Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Managers of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents to the Legislature of the State and the Corporation of the City of New-York, 1850 The expense of instructors, recitation rooms, books and stationary, is about equal to the apportionment made for their support, by the Board Of Education. The boys are placed under the charge Of contractors, who employ them, part in making cane-seat maple chairs, and others in making pocket-books, razor strops, spectacle cases and goods Of a similar description, thus acquiring a trade which may be useful to them in after life; their labor pro duces 115 cents per day. The girls are employed in making shirts, washing and mending for the boys, and with the large family in the house, after deducting the hours they are in school, say from 4 to 42' hours, gives them full employment. 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.