ndependent Dealers--First Lodging-house for Newsboys In
the World--Mr. Tracy--Plans of the Boys for a Scrimmage--Their
Defeat--Remarks about their Beds--Origin of the Night-school--And the
Sunday Meeting--Surprise at the Golden Rule--Belief in Miracles--Pathos
of their songs--The Savings'-bank--Breaking up of Gambling and Money
Wasting--Mr. and Mrs. O'Connor--Their Fitness for the Work--Immense
Number of Lodgers--The Influence of the House--Payments by the
Lads--Description of Rooms--The New Building--Extracts from Journal
Statistics...................................................pp. 97-113

CHAPTER X.

STREET-GIRLS--THEIR SUFFERING AND CRIME.

Hard Lot of A Girl-vagrant--Sexual Vice--Dark Questions--Girls' Vices
More Degrading than the Boys'--Effect on her Habits and Character--Great
Difficulty of Reform--History of Prostitutes not Romantic--Their lives
the Fruit of Neglect in Early Childhood, and of Lazy Habits--Their Good
Qualities--Remedies for the Social Evil--Sad Incident of a Young Girl in
the Tombs...................................................pp. 114-122

CHAPTER XI.

LEGAL TREATMENT OF PROSTITUTES.

Should License be Allowed?--The Views of Physicians--Foolish Arguments
on the Other Side--Duties of a Physician Purely Medical--Objections to
License under the Moral Aspect--Bitter Misery of this Class of
Women--Effect of License to Encourage the Crime--The Recognition by
Law--Prostitution can be Checked--Condition of this Class in New York
Terrible--Necessity of Hospitals or Dispensaries for this Class in the
City--The Absurdity of the Berlin License Laws--Non-licensing a Terror
to Evil-doers--This Not a Proper Object for Legislators--Effect of
License in Paris--Superiority of New York to other Great Cities in this
Matter Partly Due to Non-licensing..........................pp. 123-131

CHAPTER XII.

THE BEST PREVENTIVE OF VICE AMONG CHILDREN--INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.

Public Schools not Reaching the Poorer Children--Numbers of Vagrant
Children Twenty Years Ago--Foundation of the Wilson School--The
Rookeries of the Fourth Ward--Dance-saloons--Crime of the Ward--Numbers
of Wild Children--Efforts to Form an Association among the Rich to
connect the Two Ends of Society--All Sects, and those of no Sect,
Invited--Foundation of Fourth-ward Industrial School--Description of the
Childr