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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 Perine, George E
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) History New York (N.Y.) Biography
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : A.S. Barnes & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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nate, and who has been connected with it from its foundation.Of the children received during L882 there were committed 367 for (lis-obedience to parents and for truancy, 32 for pilfering, 1+ for vagrancy,251 for destitution, and 8 for begging. It was deemed advisable, after long years of trial, to have the sexesseparated, and when a new building for girls was completed, in 1881,this was done. In addition to the daily instruction in the schools, in * The officers of the New York Juvenile Asylum for 1883 were : Ezra M. Kingsley,president ; Peter Cooper and Benjamin B. Sherman, vice-presidents : Peter Carter, secre-tary, and Henry Tallmadse, treasurer. It has a board of twenty-four chosen directorsand three e.x-officio directors. The latter are : Franklin Edson, mayor ; John Reilley,president of the board of aldermen, and Henry H. Porter, president of the board ofcharities and correction. The superintendent of the asylum is Elisha M. Carpenter ; ofthe House of Reception, E. D. Carpenter.
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THIRD DECADE, 1850-1860. (589 the ordinary English branches, the children are carefully drilled invocal music. The boys are employed in making and mending shoesand garments, so that they become quite expert shoemakers andtailors. They also work on the farm and in the garden, while thegirls are taught sewing and the making of feminine garments. Theseemployments are made profitable in furnishing supplies for the in-stitution. Tiik Demilt Dispensary was established in 1S51, to meet the wantsof the sick poor in the eastern part of the city above FourteenthStreet. Temporary medical relief had been given by the Associationfor the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor for two or threeyears, but that society was compelled to withhold it in 1851, where-upon an effort was put forth to establish a dispensary in that distinct.Meetings were held, and finally, at a gathering at the church on FourthAvenue, corner of Twenty-second Street, in March, 18.51, it was resolvedto take measures to establi

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