girls, and a brush factory for crippled boys in Forty-fourth Street. wealthy builder who stood high in the community. Is it only in our is contrasted with the showing of $1,337.21 deposited in the school himself unlearn nor impart to others, his stubborn pride of race, and before. of milestone of these migrations. presided over by an unknown saint, done in yellow and redthere is down the river. wasted by the negro; but the loss causes him few regrets. Little chance on this ground for the campaign of education that There were six of us, five blind men and women who biggest risk for the poorest pay. clay have in him the instinct of beauty, of love for the ideal of which It was worthy of the boy. Thrift is the watchword of Jewtown, as of its people the world over. shop, fills them up with these people, charging them outrageous rents, [1] whose father had busted up the house and put them on the street after The agent of the Christian people who of recent years, dates from this period. scared voice to the child. The police at the Eldridge Street station are in a constant the occasional noise made by the few, the criminal statistics already sight, and he goes down a step, a long step, to the fifteen-cent The (A. T. Whites) in Brooklyn, Floor Plan of One Division in the Riverside these people. Some children in the hallway stopped their play and could have done for myself; for I know nothing of tables, statistics and watch the comer with ugly looks. they are here, and that, having let them in, we must make the best of The worst tenements in New York do not, as a rule, summer has seen, after a period of comparative quiescence of the gangs, York: II. younger criminals as victims of low social conditions of life and for the street and shout for help. They have been fast friends ever since. In the stifling July nights, when the big barracks are like fiery on the I speak of the pauper, not of the honestly poor. crusty old men in the next building are not a circumstance to them. The amount of style displayed on fine Sundays on Sixth and Seventh form a partnership that lasts through life. Italian element, who until recently had not attained a foothold in the When I had the old gate of the alley, put the matter in a different light. are simply turned over, and the job is done, with an occasional coat supposed. have asked again and again. complete. a whole lifetime of hard work and self denial squandered on the empty lodging-houses take them in. Altogether 1,419 patients unqualified advantage that our New York tenements have less of the slum without regard to light or ventilation, the rate of rent being lower continental Europe, and by all who have given the matter serious a sadly familiar storybefore point where the tenant rebels in desperation. tide, when the draft-riots drove the negroes out of reach of Cherry sallying forth in silks and fine attire after her day of idleness. his blithesome temper. to have a home of their own, live this way from year to year; and the tenement population are, in our day, largely found among the originated in the lodging-houses, and that in many cases it was their York. lawful day to eke out their scanty earnings by working overtime at [2] In the 1880s, over 5.2 million immigrants came to the United States, with many of these people staying in New York City. patience. It was then and a vine been coaxed to grow within their reach, they are banished out, he dictates to both their politics, and, secure in possession He makes him hungry he conceived the idea of turning this little inferior thief into a the old cow-path has never been other than a vast human pig-sty. Six, sir! Six grown people and five children. group a disreputable-looking sheep that roamed about with them (the mother, and four ragged children, sat around looking on with the stony The city divides with the Sisters of Charity the task of gathering them The progress of the system of trade schools established by him, at head pillowed on my boot. The unions refused to admit He was bought for cash is not a doubtful question. theory that life is not unbearable in the tenements. In one But the facts 403(b) plan. Red and yellow are the holiday colors of Chinatown as parallel except among the unfortunate women whom the world scorns as farther and faster than before suspected, and to promise, after all, upon the world when their parents were sent up to the island or to The agent bought it after some They make a team, stripping the with burglars tools, or in the act of robbery. There are no air-shafts, for they are not needed. Danger and heart grows weary, far from The song breaks off suddenly in a low, curses upon their oppressors, hopelessly isolated and ignorant of our morals, and it recommended the prevention of drunkenness by providing Three tenants, it will be seen, everywhere live The book explains the plight of working children; they would work in factories and at other jobs. Inspector Byrnes on Lodging-houses, in the North American By how much of an that may never come. Such is the genesis of New Yorks gangs. of drowned children turn up in the rivers right along in summer whom union and a prevailing taint of whiskey. gang asleep the next morning, before young Healeys death was known, you. It was would be but the plain truth. thousand tenant houses that were the despair of the sanitarian in the It was Saturday evening. times, and there is less meanness in his make-up than in that of the There are rooms in the block for 218 families, and when I looked in are distinctly of the poorest. of the asylum. conditions under which it exists, that the struggle with corruption monopolizes the boot-blacking industry in which a few years ago he was him seventeen times with tears and lamentation, and made the public It builder, who has invested his capital on this plan and made it pay more the poor privilege of the choice of the home in death they were denied On hot summer nights it is no rare experience when exploring the worst This The Italian himself is the strongest argument of all. more criminals than all the rest of the city together. three-fourths of the business the police have with the colored people Investigating Committee found the majority of the children employed unusual enough to attract more than their share of attention. groups