ter that hour, they are charged twenty-five cents extra.

The Children's Aid Society conducts several lodging-houses for girls, one
of which is located in Bleecker street, and the other at 27 St. Mark's
Place. They furnish beds and meals to girls of all ages, at five cents
each, while they have money, and give them for nothing where the
applicant is found to be destitute. They have been tolerably successful
thus far, and give promise of future usefulness.

There are several other associations, with similar objects, in operation
in the city.

Mr. A. T. Stewart is now erecting, on Fourth avenue, a magnificent iron
building, which is to be used as a "Home for Working Women." The
building extends along the avenue, from Thirty-second to Thirty-third
street, a distance of 192 feet, and has a depth of 205 feet. Including
the central Mansard roofs, the building is eight stories in height. It
is one of the finest edifices in the city, and will be provided with
every convenience for the work to which it is destined. It will be
capable of accommodating fifteen hundred boarders, and will be conducted
on a plan similar to that of the "Home for Working Women" in Elizabeth
street. It is not to be conducted as a charity. Each occupant is to pay
a fixed sum per week; and it is believed that here this sum will not
exceed two dollars a week for board, lodging, and washing.

LXXXII. STREET VENDERS.

It is not known how many stores, or places in which trade is conducted
beneath the shelter of a roof, the city contains. They are numerous, but
they are not sufficient for the wants of trade. The sellers overflow
them and spread out into the streets and by-ways, with no roof above them
but the blue sky. Some of these sellers are men, some women, and some
mere children. Some have large stationary stands, others roam about with
their wares in boxes, bags, or baskets in their hands. They sell all
manner of wares. Watches, jewelry, newspapers, fruits, tobacco, cigars,
candies, cakes, ice cream, lemonade, flowers, dogs, birds,--in short
everything that can be carried in the hand--are sold by the Street
Venders. The rich and the poor buy of them. The strolling vagrant picks
up his scanty breakfast at one of these stands, and the millionaire buys
an apple at another.

The eating and apple stands are mainly kept by women. The most of them
are Irishwomen, and the big cap and dirty frill under the quilted bonnet
are among