CHAPTER XVII.

THE "LAMBS" or COTTAGE PLACE.

Mr. Macy's Efforts--A Free Reading-room--Earnest Nature of the Work--Self-sacrifice of Lady Volunteers--Miss Macy's Treatment of Colored Children during the Riots--Good Effects of the School in Preventing Thieving and Begging--Cottage-place School--The Little Beggars of the First Ward--Application to Trinity Church--Mr. Lord's Valuable Assistance--Interesting Incident--Reform of a Street-sweeper in the "Lord School"--A Ragged School on St John's Park--Fourteenth-ward Industrial School--The Colored Poor--Other Industrial Schools--The Shanty People near the Park--Interesting Night-school--Efforts to prevent a New "Nineteenth street Gang"--No Children Admitted who can attend Public Schools--Improvement In the Teaching--Superintendent of Schools and Visitors........................................pp. 212-222