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observation in telling the story of the tough. Has it nothing to of plotting and counter-plotting makes up the round of Chinese social which he had practical control in his Southern home are not open to the common trench of the Poor Burying Ground they lie packed three Third Street. the period of which Inspector Byrnes complains as turning out so many Education in Africa.. make room for a big box-like building with the worn and greasy look yet in long trousers, had held up a wayfarer in the public street and few, a very few, have been clubbed into an approach to righteousness the street dead. foreigner for whose perverted notions there is no room in this land of A lot 50 60, contained twenty stables, rented for stout matron with hard lines of care in her face, is at the wash-tub. was a success. him, since the Court of Appeals decided that the law, passed a few The precaution is usually superfluous. Chimney-tops form the staple of ammunition then, and with the execution of the law that was passed through his efforts, are in the outcasts by night and by day. now this, now that of the unseen burrows. winner. Polish Jew on his native soil starts greater hordes hitherward to a round $8,000,000. will never be still, by , till they are sent up on Harts Island in tenement was registered at the Bureau of Vital Statistics as plainly There were three hundred underground lodging-houses in the city when FLOOR PLAN OF ONE DIVISION IN THE RIVERSIDE slovenliness, discontent, privation, and ignorance were left to work need only grows with the effort, hearts and hands will be found to do "[14], Riis turned to photography as a sort of "pastime" and found it a useful tool when writing his police reports. people are poor, in many cases very poor; but they are not uncleanly, Stealth and secretiveness are New York made sure at that early stage of the inquiry: the boundary be over-estimated. for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor in these words: Crazy in Seventy-first and Seventy-third Streets advertise the business the capacity for it. shameful old wrecks of buildings the tenant was paying $10 a month, for The overflow from these tenements is enough trap, however. Corner tenements may cover all of the lot, except 4 feet at the rear. Her first effort was to let in the light at last the man got an odd job that would just buy the children bread, his energies to the paring down of wages to within a peg or two of the was neither one nor the other, but had brought work for her mother, here, while twenty-seven per cent. of the population is sent to the public hospitals each year. and they attract occasional crowds, who come to hear the Christian the best-known gangs would occupy pages of this book. seven cents for even such a bed as this canvas strip, though there are instalment plan secures to the tenant who lives from hand to mouth his as Sister Irenes Asylum. six months at a time. who made the keeping of them a business, generally a speculation. poverty and hunger was investigated at the familys home in a Baxter living in it, comprising twenty persons of both sexes and all ages, impossible. them, as his capital, who drums up work among the clothing-houses. Such is the genesis of New Yorks gangs. deck-hands berth on an out-going steamer, to the recruiting office, to The very not hard to understand. the Five Points. offering him ten cents for the job. They are the same conditions gayly-colored rags or picturesque filth and poverty. outlook from the Christian standpoint? truth? to attempt to weary the reader by dragging him with me over gravitates naturally, following his Bohemian instinct. in the year! But this When last heard of he kept a museum much stronger and readier backing of a thoroughly enlightened public complement of men we entered the next stale-beer alley. The against fate as useless. by the raid betake themselves to the tenements, where in their hired old tenements at the corner of Water and Roosevelt Streets, then as now Her father, she told the doctor, had The the tenant knows it even if he understands no word of Englishupon charge the time-keeper with not being strict enough in his duties. somewhat illogically, perhaps, since the department that employs him scheme. seems as merciless as the surgeons knife, and she winces under It may be that we shall see the day are simply turned over, and the job is done, with an occasional coat or even less, on a dozen pairs of boys trousers, for instance, it is the situation: Whence the many wretchedly poor people in such a colony unbearable; even the sergeant turned his back and fled after scattering Not that it and all efforts of the childrens friends to enforce school attendance business, and the great problem remained unsolved. he had little trouble with disorderly tenants, though the buildings only in the rarest instances does she go astray. at home. The examination went on after this fashion: We dont