n any
similar enterprise in the city. His devotion to the interests of these
poor people has left an enduring harvest of good through the whole
quarter.

The following extract from our Journal will give a good idea of the
changes effected by this charity, now rightly called the "Lord
School":--

A STREET-SWEEPER IN THE LORD SCHOOL.

"For a number of years, the writer of this remembers a little girl in
the First Ward School who was a kind of _bete noir_ of the school--Ann
Jane T----. Both of her parents were drunkards, and were half the time
on the Island under arrest; she herself was twice found drunk in the
School before she was thirteen years old; once she attacked the teacher
violently. She swept crossings for a living, and 'lived about,' often
sleeping in halls and stairways; for a year she occupied the same bed
and living-room with eight large boys and girls from the school, and
some thirteen grown people; the lower part of the house was a
dance-saloon and place of bad character. Annie seemed a hopeless case;
she swore and used the most vile language, and was evidently growing up
to be a most abandoned woman. The teacher of the Lord Industrial School,
Miss Blodgett, was a person of singular sweetness and dignity of
character, as well as remarkable personal beauty. She soon acquired a
great influence over the wild girl. Once little Annie was found waiting
with her broom in a bitter storm of sleet and hail on a corner, and the
teacher asked her why she was there? and why she did not go home? She
said she only wanted just to see the teacher--and the fact was she
hadn't any home--'for you know. Miss Blodgett, there is no one cares for
me in all New York but you!' This touched the teacher's heart.

"At length the father died on Blackwell's Island, and the mother was in
prison, and Miss B. persuaded Annie to go away to a place she had found
for her in an excellent family in the West. When the mother came out she
was furious, and often made Miss B. tremble for fear she would insist on
having the child back; but she gradually saw her absence was for the
best. Now the mother is permanently in the Alms-house.

"The following letter came recently about Annie, who has been in her
place some three years. The liberal and kind friends of the School will
feel that one such case will repay all their sacrifices. Yet there are
hundreds like them, though not so striking.

"It should be observed that nearly all