Excerpt from Safeguards for City Youth at Work and at Play The Committee found that these children were taken into court for all kinds of offenses, baiting peddlers, throwing stones, breaking windows, running away from school, fighting, playing craps or baseball on the street, or gathering coal as it fell from the trains passing through the coalyards. To these coal yards little girls were often sent by their mothers as late, or rather as early, as three O'clock in the morning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.