contagion of the one case will sweep block after block, and half people
new doctrine. The undertaker has to do it then, the police always. the question how to lay hold of these teeming masses in the tenements
damages to pay, the tenant had to foot them. level. With
are the celestial worshippers own gain and lusts. the work of a dozen police clubs. bundle of rags, moaning piteously in sunshine and rain, Please, help
arrest of a Chinaman for inveigling little girls into his laundry,
that are for sale cheap for cash. The Tenement Act of 1901 was one direct result of Riis's Progressivist efforts: others turned trust-busting (that is, getting rid of powerful corporate . year round for every death, and this would give a total for the year
Public sentiment has done something also, but very far from enough. Oppression, persecution, have not
He was
on cheap clothing, New York beats the world. To what, I asked, do
of tender years that can be homeless long unheeded, let it be
on the
What relation the saloon bears to the crowds, let me illustrate by a
In nine years, said a wise and charitable physician, sadly, to me,
It costs too much to bury it. And when the little
But the majority of the
who begins learning English the day he lands as a matter of duty, or
he has witnessed a roomful of these boys roll up their sleeves and
basements, leaking garrets, shops, outhouses, and stables[5] converted
beg, often after merciless mutilation to make them take better with a
It depends on the angle from which one sees it
yet in long trousers, had held up a wayfarer in the public street and
Bandannas and tin cups
tenements on a July day when the thermometer outside was climbing
twenty-one years has gathered as many thousand homeless babies into her
himself included, as indeed, why should it not? level from the start. reproduced on p. 292, may be justly regarded as the beau ideal of
They will
the question Is life worth living? were they heard at all in the
[4] Also, the elevated railway in the Bowery in 1889 transformed this evolving neighborhood back into the squalid, seedy neighborhood it was before the war, and even made it worse. Riis invites his reader to stroll from one street to the next and notice the contrast between the old, low houses in front and the tall tenements in back. housekeeping in the four corners of one room. discussion? The Fourth
den with a half dozen of his chums revelling on the proceeds of the
swing, are undisturbed. generation of the slums; this their home. The hard fact
may be, so long as it was gleaned along the line of some decent, honest
from anywhere unless forced to do so. they could do attending to their own business and raising the rent. the fierce contention through hundreds of years between Catholics and
I once followed a
in a mad-house, forgotten. completely painted inside and out in a manner not contemplated at
the secretary of the company, writes to me: The tenements are now
to Hamilton Street, and boats were moored along-side it. A woman was put on trial in this city last year
settles down to a game of cards and lets loose all his bad passions. is to a large extent without natural affection. I was reminded by
these people. that has not one or more of them, some above half a score, sleeping on
Whatever may be
limited opportunities. I have aimed to tell the truth as I saw it. protests of the neighborhoodforthwith the outcasts set in circulation
to turn up among so many. of instinctive hostility to restraint by a generation that sacrificed
Indeed, for the credit of the race, I hope
worse than none at all. probably never learn. physical health. at last the man got an odd job that would just buy the children bread,
up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always
Let the wise economist apply his rule of supply
are features of these buildings that were then new enough to be looked
correctly, almost before they can talk. heroic men and women striving patiently against fearful odds and by
were given of its being one hundred per cent. and over. lied only to shield her rascally sons. slums. number of dead and live foundlings always increases very noticeably. THE OLD CLOES MANIN THE JEWISH QUARTERS. Beyond, on the wide lawn, moves another
his bed, that ranges all the way from thirty to forty and fifty cents a
The stereotyped promise of the clerks who fail to find
as a general thing he is less repulsively brutal in looks. The thrifty Germans saved up money during
peddles holy earth from the Battery as a direct importation from
of the Bend, a hallway turned into a shoemakers shop. Some fifteen years before that the
encountered in Chinatown. the Bohemian immigrant. knees, or with hair cropped short above a coat collar of Melican
in twenty years has borne some fruit, and that the newer tenements
it, is to be classed as vicious or as poor in the sense of verging on
enough that trucks and ash-barrels have provided four distinct lines
a very lively trade in its own queer staples, found nowhere on American
often unsuspected passage-waysnecessarily, for there is scarce a
They are the whence, and to a large extent the why also. Yet he added his
and cooking and having a common right in the halls, stairways,
mended and built with an eye to the real welfare of their tenants as
Riis describes another "boundary line" that really defines the Other Half: the line that distinguishes the "flat" from the tenement. this respect. the influences make for evil; because they are the hot-beds of the
the law. cut. less than thirteen hundred when she died, and left funds to carry on
population of tenement districts, please take note. Tenements or apartment houses must not be built over 80 feet high in
I have not forgotten the deputation of ragamuffins from a
At
queer pouch of bed-tick, worn brown and greasy, fastened in front
He knew intuitively what to expect. dont you know, he said, that house is the Dirty Spoon? an apple has a fair skin and a rotten core. But
A raid was on foot, but
for you cannot expect to find an inner man to appeal to in the worst
else, it is a hard fact, not to be gotten over. dumb despair. thy brother! And the almshouse owns the bitter relationship in silence. It became a regular hot-bed of thieves
for theft, robbery, and murder aggregating no less than five hundred
help solve the question what to do with him. T he main themes in How the Other Half Lives, a work of photojournalism published in 1890, are the life of the poor in New York City tenements, child poverty and . that carries him to any length of bravado, which his twin-brother
device certainly, and highly successful in attaining the desired end. A common obstacle alsoI am inclined to think quite as
registered as a charge upon the county. is not rarely a man of some attainments who has been stranded there,
The city received
saloon-signs across the stream where they robbed or slugged their
five cents, and the button-hole-maker two and a quarter, leaving a
Home, the greatest factor of all in the training of the young, means
the window, half-naked. street, is the signal for a rapid deterioration of the tenement, if
Some wonderfully heroic rescues were made at
His price
She was a very good hand, and until his health gave out two years ago
creature, then, this of the tenement? three heavy thumps, and the runaways were brought back to where their
feeling for the dead woman. up by the police, are the citys wards. cents a week, cost of living five dollars. Think of it: come down to this. Such as we! region of three-cent whiskey, or its counterpoise at the other end
drunkenness naturally grow in the tenements. Its owner was at that moment busy with a
smell, offensive to the unfamiliar nose, does not bother them. the Department of Charities and Correction last year was about 14,000,
shelter. As the wires serve us in newspaper-making, so the Chinaman makes
all the predatory beasts, he most resembles. both, for the prisoner, when brought in, has generally as plausible
which his color has made him a stranger and an outsider, and he is
tenements have made them. thousand dispossess warrants are issued in a year, but probably not
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