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      There used to be a \u201ccharacter\u201d around New York some twenty-five years or so ago who would have delighted the soul of Dickens, he was such an \u201coriginal,\u201d full of stuff, and spice, and humor, and humanity, and sense. His name was Macy\u2013James Macy, I think. He had been a kind of \u201cqueer duck\u201d around New York for some years, till by accident he found his place and work. \u201cThe Children’s Aid Society\u201d had just been started, and Macy one day \u201cdropped in\u201d to look at the children and the scenes there, just out of curiosity, as a good many others were doin\u2019 just then, the Children’s Aid Society bein\u2019 just then a new thing. He intended to stay ten minutes or so, but he stayed all day. He came again the next day and when the people in charge of the society tried to \u201ctone down\u201d and conquer a couple of unruly boys and failed, he volunteered his services and succeeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      This gave him, and the people in charge of the society, a mutual idea, which soon was put in shape. This man Macy became a sort of assistant superintendent of the Children’s Aid Society at a small salary and large opportunity for work, and he set about his duties at once, seeming to care more for the work than for the salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He had a great love for children; and a perfect knack for bad children\u2013the worse the children were the more he loved to deal with \u2018em. This was the great point which made him such a \u201ccharacter,\u201d and in this point I don’t know of anybody who ever equaled him. It wasn’t merely out of love for the bad children \u2018emselves that he liked to deal with \u2018em, but because he loved the excitement and the struggle of conquerin\u2019 \u2018em and making \u2018em good. He was a born fighter in his way, only he didn’t care about fightin\u2019 with his fists among men, but with his tongue and wits among boys. It was \u201ca peculiar line of business,\u201d so to speak, but it was a line in which he had everythin\u2019 his own way; he had no rivals and nobody interfered with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He started a kind of boys\u2019 club in Cottage place in very humble quarters of course, and in this club he garnered together his \u201clambs.\u201d \u201cLambs\u201d was the name he gave his boys\u2013his very bad boys. It was as good a farce in itself just to hear him call some big-fisted, cut-throat lookin\u2019 young vagabond his \u201clamb,\u201d yet he really meant what he said, and really was as fond of a young devil as a girl would be of a young lamb. Probably the roughest lookin\u2019 little bummers in New York would come to this Boys\u2019 Club in Cottage place. But before Macy got through with \u2018em these little bummers would become quite decent and respectable. He had such patience, and such pluck, such a sense of fun and such a fund of sense, such a combination of childhood and manhood in himself, that he generally got possession of the boy by gettin\u2019 possession of his head and his heart and his interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He liked to enjoy heartily any little row or tussle he had with his \u201clambs.\u201d One day he was readin\u2019 somethin\u2019 to a lot of boys\u2013ragamuffins from Dutch Hill, near Fortieth street\u2013little loafers whose fathers were members of the notorious Nineteenth street \u201cgang,\u201d young rascals from Corlears Hook, bad boys from all over the city who had heard of the Cottage Place Club or \u201cMission,\u201d as the good people who didn’t know any better called it\u2013though Macy himself never called it by that name, as he knew the \u201clambs\u201d wouldn’t stand it\u2013and who had come to it to have some \u201cfoolin\u2019\u201d or some \u201cfun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      While Macy was talkin\u2019 to the boys very earnestly, in a soft low voice\u2013his voice was like a woman’s\u2013one of the boys who hailed from \u201cShanty Town made a disturbance. Macy saw this, and without stoppin\u2019 his discourse he seized the bad boy with a firm grip, raised him, and then sat him down on the bench agai\u2013sat him down hard. The boy rubbed a certain portion of his anatomy, while Macy kept on with his sweet talk. Pretty soon the bad boy offended again, and still without stoppin\u2019 his sweet talk or raisin\u2019 his voice, Macy seized the young loafer and sat him down on the bench very hard indeed. And then when for the third time the boy made a fuss, Macy, still pursuing his discourse, smilin\u2019 sweeter than ever and speakin\u2019 softer than ever, seized that bad boy tighter than ever and sat him down on the bench harder than ever, and nearly shakin\u2019 the life out of him, effectually subdued the young rascal, smilin\u2019 and softly speakin\u2019 and goin\u2019 on with his nice talk all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      When he first tried the experiment of introducin\u2019 a singin\u2019 meetin\u2019 at the Bad Boys\u2019 Club, a gang of young and some older galoots from the downtown wards resolved to clean him out, and they carried out their design by tryin\u2019 to stone him out. But he kept on singin\u2019 and smilin\u2019 amid a shower of stones till one stone hit him\u2013then, still singin\u2019 and still