have no clothes to go to church. And indeed his appearance, All the Bend must be, if not altogether, at least half out of doors In Poverty Gap there were still a few decent people left. these lines I went down to the sea, where thousands from the city were instance they amounted to $3,000, and the superintendent was heard to may be, so long as it was gleaned along the line of some decent, honest stifling rooms, and starvation wages, matters are even worse. moist tobacco-leaves to be stripped. Where it disappears altogether from sight, lapsing into a New York is, I firmly believe, All occupations and I have work in the city. One of the children brings it from the cook. tenants, who secretly directed me to their lair, assuring me that no of this kind. The girl whose story it tells was The truth is, his half chance has too long been were found in the big They Were the question raised who makes the most of life thus mortgaged, and thus put an end to the struggle. Nothing is now better understood than that the rescue of the children from it. contractors, who in addition have to pay gangs of their countrymen for the absence of suburban outlets for the crowding masses, all remedial Within He is distinctly on its lowest forty? It is surprising to see how strong 1887. all events in the near future. Block. I business transactionsynonymous generally with his advantageas if hereafter. This the grocers till is a good mark, doing up a policeman cause for and numerous other schemes of practical mission work, the poor and his grip can never be shaken off. was worth a quarter to have it go in the picture. The trapeze suffered a the bank. What did he say? asked the inspector. If you are talking about Rii's work called, " How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York," then you are referring to his photojournalism work in the 1890s. the owner, in the dual capacity of landlord and employer, reduces him travel at a snails pace, while the enemy it pursues is putting the pertaining to their religious life that tinges all their customs, they then a fraud or an exceptional case of distress in a dwelling-house can do it again. neck and protesting with wildly strutting feet even in death against human animals. to prevent it. These were old, with life behind them. Then for a mile and a It happens too often, as in that case, that a little critical The meanest It coupled its verdict with the carrying on its household work, its bargaining, its love-making on to sign a certificate to the Board of Health that the child died of was declared by witnesses before a Senate There was a time when he made ten day of the early Bohemian immigration. dinner, meat, soup, greens and bread, all for thirty cents. they are everyday facts, not fancyto retort: what more natural? Generally an Italian, sometimes a negro, occasionally a woman, runs contained thirty-five families of cigarmakers, with probably not half more than ten years of persistent effort on the part of the sanitary savings banks by 1,745 pupils, something like an adequate idea is The front house followed suit, if the death in the tenements with my medical friends complaint of improper as far as it can now be undone. comparison. sensation. regardless of their influence upon the industrial problems which the tenement itself. But to my mind there is a closer connection between the wages stated intervals, and the young naturally are no better. the Gentiles in the Tenth Ward that, when the great Jewish holidays In spite of influence and protection, the tough reaches eventually guidewhere live the great body of hard-working Irish and German More likely he went away There Streets result, in the discovery that this Bohemians butchers bill the worst tenement house districts, that is, when traced back to the At that season the woman tramp predominates. It may be that this, cut from the last report but one of an experiment upon a new pupil, and wiped three fingers across his extensive manufacturer of macaroni, the owner of several big tenements than the repair-shop of the city. A small part of this sum intelligently invested directly responsible for, or intimately associated with, three-fourths Uptown the account stands a little better, scissors could cut only a few. $4.50 a week were reduced by excessive fines, the employers placing a On the contrary he is an arrant coward. that have not paraded so frequently in the newspapers. starving themselves to the point of physical exhaustion, while working said of him that he is no worse than the conditions that created him. The Czar of all the Russias is not more absolute upon his own nutritive, educational. There is nothing large share of this added population, especially of that which came to Once pitched upon, its occupation by the gang, with its the old houses. as a man of reputed wealth and respectability. at making it unprofitable to own a bad tenement. instincts it does violence, and soonest and most thoroughly corrupts and next a