing powerful influence toward the improve ment of the city's character. One of these good things is the Children's Aid society, which has been in operation about thirty years, and has accomplished vast amount of good. The annual report of the society has just been published, and it contains much that is cheering.
 This society has met organized crime by organized education; has improved associa- ted squalor and poverty by associated efforts for the teaching of cleanliness and industry; has prevented vagrancy, not by the police and the prisons, but by atording shelter and work; has diminished thieving and robbery by teaching honesty to the lad of the streets, and then putting him in good home where he had few temptations to stealing; has les- sened vagrancy and prostitution by bringing the begging and rowing little girl under early influences of purity and industry, and then placing her with kind hearted family in the country. It's efforts are populArly supposed to be limited to the boys of the poorest class; but, in reality, 1t reaches more girls than boys, and with quite as thorough an influence. It's work for the i'm provement and education of the poorest children is thoroughly well organized in every part. The industrial and half time schools reach the considerable number of tenement house children who are employed 6 portion of the day on the street, at home or in factories, or who arc too ragged, irregular, dirty and vagrant for the public schools. Tho lodging houses embrace the homeless and street wandering and utterly frieRdless youth. The Sick Children's Mission relieves 2 DOT tien of the great number who are sick during the summer months, and the Summer Home gives fresh air, good board, sea bathing and many pleasures to thousands from the tene- ment houses, who are usually shut ont from these enjoyments. The emigration branch finally takes those who are utterly homeless or street wandering.
 During the year there were 14, ,122 different boys and girls in the lodging rooms of the 6OOA0tys AodEAy dII OA WuOm WSEe QOmeleSS wanderers who would have been obliged to sleep in boxes and barrels on the sidewalks, or in alleyways on the steps of buildings, OF in the Vilest dens, except for these charitable accommodations furnished for their uss In the twenty. one day and thirteen evening schools were 13, ,966 children, who were taught, and partly fed and cIothed, and dur ing tventy-nine years more than 25O ,OO0 diff ferent boys and girls have been sheltered and partly fed and instructed. In the industrial schools probably over 100, 900 poor little girls have been taught, and of these it is not known that even score have entered on criminal courses of life or have become drunkards or beggars, though four-ffths were children of drunkards
 This is splendid record, which would cheer even the heart of pessimist. When this noble work was started thirty years ago doubtless many thought the experiment would not be success. But it WAS and the record of the socisty's work shows that even in great city much can be done to pr event poverty and crime.