0
1865............275
1867............345
1868............348
1869............303
1870............274
1871............313

In ten years a reduction of 153 in the arrests of pickpockets.

In petty larceny the returns stand thus in brief:--

1862..........4,107
1865..........5,240
1867..........5,269
1870..........4,909
1871..........3,912

A decrease in nine years of 195.

Arrests of girls alone, under twenty:--

1863..........3,132
1867..........2,588
1870..........1,993
1871..........1,820

It must be plain from this, that crime among young girls is decidedly
checked, and among boys is prevented from increasing with population.

If our readers will refer back to these dry but cheering tables of
statistics, they will see what a vast sum of human misery saved is a
reduction, in the imprisonment of female vagrants, of more than five
thousand in 1871, as compared with 1869. How much homelessness and
desperation spared! how much crime and wretchedness diminished are
expressed in those simple figures! And, if we may reckon an average of
punishment of two months' detention to each of those girls and women, we
have one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars saved in one year to
the public by preventive agencies in this class of offenders alone.

The same considerations, both of economy and humanity, apply to each of
the results that appear in these tables of crime and punishment.

No outlay of money for public purposes which any city or its inhabitants
can make, repays itself half so well as its expenses for charities which
prevent crime among children.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

THE CAUSES OF THE SUCCESS OF THE WORK.

In reviewing these long-continued efforts for the prevention of crime
and the elevation of the neglected youth of this metropolis, it may aid
others engaged in similar enterprises to note in summary the principles
on which they have been carried out, and which account for their marked
success.

In the first place, as has been so often said, though pre-eminently a
Charity, this Association has always sought to encourage the principle
of Self-help in its beneficiaries, and has aimed much more at promoting
this than merely relieving suffering. All its branches, its Industrial
Schools, Lodging-houses, and Emigration, aim to make the children of the
poor better able to take care of themselves; to give them such a
training that they shall be ashamed