Show u C NEW YORKS YORK'S UNIQUE JUVENILE JUVENILE SETTLEMENT FOR BOYS I J b L 1 4 4 v 4 r I N N Digging T for Water Pipes 1 I i flY rl latest Cottage Built b by Boys Boy pHERE HERE is the the Louse that Jack built r I I and Pete and scores of other boys bo 8 They built it for the Childrens Children's Village and and loyalty went into the laying of every e stone and brick and the nailing of er board ry board and shin shin- gle gb Thus spoke nn an ID oUi officer er of the unique in institution n that crowns Echo Hills overlooking overlooking over over- looking the Hudson River Rier at Dobbs Ferry N. N S Y lie was pointing to a very good looking building into the basement of ol which was filin filing filings filing's a 8 d double row of blue bine suited boys ranging from six sir si or seven senn to fifteen years old Th They c. c are going In to set get et ready for Cor c. c dinner tho of officer explained about the boym There Thera are wash rooms and shower 1 baths down own there When the boys arc seated at nt dinner w we can go Inand in and sec See them The dining nc room was a cheery cheer place with bO bores boea l of at the s 's s and pictures on the walls ralIs lh The small tables s were covered with spotless spotless' cloths aud the manners of the boys 11 as they ate their pork and cabbage would woul have compart compared favorably with those throe of or boys Loye of the same ages aces in a good oo cIas boarding t school chool Yi Yit t the these Are e boys bos of or ortho tho the New cw 10 York r 1 streets mot most of thom them sent to time the village by tho the j juvenile courts court Here here- and there was a buy boy who looked capable of ot mischief i ur or r something worse A few looked dull or sullen but most mOlit of them were just jut a average e boys bors in appear- appear Of ance anee Tho The Village has of ot these thes boya boys and aud is trying tryIng- to give gic iv them a new I view of ot life lite ns as well as u an experience o and training which shall make them of use when they leave arid and fit them to earn 1 their living Instead of or f being being- huddled io n none one ono large building building- they are aro distributed in groups group of twenty io in homelike cottages These families are aro rc in c charge rge of a a. matron who m mothers mother ther them or In some Bom cases of ci ofa cia a man and his lua Yo wife e. e One of the things that strikes tic the c v visitor 1 forcibly is the lock lack of l suggestion Ug of an institution on I If it wel were not for their clothes which lire are more or l less uniform he would never dream that tb these o boys bOll were serving even a n beneficent term tam of ot detention Th b y arc are a very happy looking lot kt of ot youngsters and aDd they theT have hare none of that look of ot slyness that so 60 often otten characterizes charac the 1 children of ot an institution Th They 1 seem stem to h Ii h. h on n terms of oC the greatest i with tb the iho mAtrons matron and other I I 1 III I AJl t ii Z c I i r Dormitory Constructed by Boys I R L I. by Boy Who Never Had a tenon Luton persons in charge chargo of them and to meet 1 them half way In their efforts to entertain enter enter- enter I Lain ain them In each cach of the tho cottages there i. i i- i a U large Jane living room with piano books book and pictures plants Bud and au an open opun fireplace I where the boys boJ's con can enjoy themselves af nIte lc- lc work and 6 school bool hours are over oer and there II i 1 plenty o of room outdoors for gam games and sports the institution bavin having bought aim al almost ai- ai m most st three hundred bundred acres when it was tic dc- e. e to abandon tho the old juvenile Ju asylum bo in ill the upper port part of oC Manhattan and to I II establish a village for the children on the I lovely heights aboe the tho Hudson Dudson There wo was one modest building on the property and Into that Mr Charles Dewey BlUes who bad had been brought from Lancaster Lan caster Ohio to take charge charse of the new enterprise moved mored with his bis family There be he superintended the erection of oC the fi first buildings and saw laW the village well started before he nc left to accept a l place Ilc in Washington Wash Wash- ll ington inston under the adm administration p. p ot of President President dent tie Taft luft Mr Gay Gny Morga Iorga who succeeded ammo suc him as LS superintendent ent lives in uc I the same house bOWIe adhering to Mr lIr Hubs Hubs' policy of oC for or the bO boys first and Jettin letting the superintendent nt get along with wih tb the old quarters That is another thin tiling n that makes the Childrens Children's Village Wage different from many