the best and dearest friend of
all, my wife. To Major Willard Bullard, the most efficient chief of the
Sanitary Police; Rabbi Adolph M. Radin; Mr. A. S. Solomons, of the Baron
de Hirsch Relief Committee; Dr. Annie Sturges Daniel; Mr. L. W. Holste, of
the Children's Aid Society; Colonel George T. Balch, of the Board of
Education; Mr. A. S. Fairchild, and to Dr. Max L. Margolis, my thanks are
due and here given. Jew and Gentile, we have sought the truth together.
Our reward must be in the consciousness that we have sought it faithfully
and according to our light.

J. A. R.

RICHMOND HILL, LONG ISLAND,

October 1, 1892.

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM OF THE CHILDREN, 1

CHAPTER II. THE ITALIAN SLUM CHILDREN, 10

CHAPTER III. IN THE GREAT EAST SIDE TREADMILL, 35

CHAPTER IV. TONY AND HIS TRIBE, 58

CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF KID MCDUFF'S GIRL, 87

CHAPTER VI. THE LITTLE TOILERS, 92

CHAPTER VII. THE TRUANTS OF OUR STREETS, 118

CHAPTER VIII. WHAT IT IS THAT MAKES BOYS BAD, 129

CHAPTER IX. LITTLE MARY ELLEN'S LEGACY, 142

CHAPTER X. THE STORY OF THE FRESH AIR FUND, 153

CHAPTER XI. THE KINDERGARTENS AND NURSERIES, 174

CHAPTER XII. THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS, 187

CHAPTER XIII. THE BOYS' CLUBS, 215

CHAPTER XIV. THE OUTCAST AND THE HOMELESS, 245

CHAPTER XV. PUTTING A PREMIUM ON PAUPERISM, 277

CHAPTER XVI. THE VERDICT OF THE POTTERS FIELD, 286

REGISTER OF CHILDREN'S CHARITIES, 291

LISTS OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Saluting the Flag, _Frontispiece_

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The Mott Street Barracks, 16

An Italian Home under a Dump, 25

A Child of the Dump, 28

Pietro Learning to Make an Englis' Letter, 32

"Slept in the Cellar Four Years," 41

A Synagogue School in a Hester Street Tenement, 46

The Backstairs to Learning, 48

Class of Melammedim Learning English,