During the past year, a still more beautiful feature has been added to this Lodging-house. We had occasion to put up in the rear a little building for bathrooms. It occurred to some gentlemen who are always devising pleasant things for these poor children, that a green-house upon this, opening into the school-room, would be a very agreeable feature, and that our superintendent's love for flowers could thus be used in the most practical way for giving pleasure to great numbers of poor children. A pretty conservatory, accordingly, was erected on the top of the bath-room, opening into the audience-room, so that the little street-waifs, as they looked up from their desks, had a vista of flowers before them. Hither, also, were invited the mothers of the children in the Day-school to occasional parties or exhibitions; and here the plants were shown which had been intrusted to them. The room is one of the most attractive schoolrooms in the city, and I have no doubt its beautiful flowers are one cause of the great numbers of poor children which flock to it, while the influence of its earnest teachers, and of the whole instrumentality, has been to improve the character of the neighboring quarter. FOUR YEARS' WORK AT THE RIVINGTON-STREET LODGING-HOUSE. (1868, 1869, 1870, 1871) Number of different boys provided for....... 2,659 Number of lodgings furnished................ 80,344 Number of meals furnished................... 78,756 Number of boys sent West.................... 161 Number of boys provided with employment..... 105 Number of boys restored to friends.......... 126 Number of boys patronizing the savings-bank. 310 Amount saved by the boys....................$ 2,873.00 Total expenses.............................. 26,018.10 Amount paid by the boys..................... 8,614.63 THE LITTLE COPPER-STEALERS. THE ELEVENTH-WARD LODGING-HOUSE. The history of this useful charity would be only a repetition of that of the others. It is placed among the haunts which are a favorite of the little dock-thieves, and iron and copper-stealers, and of all the ragged crowd who live by peddling wood near the East River wharves. It has had a checkered career. One superintendent was "cleaned out" twice on successive nights, and had his till robbed almost under his nose. Another was almost hustled out of the dormitory by the youthful vagabonds; but order has at length been gained; considerable numbers of the _gamins_ have been tamed into honest farmers, and others are pursuing regular occupations. The Night-school is busily attended; the Day-school is a model of industry; the "Bank" is used, and the Sunday-evening Meeting is one of the most interesting and impressive which we have.