hole enterprise to a still worse
quarter, where I had done my first work in visiting, and which I
thoroughly knew, the region on East River, at the foot of Eleventh
Street. Here was a numerous band of similar boys, who slept anywhere,
and lived by petty pilferings from the iron-works and wood-yards and by
street jobs.

In this place we combined our carpenters' shop with Day-school,
Night-school, Reading-room, and Lodging-house, and exerted thus a
variety of influences over the "Arabs," which soon began to reform and
civilize them. Here we had no difficulties, and made a steady progress
as we had done everywhere else.

At present, some gentle female teachers guide the Industrial School. We
have dropped the carpentering, as what the boys need is the habit of
industry and a primary school-training more than a trade; and we have
found that a refined woman can influence these rough little vagabonds
even more than a man.

Subsequently, another school was founded in the quarter from which we
removed this, and is now held in East Thirty-fourth Street.

One of the benefactions which we hope for in the future is the erection
of a suitable building for a Lodging-house, Reading-room, Day-school,
and Mission, in the miserable quarter on East River, near Thirty-fourth
Street.

CHAPTER XVI.

NEW METHODS OF TEACHING.

A lady of high culture and position, who felt peculiarly the
responsibilities of the fortunate toward the unfortunate, conceived the
idea of doing something to elevate the condition of the destitute
classes in the quarter of the city between the East River and Avenue B.
She accordingly made the proposition to us of an Industrial School in
that neighborhood.

We gladly accepted, and soon secured a room, and gathered a goodly
company of poor children, mostly Germans. Fortunately for our
enterprise, we chanced on a teacher of singular ability and earnestness
of purpose, a graduate of the best Normal School in the country, the
Oswego Training School, and thoroughly versed in the "Object
System"--Miss Jane Andrews.

The founder of our school proved as earnest in carrying out, as she had
been generous in forming, her benevolent plan.

She took part herself, several times each week, in teaching the
children, and was indefatigable in promoting their pleasures, as well as
aiding their instruction. For many years now, this kind friend of the
poor has supported