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Title: The Dangerous Classes of New York
And Twenty Years' Work Among Them

Author: Charles Loring Brace

Release Date: August 14, 2010 [EBook #33431]

Language: English

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THE

DANGEROUS CLASSES OF NEW YORK,

AND

TWENTY YEARS' WORK AMONG THEM.

BY

CHARLES LORING BRACE,

AUTHOR OF

"HUNGARY IN 1851," "HOME LIFE IN GERMANY,"

"THE RACES OF THE OLD WORLD," ETC., ETC.

"Ameliorer l'homme par le terre et le terre par l'homme."--_Demetz._

NEW YORK.

WYNKOOP & HALLENBECK, PUBLISHERS,

113 FULTON STREET.

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1872.

[Illustration: LODGING-HOUSES FOR HOMELESS BOYS--AS THEY WERE. NO. 1.]

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ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by

CHARLES LORING BRACE,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

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WYNKOOP & HALLENBECK,

FINE BOOK PRINTERS.

DEDICATION.

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To the many co-laborers, men and women, who have not held their comfort
or even their lives dear unto themselves, but have striven, through many
years, to teach the ignorant, to raise up the depressed, to cheer the
despairing, to impart a higher life and a Christian hope to the outcast
and neglected youth of this city, and thus save society from their
excesses, this simple record of common labors, and this sketch of the
terrible evils sought to be cured, is respectfull