smilin\u2019, he took up a billet of wood and rushin\u2019 outside to the leader of the galoots, he pummeled him half to death, and then returned to the meetin\u2019 smilin\u2019 more than ever and continued with the singin\u2019. The leader of the galoots retired vowin\u2019 vengeance, but when he got to Cottage place the next day, with a bigger and bolder gang at his heels, he found to his extreme disgust that Macy had got ahead of him by stayin\u2019 up all night before and barricadin\u2019 all the windows and boardin\u2019 them over. Then, safely ensconced inside his barricade, Macy smiled and sang in sweetness and in safety, and the harder the bad boys battered away at the boards outside the louder he sang and the sweeter he smiled inside. It was fun to him. He was quick-witted, too, and never allowed himself to be rendered ridiculous. He enjoyed laughin\u2019, but didn’t propose to be laughed at. He knew that would be the one thing fatal to his prestige among his \u201clambs.\u201d One time a boy stole his hat and notify the rest of the fact, and of course a lot of boys stood out in the street, waitin\u2019 to see \u201cthe old snoozer coming out without his hat.\u201d But the \u201cold snoozer\u201d was prepared for the emergency. He saw that his hat was gone, but he never let on\u2013kept on smilin\u2019 and singin\u2019 his sweetest, and when the singin\u2019 was over darted for an old hat that belonged to the janitor and which had been lyin\u2019 unnoticed in a corner, put it on his head and walked out, biddin\u2019 the boys good-bye in his softest style and raisin\u2019 his hat politely to \u2018em as he walked down the street. It was a cold day when he left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The bad boys once tried the barricade game on Macy. Durin\u2019 an evenin\u2019 meetin\u2019 \u201cthe gang\u201d fastened up the entrance door and then waited outside till singin\u2019 was over to see the fun; but Macy, suspectin\u2019 how things stood, euchred the gang. As soon as the singin\u2019 was over he quietly, in his sweet, soft way, announced that he had a great treat in store for his \u201clambs,\u201d which treat was simply a magic lantern exhibition\u2013a very common affair, of course, but perfectly splendid to the boys. He hoped that nobody would leave his seat, and nobody did. Every boy inside sat still to see the show\u2013sat still for about an hour and a half, all which time Macy rattled away sweetly on beside the stove, while the lambs outside were slowly but surely freezin\u2019 in the intense cold. The lambs outside, too, had the Chagrin of seeing how comfortable the lambs inside looked through the window and of hearin\u2019 them laugh noisily or applaud heartily, while all they could do was to stamp with their feet and chatter with their teeth in the nippin\u2019 air. Under those circumstances, the outside lambs came to the conclusion that the game was not worth the candle, and retired, after which Macy quietly got two of the trustiest of the big boys inside to climb outside, unobserved, through one of the back windows, and remove the barricade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      One thing Macy never could stand, and that was beggin. He used to tell his \u201clambs\u201d he would rather see them fightin\u2019 then beggin\u2019. He was tolerably kind-hearted, and when there was a downright necessity for it would help a boy or a man pecuniarily. But only in cases of the direst need\u2013not from meanness, but from principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      On one occasion some boys came to him pleadin\u2019 piteously for somethin\u2019 to eat. He listened to their tale of woe, and then told \u2018em if they were willin\u2019 to pile up a lot of wood in the yard\u2013all right\u2013he would give \u2018em somethin\u2019 to eat when they had done the job. So they piled the wood up, and got somethin\u2019 to eat. A few days after some of the same boys tried their luck at beggin\u2019 again, expectin\u2019 not to be recognized among the hundreds Macy had to deal with. They calculated right, as far as not being recognized was concerned. Macy didn’t recollect he had ever seen \u2018em before. But actin\u2019 on general principles he took the boys into the yard and showed \u2018em the very pile of wood that they had helped to raise a few days before, and told them if they would unload that pile he would give \u2018em somethin\u2019 to eat when they had done the job. He had no use for either pilin\u2019 the wood or unloadin\u2019 the pile, but he was bound to make his lambs work before he would let \u2018em eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      On another occasion two big boys, almost men, told him a meltin\u2019 yarn about their misery and begged for a little money. Macy listened to \u2018em and then asked \u2018em why they didn’t get work. \u201cWhere can we get work?\u201d asked one of the two. \u201cI will show you,\u201d said Macy, and steppin\u2019 out he pointed to Third avenue, and then with his softest tone and sweetest smile continued, \u201cNow, my boys, just be kind enough to walk right due north along this avenue for one hundred miles and you will find plenty of work to do, and food for doing it.\u201d  \u201cWhy, that would be way out in the country, wouldn’t it?