. Boyhood and lawlessness. The neglected girl . Eleventh (Death) Avenue HIS BACKGROUND place. At one side of the pergola, however, lie theplots of the school farm in which small groups ofboys and girls may often be seen at work. Little at-tempt has been made to develop a play center in thepark. On a fine Saturday afternoon it is often prac-tically empty.* Twelfth Avenue adjoins the Hudson River, los-ing itself here and there in wharves and pier-heads. Two of the piers belong to the city, onebeing devoted to the disposal of garbage, the otherto recreation. Factories and an occasional saloon are
. Boyhood and lawlessness. The neglected girl . Eleventh (Death) Avenue HIS BACKGROUND place. At one side of the pergola, however, lie theplots of the school farm in which small groups ofboys and girls may often be seen at work. Little at-tempt has been made to develop a play center in thepark. On a fine Saturday afternoon it is often prac-tically empty.* Twelfth Avenue adjoins the Hudson River, los-ing itself here and there in wharves and pier-heads. Two of the piers belong to the city, onebeing devoted to the disposal of garbage, the otherto recreation. Factories and an occasional saloon areon the inland side, but there are almost no shacks ortenements. At first sight there are no striking features about theMiddle West Side. Hand-to-mouth existence reducesliving to a universal sameness which has little time orplace for variety. In street after street are the samecrowded and unsanitary tenements; the same untendedgroups of playing children; the same rough men gath-ered round the stores and saloons on the avenue; thesame sluggish w
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