The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-15
SENT no PLEASANT HOMES
INSTEAD or TO.THE GALLON1S
Changes Century Since Small Boys Were Hanged il Londons
Old Bailey-The Life Work of# Pr Bernardo " Foster
Father 81 Nobody's Children. 4

y Barnardo in Lond lon and the NeWAY orlS8s
3}Juyenile Asylum Tin this coun asay
nothing Of the other well known orga n 4
sands and housands 70 IL csc ms glected&
children, DR.. sBarnardo 81avint5 establ hed X
nearly ~ t1rty Ea 9 rs tltntos a
group of ldings hay e. ca red for over
81 1900 boys and girls who had N .
responsible orr we'll dis pose ed guard ians:
When Is realized ti,a every (, ~
1 mitted to the ylum-ln hersWords,8 hnd Il
- tnrted gwrong or was IN \ ttan @
than 70 per cent. OF them are now hon-SSs
est, successful citizens, the economy, y to K
! say hing of the humanity of the mo We
mere decrease the cost Of operating
our penal = institutions being q # Splendid
interest upon the private beneta etlons. ,b3y
to be Imported d. So fti 8S III I'LL
band. arc Independent OF I. any initial
pa ct
part that London at ri ght. even In the 4
enrs w Drohns eontsnsd efR
where's OF the street Arab population;S
They roamed the streets by day and and Il
eepa Of th en- hdaed
Ing d single lay They were without
parents Or often worse than without
ttralning q the streets. whose Wit sharp
sta i,!s !. vas - snail tsalhlng toward
Ge sd x
rascald ON Of the next generati ion. 45s " XIX
Or. Barnardo,s nrst step In his actual I
awakening q the street arab TO the bet g
confidence In his new surrounding and
began.th establis hment :, Of series Of
OF an older person, and where each child Ill
should be treated as q young but 3inte!li-S.
gent individual The uF1l'ber OF homes ln-skf
tho country or at, the seaside, and yet,
others finally even In the British colonies, 81
where great numbers OF the children were Il
mohg yshEI az Wsa
provided also to teach the children along is
tho same educat lonal Lines as the public
eombined with tailoring. shoemaking. n
printing and other bran ches OF mechanical
work. During his lifetime Dr., Barnardo,
ca f FOR fully 5000 destitute children,
who would otherwise have been hanrdl-@
capped In life, from. the very begnnlng:
these children without his efforts may be II
fairly guessed at by the terrifying amount .,
OF Juvenile crime once prevalent In l-oil-' s.i
ons am may yis fas hnF Weaf
Gothnmites now demicled at the new M
home or rother homes, Of the New York Il
Juvenile Asylum, charmingly located ON y
River. not far from Dobbs Ferry. Tho
fifteen cottages already erected are the NJ
BEGINNING OF q good-sized "children's viz!
lage. covering eventually some s99 acres,
Work shops athletic aelds and splay;85
grounds, surrounded by neat and attrac,; !.
tive cottages, In which several hundred ~
children taken from the streets OF the
city are to receive their tirst ideas OF wcl7
ordered living. The experiences OF the 4
asylum in Its former quarters IN New
York city have already proved the en-
cheney OF this treatment, and the new 81 10 e
affords an opportunity TO put In pra cflee #
many of the ideas which Dr.. Barnardo
cal until the present village community
could be put in operation
When one stands In the centre Of this
first beginning of the ''children's village,
watching the life. and especially the races
OF the children, ana realizing that y mas
grown and Is still growing by larger and
smaller private donations, ono reallzeS, n Il
also, that the world Is a good sight belter n
than 1t was at the beginning the preesur
Ing century, More than that, these same f3
children. are. destined to maka u better.
that the United States now numbers AZ
good. honest citizens, hundreds OF men p
and womsn who We're once eommitled ~
Cha instltatlon for petty mssdemeanoEs IN Il
The streets 81 New York, and wko, a hNn-
dred Years ago, Iii England, would haie
been on the straight ro2d 70 tAs W. 4
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