The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-18

the asylum and to its efforts In nnding homes for them in the West
 Strange stories are sometimes brought to light in the history Of ehese little waifs of a great city, but as . rule the tale would be q monotonous recital of hardships and poverty. There Is lit- tie that is romantic in the daily life of the garment worker. street pedler, factory hand or dock laborer living in the tenement districts of the American metropolis, but now and then there comes to light a bit of family history which serves as the exception to prove the rule.
 | Four years ago three small children, two boys and girl, were sent to the asylum and, after the usual period of training. homes were found for them
 in the West These children were 1 heard speaking of a wealthy New York woman who had recently died. They said that she was their aunt. A lawyer was consulted and the officials of the l asylum were appealed to for proofs of
 the alleged relationship. These were
 obtained and with the identity of his clients thus established the lawyer | filed claim upon the property and confidently expects that 1t will be sus- tained by the courts. If this happens the children will each be the possessor | of comfortable fortune.
 The work of such institutions as this New York asylum Is of particular interest at this time when papers and magazines are filled with accounts of the increase of crime in the cities. Not only are the asylums taking homeless and neglected children from the slums and turning them into good citizens, but they are sending them out into the country to take the places of the young people drawn from the farms by the glamor and glitter of city life. More tran ever before 1t Is becoming the poll icy of the managers of such establish ments to early implant in the minds of their young charges the love of coun- try life, and the New York Juvenile Asylum, in carrying out this idea, Is now completing what will be perhaps the most complete establishment of It's kind in the world. Christmas will be observed with a greater lavishness than usual at the asylum this year in recog- milton of the fact that this is the last celebration of the holiday to be held in the building which has been the home of the society. for the last flfty-three years; .-5 ,..-
 Early in the spring, the asylum win move from New York to Dobbs Ferry where its new cottage colony is being DulIL on a IFdCC OL St dCFeS ioCdISu Ou high land near the Hudson River. York se<syer, the New York archi- teets. have prepared plans which call for the erection of seventy-five cot tages, school buildings club houses a gymnasium and an electric heating and power plant. Each of the cottages is arranged to accommodate twenty boys to be under the care of a "house moth err and a "house father" At present only fifteen of these cottages are ready for occupancy but the power plant and one of the school buildings are finished and the remaining cottages will be hiuld as fast as the money for them Is forthcoming. Of the $3,)00,000 needed to complete the work, at least $2,000,- o0o must be raised by outside subscrip- tion.
 In this new home the children will live in what is virtually a rural com munity. They will have a taste of country life in the making of gardens and the garnering of fruits and crops. and the love of home will he stimulated hy dividing them into fa'- ":ss each o. which will occupy mouse as wall built
 and attractive as those in which live
 the children of the well-to-do. It Is believed that grf < ,as has been the suc-
 cess of the asylum In the past in fitting it's charges for useful lives. 1t will at tain an even greater measure of success in che future. Nr.-.,.'7