The Portland daily press., 1895-04-18

most Ready to Send over.
"Look at the Brownies" said a boy to
| another yesterday morning pointing up
ward to the high side of the steamship
Numedian where a crowd of boys sfor-
ward did almost recall the quaint fam
cies of Palmer Cox. Boys peeped from
over the rail. Small boys were held up
by larger ones. boys were on piles of
rope, boys were perched on chains, boys
were everywhere they could get and
| among them moved tall handsome man
and a bright young fellow, evidently the
director of the party and his assistant.
After the steamer docked, few of the
boys were interviewed in behalf of the
PRESS. After half hour spent in
looking about they concluded that they
had seen all there was to see and SO they
quietly proceeded to amuse themselves
in many ways. Two boys had a checker
board on the deck and were lost to all
outward things. They might not be
able to give Kid" O'Brian points in the
game, but they played just las earnestly
as two old book" players. There were
no hasty moves made by these wary
players. They knew what a mistake
would mean if promptly taken advan
taee of, and they made few blunders.
Then group of boys seemed to be
playing cards. They were, but they were
not, the regulation cards with which the
historic game was played when
II looked at Nye and Nye looked
at me" but very harmless collection
Of quaint pictures from which they en-
volved game that interested them.
The boys were remarkably bright and
intelligent. They seemed far more SO
in fact than the boys who were taken
over from DR.. Barnardo's home few
and there was general appearance of
that discipline that counts for SO much
with boys or men.
Some We're veterans of 16. bright look
ing fellows ready to think. and with
plans laid for the future. 1t was clear
from what they said that their instruo-
tion had gone much deeper than the reg
ular school manual, that there had been
steady keeping in view of the fact that
it is the duty of a man or boy to be
good citizen. They all said they were
willing to work. There was this differ
ence between the first lot of boys and
the second. Thesesboys seem to have
a very clear idea that honest work will
bring them success, and they propose
to do their best to deserve success. The
other boys seemed to be simply looking
forward to life on the farm. The second
lot of boys had evidently been more
carefully trained.
Then there were the little fellows, from
the brave little sailor of four, who
seemed to be as tull OF life as he well
could be, to the sober boys Of 10, who
seemed to feel that they must set good
example to the kids" They all liked
Mr.. King, the director of the party, aud
"Tom" Oae other and very important
member of the party should not be for
gotten, the missis," in other words,
Mrs. King, whose kindly offices had evil
IDENTIFY been greatly appreciated.
M. R. King, who was in charge of the
party, is a tall, fine-looking man. deep
ly in earnest, and very much impressed
with the Importance of the work he is
doing in making good citizens.
He said the boys are all from the Boys
Refuge, at Manchester, England, (the
girls are not neglected by the way,)
and they are all orphans. The work of
the home is carried on by the money
that is freely contributed by the benev-
olent, and is Oh strictly undenomination-
al lines. awe take Catholic boy" said
Mr.. King, and we do the best we can
for him. If he desires to go to the Cath
olic home, we give him letter to them
and send him there. If Catholic wants
to adopt boz, we let him have any
Catholic boy VIE have. We never ask
question what religion a boy is suppos ;.
to profess.
When the silver wedding, the 25th IN
niversary Of the founding of oar home
was celebrated this month, there were
bishops, deans, canons, and clergy
men of all churches on the same plat
form."
Mr.. Shaw is in chargs of the Manches-
ter end of the work, and the boys of the
party. that reached kere yesterday are to
go to the Marchmont home, Belleville,
Ontario. From there they will be dis
| tri puted among the farmers and othe1s.
1t was good illustration of the strict
| ly undenominational character of the
/ work, that Mr.. King did not know to
| what denomination.tkJR Rev. Mr.. Wallace
who is in charge of the Marcbmont
home, belongs.
Mr.. King was asked what the secret of
the manifestly better condition of his
boys over those brought here by the for
mer purity, and he replied that they had
simply been trained better. you
ought to say that the Allan line fed
them we'll" he added. "They proved to
be splendid sailors"
| The English end of the work is con-
stantly carried on. At this time there
are 50G boys in the Manchester home,
| apd frotr, tbaV, saoop6 Marty viii soon