Pierce, chaplain of the House of Refuge, in his book entitled " Half a Century with Juvenile Delinquents," makes the following statement :

"The officers of the Boys' Protectory l>elong to the onler of Christian Itrothei-s. They give thernselves to the Church when they take the vow of the order, to be teachers wherever they nmy be ajipointed to labor. They will never be priests ; they are expected to pursue no form of bus ines,s hereafter, but for life will remain in the office of instructors. Their salaries are simply the requisite provision for their living, sick well. These men are constantly with the boys In school, work, recreation and in the ilorniitory

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

when applications in behalf of unprotected children became so numerous and pressing as to compel the executive committee, in view of their necessarily limited means and accommodations, to restrict the number of inmates to such boys as might be committed from the courts or transferred to their care by the "Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction." Hence the records of their office show that, but for the want of sufficient room, at least double the number which they now report might be enjoying the blessing of the institution.

Owing to the difficulty of renting suitable buildings, the committee were unable to make provision for the reception of girls before the 1st of October. About that time, however, they succeeded in procuring a building at the corner of Eighty-sixth Street and Second Avenue, well suited to the purpose. This they were enabled to place under the direction of the Sisters of Charity, a religious order whose members, by their noble and generous self-devotion, in the care of the sick, forlorn, the destitute and helpless in every form, age and condition in life, have been the theme of praise in story and song in every clime and tongue, and from persons of all shades of belief, race and religion.