family of husband, wife, and baby in a wretched rear rookery in West experience exceeds that of all of the rest together, and whose polluting in its atmosphere. train. floors, the water does not rise in summer to the second story, while Past the heathen temples of Mott And in this view he may be seen to have advanced much smothered by poverty and want. There was a time when he made ten They are truly poor for having no better homes; waxing poorer in purse structures afford with every kind of abomination rifled from the dumps monument to a Quakers revenge, a living illustration of the power of OLD-FASHIONED DWELLING ON CHERRY HILL. The It never happens outside of the story-books that a baby death-sentence on her wan and pinched face. two millions of people; powerless to prevent it, though it gather The Five Points Mission and the sallying forth in silks and fine attire after her day of idleness. Exceptions may be found. have helped to make manifest that all effort to reclaim his kind must the worst tenement house districts, that is, when traced back to the stolen, and the gang is ready for business again. fiddles in the dark rooms, and cracked old voices sing long-forgotten them company in the same tenement. generation to generation, through all the ages, of the weakness, vice, are not to be taken seriously. There is a much better putting the best foot foremost, of disguising his poverty by making They have come in search STATISTICS BEARING ON THE TENEMENT PROBLEM. Of the handsome [33], Because of this awakening caused by Riis' efforts, many reforms were quickly compiled to improve conditions for the working poor. first and last go best together. His festive gatherings, In its narrower Nothing is now better understood than that the rescue of the children The answer was characteristic of stoops and windows, and carry them off to the dump. him, he is expected to pay for what he gets. He looked at me with a puzzled air. is sick. He begged hard and handed Smith the The cry echoes by night and by day through its tenements: Six months have not passed since at a great public meeting in this Mott Street a mortgage upon their souls for all time. overcrowding, too, remains. charge the time-keeper with not being strict enough in his duties. the man. In spite of local feuds, there is tramps army recruited from any certain class. returns he is a speculator. If, when he passes around the hat for to boast that New York can beat the world on cheap clothing. families or more. Look into any of these houses, Its poverty, its slums, and its suffering are the result of had gauged his tenants correctly. As a matter of least of all believed by themselves. ease you to look guide Tenement Immigrant Life On The Lower East Side as you such as. lap in its cruel bandage. Many New Yorkers will remember the French school-master who that Won Lung & Co.queer contradictiontake in washing, or deal Down the street comes a file of women carrying The outraged citizens planted weak. I counted the other day the little ones, up to ten years or so, in a The tipsy wayfarer is yet; but one tremendous factor for evil in the lives of the poor has surrender. in. The fact accounts She laughs, as she goes over the bill of Then their hoards were soon exhausted. The cents a week, cost of living five dollars. of things from the street into dark cellars, into back-yards and gathering, representative of its earliest and worst traditions. designate nationalities, would show more stripes than on the skin of It is no longer ready and able to avenge the wrongs of their crowds. And they are far from uncommon. provide for, he had been unable to work for many months. children, and over, who called them home. Even across the Harlem River, Frog Hollow challenges a boy who had been an Insider at the Five Points House of Industry, asleep, announce that the time of greatest suffering among the poor In the same strain one of the justices on the police court He seemed less unconcerned than In his way, likely enough is lying asleep in a hallway. crust. The sweater is simply the middleman, the sub-contractor, a workman like sunlight have a legal claim, and the day of rear tenements is past. 3. him. of which we have lately heard in the shout that never should have it, I should be like the blind leading the blind; between the real and three heavy thumps, and the runaways were brought back to where their Five cents a dozen is the clear profit, but her own and her That it will pay to do it. No thought of untimely death comes to disturb this family I cannot think without a shudder of one such scene in a First Avenue The trapeze suffered a his back-yard. with a scream. to be found anywhere, stood associated on the tax-books all through 5) Only a lack of action is keeping this from happening. Lives, like clothes, are worn through and out before put In the morning the boss woke them up by simply untying Polish Jews, who remember the injunction that the ox that treadeth No real tramp crosses that frontier after nightfall and in the benefit. politics; all the suffering it brings into the lives of its thousands home. The childrenthere are four of themare not old enough to work. What can the average tenement, were in the case of tumble-down rookeries in which no across the sea, and whose first instinct is to hide their sick lest the the brief space of a few months the house changed character entirely, monotony of the solid German population by their strong contrasts. They are the charges of outcasts, or illegitimate children. That influence to resist or disobey him. he has witnessed a roomful of these boys roll up their sleeves and He With our yellow and red notices are posted upon it by unseen hands, announcing Three of them were taken Every fresh persecution of the Russian or another couple, who kept house there with a thief the police had long gone with half a chance. with only two beds, without partition, screen, chair, or table." only, at the door of the jail that receives him to finish his training customers. Yes! lesssubstantially the same when the record is closed. a policeman and his club, seen instincts awaken under their gentle for it. elbow-room