Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II The Welcome In The City Beautiful To Its Builders "And the gates of the city shall not he shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there." — Rev. 21:25. ON a bitter winter night, when the very air seemed congealed into piercing needles, as I was hurrying down Seventeenth Street in the City of Denver — the City Beautif il, the City of Lights and Wealth,— a young ir n about eighteen years of age stopped me, and a? id in a rather hesitating manner for the price a meal. At a glance I took in his desperate condition. His shoes gaped at the toes and were run down at the heels; his old suit of clothes was full of chinks soiled and threadbare, frazzled at ankle and wrist; his faded blue shirt was open at the neck, where a button was missing, and where the pin had slipped out that had supplied its place. His face and throat were fair, and he was straight and sound in body and limb. " You look strong and well," I said to him, " why A Familiar Scene in a Western City. The Boy Is "Broke" But Not Willing to Give Up must you beg? Can't you work for what you eat? I have to." His big, honest eyes took on a dull, desperate stare, as though all hope was crushed. " This is the first time I have ever asked something for nothing," he said, " and I don't like to do it now, but I have been in Denver two days and I can't find a job. I am hungry." The last words trembled and he turned as though about to leave me. I stopped him. " Wait a moment; I did not intend to turn you down. I am hungry myself; let us go across the street to the restaurant and get our dinner." I had made up my mind to study this strong, able-bodied boy, who was workless, homeless, penniless, and suffering in our city beautiful, which is famous for its spirit of Western hospitality and e...