Nine children, just gathered from the streets, were present and formed the nucleus of the new establishment that later grew to vast proportions on Randalls Island.
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San Michéle, the first protectory for youth, was founded at Rome in 1704 by Pope Clement XI.
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Another large protectory, St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys in charge of the Xaverian Brothers at Baltimore, Md., had a juvenile population of 748 on 1 December 1909.