another one tho the tic tic- ganco of tho the official Quarters l Is in lug ug Cou contrast n with th those assigned tj Li the children How flow can cau the boys bors tu turn n out such build build- inga the superintendent was asked There is nothing about them that thu fc aug gesta th the tho amateur Oh it is the direct application of ot their vocational o ati training he replied They work vork under the tho direct supervision of their instructors and thus learn their trades tradel Inthe in I the tho best pos possible ihle w way way the the y-the the practical one You ou see boys will wUl have to make tLc r living and nud theIr experience here is worth orth far more nore than nn any mere theoretical education could be as a preparation forgetting for forgetting getting profitable work later Ive I've just beard from Crom a n bo boy who learned car carpentry here so that he could vork ork from blue blue- prints print and he got a n job at nt 17 a week at once You see soo there Is La an nn for various kinds of ot m masonry on The boys put in the rock ock foundation and nOO laid the brick some plain and sonic some In ID fancy designs They did the interior woodwork wood plastering plaster plaster- ing painting everything that trained Dif do du lu Ju one ofle o of tho the colta cottages es n a n deep frieze tIme wall wun of the room roni had been painted b by one of the boys boye who had bad had art instruction His Ills subject y I I an ambitious one the portrayal t- t c- c the chief hie n val t in iu iuie inte ie te e history of ot th the Wilted United Status States be beginning with the voyage of Columbus and ending Wi with Deweys Dewey's victory at t Manila It is o obviously a 1 ov oy's cv's work but graphic and interesting more valuable in its place than the work of a master be The Tho latest JUet operations have I been those connect connected d with enlarging the thC hospital Lime lue Jt buys not Jot only houses they livo Iho in iu but buO the they make the clothes aud and I shoes they wear They learn printing alU and telegraphy anc anu have bavo practice in Ia app applied ed electricity In the summer they raIse fruits traits and V vegetables They also get et some experience with live stock stock pigs sheep and ch chickens k ns being raised ed on n the place I CI of or the day is given Ihen to manual work and tho the other hall half is spent in io the c class ass ass- room There is a half balf holiday on Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day and recreation hours bours on other days so St there is no c cance of all work Worl and no play making Jack a 11 dull b boy Last summer the boys went to th the loio Iio Ground more than five noe hundred o of them and od nd not one attempted to get et away ut They paid pah for or their own U special train too baru batin bavins bat bar in ins u sa saved Hd tee tat money out of tho the ten wills mills a a. day dIU that they can ca by Industry a and 1 4 40 0 good behavior On Oa another occasion th they thay y I went to a n matinee in tho the city the expedition expedition exp being being- c carried through h with equal success and und satisfaction to every one con con- Th Thu boys boya art arc sent to the tho Childrens Children's Village VII Vil lage for or u two year ear term At the end of oC that time they are tent sent to their homes or liC if they have none nunc homes arc are found round for them in the tho West frequently on farms To many of Jf f them these d are arc e the best the only real homes they ha have 0 ever e known Ono One little chap asked the matron of his cottage if he be had bad ever cr slept out of doors or 01 under steps an an when he tie e found that she bad had consistently gone to bed bell all her ber life beneath a roof be looked at her in r shaking his bi h head d. d I I In 1860 Abraham Lincoln bent this mC-l mC message to the old New York Juvenile Asylum Asylum rell Tell the boys of the cw York Juvenile Asylum that they must follow truth justice and humanity if they wish to be become useful and aDd honorable men Thc These e words olds are arc emblazoned on tho thu wallin wall In ID the auditorium In the ChIldren Children's Village Vii Vil lage Inge which Las bas superseded the tho COuTe I system tem of the old asylum but still tiU I seeks kecks to inculcate the bc principle expressed by Lin coin Mr lr T Tail t s said cI to the boys bos when he be visited vis la the village 1 d during his term a President dent o of the United States Thc States Tho world is nut not against l you you that that is that part of the world that i is worth baying I l j not I against you yuu They want you i to succeed d. d I That is iJ the tho of tho the Village a. a I |