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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