New-York tribune., 1896-05-13
TO NAME THE TRUSTEES.
MAYOR WURsTER ASKS MESSRs. BRUSH
AND wII.KIN TO SUGGEST THEM
THEY WILL HAVE SUPERVISION OF THE BROOK
LYN DISCIPLINARY TRAINING SCHOOL FOR
BOYS SOON TO BE ESTABLISHED.


Mayor wurster has requested Senator Brush
and Superintendent Wilkn, Of the Children 8
Society, to suggest to him the names Of men
who could fill desirably the trusteesbips Of the
Brooklyn Disciplinary Training School for Boys.
There are nine trustees to be appointed and
the Mayor already has several names under
consideration. The trustees will be divided into
three classes. the terms of the various classes
to end with 1897, 1898 and 1890 respectively.
The terms OF the trustees thereafter will be
three years.
The ex-ofIicio members OF the Board Of Trus-
tees will be Moses May president Of the He
brew Orphan Asylum: Deputy Surrogate Car
roll first vce-presdent of the Roman Catholic
Orphan Asylum Society, Mrs. William II. Lyon,
president Of the Industrial School Association;
Mayor Wurster and their successors 1t Is prob
able that the Mayor Will announce his ap-
pointees within few days. as it will be neces-
sary for the Board to make a requisition upon
the Board of Estimate, else there will be no
appropriation for the school this year.
The establishment Of n disciplinary school for
boys arrested for vagrancy and offences less
than felonleS was made necessary by the Com
pulsory Education law This law confined the
Truants' Home exclusively to tiuants, whereas
previously it had been used tor boys convicted
OF minor onenCeS. as well as truants
a bill providing for a disciplinary school was
defeated last year. This year It urged
through to passage and for the Governors ap-
proval by Senator Brush and Assemblyman
Wilson. Superintendent Wilkin. OF the Chill
drens Society, was especially earnest sup
porter OF the measure as he recognized a great
danger TO society in the fact that there was
practically no place to send youthful vagrants
and boys taking the first steps in crime. Magis-
70 the Truants Home It was thought un-
desirable TO send them to orphan asy.uns. where
they might contaminatc the other inmates, and
II was lust as undesirable to commit them to
penal institution g. where they would be thrown
among hardened criminals.
How real this difficulty is and how much
the school provided for by the law is
by the fact that the police justices In Brook
lyn are dlscharging with a mere reprimand
all boys brought before them who are charg ID
with the offences provided for in this law.
Justice Walsh has turned three such boys adrlft
within a few days, and Justice steers dis
charged two Saturday"
At the start a building will be rented. but
later the law provides that the school shall
have n building Of its own. 1t Is estimated that
SO 900 to $1,000 will be needed for the first
year.
Two sites have been suggested for the
school," said Superintendent Wilkin. Some
thought that It should be put out on Long
Island and others that II should be In Kings
County / think. myself that n site down to-
ward Coney Island would be as desirable as
any other
1T Is the idea of the law TO give the boys
employment during their confinement. Nothing
OF mitch value can be accomplished, however,
toward teaching them trades