New-York tribune., 1906-08-24
FOR BAD HEBREW BOYS.
NEW PROTECTORY PLANS.
There VIII Be Homes for 900 at
Has1thorne by End of Year.

The Jewish Protectory and Aid Society, the
corporation which in the immediate future will
have charge of the delinquent Hebrew boys Of
this city, has made application. it is learned. to
the Board OF Estimate and ApportiOnment TO be
placed on par with the Catholic PrOtectory
and the Juvenile Asylum in the allowing OF an
amount from the city annually for the Of
children. BY this action the Jewish PrOtectOry
takes the fisal step TO break away from the
Catholic Protectory and the Juvenile Asylum,
which for years have taken of hundreds Of
Jewish boys who were morally delinquent.
Louis Marshall. the president of the corpora
ton, in speaking OF the work contemplated. said
yesterday:
A number of us for years have appreciated the
need Of having a protectOry solely for Jewish
boys, and we have finally been able to start one.
We have purchased nearly three hundred acres
at Hawthorne, near White Palms. and will erect
about score OF buildings eventually. We have
decided TO have the buildings the so-called
cottage plan. instead of a barracks-we believe
that by having not more than thirty> in each
cottage the boys can be better taken care of
in this way. Particularly bad boys will be in
one cottage. and the various grades VIII be kept
together. We will expend altogether about
S450000 for the buildings.
Up to the present time the Juvenile Asylum
has housed a large number of Jewish bad boys.
The Catholic Protectory has at present more
than two hundred. II is pannel by the direc-
tors of the new institution to begin with two
hundred boys and fast as possible erect cot
tages until a total Of five hundred boys can be
cared for. Among the incorporatOrs Of the So
ciety are Louis Marshall. Jacob H. Schin'
Adolph Lewisohn. Louis Stern. Henry Solomon,
the Rev. DR.. Maurice II. Harris, Nathan Blur,
Jacob A. Cantor and Emanuel w Bloomingdale.
The land to the extent of two hundred and
sixty acres was purchased last year. Ground
was broken for the first Of the buildings on
March 26 of this year and May 10 the cor
nerstone was laid. Harry Allan Jacobs and Max
G. Heidelberg the successful architects IN
the competition for the building.
II is expected that two hundred boys will have
homes at Hawthorne by December 81 Of this
| year. as eleven buildings now In course of
construction. They include administration
building six cottages, a central kitchen and din
ing hall building, power house and a superin-
! tendents house. The administration building
will contain offices, class rooms. assembly hall.
! library gymnasium and drill room. Each cot
| tage will accommodate thirty boys, and will
! have two dOrmitores, a play room, lavatOries,
| shower baths, private locker for each boy. sit
| ting room and apartments for the house father
and mother
The dining hall will be arranged in alcoves. so
| that each cottage group will have practically
| it's own
The management. realizing the necessity for
| out of door exercise, has planned an athletic
! field 300 feet by GOO feet with a quarter-mile
/ running track, baseball diamond. football field
and other athletic paraphernalia Adjoining each
! cottage will be a playground, 200 feet by 20O
| feet, in addition to which every boy will have
| a garden plot to cultivate as he pleaSeS. The
| boys will aso have military drill and the rest
| of the day will be taken up with school work
| manual training and religious instruction. Each
| boy will attend school half a day. the school
| system following closely that in this city.
John Klein. for a number of years assistant
superintendent OF the New York Juvenile Asy-
| lum. has been appointed superintendent.
| The cost Of the buildings. as estimated by the
| management. will he S43O0A0 which is exclu~
sive Of the cost of the land which was S47, zoo.