New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-25
WORK FOR POOR CHILDRRy
GREAT DECREASE IN JUVENILE CRIME
ENCOURAGING REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES or Tn,
cInLDREN's AID SOCIETY.

ENCOURAGING REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES or I'm
cHaLDRES's AID SOCIETY.
The Board OF Trustees OF the Chdren's ala sae,.,
Of the City OF Newfork met yesterday at D. m. {,
the Board Room. No. 12s broadway, to rscs;y, ~.
annual report. The report showed that tho AZ.
lodging houses for boys and the home for girs AZ
good work among tue poor children OF the street.
During te last year II TO homeless boys and -
have there been brought under good influences. Tss
industrial schools during the year received ,ou.
10000 children with average daily atteaaane, a.
4,343. These schools employ lad teachers. n.
Jones Memorial SCHOOL, at seventy third-st Ia. =.
complIshed good results. There are aDout 400 in ,h,
school, which Is under the management Of Miss Well,
The Industrial SCHOOL at No. $50 Six Bst near Ayenus
G has also done great good among the poor Of tbe
East side.
Through the generosity Of women intere,ed In III,
"Cottage Place SCHOOL, the society Is about TO have
large new building In which 10 carry on thar branch
OF the work. The lots will be given By Mss Bruce ana
Mrs.. j. N. White. The summer charities have thu
year been more successful than ever before. sick chr
drca and mothers have been cared for at the Health
Home at Coney Island, and the summer Home a,
Bath Beach has been crowded all summer with uttls
girls from the poorest quarters of the city.
one Of the most gratifying results attained BIZ
the society is the great decrease In juvenile crime
The population of the city In 1855 was 629, $40 and
I'm 1890 it was 1,6sO,796. Yet there were In lsss
994 young girls committed for petit larceny aud only
2l5 In $780, 5,779 females for vagraucy In 1852 aud
1880 I'm 1890; 1926 males for petit larceny in Issa
and only ,937 In 1890 In the sanitary department
the results have been successful More than
200 900 boys have been during the last thirty eight
years lodged in the Newsboys' Lodging House. We,
there has been no case Of foul airs contagious
disease. The careful organization Of the schools 4,
4ba af tbafr
has never been surpassed In enterprise OF the kind
The total annual expense Of the twenty-one industrial
schools and twelve night schools for salaries rents
food, clothing, books, fuel, etc. Sl0s5ll A.
This sum divided by 4,348, the average number IN
daily attendance, makes $.N SO the annual cost for
each child. In the lodging houses 1l,770 boys and
girls we're fed, sheltered and taught during the year
at TOTAL cost OF $56,754 a. The total number placed
out by the society in Eastern and Western homes
during the last year was 1895 and the total cost for
railroad fares clothing, food, salaries, etc, was
S2s, 1o6 II. The average cost to the public accord.
mgy for each person sent was only % 96. Any child
placed In an asylum poorhcuse for a year COST
nearly $40. These statistics need no comment
There were during the year in the six lodging houses
IL no different boys and girls and ga, o0i meals AID
2Os,7 72 lodgings were supplied. In the twenty one
day and twelve evening schools were 1874 children
who were taught and partly fed and clothed, 5losos
meals being supplied. 1hefe were z,o-o chhfch
sent homes and employment and restored to friends
in both the East and the West, and 174T were aided
with food and medicine through the Sick Ohidrens
Mission The benefits of the "summer Homes a.
Bath L. L. reached 4730 children and $3.50 mothers
and sick infants sent to the Health Home
Uarey Island. Sixty-six girls have been lnslructa
In the use Of the sewing machine In the Girls Ten
porary Home and the industrial schools, and thry'
nine were Taught typewriting. The total numfs
under the charge Of the society during the ast ye
has been 49, $685. Homes and employment have been
provided for 1919 boys, 7o9 girls. l2o men and ~
women. At the Tompdns Square Lodging !iouse.
No pos East Eghth-st erected In 1856 by Mrs. Robert
L. stuart, lat boys were registered, az the Nnt
Side Lodging House. No. 400 seventh ave. erected In
1854 by John Jacob Ast6r $50 boys, and so on IA
proportion at all the various homes lodging houses and
schools Of the society. 80.
The treasurer's report was as follows Receipts.
S242 311 % expenditures, $3.50 200 80; balance 10
treasury November /, 1891 81, go 90 The 9iheeS
of the last year all reelected. They are William
A. Booth, president; George s. Coe treasurer
c. Lorlng Brace, secretary trustees, William Chgr9S
Osborne George 5. Coe Charles f. Whitehead, j. kso
nedy Tod and James r. Roosevelt.