"Would you please come and see to our Wayside Boys' Club; that the first time it was open it was very nice, and after that near every boy in that neighborhood came walking in. And if you would be so kind to come and put them out it would be a great pleasure to us. "Mrs. ----, the club is not nice any more, and when we want to go home, the boys would wait for us outside, and hit you. "Mrs. ----, since them boys are in the club we don't have any games to play with, and if we do play with the games, they come over to us and take it off us. "And by so doing please oblige, ----, _President_, ----, _Vice-President_, ----, _Treasurer_, ----, _Secretary_, ----, _Floor Manager_. "Please excuse the writing. I was in haste. "----, _Treasurer_." The appeal had its effect. The Wayside boys were rescued and there has been quiet in Thirteenth Street since. They have got a new house now, and are looking hopefully forward to the day when "near every boy in that neighborhood," shall "come walking in" upon an errand of peace. Most of the clubs close in the summer months, when it has heretofore been supposed that few of the boys would attend. The experience of the Boys' Club in St. Mark's Place, which this past summer was kept open a full month later than usual and experienced no such collapse, although the park across the street might be supposed to be an extra attraction on warm evenings, suggests that there is some mistake about this which it would be worth while to find out. The street is no less dangerous to the boy in summer because it is more crowded. The Free Reading-Room for boys in West Fourteenth Street is open all the year round, and though the attendance in summer decreases one-half, yet the rooms are never empty.