Download or read book Twenty-First Annual Report of the Newsboys' Lodging and Industrial Home: For Year Ending 30th September, 1889 (Classic Reprint) written by Newsboys' Lodging and Industrial Home and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-First Annual Report of the Newsboys' Lodging and Industrial Home: For Year Ending 30th September, 1889 The inmates of the Home are of two classes. Of those admitted for the first time many are vagrants, sheltered for a few nights during the most inclement weather, and then disappearing. But from among this class a certain number are reclaimed, and trained in ideas of orderly industry and providence and of this latter class sixty three have had situations procured for them during the past year. In this way the selling of papers, along with the work of the shoe black, and other temporary occupations, serve as the first stage in reclaiming the youthful vagrant, and breaking him in, so as to fit him for some permanent industrial employment. A brief summary of the work of the past year in our Newsboys' Lodging, will best serve to illustrate the practical results successfully aimed at. The number of boys resident in the Home during the past year has amounted in all to 133, of whom 53 were admitted for the first time. With the exception of the mere transient lodgers, work of some kind has been provided for all the untrained vagrants being started with their little stock of newspapers, and encouraged in their first efforts at independence. Each inmate of the House is chargedten cents daily for his board but homeless vagrants are not refused admission. When entirely destitute they are furnished -with/their first stock of newspapers; and are encouraged in the effort to pay their own way with the sense of self-respect which will no longer accept of charity. The Treasurer has to acknowledge some loss of funds from the credit thus extended to untried claimants but the results are, on the whole, such as to abundantly encourage the Superintendent and Managers to persevere in this course. Ten the reclaimed vagrant has reached the stage of paying for his lodging, the next step is to induce him to deposit any surplus earnings in the Savings Bank. When he has fairly entered on this provident course, the most formidable difficulties have been surmounted, and the Superintendent ere long places him on the list of those for whom some permanent employment may be sought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.