Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Straight Road: A Novel Founded on the Play of the Same Name
Situated near the Bowery in Houston street, a settle ment house, established by the humanitarian impulses of the beautiful and wealthy Ruth Thompson, stood e serene and cozy structure, doing the sentinel work of sweet charity amidst the vice and squalor of its sur roundings.
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