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THE POOR IN GREAT CITIES
 

No. 237 East TAA^enty-first Street, still retaining the old name,
though at that time it had no real connection with St. George's
Church. This ncAv house was of four stories, of which the basement
was given to the janitor and his family, the parlor floor and the

second story were devoted
to club purx30ses, and the
upper floor was rented to
unliax3py tenants.

At first the club Avas
conducted on the X3rinci-
ple of the Boys' Club of
St, Mark's Place, and
aimed only to offer coun¬
ter-attractions to those of
the street; but the signal
success of a class in tyx3e-
setting, which had been
started as an experiment,
so inix3ressed the mana¬
gers that they decided to
concentrate their energies
on the teaching of trades ;
and a kindly offer being
made to them by the
Avenue C Industrial
Schools of the use of a
beautifully ax3pointed lit¬
tle carpenter shop, with benches and tools complete, in the new
building at the corner of Fourteenth Street and A^^enue C, they de¬
cided to leave the house in Twenty-first Street, after Iavo very suc¬
cessful seasons, and moved to their iicav home, where classes Avere
established in carpentering and tyx3e-setting.*    There are fifty boys

* At present (1895) the club is carrying on its work most successfully in more com¬
modious quarters at No. 269 Avenue C, near Sixteenth Street.
 

Type-setting at the  Avenue  C Working Boys' Club.