me of them, speaking
enthusiastically of their honesty, industry, and faithfulness. There are
also instances of extraordinary interest taken by employers in their
behalf, and in no case has any ever been discharged for any other reason
than for want of work. A large number of girls also find occupation in
artificial flowers and confectionery. All now look with scorn upon their
former vocations, and the term '_pianist_' is ironically applied to
newly, landed organ-grinders. Now it is a fact that can stand the
strictest scrutiny, that _all_ those who follow decent vocations or
attend day-schools, public or otherwise, either are or have been our
regular attendants for years and that _all grinders, beggars,_ and
_vagrants,_ in general, are not and have not, attended at all, or at
most a few weeks, attracted only by the hope of getting shoes or
clothes.

"Without mentioning the many present pupils who are engaged in honorable
pursuits, I can readily name about fifty old attendants who have left
school, now employed in this or other States as printers, confectioners,
jewelers, shoemakers, machinists, carpenters, waiters, carvers, and
farm-hands. To these must be added two who keep and own a neat
confectionery and ice-cream saloon in Grand Street; a shoemaker in
business for himself; another, one of the first three above-mentioned, a
foreman in the very machine-shop in which he served as an apprentice;
one a patented machinist in a steam chocolate manufactory; and, lastly,
one who for the last three years has been foreman in a wholesale
confectionery. I omit to mention those who have gone back to Italy and
are doing well. As a rule, they all remember with gratitude their
friends, to whose efforts and liberality they acknowledge they owe their
present position. From every State in which they settle we receive now
and then encouraging news from some boy; and not long ago we heard, for
the second time, from a boy in Italy, who, after having mentioned that
he was studying Latin, etc., gives vent to his feelings by conveying his
most hearty thanks to all the teachers, mentioning them one by one--to
Mr. Brace, to Mr. Macy, and, not remembering the name of our good
friend, John C. Havemeyer, Esq., he adds, "also to that kind gentleman
who has an office at No. 175 Pearl Street." His letter is very touching,
and reveals noble feeling and mind.

"Nor are parents less grateful and ready to acknowledge the good of
American benevolence.