Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-08-10

From the New York Tribune.
Five wears ago last Christmas season gen
tleman living in New England, upon balanc-
ing his sccoudts for the year, found that he
had been unusually prosperous in his busi'
ness enterprises and, although he was not
yet rich, he determined to devote $1,000 OF
his profits TO charity as a sort of thank otter
ing. His desire was so to employ this money
that the benefit TO be derived from 1t would
not perish with its first use, but would con,
tinue through many years and he decided
to send poor children from New York tC
country homes in the West.
Accordingly, through the excellent agency
of the Children's Aid society, which hac
been engaged in this work many years
seventy-siH boys and girls were gathered
from the streets and from bones OF dire pow
erty and sent to Iowa, Kansas aud other
points where comfortable homes awaited
them, and where industry aud honesty were
sure to meet such rewards Is could not
have been possible under the terrible coudl'
tions of the life from which they had been
rescued.
Five years have passed since the children
reached their Western homes. The Older
ones have grown TO be men and women ; the
younger have developed sufficiently for q fail
judgment OF their future to be formed. 1t is
interesting to view the results rs they appear
to-day Eighteen of the children were mem
bers of four families who went to places
where employment and comparative abund
ance were assured them. The Imagination
can hardly picture the hopelessness of the
life they left behind. One boy aud one cir
went to their widowed mothers and reported
their safe arrival. A boy went 10 live with
an uncle, but has sent no word
Fitty-five found their homes among strsn
gers from all except one reports have beer
received, though from many not OF recen
date OF all this number, gathered as they
were from the poorest OF the street populs
ton of this great city, only two are known t,
have been thieves. Two have run away anC
two or three are spoken of as decidedly bad
Nine have wandered oil from the neighbor
hood where they were first placed and hav
been lost sight of, but in doing so they exer
| cised only the right that belongs to ever
American boy, and there is no evidence ths
they have not done well in the new home
they have found. Nothing but a niiracl
Il could have made them do well here ST
/ have returned to New York one was scl
L and was sent back for treatment thre
| brothers were sent for by a married siste
Who had become able TO maintain them an
4 start them in business here and two cam
l back, probably because New York street lii
1 bad still u fascination TO their childish mind;
| Two have died-s promising girl and an ID
dustrious young man. Fully thirty were re
ported at last accounts as doing well-som
! OF them very we'll The eighteen who wer
| with their parents ii is safe to assume hav
I done fairly we'll
/ This is good record. Let any person ia
1 miliar with the darker side of New EOrl
i life estimate If he can the proportion Of thOs
boys and girls who would have escapes
/ from criminal or vicious lives il they had re
| manned here. one thousand dollars coul,
l hardly have been expended to greater advaI
Il tsge.