THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. 
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“ Mrs. Buckland permitted me to draw up rules and to 
manage this novel institution. She got lecturers, and 
among them Frank Buckland, to give weekly lectures, and 
a good library was formed. It answered only too well for 
nearly two years, but then the police informed me it was 
made the meeting-place for thieves, and that they formed 
there schemes of burglary. On one occasion in the middle 
of the day I found it full of idle men, and the manager 
told me that directly he suggested it was not meant for 
a lounge for loafers, they ordered more food and kept him 
continually at work. I then spoke to them, and said we 
were anxious to make the house a comfortable and a quiet 
club for working men ; but that our end would be defeated 
if the idlers, loafers, and men who would not work crowded 
the rooms all day long. This was the crisis of the club, 
and from that day it ceased to pay, and before it failed 
it was thought better to close the doors.” 
The institution was then opened as an Industrial School 
for street boys. On the Committee were several barristers, 
among the most active of whom were the present Baron 
Pollock and the late Judge Bristowe. Mrs. Buckland 
took the greatest interest in the scheme, and helped with 
a large subscription. The boys were taught to make 
paper bags and to print ; and as they were fitted for 
employment, they were drafted off, and many of them 
became useful workmen. This coffee house was one of 
the first to be started in London, and was modelled upon 
a like refreshment place for working men in Edinburgh. 
Nor was it the only philanthropic scheme in which the 
Dean and his wife were interested. 
“ Mrs. Buckland,” writes Mr. Malone, “ gave me a small 
sum of money to lend out to the deserving poor, and this 
sum lasted a considerable time and was the means of 
