New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-17
BOYS As HYPOCRITES.
East Side Ones Particularly Accomplished
No Worse Than Grown-ups.

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days conference at the Charity Organization So
ciety. Francis H. Tabor superintendent ~ the
Boys Club. talked about Street boys. Maynard
youths. How city workers win them" and
Howard Townsend attorney for the Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty 70 Children. told OF
youthful prisoners ami what is done with them in
the juvenile court and afterwsrd
Il is seldom that charity conferences are treated
10 so entertaining heart 20 heart talk that
which Mr. Tabor gave them yesterday support
ing himself By the back Of armchair. Nj TABOR.
who started IN by saving that he didn't believe ina
conferences. and there weren't any more wayv-1rd
boys in Avenue than IN Fifth-ave and he didn't
know what a street BOY was. anyway. unless ne
hoy who played I'm the street.-the told story
after story Of the boys he has worked among for
the last eight years.
We're all hypoCrites ne said. among other
things. Children hypocrites and East side
children are apt to be particularly accomplished
hypocrites. 7 remember when We started in on
sports and games reporter caHe 20 see MS.
'Oh. let me see the reporter. viii you2 asked one
OF the boys I let him, and when the reporter
asked. DO you enjoy these games the boy an
swered swec:ly. on. II seems like heaven TO US
Now. the truth OF that that boy never
played himself. but was always hanging around
me SO that had 10 kick him my way when
j wanted to play myself
BOYS ALL ALIKE
y remember there was man who came in with
a boy one day and said the BOY was fond Of
would allow him to sit in the library. because it
was such a nice room tit is very nice room and
read the charming books In It. (There are some
charming books there. but they aren't read half
as much the other kind OF course. I said |
yes. When he was gone. leaving the boy sitting
there. I did something that awfully vulgar,
know. but gave that boy wink and he winlo~d
back de is still In the club. that boy is. but he
doesn't trouble tho library much-he's most likely
20 be found in the gymnasium That was simply a
bit Of hypocrisy his part. pretending to care
much FOR books.
Boys even up. They're al tremendously alike"
went on Mt. Tabor breezily. I've taught In Eng
lish schools where they don't admit tradeEmen's
sons-luckIy you haven't any OF them here-and I
am not sure but the percentage Of waywardness Is
the same in the Rristocrato sections OF society
Avenue 4, though the manifestations are
different. IL IS one OF the greatest mistakes
commit 10 go down to a Settlement expecting
TO find maynard youths there TO find anything
but the normal and the customary.
'Of course among the thousands OF boys who
have passed through the club there are wayward
youths and there bad boys. one OF our way
ward youths-he isn't any taller than that''-and
here Mr.. Tabor indicated the top OF tho desk at
which Miss Kate Bond the chairman sat-'foUnd
ont a way 10 cut on the current Of the trolley
cars and for while he had string OF Tenth-et
CrOSstoUn cars tied up the other Gay. lie Is the
der If ae turned iRto an invenyorf he aoesnt b
come burglar or the leader OF street gang such
FOOTBALL THE TEST
1T DOESN'T take no a week TO size a boy UP Il
can only play football With him. Athletics show Up
a boys character nothing else doeA Through /
them you get the real. genuine boy. and he
doesn't suspect you OF tryins 70 do something for
him and he won't fool you and Il isn't necessary
Tor you 10 wink AZ him him wink back az
you Boys clubs are powerful agents for upiift-
ing boys and neighborhoodA for they arc unssc-
tartan they foster athletics and they develop esprit
de cnrps-the alumni spir1t-upon which tho great
universities depend for their permantncs and 'nelr
Amerlc1n bows who are sentenced in the chill |
dren's Court take their medicine without crying.
good. The other nadonaites resort 10 al sorts or
methods 70 prGpiuate tho court one airter@ renee
aIs IS that the former viii confess. Usually they
VII begin by saying IL MAS 'He , 9I f 6ov br
his glass showcase and take something out; The |
zee the bow making or with his booty. There Is
az 9' ,s Inv o5 Ola Plea n wasn't me it was
the other boy Il has been slsgssIeu tnetL "o /
ought have n picture hung up In the courtroom /
DO the reforrnatories do any soodT' asked Miss
7 think they do, was Mr.; Townsend's reply: |
reformatory that ever was built"
WHAT OF THESE BoYsT
In the general discussion that followed Frederick /
G. Durham who gave the land for the Berkshire !
Industrial farm described the workings Of this In
stitution a man who far back in the hall read |
q paDer which he seemed to have prepared before |
hand. in which he said: sing Sing IS filed with |
educated men. Boys play should be restricted; II IS
one OF the greatest Instruments Of evil" Here Mr..
Tabor was seen TO throw back his head In a par
oKysm Of silent laughter.
'iDoeeu't an our talk and work with boys como
back 10 the principles on which the FAMILY is
foundsd-discpline and lover" inquired Mrs. Ella
Jackson
what does Mr. Townsend think IS needed In the
way OF a home boys who are discharged from
the city PRISON. asked Mrs. Clarence Burns
BOYS who committed In summer are being
discharged in summer hats and light clothing,
without any money TO clothe themselves properly"
said Mrs. Henry Parsons.