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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 d— . r X. F kaf \ ■» \ w * i \Xs « ? * i v ? < 1 PRESIDENT SMITH OF THE GEORGE JUNIOR 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- BEAUTIFUL SKIN Soft, White Hands with Shapely Nails Luxu riant Hair with Clean, Wholesome Scalp, pro duced by Coticuba Soap, the most effective akin purifying and beautifying soap in the . world, as ’well as purest and sweetest, for L toilet, bath, and nursery. The only preventive F of inflammation and clogging of the I’obks. (uticura SOAP to told throughout the world. Porrea D»ug amd Ohbm. Corp., Bole Props., Boston, U. 8. A. |f M HOV to Purify end Beautify the Skin, Scalp, aad Hair," mailed free. BABY HUMORS UvrSd^>x"tii'TW»A n KiBaaMM. 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 1 i i'* ■ ■ KT TRIAL JURY. 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 THE SOME TRIBUNE, SUNDAY. AUGUST 15. JBg7. 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. Sewell Ford. MOZLEY’S LEMON ELIXIR A Pleasant Lemon Drink. Regulates the Liver, Stomach, Bowels and Kidneys. For biliousness, constipation and malaria. For .indigestion, sick and nervous headache, For sleeplessness, nervousness and neart failure. For fever, chills, debility and kid ney diseases, take Lemon Elixir. For blotches and pimples on the face, take Lemon Elixir. Fifty cents and $1 bottles, at drug gists. Prepared only by Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta, Ga. A Promlnet Minister Writes. 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