New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-17
GOOD UORh FOR POOR BOYS.
WHAT Is GOING on AT THE BURNHAM INDUS
TRIAL FARM.

WHAT IS GOING on AT THE BURNHAM INDUS
TRIAL FARM.
| One hears the Burnham Industrial Farm mentioned
frequently lately, because q group Of young women,
assisted By Columbia College men, are pushing prepare
lions for musical and dramatic entertainments % be
given In It's behalf AT the Berkeley Lyceun on january
| % and 20.
This farm Is situated in Columbia County. at Canaan
FourCorners. 1860 feet above dewaer The region
is one Of great helthfulnss lying Just west Of the
Taconic Range. and the situat is noted for s benuty
The farm, comprising $50 acres. came into the hands
Of It's trustees stocked with cattle horses and the
usual farming Implements 1t was formerly occupied
BY Shaker community, large part Of tho land IL
under cultivation by tho boys who live there. and
nearly 800 was received hat year from tho sale Of farm
products.
The rest OF the farm Ia IN fine pasture and valuable
woodland. ON II ar- several dwellings, shops. barns,
stables and granary. Thes>s bnildlngs are ali kept
Ia order by the boys. one Oi them contains steam
engine with n boiler Of forty horse power The farm
is bounds. on tho west by Queocchy Lake, and Is
abundantly waterod By springs and streams. and by
the lake. along which It Hes for It's whole length
The Institution for whose this property is held
Is divided Into families which dwell In separate build
ngs, very much Of home Ne being thus secured Sever:
young men, together with William VI. +. Roound the
interchangeable secretary and director, arc dcvoung them
selves without pecunary TcmunoTutAon, to tho task
with whom they live IN these homes In gAng
among the boys notices spirit Of manly
Independence, Of nir dealing with another, and OF
res pcct and affection for the management, which call
scarcely be appreciated without visiting tho nrm and
seeing for ones solf the Icsults there Obtained.
Tho life at Qucechy," the place Is now 70 be
called, Is epitomc OF the outside world for MI the
functions Of ctLership are practlscd tcurc. The sys
TEN Of government has been adopted, with important
notifications, from the Hauche liaus,T the hluous
reformation school OF Germany. founded Hamburg
by the Wicherns father and Tho number OF boys
I'm a family IS about dozen Each boy Is allowed
ten mills day for LIS services. Against this credit
are charged fines for dcrectons, Offset by rewards
for merits so that the balance OF mills for each boy
is an accurate index OF his industry and department
Nv means Of their credit balances the boys enabled
10 make little purchases and % perform aot- Of gener
osity 10 one another There IL also system Of jury
trials by which any boy accused OF an offence receives
"A verdict from his fellows Of moral cspond-
blty Is thus developed In all, and the close relation
ship OF social dependence Impressed upon each " the
little community.
More tinn a hundred applications for entrance To
the farm are now hand for boys who have
already done criminal acts fOr magistrates commit
10 "A farm instead Of 10 a 1ai but mostly for bOys
who are sons OF widowed mothers, who getting
heyond the guidance aud control Of their parents,
who arc found amid unfavOrable surroundings nj
hon