Identifier: streetarabsgutte00need (find matches)
Title: Street Arabs and gutter snipes. The pathetic and humorous side of young vagabond life in the great cities, with records of work for their reclamation
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Needham, Geo. C. (George Carter), 1840-1902
Subjects: Child welfare Poor
Publisher: Boston : D. L. Guernsey
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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have bad characters, which shows plainly that it doesnot pay to run away. My mother is in the Insane Asylumon Blackweirs Island. I would like to go and see her if itwould be wise. My employer would like to have you comeand see us all. I am trying to be a Christian. I hope youwill answer this letter. May God bless all who are engagedin tins good work. Selections from various journals : — M. F., a motherless little girl, deserted by her father, andleft for three weeks on the streets to live and sleep as bestshe could, was brought to the Home by another little girl atmidnight, drenched with rain and very miserable, but soonbecame bright, active, quick at work, and attentive. Aftera little training she was taken to Canada. J. P., a London orphan, who was training for a jockeywhen rescued by Miss Macpherson, had sufficient cuteness to see that if he were obedient a new and more useful lifewas before him. After some months in the Home ofIndustry he was taken to Canada, where he has given
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PAST AND PRESENT. TRANSPLANTATIONS. 335 satisfaction, kept his first situation, and repaid his passage-money. F. G., one of a poor oppressed East End family, whosefriends could not give him the education his abilitiesdeserved, nor get work for him to do, was taken to Canadawhere he was articled to a lawyer, and is likely to becomea useful and prosperous man. J. S., once a poor matchbox-stamper, with hard-workingparents, struggling to keep the family respectable. He isnow a bonny farmersboy, has kept his firstsituation, is doing well,and will most likely bethe means of the whole familys departure for ,/^ \ *^>t t% Canada. G. B., one of a familyof five children, desertedby their father, when thepoor mother was left to ^ struo-o-le in vain to o-et sufficient bread for them to cat.George is now in a happy Canadian home. W. H., a poor orphan boy, — turned on the streets by hisaunt, to beg or earn something for her, and left to come torags, filth, and starvation,—was in an extremely

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