The sun., 1900-11-26
RAID ON DUFFEY'S SCHOOL.
GOASyOr. .rLgASE SEAT OH IEARNIN0
uOsED tP nv rOINk.
Reacon Heights Arsdsmyb rsptis IAved vres
and Eas,. with No s,sdies 10 Bother Them
rurnsd out Zach nay "a Roam st VIII
About w~1chester Cosnty while the
Professor sought Relaxation Elsewhere.

'""eo Vut tarh Day ~ Roam ~ VIII
About w~'tchester County while the
Professor sought Relaxation Elsewhere.
For something Ike two Years the folio wing
advertisement has appeared from time 10 limo
M To within few weeks ago. In various New
York newspapers.
DEACON HEIGHTS ACADEMY.
TuChahos, a. \.
boarding school for little boys bsHta,s and untrue.
non; rfms moderate
The proprietor Of this seat OF learning, VIII
lamE Duhey, was arrested on Saturday by the
fonkcrs police. acting under the orders Of
DR.. q. u. Balch. superintendent Of the Vest
chester Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
20 Children. and arraisned the same day-after
being locked up for several hours In a cell Of
ionkers police station before Judge Rel
loRg. charged. under ection $50 of the Penal
Code. with treating children conflded % his
care In such n manner that their lives and
morals were endangered MIR DufIey made
no defence. but merely asked II the surrender
Of the children would satisfy the complainants
On being told that ii would he agreed with
great alacrity TO meet this condition and was
released. N
There we're OILY four children in the "Acsd-
eny" at the time and they were all surren-
d,red by Dufey TO DR. Bilch. who took them
evening, Here they were turned over To tho
Gerry society for the reason that the West
chester s,ciety had no proper place In which
20 take care Of them until their parents called
for them Yesterday morning they were
brought to Jefferson Market police court and
recommitted To the Gerry society until their
parents or guardians call for them. The chill
dren range in age from years to IS. Their
names are Albert Mou-set, 9 years old Of o.
West Tenth street. New York; George Cala-
way. aged o. of Ridgefeld Park n. j.; Harold
Norman aged II. Of 324 East Thirty-fourth
street. Now York. and Edward Bray. 10 years
old OF 30 De Graw street. Brooklyn. All tho
children remained at the Gerry rooms last night
with the exception Of Albert Mousset. who's o
uncle. Alfred Ryan. went to yonkers yesterday
and got an order from Supt Balch for tho
delivery Of the child to his mother, Mrs Nous
set
For some time back Mr.. Duffeys somewhat
original ideas regarding the educational de-
veopment Of children Of tender years has at
tracted a great deal Of attention among the
people who live In the vicinity Of tho academy
on Beacon Heights. Tuokahoe. Stated in
general terms. MIR. Dufey's plan seems TO have
been literal application Of the theory Of tho
elder Mr, Weller. that the best way to educate
a boy was to turn him loose In the streets Mr.
Du1ey not only turned the infants put under
his care loose in the streets. but he took special
precaution TO see that they remained thus at
large. by looking the doors Of the academy
and going of to the city. or wherever else his
fancy indlined. leaving the scholars TO roam
at VIII II over as much Of Westchester county
as th,ir small legs would caTTy them
Sometimes they got as far as Yonkers. but
generally they hovered about the neighbour
hood OF Tuckahoe. When the weather was
oold the neighbors sometimes took them in
and warmed them or they hudded in barns
or stables as the case might be- Duf1ey pro-
vided for the possible contingency Of growing
S2y hUnfds' eafd az meat
about the premises where they could get 1t
In case their footsteps turned In the direc,i,n
is NO. set s1 ahead sd Of lien 'D' SA''001 O''
From the boy stan point the Beacon Heights
Academy" wac an Ideal seat Of learning. Prac-
tically there were no studies whatever Prof.
puhsy was was not only the principal and tutor
no assistants OF any. kind whatever domestic
sT ssuSes tSsTe 20 rae Ie oo1 o
as the boys had their breakfast which Prof.
R.sy hss h oss Ss
for an hour or so. during which a story book
might be read, or q sum in arithmetic handed
10 Them on slip Of paper to do or lea' e undone
Then they were ttSo,d told to go a, and PLAY and
the house Tor tie day and seek scholastic re-
hIaton Of his SOW own . unai late ,a aiteTnoo1 or
Prof Dufrey was insistant, That was in the
matter Of attendance on religious services.
When he turned his flock loose on Sunday morn.
always was with tie injunction that they all
90 to church, lle did not specify any paIticu-
SsSa Ss Sa'S BIAS Of se nan 10 f Of om
sss' issl than Sn0 that f he od Them that i they did
no supper LET those who want to eat 70 TO
church, was his final Injunction and then he
The academy building itself !. in a little
cottage on the crest Of hish Hill overlooking
houses Is some little distance away, far enough
to give general impression Of lonelltesS, and
isolation large ,9 the COTTAGE :Se lust 'o'"se cr.npes
little Queen Anne anar abou, right for two
or three people to bd, live csn " sSs The d.n.
the fooT and dining ,,t,L table with ,, ,il,hy
are few dusty books and papers, these articles
with a chair or two constitute tho entire fur
.ess sssd.my ssTs at time "nd they % ms1s RHs
all slowed away somewhere In the Liliputisn
quarters upstairs o.o ~. A..
authoi les are ooi fic,ing on that ptint Ath'r
the Infants th,mselvee or the professor hirr-
self made them 1t was cstcii-as-catcl.-
can s"stem that governed the aonderny IN all
particulars And for the boys. when the
weather was Nne II was all that the mos, ORR
entail schoo boy Imagination could picture
as an educational paradise; absolutely nothing
on earth 10 do but run away from school from
morning until night They gathered nuts
and wallowed in ,he dirt and rlal ed and Tough.
and accumulated pets and boy treasures Of
was aimed at restoration TO the free and
nconvcntlonal conditions Of primitive man
and this. OF course. Is right In line with the
natural trend OF all healthy sohoolboy aspira-
iiofs From all .thnt can be gathered from
Dr. Balch. the neishbors, and, Il may BE- said,
from the somewhat guarded sta'ements Of
Prof Durey himself, MI that wanted was
few years more tuition NJ II . Reacon Heights
Academy to have DEVELOPED interesting H.
Ia ustrations of what presumably was prehistoric
man.
q As this Ia not the object OF modern educa-
tional institutions. Prof DuYeys schsme Of In
strucion attracted q good deal OF attention
among the people In the neighborhood. and II
was by their statements and complaints that
the attention Of the Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Children was attracted The
advent Of cold weather had something 70 do
with the recent insstencs with which these
complaints were made The boys often were
In the lee ~ barns and looked ~