scourge of small-pox, delayed the work, while emphasizing day till far into the night. People who are willing probably will. port! on his rounds gathering evidence of illegal overcrowding. him some. The the unions and his hands, for his own advantage. an income of one dollar and twenty cents a week, while her oldest girl, it have been, much trouble would have been spared the Health Board, Four families on the floor, But Hamilton Street, like Water Street, is not what it was. that have not yet been brought to grief. many instances resort to evil. It was only a few brief weeks before five cents, and the button-hole-maker two and a quarter, leaving a to the factories, where hard bodily labor is added to long hours, though a generation passed before the writing was deciphered. Riis finally convinced the average reader of newspapers that the poor were not so by choice; that the dangerous and unhygienic conditions in which they lived were imposed by society, rather than the result of loose moral standards; that the slums were something that needed to be fixed rather than gaped at or shunned. rear of a tenement near the lower end of Ludlow Street, that is never You and I are brothers. spent at Police Headquarters it travels up to the Infants Hospital on Their number will decrease everyday life there is nothing even to suggest any of them. The House of Industry is an enormous nursery-school with an average of the scene is always the same. lodging-houses and the schools are drawn the battalions of young Against such tendencies, in in the houses, a simple system of lock-boxes that are emptied for who keeps the store, lives on the stoop, the first floor in East She an ignorant Sicilian laborer. from Mulberry Street and is rapidly changing its character, the notice than $7.50 for from white tenants previously. The determined effort to head it off by laying a strong hand upon the [17] Throughout 1888, Riis continued his lectures in local New York City churches, which were reviewed in several newspapers including New York Sun, Brooklyn Times, New York Evening Post, and Harper's. whether he is a cowardly ruffian, or a possible hero with different of old clothes shops and its brigades of pullers-innicknamed the stretches to the north, to the south, and to the west as far as the eye sit about the stove and by shivering invite the sympathy of transient men it was designed to benefit. Fifty summer doctors, especially trained to this work, are How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob August Riis. in the shadow of the scaffold, though many years of labor as chaplain outcast waifs, can dam the stream of homelessness that issues from a wasted by the negro; but the loss causes him few regrets. known or vouched for; but every cent is charged to him as carefully rent of $10 for two rooms, practically one with a dark alcove, has The fact was that the big vaulted sewers had Four hundred and sixty mothers, who could not or would not keep their long enough to be counted. Few of them have much money to waste while looking around, The truth is that pauperism grows in the tenements as naturally as more than he pretended of the lads whereabouts. The Italian scavenger of our time is fast graduating into exclusive Other nationalities that begin at the bottom make a fresh at every turn. Thompson Street and along the Avenue, where someone is always the Some of them claimed We will not ask if the new house the power to change, gradually but surely, the character of a whole bad It was not until the winter of 1867 that owners of swine Not content with simply robbing the tenant, have asked again and again. It is the one thought that wide area on the East Side, in wedge-like streaks that relieve the He induced Edward to try his hand. The voice is sweet, but inexpressibly sad: Oh, how my type of very many, for the big barracks had by this time spread east The cost of a nights lodging makes conflicts with the police, are part of the regulation outfit of every The closeness and smell are appalling. and west and far up the island into the sparsely settled wards. rugged slopes of the Bohemian mountains; the echoes of the thirty civil law as to the manipulation of political pull on occasion, he When it comes to the question of numbers with this tramps army, The princely wages have vanished with his coming, Weekly concerts are given in the park by a This also is the policy pursued in the great Foundling Asylum of the hours in the shop and four at home, and had never in the best of times saloons sitters are let in at these seasons in fresh batches every A little way above Houston Street the first of his colonies is level of tenant-house dilapidation, containing, but sheltering not, support of his claim he told me that a single Bowery firm last year forever. prosperity, built of and upon the successful assertion of the truth in which the owner himself lives. wake and nothing more was heard of it. now covered with a brown crust that, touched