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Title: Bowen's picture of Boston, or the citizens and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs. To which is affixed the Annals of Boston
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850
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Publisher: Boston, Otis, Broaders and company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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arental control, mightbe sent without the intervention of a legal conviction andsentence; and in which such employments might be pursuedby the children, as would make the institution, in the strict-est sense, a school of industry. A plan for this object wassubmitted to a few gentlemen, by whom it was approved andmatured ; and a meeting was held in the ball of the TremontBank on the 27th of January, 1832, when a board of directorswere chosen. Subscription papers were opened, and$23,000were soon obtained. In the summer of 1S33 following,Thompsons Island, containing 140 acres, was purchased forthe objects of the institution ; and a building is now com-pleted there, which, besides ample accommodations for theofficers of the establishment, is quite sufficient for thecharge of more than 300 children. A suggestion having beenmade of the expediency of connecting the proposed FarmSchool -with the Asylum for Indigent Boys, conferences wereheld between the directors of these Institutions; and in
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232 PICTURE OF BOSTON. March, 1835, they were united under the style of the BostonAsylum and Farm School. The objects of the present institution are to rescue fromthe ills and the temptations of poverty and neglect, those whohave bean left without a parents care : to reclaim from moralexposure those who are treading the paths of danger ; and tooifer to those, whose only training would otherwise have beenin the walks of vice, if not of crime, the greatest blessingwhich New England can bestow upon her most favored sons.On the 1st of January, 1837, there was 107 boys ; all of whom,as well as all other persons connected with the establishmenton the island, were in good health. The occupations and em-ployments of the boys vary with the season. In spring,summer and autumn, the larger boys, work upon the gardenand farm. The younger boy&have small gardens of their own,which afford them recreation when released from school. Inthe winter season most of them attend school, where they areinst

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