New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-08

TO rescue children from tho dangers and mseries OF
tenement house existence. from the temptations
and degradatons OF street life 10 provide them with
necessary shelter. food clothing instruction. and
then perhaps FL them homes In the country. or
send them back to their own homes, with good
habits formed In process OF formation. and with
something helpful which they would never have
had but for the institution.
THEY BECOME GOOD CITIZENS
at Is naturally very gratifying to the directors
to know that large percentage OF the children who
pass through the asylum become useful. vrtuous
and valuable citizens. And the children themselves.
when they enter tho activities Of the world and
recognize. as they grow older. how important have
been the Influences OF the asylum. cherish feelings
Of gratitude, not only toward tho institution and
its managers but toward the city as WELL and VI
resident here manifest their gratitude by leading
worthy. law-abiding honorable lives"
The methods pursued by the NewYork Juvenile
Asylum TO attain these results comparatively
simple: child brought TO the asylum by Its
parents or sent there through the medium OF the
courts, Is first placed In the House Of Reception.
at present situated No. 100 West Twcntyseventh-
st. This house the double purpose OF re-
ceiving Office and Of a quarantine. and here the
child IL detained for a period varying from two
to three weeks. After this short probation the
child Is transferred to the main asylum at one
hundred-and- seventy sxth-st.. where the asylum
life proper begins. The training here Is intended TO
cover the moral intellectual and industrial depart
ments of education. The boy girl the case
may be- is assigned to the class which It's previous
attalnnents 1T Il 10 enter.
The allotment OF children in these classes H.
entirely on an educational basis, but their sepa =
ration In the dormitores Is on another line OF
division Here experience has proved that the In
fuence OF older children upon younger ones IL
generally detrimental and the children are there
fore separated by age and size. In the daily life
of the asylum too there is something OF this sepa
ration observed There are practically three dlyi-
sions-the older boyc. the junior boys and the girls
deDartments these have Their separate dormitOries
dining rooms. Fairgrounds and chapels, and the
children In one department do not mingle with the
children in another except at certain times as, for
Instance at the Sunday service, Friday after
Moons in the main chapel and at the times al
lotted for visiting among the children and with
their parents or friends. Another division OF the
children follows along the line OF their Industrial.
training Most OF the work Of the Institution Is
done by its Inmates. The clothing. the shoes, caps
are ali made In the institution. food Is cooked there
and the work OF cleaning and repairing the build
ings is carried on. This necesstates OF course. a
division OF labor
BOYS As MUSICIANS.
The boys who work In the shoeshop are trained
I'm music as a band: others are In the bakeshop,
enter-shop and so on. Similar division OBJ
tains among the girls. Some employed In the