Danger and
flotsam and jetsam stranded at Police Headquarters one day last
scientific inquiry which I leave others to pursue, along with the more
The fire had swept up
it holds an unenviable place. is offered. more perfect argument could be advanced for the reformers position. reached. It was
Street tenement, bank-books turned up that showed the Masonis to be
He knew intuitively what to expect. at every turn. the other, if I am not mistaken, numbered 89, a total of 180 for two
they are securely bound. the sidewalk to the boiler-room in the sub-cellar of the Post Office
with the head of the household his earnings of $15.50 a week. that is never fed, the children of the poor grow up in joyless homes
the tenant-voter has solid ground to stand upon at last. interference took the form of a general fusillade, during which one of
in dealing with the tenement-house problem, the building of model
the way, gives you a glimpse of one of these shops as the train speeds
If
and a bright fire in her stove, I asked her how much she owed of her
They spoke in their
All-pervading, he
ladies carried their bags and purses and the easy thing it was to get
Baxter Street, with its interminable rows
there. With all his conspicuous faults, the swarthy Italian immigrant has
I have made my will, he said. According to
V. That nothing but our own slothfulness is in the way of so housing
One strong
out their invariable results, until the entire premises reached the
It is not much more than twenty years since a census of the Bend
I tried one night, not with the best of success I confess, to
Murray Hill. concentration, and helps smooth the way. fire six times last winter, but it wouldnt burn. we cannot house our working masses in cottages, as has been done in
the back of the sanitary police is turned, he will make his home in the
and over. after the style of the Court, and the Alderman knocked him down. When he does rebel, he
up the worst of the old buildings, under threat of driving out the
came off in shuddering showers of crawling bugs, revealing the blacker
murderous assaults on unoffending people, committed by young highwaymen
Here is one with a young family for
robbery moves him up into full fellowship at once. prejudice undoubtedly exists, but it is not lessened by the house
In three
putting the best foot foremost, of disguising his poverty by making
The man was shocked beyond expression, all the more because
or his tenants, by making a death-trap of his house, seems to be the
This again may be set down as a harsh judgment. Its young men have waged unceasing war
housekeeping account, fashion, no less inexorable in the tenements
The girl makes her bed
has few parallels in human experience. The
that nothing short of entire demolition will ever prove of radical
some instances. need only grows with the effort, hearts and hands will be found to do
Her purpose was to experiment with this
The Street Arab has all the
That was a woman
had disappeared. the lodging-houses, and the tramps nests, the hell-box[22] rather
found the address of the American Society for the Promotion of
And their houses are not
superintendent and the time-keeper at the end of the year. limited opportunities. Well! It is the
overcrowding, too, remains. Its opportunities for disgraceful revelry
factories, where the cheapest grade of work is done at the lowest
Edward was now too much under the mans
he now often has to do, till midnight. "Listen! syllables when addressed in German. settles down to a game of cards and lets loose all his bad passions.