Public Schools not Reaching the Poorer Children--Numbers of Vagrant Children Twenty Years Ago--Foundation of the Wilson School--The Rookeries of the Fourth Ward--Dance-saloons--Crime of the Ward--Numbers of Wild Children--Efforts to Form an Association among the Rich to connect the Two Ends of Society--All Sects, and those of no Sect, Invited--Foundation of Fourth-ward Industrial School--Description of the Children--Influence of Volunteer Teachers--Their Self-sacrifice--Description of some of the Ladies Engaged--Effects of the Work on Crime in the Fourth Ward--Marked Improvement--Dr. Robert Ray's Services--Remarkable Diminution of Vagrancy in the Ward--Instance from our Journal--Average Expense of the School.............pp. 139-146 CHAPTER XIII. GERMAN RAG-PICKERS. Their Quarters on the Eastern Side--Number in the Eleventh Ward--Formation of an Association for their Benefit--Its Moving Spirit--Social Influences in the School--Its Effect on the Rag-pickers--Aid from the German Merchants--A Devoted Teacher--Dutch Hill and the Swill-gatherers--Description of the Squatters' Village--Character of the People--Drunkenness--Faith of the Children--Personal Efforts--Discouraging Features of the Work--Influence of Roman Catholicism--Difficulties of a Protestant--Influence of the Priests--Formation of an Association of Ladies on Murray Hill--Foundation of East River Industrial School--Mrs. Hurley--Her Devoted Labors for Seventeen Years--Attachment of Children to Her--Reform among the Children--Influence of Volunteer Teachers--Incidents among the Poor--A Heroic Girl--Happy Changes of Fortune--Remarkable Success among Two Thousand Children--"Our Failures"--The Beggar's Family..............................pp. 147-164 CHAPTER XIV. SCENES AMONG THE POOR. The Street-child--Effects of Drunkenness--A Mother Fleeing her Daughter-The Dying Sewing-woman--Severe Labor--Christian Faith--Changes of Fortune--Discouragement--The Iron-worker's Wife--A Little Beggar--Religious Trouble--The Swill-gatherer's Child--Danger of Ruin--A Reform--Present Condition of East River School..............pp. 165-173 CHAPTER XV. THE PROTESTANT POOR AND STREET-ROVERS. Formation of an Association of Ladies on the West Side--Hudson River Industrial School--Perseverance of Volunteer Teachers--Protestant Poor no Better than Catholic--"Muscular Orphans"--Wild Boys near East Thirty fourth Street--Skillful Thieves--Efforts of the School--Transference to Eleventh Street--Dock Pilferers--Success of our Efforts--Need of Lodging-house in Thirty-fourth Street.......................pp. 174-180 CHAPTER XVI. NEW METHODS OF TEACHING.