New-York tribune., 1900-09-30
GYMNASIUM OF THE PRO-cATHEDRAL

men whom you liked? That is wherein the
saloon-the jokes are cracked and the stories
are told and the news is exchanged
And after the saloon habit got fastened
you. wouldn't you be likely to choose female
I society plane with 1t? And after you drank
too hard and life became desperate and souless,
and the prospect of State prison or hell itself
ceased to startle or worry you and some early
morning YOU saw a richly dressed man reeling
along your block, wouldn't you take a chance
the penitentiary term and get his money.
whether you had to knock him in the head or
not? Just likely not you would. 1t would
be entirely natural and logical. That is why the
citizen in luxurious circumstances should be-
come interested in the work here-not necessa-
ry the work of this particular parish, but mis-
sion work in this city.
There is really little opportunity for a small
boy to let off his surplus steam to use hgure
He cannot do much of anything to have any
fun. He ought to be forgiven when he engages
in a street fight with another urchin or tips
over a pushcart. The country boy would take
It out in climbing trees playing with his dog or
running and jumping with his schoolmates II
the boys and girls TO be made into good men
and women they must have something new to
do The dreary and harmful things which oc-
cupy their minds now must be expelled with
something which they will love better
GYMNASIUM A BENEFICENT AGENCY.
Our gymnasium here is a great help. 1t is
open every night for boys and girls and men.
and in the afternoon it is open for the boys who
do not work during the day. The boys have
horizontal bars, dumbbells. CLUBS boxing gloves
and shower baths. These things give them
change, and when they are exercising 1t gives
the clergymen and assistants an opportunity to
get at them and to talk TO them on temperance
and purity, and those things which tend direct
" TO make the body stronger and the eye ana
muscle quicker The gymnasium is among the
most powerful forces for the betterment OF
social conditions. It gives the boys and girls
a chance, if you will pardon the expression, to
get tired legitimately. that afterward sleep
will be wholesome and the mind will be COM
posed We do not allow boxing to go to brutal
extent Boxing is helpful, because it teaches the
boys TO control their tempers and to remember
that others are just as skilful as themselves. 1t
would pay the city in the long run 10 estaolls9
running tracks and baseball grounds all around
the East Side. If. when feeling nervous and
discouraged our East Side boys could run
around the tanbark or jump into plunge bath
instead of going to a saloon and filling up with
whiskey, the future citizen would be a gooo
deal better off We have a cadet corps of about
eeyantv-6Z,e members. drilled by 7th Regiment
captain who loves the work While they are
taught to handle guns. stand straight and
obey orders they also taught to love the
nag TO take pride in civic honesty and TO re-
spect women.
AS a result Of certain Investigations made in
the last six months. mission workers on the
Fast Side have been compelled TO take notice
OF the fact that the conditions which became
,,rbearable in 1893 and 1894. preceding the
I,exow investigation, are fully as bad now. and
that the prevalence Of vice, with the knowledge,
~ not with the promotion. of officers of the law
is spreading from its old strongholds into new
localities
There was a llIIle "HCl <AilclI-S'' 'A4OA40 "'~N
nv common consent called the bailiwick of disor-
derly women. Other streets were known to
barbor them, but, generally speaking they re-
uained in Allen-st. Now there are other streets
lust as bad as Alen-st. Some OF them are
Chrystie Forsyth Delaney, First Second
Third Fourth. Eighth and Ninth SITS. Second
ave between Fourteenth-st, and StuyVesant
Square, and East Houston-st.
AS matter of fact. the Twelfth and Fiji
teenth precincts are besprinkled with these un-
fcrtunates. and the old system Of assessing them
for police protection is known to be in full
swing
THE OLD PROTECTION" SYSTEM
A man interested in the University Settlement
work said TO a Tribune reporter yesterday:
The old system of protection to vice in all its
responsiveness and wickedness is in complete
oneration again. and that is why Mr.. Paddock