New York Juvenile Asylum,

One Hundred and Seventy-sixth street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues.
HOUSE OF RECEPTION, NO. 71 WEST THIRTEENTH STREET.

William C. Gilman, Secretary.

Benjamin F. Butler, Treasurer.

S. D. Brooks, Superintendent and Physician.

James L. Appley, A.M., Assistant Superintendent, at Asylum.
T. G. Wright, M.D., Assistant Superintendent, at House of Reception.
John B. Thorp, Clerk, at House of Reception.

Mrs. Emma A. Appley, Matron, at Asylum.

William H. Bartlett, Assistant Principal, at Asylum.

Miss Adelle J. Stickney, Teacher, at Asylum.

Miss P. C. Kingsberry, Teacher of Singing, at Asylum.

Miss M. L. Smith, Teacher, at Asylum.

Miss Cora Graves, Teacher, at Asylum.

Miss Fannie C. Gaylord, Teacher, at Asylum.

Miss Mary C. Clark, Teacher, at Asylum.

Miss A. M. Dresser, Teacher, at Asylum.

Miss Mary A. O. Neil, Teacher, at Asylum.

Miss Mary E. Lyon, Assistant Principal, at House.
Mrs. L. C. Leland, Teacher, at House.

Miss Emily Sandford, Girls' Matron, at Asylum.

Miss Amelia Shaw, Girls' Matron, at House.

Miss Ella G. Stickney, Assistant Girls' Matron, at Asylum.
Miss Ellen J. Wallace, Sewing Room, at Asylum.

Mrs. Lydia M. Wallace, Sewing Room, at Asylum.
Miss Florine Brooks, Sewing Room, at Asylum.
Mrs. Francis A. Tuttle, Hospital, at Asylum.
Mrs. Margaret Hudson, Hospital, at House.
Alfred S. Battersby, Charge of Boys, at Asylum.
Edwin Withrel, Charge of Boys, at House.

M. M. Gillett, Charge of Dormitories, at Asylum.
John G. Stickney, Engineer, at Asylum.
Stillman G. Coon, Mechanic, at Asylum.

John G. Avery, Expressman, at Asylum.

Charles Gates, Baker, at Asylum.

Christopher P. Long, Clothing Department and Watchman, at Asylum. Henry Corlett, Detailed Police Officer, at Asylum.

Stephen Johns, Detailed Police Officer, at House.

E. Wright, Indenturing Agent, P. O. Box 663, Chicago, Illinois.

L. B. Wight, Assistant Indenturing Agent, P. O. Box 663, Chicago, Illinois.

John T. Hoffman, Mayor of the city of New York; Thomas Coman, President of the Board of Aldermen; John Stacom, President of the Board of Councilmen; and James B. Nicholson, President of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities, are Directors ex-officio.

MANNER OF COMMITMENT.

Truant and disobedient children, and such as require discipline for any cause, and those wishing to be provided with a home in the country, between seven and fourteen years of age, belonging to the city of New York, may be committed to this Asylum.

An order of commitment from a police magistrate, or a surrender from parents or guardians, is required as the condition of admission.

Children may be taken to any police court in this city by their friends, or by a police officer, and upon a proper affidavit that they are in the condition above specified, such order or commitment will be issued by the police magistrate.

When parents or friends desire to surrender children, it is only necessary to bring them to the House of Reception and sign the proper form of surrender.

The notice of commitment which is sent to parents, though sent in all cases, is of real use only when children are arrested by the police, and committed without the knowledge of their friends.

Children are kept only a few weeks at the House of Reception, and are then sent to the Asylum in One Hundred and Seventy-sixth street, where they remain until finally discharged. While in the Asylum, they are kept constantly at school six hours a day.

MANNER OF DISCHARGE.

Children committed by a magistrate to the House of Reception may be discharged by the same any time within twenty days from commitment, by application to him at his court; but after twenty days children can be discharged only by the Directors of the Asylum, and no application for discharge will be received by them except for extraordinary reasons until children have been in the institution at least three months.

Application for discharge must be made at the office, No. 71 West Thirteenth street.

INDENTURING.

