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NEW YORK’S LATEST
PHILANTHROPIC PLAN.
How Boys Are Taught the Art
of Government.
MAKE LAWS AND ENFORCE THEM.
They Have Courts and Policemen and a
Financial System of Their Own—Elec
tions Occur Frequently—Success of a
Novel Experiment.
There is still a chance for the street
gamin. He need not grow up wild and
wicked on the city streets. He can be
saved from the slums. The boys’ re
publics show him the way out, and if
he is fortunate enough to come under
the influences of one of these juvenile
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REPUBLIC.
colonies be can start the battle of life
on an even footing with boys more fa
vored by birth and circumstances. He
may even have a slight advantage.
, Philanthropic men and women in
both New York and Chicago have re
cently been giving much attention to
the unique sociological experiments
which have been tried upon the street
waifs of those cities with so much ap
parent success. It has been demonstrated
that by this means boys who are rapidly
‘ acquiring evil ways and drifting into
criminal habits can be made to see
their mistake and started toward a life
of honest industry and perhaps success.
New York has gone into the experi
ment deeper than any other state. It
has at least half a dozen institutions
under the management of various or
ganizations where the juvenile drift
wood from the stream of city life is
shaped into useful forms—sound tim
bers and honest planks—for renewing
the social structure.
The pioneer of these and the one on
which all the others are modeled is the
George Junior Republic at Freeville, N.
Y. It is named for William B. George,
who is really the father of the move
ment. Mr. George is an earnest young
man with a big brain and a bigger
heart. For years he had been interested
in the street boys and had been their
friend in many ways. In 1890 he put
into practice a scheme for getting a
number of bis little friends out of the
streets for a few days and into the open
He had been brought up on a
farm himself, and it made him heart
sick to compare his own boyhood with
that of the little street waifs.
So he took 22 of the slum children
* out to a farm in Freeville for a three
weeks’ vacation. He gained so much
satisfaction from watching the delight
which his young charges manifested in
romping through the fields and woods
that he at once began preparations for
repeating the experiment on a' larger
scale. The next year he entertained 210
children for two weeks on the Freeville
farm.
In 1892 his juvenile guests numbered
265. This was a most daring experi
ment Think of managing that number
of children all at once! Why, the
thought of it would cause even an ex
perienced kindergarten teacher to shud
der. And these were not ordinary school
children from more or less well regu
lated homes. They were young boot
blacks, newsboys and tenement house
children, lawless, mischievous little
scamps every one of them.
Then Mr. George began to enlarge
his plan. He arranged to have the use
of the farm for the whole summer, but
* he also saw that something must be
done to keep the street children busy at
least part of the time. In 1893 he be
gan to give 250 children industrial in
struction. He e.Lgiyied, a lot <4 assist-
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ants, ainohg them a drillmaster to driP
the boys in the manual of arms. He en
deavored to make the atmosphere, of
their home life on the farm a refined
and somewhat religious one.
Still the plan seemed to lack some
thing. It was hard to keep the children
under any sort of control. The boys
would swear and fifcht and occasionally
commit depredations on the neighbors.
They disliked work and had little re
spect for each other’s rights.
Then Mr. George hit upon the plan
of forming a miniature republic and
solving the troublesome question of
control by giving the children self gov
ernment. It was a distinct innovation
in juvenile educational work, but Mr.
George understands boy nature, and Le
was certain that it would work. And
it has. In 1894 when he mustered his
annual vacation army on the Freeville
farm he called them together and told
them of his plan.
Mr. George had drafted a form of con
stitution and had planned a government
after our national government, some
what simplified to meet the conditions.
This called for the election of a legisla
ture, a judiciary and a police force.
Mr. George reserved the office of presi
dent for himself for obvious reasons.
He told the boys that they were to make
their own laws and enforce them.
No sooner bad the prepatations for
holding the election been begun than
the street waifs were interested to a
boy. That was the best game they had
ever yet taken a hand in. When their
legislature was organized and they
realized that they were making laws
which wire to have an actual and im
mediate effect on their personal welfare,
the dignity and importance of their
offices became evident
During the three seasons which the
George Junior republic has been in ex
istence the plan of government has been
perfected from time to tim/5 nptij, now
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it is safe to say that nd more dfderly
body of children can be found anywhere.
“How in the world do you manage
them all?’’ asked a visitor of Mr.
George.
“I don’t They manage themselves,’’
was the reply.
It is true too. Boys who in the city
make work for the police and truant
officers, when they become citizens of
the Freeville republic are transformed
into lawabiding and industrious young
sters with a serious purpose in life.
Both boys and girls are accepted by
Mr. George. He does not choose the
best ones either.
The citizens of the Junior republic
are divided into sections. Members of
one section are farmers, and each one
has his little plot of ground where he
raises vegetables under the direction of
an experienced farmer. Another section
devotes its time to landscape gardening,
and the boys lay out the grounds in an
attractive manner. Still others enter the
carpentry class and erect buildings
meant for actual use. The girls may
choose between cooking, millinery and
sewing.
All work is paid for in the money of
the republic, which is fashioned after
real currency. The pay for unskilled
labor is 50 cents a day, for work in the
middle grade 70 cents a day and for
skilled labor 90 cents a day. The work
ing hours are from 8:30 a. m. until
noon. The classification of work is
made upon strict standards, and promo
tions from a lower to a higher grade
are only made upon merit.
While work is not compulsory it is
necessary, for money is a necessity in
A LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATE MAKES A SPEECH,
this tiny commonwealth as well as in
the wider world outside. Meals and
lodging must bo paid for, while the
taxes levied by the republic for the sup
port of the pauper class, the invalid and
the government amount to 8 cents a
day per capita. The boy who idles
away the morning hours soon finds
U'raelf without fpntls, and then he has
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to undergo the disgrace of eatiag pauper
food at the pauper table.
The police are paid tbe highest wages.
They wear a uniform sprinkled with'
brass buttons and are armed with clubs,
which they seldom have to use. Swear
ing and fighting are the offenses for
which arrests are most often made.
There is a prison, and fines are imposed.
The judges are elected. The terms of
all officers are for short periods, so that
election days come frequently. They
are the most exciting events in the life
of the republic.
After a long and hotly contested cam
paign woman suffrage has been recog
nized by the republic, und the girlshave
a vote. They may even hold office. Mr.
George no longer holds the presidential
chair, but has resigned it to one of
the young citizens. President Smith,
tbe present incumbent, is a bright, in
telligent young man who has become
one of tbe permanent citizens of the re>-
piiblic and forms one of the small group
who stay at the Freeville farm all the
year round.
Another similar institution is the one
which has recently been established on
a farm near Gardiner, Ulster county,
N. Y. It is called the Industrial Colony
association and is closely modeled upon
the lines of the Freeville republic. The
superintendent of the institution is Cal
vin W. Stewart, a student at the Union
Theological seminary.
About 100 boys who are inmates of
the BrooKlyn Truant home have been
organized in about the same manner.
They make their own laws, elect their
own officers and enjoy the rights of self
government generally. Fifty miles
north of Chicago is another settlement
of a similar character. It is known as
Allendale and is governed just as a city
is,'its government embracing all the
features of municipal machinery.
All these institutions are veritable
training schools for citizens, and, while
it may be too early to say so, it seems
that the question of what to do with our
city waifs has at last been answered.
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