intendent of
Schools and Visitors........................................pp. 212-222

CHAPTER XIX.

THE BEST REMEDY FOR JUVENILE PAUPERISM.

Effects of Overcrowding--No Local Charities a Complete Remedy--Asylums
not Sufficient--Best Asylum, the "Farmer's Home"--Advantage in the
United States--Unlimited Demand for Labor--Best Remedy Emigration to the
West--Objections to the Plan--How they were Met--Incident of a
Waif--Humanity of our Countrywomen--Method of Placing Out the
Children--Difficulties of the Local Committees..............pp. 223-233

CHAPTER XX.

PROVIDING COUNTRY HOMES--THE OPPOSITION TO THIS REMEDY--ITS EFFECTS.

Hostility of Ignorant Roman Catholics--Objections of the
Poor--Opposition of the Asylum Interest--Arguments of the Asylum Plan
and for the Emigration Method--A Practical Test to Apply--Advantages of
the Discussion--Effort to Obtain Statistics--Figures of the Results in
the West--Testimony from Great Numbers of People--Wonderful
Improvement--Changes of Fortune--The Great Majority become Honest
Producers--Unlimited Demand from the West--No Indentures
Required--Virtues in both Plans--Opposition of Priests--Our Action
Unsectarian--Net Expenses for Each Emigrants--Amount of Returned Fares
Collected--All the Pauper Children of the City could be thus
Placed--Answer to Prof. Fawcett's Objection--Our Western Agents--Mr.
Tracy's Quaint Humor--Defective Children--No Accident has ever
Happened....................................................pp. 234-245

CHAPTER XXI.

RESULTS AND FACTS OF EMIGRATION TO THE WEST.

Our First Party of Little Emigrants--A Description of the Waifs--Hard
Journey in Emigrant Cars--Excitement of the Boys in the
Country--Reception in the Western Village--Their Sweet Songs--The
Runaway--The Placing-out of the Boys--The Lost Boy Returned--A Later
Party to the West--Eagerness to Obtain the Children--Sympathy for the
Boys--The Fortune of the Deaf-mute--A Hungry Child Placed in a Good
Home--From the Gutter to the College--Once a New-York Pauper, now a
Western Farmer..............................................pp. 246-270

CHAPTER XXII.

A PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPIST AMONG THE YOUNG ROUGHS.

A Description of the Office of the Children's Aid Society--Central
Figure--Mr. Macy--Labors with his "Lambs" in Cottage Place--Stormy
Me