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: average passer-by because he has not the interest to investigate its significance. If he were told that this is one of the six lodging houses of the Children's Aid Society, even that might mean little to him. In the busy, thoughtless city so much that is good escapes notice. He might never have heard, or he might have forgotten, that this society was organized in 1853 by Charles.Loring Brace, : A Turning-Point in Boys' Success and that it has been growing larger and larger with the passing years. Having for its motive the teaching of children how to help themselves, it now maintains nineteen industrial schools and kindergartens in those populous districts of the city where poverty most prevails, besides vacation schools,evening classes, lodging houses, and the like. This particular lodging house was founded in 1874, and something over twelve hundred boys are cared for every year. They are fed, given the benefits of a school, of a gymnasium, of a library, and of entertainments in the evenings. Not only are these boys benefited for a day, but their whole lives are shaped for them. Some are sent to the society's farm school; those who desire are enlisted in the navy; for others homes are secured, and for others employment. So the Newsboys' Lodging House is not merely a place to sleep, it is a turning-point on the road to success. Set low in the slum district, between Cherry Hill and the waterside, the McAuley Water Street Mission, at 316 Water Street, has for more than thirty years now been rendering help for the body and for the spirit to those whom many would have considered beyond reclamation—to criminals and to drunkards, women as well as men; for it is the special object of this mission to give help to those who are utterly unable to help themselves, to build up thos...