Sensation to be Avoided--All Raffles and Pathetic Exhibitions Declined--Our Experience with a Concert--Labors through the Pulpit and the Press--Character of the Trustees who entered in the Work--Sources of Income--Mr. Barnard's Bequest--Mr. Chauncy Rose's Great Benefaction--The Income of a Single Year--Different Sources from which it is Derived.....................................................pp. 280-285 CHAPTER XXIV. REFORM AMONG THE ROWDIES--FREE READING-ROOMS. They Require Peculiar Management to be Successful--The Eleventh-ward Reading-room--Its Failure--A Reformed Pugilist--"Awful Gardner"-His Career--The Death of His Son--His Reform--His Words to His Old Associates--The Effect of Christianity--The Drunkard's Club in the Fourth Ward--Mr. Beecher's Address--Gardner's Speech--His Influence over the Rowdies--His Theory of Reform--Great Numbers Rescued from Drunkenness--Failure of his Health--Genuineness of his Reform--Mr. Macy's Reading-room--The First-ward Room--Mr. J. Couper Lord--Mr. Hawley's Exertions--The Free Reading-room a Recognized Means of Moral Improvement.................................................pp. 286-297 CHAPTER XXV. HOMELESS GIRLS. The President of the Society--Mr. William A. Booth--His Character and Capacity--His Policy in Regard to the Lodging-houses--His Suggestion about the Street-girls--The Histories of these Girls--Causes of their Condition--Their Unstable Character--Their Condition Fifteen Years Ago Hopeless--THE GIRLS' LODGING-HOUSE--Its Plan--Means of Filling it--Miserable Girls who Applied for Admission--Great Difficulties Encountered--Necessity of Confining it to the Young, and Those not Vicious--Principal Frequenters, Young Girls between Fourteen and Eighteen--The Matron--Her Characteristics--The House was not to be an Asylum--Our Effort to put the Girls in Places--Struggles of Mr. and Mrs. Trott--Incidents from the Journal--Cases of Reform--THE SEWING-MACHINE SCHOOL--Its Great Success--TRAINING SCHOOL FOR SERVANTS--Results from the Work of the Lodging-house...............................pp. 298-315 CHAPTER XXVI. THE NINETEENTH-STREET GANG OF RUFFIANS--"A MORAL DISINFECTANT."