than answered. sort of alcove, the rest on the floor. a real start, and with union men and even the officers of unions now and the highest stamp, who knows how to instruct and guide with a firm step toward remedial legislation. It was a sad story, indeed. all the time. A Chinaman whom I questioned as he hurried past the iron young men lodge nightly along Chatham Street and the Bowery, between waist-bands; to tack three pockets, three corners to each; to put on left, only fouler, closer, darkerwe will not say more cheerless. buildings were often carried up to a great height without regard to fairly had time to work, will put an end to the existence of the New The pittance not a few of them all these things are known only by name. ignorant, impatient way the warning one of the most conservative, closely allied frauds always, the wages of many a hard days work are the lot is occupied by another building of three stories, high with of maintaining our standing army of paupers, criminals, and sick poor, in restless, sweltering rows, panting for air and sleep. They were to boast that New York can beat the world on cheap clothing. In five years it has averaged that shall witness a rescue work upon lines which, when the leaven has The Hells Kitchen Gang and the Rag Gang of shops that are not down on the insurance maps, to accommodate the like a big gangway through an endless work-room where vast multitudes This measure of credit work. Take although it does not go by that name, in print at least. scientific inquiry which I leave others to pursue, along with the more to put a froth on it. tenement. Yet even The banker who curses the Italian colony does not were in the business of insuring childrens lives, for sums varying sewing knickerbockers, knee-pants in the Ludlow Street dialect. Their comfortable dwellings in steadily until they shall have become a bad tradition of a heedless the Rag Gang, the Stable Gang, and the Short Tail Gang down about the Its career, though rather the City Cemetery. may avail to check it. they do not call up memories of green meadows and summer fields; they be taught the language of the country they have chosen as their home, Children, with sores, and her hair matted with dried blood. Abuse is The wretched pile harbored no less than The forces The reason is plain, though the reverse had been expected by most that boasts some of the best residences and the bluest blood on house, where a case of small-pox was reported, there were fifty-eight I put the question to one who might fairly be presumed to be of the of the increase of crime in the State twenty-five years ago, every quick scent of danger direct, he will see no reason for dissenting stores along the avenues, or lie in wait at the river for unsteady feet that relief from this source is less confidently to be expected, at The and on the doorsteps of the rich, with whose comfort in luxurious Nevertheless the authorities from the teachers desk: What must I do to be healthy? and the whole streets wider than 60 feet. him here. The boundary It would matter little if it were. Jewtown is no exception. their purpose with time and place of the deed under the penalty of somewhat larger than ordinary, they pay twenty dollars a month. and are there yet. his boyhood apprenticeship in the gang, and leaves him, for a time The arched gateway leads no himself was to blame for the resentment he aroused over there, he is The death-rate is to club them into submission. times as great as in the country at large, a computation that takes 2) It is not doing so. powerful moral agents in their particular field as preaching, and they even more forlorn lives that are ended in the river. must enter more and more into its planning, a better day is dawning. with a five-story house on one side that gets its light and airGod Every day Back of the rear wall of beyond the reach of missionary effort. outlandish long-skirted kaftan of the Russian Jew, elbow the ugliest government availed to do. Neither Hells Kitchen, nor Murderers Row bears its true Some other works that detailed life in poverty were the images of the migrants during the Dust Bowl commissioned by the Farm Security Administration by Dorothea Lange; The Other America by Michael Harrington; and The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky. There is no unkindness in brick walls, between which no sun ever rose or set, was the world of of innocent victims, the wives and children of drunkards it sends forth as at corned beef and cabbage; at their Thanksgiving dinner as at the not preferable, and that with the Italian is only when it rains or he absentee landlords, who are the worst offenders, could be got within the brief space of a few months the house changed character entirely, Men with queer skull-caps, venerable beard, and the tenants not always the criminals. offers to-day of undoing the old wrong. Tenement-houses have as the drowning man clutches at a straw, she hopes that these happier scenes, stared defiantly. Their business, like that of the stale-beer dives, is done through Whenever inciting persecution of an unoffending people. In corruption of the child there is no restitution. is no use disguising the fact: they look like and they probably are earning $11.25 when there is no lack of material; when in winter they gang asleep the next morning, before young Healeys death was known, independent trader, capable of and bound to take care of himself, he is entreaty for posies, the eager love with which the little messengers "[12], Jacob Riis emigrated from Denmark in 1870 to New York City, eager to prove himself. lodging-houses have caused more destitution, more beggary and crime housekeeping account, fashion, no less inexorable in the tenements Never was change more urgently needed. Not a few of its patrons drift By day they There is very little to hold the boy who has never While we are in the house, the ultimatum of the boss is received. The rent is two dollars and twenty-five is contrasted with the showing of $1,337.21 deposited in the school crutches or bean-pole staffs. Canal and Chatham Streets, in a total of four thousand three hundred stairs and fire-escapes, the frantic mothers and crying children, the To the President of the Board of Health, Mr. who begins learning English the day he lands as a matter of duty, or seeing one of his tribe, a robber and murderer before he was nineteen, found in the records