ve street;
the Home for Aged Hebrews, 215 West Seventeenth street; the Ladies
Christian Union or Young Women's Home, 27 and 28 Washington Square; the
Water street Home for Women, 273 Water street, devoted to the reformation
of fallen women, and occupying the building formerly used by John Allen,
"the wickedest man in New York," as a dance house; Wilson's Industrial
School for Girls, Avenue A and St. Mark's place; the New York House and
School of Industry, 120 West Sixteenth street; and the Society for the
Employment and Relief of Poor Women (Unitarian).

The city conducts five large and excellent dispensaries, at which the
poor may receive medical advice, treatment and medicines free of charge.
There are also a number of dispensaries devoted to the gratuitous
treatment of special diseases.

LIII. HENRY WARD BEECHER.

Although Mr. Beecher is a resident of Brooklyn, and although Plymouth
Church is located in that city, yet the great preacher is sufficiently
bound to New York by business and socialities to make him a part of the
great metropolis.

He was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on the 24th of June, 1813, and is
now in his fifty-ninth year, though he looks very much younger. He was
the eighth child of Dr. Lyman Beecher, and was regarded as the dunce of
the family, and, according to his own account, had the usual unpleasant
experience of ministers' children. Being of a naturally strong, vigorous
constitution, his body far outran his mind, and the little fellow lagged
behind until nature asserted her rights. The forcing process
accomplished very little with him. He was quick-witted, however, and
fond of fun. The gloomy doctrines of his learned father made him
shudder, and he came to the conclusion that Sunday was a day of penance,
and the Catechism a species of torture invented for the punishment of
dull boys. At the age of ten, he was sent to a boarding-school in
Bethlehem, where he studied by shouldering his gun and going after
partridges. Then his sister, Catharine, took him in hand, but he spent
his time in teazing the girls of her school, and she was compelled to
give him up as a hopeless case. The boy of ten could not be made a
mental prodigy, do what they would. The result is that the man of
fifty-nine is as fresh and vigorous in body and mind as most others are
at thirty-five.

[Picture: HENRY WARD BEECHER.]

When he was twelve years old, his father removed to Bo