adies consented to be
often present, to instruct and talk with the girls. Our visitors and
myself at once gathered in a needy-looking assembly of the poor German
girls of the Eleventh Ward, not as ragged or wild as the Irish throng in
the Fourth Ward, but equally poor and quite as much exposed to
temptation. The School went on day by day in its ministrations of love
and its patient industry, and gradually produced the same effects as
have been experienced under all these Schools. The wild became tamer,
the wayward more docile. The child of the rag-picker soon began to like
in-door industry better than the vagrant business of the streets, and to
lose something of her boldness and correct her slovenliness.

After laboring thus for some years with a board of ladies, a strong
effort was made to secure the assistance of the German merchants of the
city.

In 1859, a subscription of about $1,000 was obtained from them, and the
School was enlarged and made still more attractive, so as to reach the
young working German girls in the evening. At this time a young lady of
high culture, from one of the prominent intellectual families of New
England, offered herself for this difficult task, and she was placed at
the head of the School. For two years she labored unceasingly for this
wild, uncontrolled class, being present every evening in the school, and
bringing all her education and earnestness of character to bear upon
them. They never forgot her, and she left an indelible impression on
these children, and aided in saving them from the temptations which have
ruined so many of their companions.

Our German patrons gradually left us, and it was only in 1870 that their
assistance was secured again for a charity which was saving so many
thousand children of their countrymen.

The School is now held at No. 272 Second Street, and contains some four
hundred children.

"DUTCH HILL" AND THE SWILL-GATHERERS.

On the eastern side of the city, in the neighborhood of Fortieth Street,
is a village of squatters, which enjoys the title of "Dutch Hill." The
inhabitants are not, however, "Dutch," but mainly poor Irish, who have
taken temporary possession of unused sites on a hill, and have erected
shanties which serve at once for pig-pens, hen-coops, bed-rooms, and
living-rooms. They enjoy the privilege of squatters in having no rent to
pay; but they are exposed to the penalty of being at any moment turned
out from their dens,