LARRIKINISM IN NEW YORK.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4302, 5 January 1875, Page 3

LARRIKINISM IN NEW YORK.

f (From the Melbourne Daily Tdeyraph.) /' ' How New York kept larrikinism in check contains a useful lesson. About the year 1860 the streets of that city became unendurable, and something had to be done. There was no resort to 'the lash, but a Children’s Aid Society was formed ; a Home of the Friendless, the Five Points Mission, the Howard Mission, and the Wilson School sprang into being. Reading-rooms were built, lodging-houses established, machinery was set in motion to rescue boys and girls from the haunts of prostitutes and thieves, and transfer theta to honest homes, and a virtuous atmos- ' • phere in the country. “No other city,” says the American Commissioner to the International Congress, ‘fhad so extensive an 'organisation for the rescue of juveniles ” as New York. The result, continues the Commissioner (Mr. H. C, Wines), is shown in the statistics of the V .city;, Of vagrants there were imprisoned in New York, in— .

Taking the increase of population into account, the ‘female committals >n 1871 should have teen 9,673, and they were '£4B, and the male committals should have been 3,225, and they were MH. Moral Agencies achieved a triumph, and we are curious to know what similar gain can be credited iu any country to the use of the cat.

Faaaiulefl. 1S00 2,829 1MH 1,203 1£03 .. 1,350 1800. .. .. .. 7f5 1,140 1871 ’ * - OOi