Newsboys and Bootblacks Reading-Room opens.

Initially located at 36 Bromfield Street, it later moves to 16 Howard Street. According to Edwin Bacon, “The boys are not allowed to take any books away from the rooms; and consequently many of them, becoming interested in a book, are drawn again and again to the place, until it becomes quite natural to drop in regularly.” The organization moves to a new building in 1932.*