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two hundred poor girls, who earned a good living through their
instruction there. The expense was trifling, as the machines were all
given or loaned by the manufacturers, and for the room, we employed the
parlor of the Lodging-house.

During the winter of 1870-71, the trustees determined to try to secure a
permanent and convenient house for these girls.

Two well-known gentlemen of our city headed the subscription with $1,000
each; the trustees came forward liberally, and the two or three who have
done so much for this charity took on themselves the disagreeable task
of soliciting funds, so that in two months we had some $27,000
subscribed, with which we both secured an excellent building in St.
Mark's Place, and adapted it for our purposes. Our effort is in this to
make the house more attractive and tasteful than such places usually
are; and various ladies have co-operated with us, to exert a more
profound and renovating influence on these girls.

TRAINING-SCHOOL FOR SERVANTS.

We have already engrafted on this Lodging-house a School to train
ordinary house-servants; to teach plain cooking, waiting, the care of
bedrooms, and good laundry-work. Nothing is more needed among this
class, or by the public generally, than such a "Training-school."

Of the statistics of the Lodging-house, Mrs. Trott writes as follows:--

"Ten thousand two hundred and twenty-five lodgers. What an army would
the registered names make, since a forlorn, wretched child of thirteen
years, from the old Trinity station-house, headed the lists in 1861!

"Among this number there are many cozily sitting by their own
hearth-stones; others are filling positions of usefulness and trust in
families and stores; some have been adopted in distant towns, where they
fill a daughter's place; and some have gone to return no more. A large
number we cannot trace.

"During this period, three thousand one hundred and one have found
employment, and gone to situations, or returned to friends.

"Fifteen thousand four hundred and twenty-nine garments have been cut
and made, and distributed among the poor, or used as outfits in sending
companies West."

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE NINETEENTH STREET GANG OF RUFFIANS.

A MORAL "DISINFECTANT."

During the summer of 1865, I was present in London as a delegate to the
International Reformatory Convention, and had the opportunit