The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work Among Them
CHAPTER VIII.
A NEW ORGANIZATION.
Foundation of the CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY--Touching Procession of Homeless Children to the Office--The Feeling at its Foundation--Its Objects--To Found Reading-rooms, Industrial Schools, Lodging-houses, and Provide Homes for the Homeless--Dens of Misery and Crime--Thieves' Lodging-houses--"Rotten Row"--"Poverty Lane"--Haunts of the Young Wood-stealers--Hopes of the New Work--Workshops--Want of Success--Causes--Necessity of General Education, rather than Industrial, for Street-children...........................................pp. 84-96