\u201d said one of the boys. \u201cPrecisely so. Good mornin\u2019,\u201d said Macy, with a smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Once a dirty little chap came along, and before a lot of ministers and ladies who were round Macy, whined out, \u201cIf you please, sir, I’m an orphint, and I want a home.\u201d This deeply interested at once the ministers, and touched the ladies, and they all wanted Macy to do somethin\u2019, and he did it at once. But Macy hadn’t been years among the street urchins for nothin\u2019. He simply took the lad, kindly but firmly, and held him by the hand. \u201cWhere do you live?\u201d he simply asked him in his sweet, soft way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cI don’t live nowhere,\u201d replied the boy, wrigglin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cWho’s your father?\u201d continued Macy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cI haven’t got no father,\u201d replied the boy, wrigglin\u2019 some more at the persistent questioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cWhere’s your mother?\u201d continued Macy, softly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cI hain\u2019t got no mother,\u201d replied the boy. \u201cDidn’t I tell you I was an orphint?\u201d  he went on, as he wriggled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cWhere\u2019s your mother?\u201d reiterated Macy still more softly and sweetly as his hand clutched the brat tighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Here the ministers began to remonstrate. Hadn’t the poor lad just said that both his parents were dead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

       \u201cWhere\u2019s your mother?\u201d once more repeated Macy, in his softest, sweetest tones as he grasped the brat in a vice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Here the ladies began to protest. Poor, dear little boy, how could he under the circumstances, tell exactly where his mother was? Let us trust she was in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cWhere\u2019s your mother?\u201d for the fourth time said Macy, sinkin\u2019 his voice almost to a whisper, but squeezing the boy almost to a jelly. \u201cI’ll give you just one minute to tell, and then I’ll hand you over to this officer,\u201d beckonin\u2019 to the officer of the Children’s Aid Society standin\u2019 by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      And then the boy, findin\u2019 that he was in the hands of one who thoroughly understood him and his kind, owned up, or, in detective parlance, \u201csquealed,\u201d that is, he confessed that he had been lyin\u2019, had a mother livin\u2019, and a father, too, and had run away from his home, such as it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      This confession completely turned the ministers against him and disgusted the ladies. The ragged little liar was sent off in disgrace, and though he boo-hooed heartily, genuinely this time, he boo-hooed in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      A little later on one of the ministers ventured to ask Macy on what grounds he had suspected the boy to be lyin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cI didn’t suspect it; I knew it,\u201d said Macy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cBut, excuse me,\u201d remarked the minister, \u201cyou never saw the boy before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cNo,\u201d answered Macy. \u201cbut I saw him behind, and I saw that his trousers, though nearly worn out, had been mended and patched, and recently, too. And I saw that he was too dirty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cToo dirty!\u201d,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cYes, dirtier than the small boy generally is. He had evidently made himself lookin\u2019 as dirty as he could for the occasion, and, like most beginners, had overdone it. One has to be an artist even in dirt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Macy was certainly an artist among boys. He knew all about \u2018em and they soon knew all about him and acted accordin\u2019ly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      To his last hour Macy always liked the excitement of sweetly, softly, shrewdly conquerin\u2019 a bad boy. They put him in charge of a German School in Second Street where the scholars were all good. He loved \u2018em very dearly, but when he really wanted to enjoy himself he would go over and have a tussle, as he called it, a \u201cplay\u201d with \u201cthe lambs of Cottage Place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: While today we might question the “tough love” approach of Jared (not James) Macy (1822-1882) and the policies of the Children’s Aid Society in general, there’s little doubt that Macy and the Society recognized that many children were in distress and needed help, and stepped up to offer it. One of the Society’s main efforts was to advertise for the placement of unwanted and orphan children in homes and settlements in the western United States–oftentimes homes or farms that were in need of unpaid helpers. The Children’s Aid Society was at the front of the “Orphan Train” movement, and news articles suggest that Jared Macy was one of those who personally placed children on those trains. In his era, though, there’s little to argue against seeing him as a heroic figure. (As was Jared’s sister, Caroline Macy–the subject of another Harry Hill’s Gotham column.)]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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