could reach many with invested
wealth. Under this combination we soon raised the required sum, and all
had the profound satisfaction of seeing a temporary "Home for Homeless
Boys" placed in one of the worst quarters of the city, to scatter its
benefactions for future years, when we are all gone.

During the past year, a still more beautiful feature has been added to
this Lodging-house. We had occasion to put up in the rear a little
building for bathrooms. It occurred to some gentlemen who are always
devising pleasant things for these poor children, that a green-house
upon this, opening into the school-room, would be a very agreeable
feature, and that our superintendent's love for flowers could thus be
used in the most practical way for giving pleasure to great numbers of
poor children. A pretty conservatory, accordingly, was erected on the
top of the bath-room, opening into the audience-room, so that the little
street-waifs, as they looked up from their desks, had a vista of flowers
before them. Hither, also, were invited the mothers of the children in
the Day-school to occasional parties or exhibitions; and here the plants
were shown which had been intrusted to them.

The room is one of the most attractive schoolrooms in the city, and I
have no doubt its beautiful flowers are one cause of the great numbers
of poor children which flock to it, while the influence of its earnest
teachers, and of the whole instrumentality, has been to improve the
character of the neighboring quarter.

FOUR YEARS' WORK AT THE RIVINGTON-STREET LODGING-HOUSE.
(1868, 1869, 1870, 1871)

Number of different boys provided for....... 2,659
Number of lodgings furnished................ 80,344
Number of meals furnished................... 78,756
Number of boys sent West.................... 161
Number of boys provided with employment..... 105
Number of boys restored to friends.......... 126
Number of boys patronizing the savings-bank. 310
Amount saved by the boys....................$ 2,873.00
Total expenses.............................. 26,018.10
Amount paid by the boys..................... 8,614.63

THE LITTLE COPPER-STEALERS.

THE ELEVENTH-WARD LODGING-HOUSE.

The history of this useful charity would be only a repetition of that of
the others. It is placed among the haunts which are a favorite of the
little dock-thieves, and iron and co