CHAPTER XXXVI.

DECREASE OF JUVENILE CRIME--COST OF PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT.

Instance of the Three Brothers in the Newsboys' Lodging-house--The
Damage Inflicted by One on the Community--The Gain brought by the Labor
of the Others--Cost of Our Criminals last Year--Amount of Property
Taken--Expenses of Prevention--Average Cost of each Child in our
Industrial Schools--In our Lodging-houses--And when sent to the
West--Number Provided for in the Country--Crime Checked--Commitments of
Female Vagrants--Arrests of Female Vagrants--Commitments for
Thieving--For "Juvenile Delinquency"--Number of Girls under Fifteen
Years Old Imprisoned--Great Decrease of Crime among Girls--Crime Checked
among Boys--Commitment of Boys for Vagrancy--For Petit Larceny--Number
of Boys under Fifteen Years Old Imprisoned--Number between Fifteen and
Twenty--Arrests of Pickpockets--Of Petty Thieves--Of Girls under
Twenty--Estimate of Money Saved in One Year by Reduction of
Commitments.................................................pp. 429-439

CHAPTER XXXVII.

THE CAUSES OF THE SUCCESS OF THE WORK.

This Charity has always Encouraged Self-help--No Pauperism Stimulated
under it--The Laborer in this Field sees the Fruit--Harmony with Natural
Laws sought for constantly--Advantage Taken of Demand for Labor--The
Family Home sought for, rather than the Asylum--Lodging-houses not
Permitted to become Homes--Evening-schools--Savings'-bank, Religious
Meeting, and Day-school--All Stimulates Self-help--The Forces under the
Society the Strongest Forces of life--The Work Founded on Natural
Principles--Just Treatment of the Employes by the Trustees--This Charity
as well served as any Business-house--The Aim of the Executive Officer
with the Employes--Great Success of many of them--One Million of Dollars
passed through the Treasury, and not One Squandered--High Character of
the Board of Trustees--The Success much Dependent on them--Tabulation of
the Accounts--Long Services of the Treasurer, Mr. J. E. Williams--The
Sectarian Danger--Great Care to Avoid this--The Utmost Publicity a
Necessity--Need for State Aid--Sensation to be Avoided--Hopes that this
Charity will Scatter its Blessings for Generations to come..pp. 440-448

THE DANGEROUS CLASSES

OF NEW YORK;

AND TWENTY YEARS' WORK AMONG THEM.