BOYS' CLUBS IN NEW YOEK

By evert JANSEN WENDELL

The Boys of the Tenements—Street Life—A Boys' Temptations—First Idea
OF THE Boys' Clubs—Their Management—The Boys' Club of St. Mark's
Place—The Avenue C Working Boys' Club—Classes and Amusements—
Boys' Club of Calvary Parish—The Free-reading-room for Boys—The
Manor Chapel Boys' Club—The North Side, the West Side, and Other
Clubs—Some Club Documents—Entertainments—Songs—The Results—
The needs of a Successful Club Worker.

ANYONE Avho has been down to the tenement-house districts
on either side of our city of Ncav York, knows how overrun
they are Avitli boys of all descriptions, races, and sizes.
Every doorAvay pours forth its little quota, and it is sometimes
Avith difficulty that one can thread one's way through the crowds
that literally SAvarm about the sidewalks. Some are X3laying quiet¬
ly ; some are fighting ; some are " passing " ball when the police¬
man on the beat is not in sight; and others are gathered in lit¬
tle groups smoking cigarettes, pitching pennies, or hatching some
scheme for fun Avlien night conies.

Night is the great time ! In the morning many of them are at
school, and the streets are comparatively deserted ; but in the af¬
ternoon, AAdien the schools let out, the children, with all the pent-
UX3 energy produced by six hours of repression, descend upon them
and make them resound, only taking time to rush in for a few mo¬
ments at sux3per-time, and then out again, to remain as late as is
consistent with escaping a spanking when they finally come in for
the nisrht.