Children having no friends to care for them, and those whose friends choose to give them up wholly to the care of the Asylum, are provided with homes in the country. Many of them are sent to Illinois, and indentured till of age. Girls are of age at eighteen, and boys at twenty-one.

No children will be removed from the Asylum without previous notice being given to their parents or friends.

Employers are bound by the indentures to provide for children in sickness and in health with proper medical treatment, sufficient food, lodging, and washing, suitable for apprentices; to cause them to be instructed in reading, writing, and arithmetic, as far as and including compound interest; to watch over and guard their morals; and at the end of indenture to give them a suit of new clothes, besides those in wear, and pay the girls $50, and boys $100.

Section 24 of the charter provides as follows:

"The Board of Directors shall be the guardians of every child indentured by virtue of the provisions of this act. They shall take care that the terms of the contract be faithfully fulfilled, and redress any grievance in the manner prescribed by law. And it shall be the duty of the employer, as often as once in every six months, to report to the said Board of Directors the conduct and behavior of such apprentice."

MISCELLANEOUS.

The average time which children are kept in the Asylum is six months. Some are kept a longer and some a shorter time, according to circumstances. In case of the serious illness of a child, its friends are informed of the fact and allowed to visit it.

While at the House of Reception children may be visited once a week on any day but Sunday, between the hours of 8 and 12 A.M., and 2 and 4 P.M. Visiting days for friends of children at the Asylum, the last Thursday in each month.

Address letters for the Asylum, "Station M,” New York. Business letters should be addressed to House of Reception, No. 71 West Thirteenth street, New York.

ROUTES FROM THE CITY.

Viâ Hudson River Railroad to Fort Washington. Fare 20 cents.

By Eighth avenue cars to One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street and stage to High Bridge. Fare 25 cents.

The Third avenue cars to Harlem and stage or boat to High Bridge. Fare 17 cents by cars and boat-25 cents by cars and stage.

The New York Juvenile Asylum was incorporated in the year 1851, and

has now been in active operation sixteen years. It receives children from seven (7) to fourteen (14) years of age, belonging to the city of New York, who are committed to its charge for destitution, disobedience, truancy, begging, vagrancy, and incipient crime.

The requisites for admission to this institution are, a commitment from a magistrate or a surrender from the parent or guardian, with satisfactory evidence that the child is in the condition specified, and entitled to the care and support of this Asylum.

Many children whose friends desire to place them here and are able to pay for their support, are received as boarders, without expense to the city. Children committed merely for destitution, and for the purpose of being provided with homes in the country, are retained a short time, for a brief course of instruction and discipline calculated to fit them for the relation of apprentices, while those committed on account of habits that require correcting are kept for a longer period, until they are believed to be reformed and can be returned to friends able to provide for them, or apprenticed with reasonable expectation that they will do well. This institution is strictly educational and reformatory in its character, and receives a class of children requiring, in some respects, a different course of treatment from those usually committed to the House of Refuge, being less hardened, more susceptible to kindly influences, and requiring less time for improvement and reformation. The Asylum is located in One Hundred and Seventy-sixth street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, near High Bridge, where it has twenty acres of land beautifully situated, and buildings for the accommodation of five hundred (500) children. Its office and House of Reception is at No. 71 West Thirteenth street, and has rooms for the temporary accommodation of one hundred and fifty (150) children. Pupils remain here about five weeks before being transferred to the Asylum, and are, in both departments, kept regularly in school six hours per day. Before and after school, each day, they are employed in the work of the institution, and, at the Asylum, cultivate the land, make and repair clothing, &c.

Twelve thousand nine hundred and forty-two (12,942) children have been committed to this institution since its organization, two thousand eight hundred and eighty-six (2,886) of whom have been placed under indenture in country homes.

During the year 1867, nine hundred and thirty (930) children were committed to the Asylum, making, with those remaining January 1, 1867, a total of one thousand four hundred and eighty-one (1,481) in the institution during the year. Of these, six hundred and eighty-seven (687) were discharged to their friends, one hundred and eighty-five (185) were indentured, and twenty-four (24) transferred to other institutions. The average number for the year was six hundred and eighteen (618).

Only two deaths have occurred in the Asylum in more than four years, or fifty-one months.