CHAPTER XVI. THE VERDICT OF THE POTTERS FIELD, 286
REGISTER OF CHILDREN'S CHARITIES, 291
LISTS OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Saluting the Flag, _Frontispiece_
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The Mott Street Barracks, 16
An Italian Home under a Dump, 25
A Child of the Dump, 28
Pietro Learning to Make an Englis' Letter, 32
"Slept in the Cellar Four Years," 41
A Synagogue School in a Hester Street Tenement, 46
The Backstairs to Learning, 48
Class of Melammedim Learning English, 50
"I Scrubs."--Katie who Keeps House in West Forty-ninth Street, 61
Present Tenants of John Ericsson's Old House, now the Beach Street Industrial School, 73
Their Playground a Truck, 86
Shine, Sir? 100
Little Susie at her Work, 110
Minding the Baby, 114
"Shooting Craps" in the Hall of the Newsboys' Lodging House, 122
Case No. 25,745 on the Society's Blotter, Before and After, 146
Club Used for Beating a Child, 152
Summer Boarders from Mott Street, 158
Making for the "Big Water," 167
Floating Hospital--St. John's Guild, 169
Playing at Housekeeping, 177
Poverty Gappers Playing Coney Island, 183
Poverty Gap Transformed--the Spot where Young Healey was murdered is now a Playground, 185
The Late Charles Loring Brace, Founder of the Children's Aid Society, 188
The First Patriotic Election in the Beach Street Industrial School--Parlor in John Ericsson's Old House, 201
The Board of Election Inspectors in the Beach Street School, 207
The Plumbing Shop in the New York Trade Schools, 212
A Boys' Club Reading room, 222
The Carpenter Shop in the Avenue C Working Boys' Club, 226
Type-setting at the Avenue C Working Boys' Club, 231
A Bout with the Gloves in the Boys' Club of Calvary Parish, 235
Lining up for the Gymnasium, 240
A Snug Corner on a Cold Night, 246
2 A.M. in the Delivery-room in the "Sun" Office, 261
Buffalo, 264
Night School in the West Side Lodging-house.--Edward, the Little Pedlar, Caught Napping, 265
The "Soup-House Gang," Class in History in the Duane Street Newsboy's Lodging-house, 269
THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR