| Saluting the Flag, | Frontispiece |
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| The Mott Street Barracks, | 16 |
| An Italian Home under a Dump, | 25 |
| A Child of the Dump, | 28 |
| Pietro Learning to Make an Englis’ Letter, | 32 |
| “Slept in the Cellar Four Years,” | 41 |
| A Synagogue School in a Hester Street Tenement, | 46 |
| The Backstairs to Learning, | 48 |
| Class of Melammedim Learning English, | 50 |
| “I Scrubs.”—Katie who Keeps House in West Forty-ninth Street, | 61 |
| Present Tenants of John Ericsson’s Old House, now the Beach Street Industrial School, | 73 |
| Their Playground a Truck, | 86 |
| Shine, Sir? | 100 |
| Little Susie at her Work, | 110 |
| Minding the Baby, | 114 |
| “Shooting Craps” in the Hall of the Newsboys’ Lodging House, | 122 |
| Case No. 25,745 on the Society’s Blotter, Before and After, | 146 |
| Club Used for Beating a Child, | 152 |
| Summer Boarders from Mott Street, | 158 |
| Making for the “Big Water,” | 167 |
| Floating Hospital—St. John’s Guild, | 169 |
| Playing at Housekeeping, | 177 |
| Poverty Gappers Playing Coney Island, | 183 |
| Poverty Gap Transformed—the Spot where Young Healey was murdered is now a Playground, | 185 |
| The Late Charles Loring Brace, Founder of the Children’s Aid Society, | 188 |
| The First Patriotic Election in the Beach Street Industrial School—Parlor in John Ericsson’s Old House, | 201 |
| The Board of Election Inspectors in the Beach Street School, | 207 |
| The Plumbing Shop in the New York Trade Schools, | 212 |
| A Boys’ Club Reading room, | 222 |
| The Carpenter Shop in the Avenue C Working Boys’ Club, | 226 |
| Type-setting at the Avenue C Working Boys’ Club, | 231 |
| A Bout with the Gloves in the Boys’ Club of Calvary Parish, | 235 |
| Lining up for the Gymnasium, | 240 |
| A Snug Corner on a Cold Night, | 246 |
| 2 A.M. in the Delivery-room in the “Sun” Office, | 261 |
| Buffalo, | 264 |
| Night School in the West Side Lodging-house.—Edward, the Little Pedlar, Caught Napping, | 265 |
| The “Soup-House Gang,” Class in History in the Duane Street Newsboy’s Lodging-house, | 269 |