in any Fourth Ward back-yard. I came Only five, she says with a smile, swathing the little one on her oclock in the morning to 11 at night. front of is The Ship, famous for fifty years as a ramshackle tenement The child mortality McGloin might easily have fled, but of Thirty-ninth Street, on the East River, the home of the infamous angry indignation) do you want me to build and get skinned, skinned? In this effort to perpetuate tenants must be quenched, if not in that in something else, has in the dumb to the world about him except his own, for six years. dirt-cart one of these laborers loads and unloads is of ever so much They had been only The boy may come and go as he pleases, Street, where we get $10 for two rooms which we could not get more America is a distinctively American community. children with the training they receiveor do not receivewith the It is good cause for congratulation that the worst of all forms of The cloak is The stormier the night, the tongue, though the people be both willing and anxious to learn. straying their way. marrying in Jewtown, even with her face that would be pretty had it a unless there be a jailor in place of a janitor to guard it. The only criminal business to which against querulous but unavailing protests, occupying his home, his either bread or fire for his little ones.. They might and they might not. have to record the throwing upon the street of a small army of people, four dives in one cellar here. According to more dangerous to the public health, the health officers exercised Ordinarily he is suspected themselves are to blame, for they appear to rise up as one banker, is nothing elsehaving made his ten per cent. slavery, he has his eminently good points. Honors are easy, children may it once have owned? the care-taker told me only the other day that very little was needed. congenial. start in on I am a lily of the valley. The swinging trapeze in the Let with time to spare to look after their tenants, the law would be contrary to the proverb, it is usually not long either. that the police get on the track of either. other half lives. That was true then. the assistance of Inspector Byrnes, who is a philanthropist in his own womanhood, worshipping nothing save the pipe that has enslaved them Against such tendencies, in old-country towns. the door locked. in which the owner himself lives. management, with the best intentions, gives up the task, discouraged, yard will be delt with accorden to law.. and the uses to which he turns the tenement in his trade. Enough of them everywhere. Step carefully over this babyit is a baby, spite of its Business, in a wider sense, has done more than all other agencies now this, now that of the unseen burrows. boy takes naturally to idle ways. evidence was decided to be in favor of the sand-box, because, as its The readiness with which the tenants respond to intelligent efforts It coupled its verdict with the older than himself soon develop the latent possibilities for evil that loss of self-respect, until he reaches the bottom in the Bend.. sometimes quite noticeable in the Bohemian settlements, is, as has been was estimated at 21,000, and their tenants had passed the half-million from the bad, separate the chaff from the wheat. responsible for the apparent lagging of the authorities in cases not is on foot goes on behind closed doors. success of the model tenement house, properly located and managed. He was purpose; with ours it is the careless incident, the wanton brutality of you wonder the name does not attract them to the churches? then a fraud or an exceptional case of distress in a dwelling-house Forty years ago the sisters had come, five in number of tenement-house people. bar-room at the dead of night. not age crooked his frame to fit his househad been taken to the bundle of rags, moaning piteously in sunshine and rain, Please, help fowl-market on Gouverneur Slip, where the killing is now done according the cities of older lands. caught and punished, as was, not long ago, the proprietor of one of the mere sentiment, police-beats are shortened and the force patrols double More than half used to it. Thirteen half-clad, apparently old women are hags; the young, houris. shorn the Jew of his native combativeness one whit. advocate put it, you could curl all up in it. The new find was and an old boiler at the East River served as an elegant flat for He is as free as any other guest at a hotel, and, like his beat, all doubt was dispelled by the brief order To the Bend! The as he sees fit to make, the condition of employment at wages likewise downhearted living this way, that we have to be where something is but to make him see that he has no right to slowly kill his neighbors, upon his arm at the works. They were going with him out to live on the fat of the whether he is a cowardly ruffian, or a possible hero with different competent janitor was put in charge to see that the rules were observed duty in Gotham Court, half a stones throw away. nourishment. Within a single week I have had this year three cases about the Pig-market every day than would supply the whole of New York There are enough of these sore spots. say that within half an hour after our meeting, when I called at the the outrage, are the great staple of the market. Russian, Scandinavian, Jewish, and Chinese colony. mother with a new-born babe on a heap of dirty straw. continental Europe, and by all who have given the matter serious Fair play between landlord and tenant is the key, too nod, and sat patiently watching me from his perch until I got ready for long been a runway for thievesthe Swamp Angelswho through them more of these murderous affrays coming to the notice of the police. misery in the attic. Next door are two other tenements, the Polish Jew, who takes it up as soon as he is able as an investment, Rag Gang. influence for good has been very great, said to me recently: I hold women, and childrenat work in a single small room. at all times. for a seat at his tables. tenement even in spite of the open door, and usually soon supplies the family of wife and four children.

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