A neighborhood that thirsts for concerts ought to have them.

A community that desires to dance deserves a dance hall.

In the long run, how infinitely better, how much more economical for the city to furnish these recreations, normally and decently conducted, than to bear the consequences of an order of things like the present one.

The new order must come.

It is the only way yet pointed out by which we may hope to close those other avenues, where the joy of youth is turned into a cup of trembling, and the dancing feet of girlhood are led into mires of shame..