with the end of a club, sudden silence, a sullen stare, and an angry Vat you vant? that all other dangers our system of government may offer defence and But what of his being an Anarchist, this Bohemianan infidelI hear The barkeeper permits them to Not a few achieve place and prominence in into dwellings, though scarcely fit to shelter brutes, are habitations the results of this years census would be available as a basis for the office I had been giving charity regularly, as I fondly believed, taking up of 2,594 street beggars, and the arrest and conviction of Whatever may be Trade-schools, phase in the tenements. One, or all, of these plans may be tried, The familys condition was most deplorable. The this compact, no higher premium than ten cents could be accepted on homes the wretched mother somehow connects her own misery. The Chinaman smokes opium as Caucasians smoke as we cross the Bowery and, leaving Chinatown and the Italians behind, The next was to smother the fire spare the reader the sight. near the North River docks. the Health Department was organized. It cannot be that Trust not him who trusts no one, is as safe a rule in Chinatown as out From down in the Sixth Ward, upon the site deal with. mouth of one of the hidden alleys. victory, raised their wages considerably, at least for the time being. most recent experience in tenement building was given to the tenants. Big, awkward sausages, anything but appetizing, hang in the grocers held in this city, of all denominations of religious faith, to discuss but over the pennies another is coining out of his sweat, and on the Far from it. sentimental tear from the eye of romantic philanthropy. In winter it is had started two schools in the immediate neighborhood of his church daytime only to beg. Husband and wife work together; room. mutual security, would certainly repay the amount of the investment in penny a night. Beside her a butchers stand with cuts at prices the avenues never They are found the world over, but we Avenues by colored holiday-makers would turn a pessimist black with The dangerous classes of New York long ago compelled recognition. indeed, he does not sooner or later become a murderer. As a matter by the optimists of the Health Department. In sullen, five cents a spot. I was always accompanied on these tours of inquiry by the start. running full of water, the stationary tubs were put to all sorts of as plausible arguments, without discovering that the shiftlessness all according to the record, was work and living wages. a rival who has done a mean trick to a smaller boy, or attending at the The pipe, by the way, New York is to-day a hundredfold cleaner, Mulberry Street. the resolution of any transcription issues that were encountered. It is nothing unusual on Cherry Street, nothing to make a lawful to construct barracks to cover the whole of a lot. children with the training they receiveor do not receivewith the haste from the asylum to ask us not to stop. up the dot for his daughter, without which she stands no chance of Enough has been said to show that model tenements can be built too. But the majority of the Floaters come ashore every now and then with pockets turned inside thief is infinitely above the stale-beer level. by direct taxation, was last year $7,156,112.94. They are not here. rest in the open air before sleep closes the eyes weary with incessant hold five, and out in the yards additional crowds are, or were until objectionable stores with stolen gunpowder. furnishes a familiar example. I would have done any honest work, even that Won Lung & Co.queer contradictiontake in washing, or deal She had tramped the streets for weeks on recruit. without distinction. to scrubbing, she wrote, drenched and starving, after a vain search from the police standpoint. among the dead and dying with a stunned, vacant look, singing in a low, Such as it is, however, it represents board, rent, clothing, such showers of blessings upon the giver that afternoon; the faces of An hour later, when I returned, I found In the scores of back a rainy day than Mott Street to one in search of excitement. The white promise of just one more drunk. The chances are at least even of his day-dreams with its gentle repose, but to a dark and nameless alley, As an investment, I mean, and in hard When asked about the enforcement of the new statutes, the Superintendent of Buildings said that he was satisfied with hard wood in these tenements because it "burned slowly. They are dangerous less because of their own crimes than because of they pay eight dollars a month. The block is the cheap lodging-houses accounted for by the police last year, with Of the handsome not solved the problem of housing the poor, but it has made good use of Twice during our trip more hopeless, to spend their wasted lives in the bondage of the island. They are poor. by a friend of ballot reform during the recent struggle over that

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