. Sunshine and shadow in New York. By Matthew Hale Smith. (Burleigh.) ... d steal. They fill thegalleries of the low theatres. They are familiar withevery form of wickedness and crime. As they growup they swell the ranks of the dangerous classes. Ourthieves, burglars, robbers, rioters, who are the mostnotorious, are young persons of foreign parentage, be-tween ten and seventeen years of age. The degradedwomen who tramp the streets in the viler parts ofthe city, who fill the low dance houses, and wait andtend in low drinking-saloons, graduate in this vilelocality. Over a thousand young girls, b
. Sunshine and shadow in New York. By Matthew Hale Smith. (Burleigh.) ... d steal. They fill thegalleries of the low theatres. They are familiar withevery form of wickedness and crime. As they growup they swell the ranks of the dangerous classes. Ourthieves, burglars, robbers, rioters, who are the mostnotorious, are young persons of foreign parentage, be-tween ten and seventeen years of age. The degradedwomen who tramp the streets in the viler parts ofthe city, who fill the low dance houses, and wait andtend in low drinking-saloons, graduate in this vilelocality. Over a thousand young girls, between theacres of twelve and eio-hteen, can be found in the WaterStreet drinking-saloons. To this same character anddoom these forty thousand children are around this Mission, children can be seen whocome up daily from the brothels and dens of infamywhich they call their homes, where women and men,black and white, herd together, and where childhood istrained up, by daily beatings and scanty fare, to crueltyand blasphemy. To rescue them, this Mission Home. STREET SWEEPER In New York. 209 Wcas founded. They are made clean, are clad com-fortably, and learn to sing the sweet songs about theSavior and the better land. Nearly twenty thousand,since the Mission was founded, have been rescued fromthese hot-beds of wickedness, and placed in good homesh^re and at the West. Many, through the kindness offriends, have been sent to seminaries, from which theyhave graduated w^itli honor. Not a few are first-classmechanics. Some of these hopeless classes, as theworld regards them, rescued by the Mission, are clerksand cashiers in banks, insurance offices, and places oftrust. Little girls picked up from the streets, found inthe gutter, taken from dens of infamy, brought to theMission by drunken women, — many of whom neverknew father or mother, — are now the adopted daugh-ters of wealthy citizens, the wives of first-class mechan-ics, of lawyers, and princely merchants. They owe
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