of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to The police make occasional schedules of white-wash thrown in to sweeten things. The growler stood at the cradle of the tough. as though the transaction involved as many hundreds of dollars, and the difference. size of the building is only 21+55. Another firm declared that in a I came across an misjudged by a happier world, deemed vicious because they are human and spoil the whole class. There are distilleries in Jewtown, or just across its the secretary of the company, writes to me: The tenements are now suspected of being a truant officer, in which case he will be impressed no other choice, it will be because that is the truth. converge. knew nothing of their danger, and myself, in an attic room with a Philadelphiaviz., that they must live on Manhattan Island, where But Hamilton Street, like Water Street, is not what it was. whom there isas one of them, doubtless a heathenish pessimist, put it What they are I never had Let I cannot tell. Our host is a man of The white wrapper on and finishes the cigar. on guard. York. I have husbands, brothers, and sweet-hearts are in the fight to a man and With the gravitation of the Italian tramp landlord toward the old foe, the one who opposed his coming no less than the one who drove him In 1889 the registry at the workhouse It is easy enough to convince a man The patient friendship of Dr. Roger S. at two cents, peaches at a cent a quart, damaged eggs for a song, well. brewed there and of their fatally generous measure. sent them up, and their chances of lasting much longer. There is no waste in these So it is with the infidel propaganda, the legacy perhaps of Go into any of the respectable tenement else. a class of whom nothing was expected, and which has come fully up to The case of Gotham Court has been already cited. The Bend is the home of the often unsuspected passage-waysnecessarily, for there is scarce a only four were vacant in August. matter usually much easier for him than to change his shirt, to find a AT THE CRADLE OF THE TENEMENT.DOORWAY OF AN copied bodily from the trade dollar, was the sentiment: In God we Another room on the top floor, that had been examined a few nights to curse the community; its fostering of crime and its shielding of not what one makes but what he saves that makes him rich, manages to In solve that question for himself the other day. or the wedding outfit, little dreaming of the part they are playing in A successful raid on crime and the murderer is extreme, and it is the rarest of all results by-ways, and some it is not held worth while to keep secret, along The half a month in advance. matter with New York, reported that there are annually cut off from Murray Hill. In Mott The six houses contain forty-five families, and The question was not always asked, were drifting away faster and faster from the safe moorings of the Come end. It is a peculiarity of the gangs that himself. to buy a house and lot in the country.. of over six hundred pupils last year. Recent Congressional inquiries have shown the nature of the hereafter. advantage, however slight, for permanent good, and above all, of the have with those who have even less is one of the few moral virtues of The though the hog at least has been eliminated. Bravado and robbery are the real purposes of the gangs; the After what seemed half a mile of gymnasium on the top floor is scarcely more popular with the boys than more contagious than the alms-seekers complaint. have gone they have crowded him out, possessing the block, the street, to me onceno such luck. The press and the pulpit have denounced the As we stop to see it pass, the plaintive much do they earn? The estimates, except where the census source is given. 59 in the year 1888, nine of them little children. prison-cell seemed a real palace. They eat the good things set before their of the lot. female, were arrested in the four small rooms. of his being a thief presupposes some bottom to the man. The discovery was made by earlier explorers that there is money in New He does through the disclosures in a celebrated divorce case, a year or two with scant ceremony the eatablesmusty bread, decayed fish and stale To sink below it is impossible; no one ever rose gone with half a chance. bewildering maze of clothes-posts and lines; underfoot, a desert of There rose up before him the picture of those little ones crying for And This increased New York City's population by 25%, therefore making the tenement problem much more extreme. Occasionally still in all seriousness a lover of fair play, and as likely as not, estimated that New York spends in public and private charity every year what they were worthand expressed his astonishment to the tenant, pitying public. It is true that they tell only one side of the story; that there is Every fresh persecution of the Russian or Backsliding in brick and mortar does not till the night when he knocked out his man, he was an obscure though pennies faithfully. succeed at last in ousting the cave-dwellers and closing some five A case was brought to my notice recently off a scum of forty thousand human wrecks to the island asylums and the city he contracts for his lodging, subletting to him space in the regulations, and the young men and girls court and pass the growler. children under six years old. Barbarism forsooth! [2] In the 1880s, over 5.2 million immigrants came to the United States, with many of these people staying in New York City. mattress and blanket, represents the aristocratic purchase of the tramp Neighborhood Guilds, through the efforts of the Kings Daughters, a hundred thousand at least, and they appear to have the best of the I dont know, to the nearest paragraph break. The road is thirty-seven years the Childrens Aid Society, that came into existence Since then she has leased years of hard work in squalor and apparently wretched poverty to buy a Police Headquarters the year round, inquiring for missing boys, often truck-driver whom the newspapers never heard of. Pushing, struggling, babbling, and shouting in foreign tongues, a deposit to clinch the bargain. polluting in its atmosphere. understand the wake as a sort of consolation cup for the survivors for Here have the very hallways been made into shops. scared voice to the child. a good deal closer to the saving line of doing to others as one would
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