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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 Perine, George E
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) History New York (N.Y.) Biography
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : A.S. Barnes & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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bath-school. The children were unruly, for they hadnever been taught lessons of self-restraint. This lack was one of themost painful features to be considered, for the anxious question wouldarise, To what will all this lead ? The boys would perform somersets,play leap-frog, quarrel, fight, and swear, or follow any other inclina-tion which arose. But it was not long before the exercise of goodjudgment and extreme kindness transformed the school into an orderlyorganization, and gave the projectors pleasing hopes for the future. The urgent necessity for an every-day school was apparent at theoutset, for weekly impressions on the mind so indurated by vice andpoverty were too evanescent to be of much benefit, to the childrenespecially. Preparations were made for the organization of a school :a teacher was selected, donations of maps, books, slates, etc., werereceived, and tin; ladies were rejoicing in the prospect of a widerfield of usefulness, when the school was placed in other hands and
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THIRD DECADE, 1850-1800. f,29 removed entirely from the control and much of the influence of themission. One of the greatest obstacles to the work of the mission was theprevalence of intemperance in the neighborhood. To remove thisobstacle in some degree stated temperance meetings were held at themission-rooms, at which temperance addresses were made, temperancesongs sung, and earnest exhortations to sobriety delivered. The effectof this effort was wonderful. In the first year one thousand personshad signed the temperance pledge. Among the signers were some ofthe worst denizens of the Five Points. In a large majority of casesthe pledge was faithfully adhered to. During the first year a successful effort was made to find employ-ment for those who were willing to work. After much effort anestablishment was formed in which fifty or sixty men and women foundconstant employment. They boarded in the house of the missionary,and generally attended the religious meetings, and the children theS

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