Lord Industrial School and Working-Men's Reading Room
—For many years there has existed in the First Ward of New York City the “Lord Industrial School and Working-men’s Public Reading Room,” an institution which is quietly performing a most useful work. The school was organized to teach, and to such extent as is needful to clothe and feed, and to train to industrious habits, the destitute street children of the First Ward. The reading-room, which is free to all, is much frequented by working-men, the average attendance being about seven hundred a week. It contains a good selection of religious and secular journals, and these, with the books supplied by the library, form attractions strong enough to win many a man to spend his evenings there rather than in a drinking saloon.