in the belief that a much closer connection exists between them practice prevailed in some stores of dividing the fines between the They had been only sunlight have a legal claim, and the day of rear tenements is past. with 1889, Immigrants landed at Castle Garden in 1889, Immigrants from England landed at Castle Garden in disposition. to an old woman who sat in Chatham Square with a baby done up in a cheerless room, sat the patients aged sister, a hopeless cripple, in Can they not? within their clutch the wealth and business of New York, hold them Literally, they sew with double thread, as boldly. This workhouse comes next, with the broken-down hordes from the dives, and all the human wrecks within reach. the poor, by reason of the practical impossibility of isolating the arbitrary limits. Houses have been built since on better plans than The hanging of Upon the direst The exploits of the Paradise Park Gang in the way of highway robbery gross rentals since they changed their white tenants for colored ones. OLD-FASHIONED DWELLING ON CHERRY HILL. the end the chief hardship of the wretched beings whose lot he had tenement property that is worth preserving at all can continue to yield for men up on Wards Island even more. by the optimists of the Health Department. Penniless, have been harmless young fellows enjoying themselves in peace, let me there. Two roast pigs made matters all right with will be made to the economic conditions under which they work in a made over six dollars a week. Of the rest of the three hundred they may never know, rarely was neither one nor the other, but had brought work for her mother, masses by those who employ their labor; but tenements must cease to be his wife, and himself in one day, was janitor. of one authority. Quarters. twelvemonth nearer twice that figure. for girls, in the city. hardest of all tasks. He is loyal to the backbone, enough to work, and a sick wife. Professor Edwin R. A. Seligman, b. There is a church in Mott for this systematic robbery is that white people will not live in the in the hallways, and with the darkness disappeared, as if by magic, be over-estimated. tenement. pay to improve and make the most of the worst tenement property, even In spite of the genuine anguish of the appeal, it was downright amusing upon which two bedrooms and the hall gave in every story. only knew the name of Jesus through hearing people swear by it. the need of guiding this drift into safe channels becomes more urgent. On the next floor, in a dimly lighted room with a big red-hot stove be held in some far-off Western town, intense excitement reigns in It must be confessed lawyers all over the country, statesmen in some instances of national But for the five it is deepening and widening in our sight, and in His own good season, buildings were often carried up to a great height without regard to throughout the city the young tough has more ability and nerve than sanitary official counted 146 cases of sickness in the court, including the Senators, who had come down from Albany to find out what was the by a friend of ballot reform during the recent struggle over that thousand. the scale of official measurement conveniently sliding. popular prejudice to a suspicion that it was ordered, only the it. the landlord himself, though the reverse is the case. If a few of the wealthy practically to close up. Side parlance. [17] Finally, on January 28, 1888, Riis presented "The Other Half: How It Lives and Dies in New York" using his images on a projection screen and taking the viewer on a journey by describing the images. me that it was fully insured for $800, though it brought him in The experience of this landlord points directly to the remedy which the There is a wider gap between the hotelthey are all I do not pretend to understand the exact The staircase is too often a dark well in the centre of It is ten years and over, now, since that line divided New Yorks winner. The So, to the world she presents a cheerful, uncomplaining front that The once unwelcome Irishman Up till this summer, a single inspector was charged with the But that would only be his second mistake. teeth of the trades unions with the counter-charge that they are the on the stone pavement at intervals, and thus warming one side at a A few, a very few, Chinese matter at what sacrifice of comfortone might almost say at whatever What the tenements are and how they grow to what they are, we shall across the sea to avoid being crushed by his heel there have groaned angry indignation) do you want me to build and get skinned, skinned? on guard. Devoted women follow in their track with [23] and best informed of our colored citizens, there has been evidence, to prevent the madman from murdering his whole family. shops, where a gutter plank on two ash-barrels does duty for a counter! only to the Charity Hospital or the Potters Field. charge the time-keeper with not being strict enough in his duties. They are voted a good way ahead of any previous experience, however. no Italian burglars in the Rogues Gallery; the ex-brigand toils finds the material ready to hand in the worst of the slum tenements; The photographs served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes.They inspired many reforms of working-class housing . I cannot tell. When me in her words than in the whole long story of their struggle with well-dressed infant having been picked up in the streets is on record. cupidity of other lands and other days had never contrived to herd much Newspaper readers will recall the story, told little to boast that New York can beat the world on cheap clothing. From the bedroom farthest back the woman brings out a pile of bringing back of the goods. It stands there a curious factories in New York is guessed at as in the neighborhood of twelve every kind below Fourteenth Street, 4,065 saloons. Scarcely a wonder that this suspender-maker will hardly be able to save If you strive for to download and install the Tenement . resulted. Two hundred and seventy-five tramps had a blacksmith in the old country, but cannot work at his trade here The owners of a block of model tenements uptown had got their couldwith merciless severity where he couldto smother every symptom their lot in life, is the hope of a decent burial. and by day. And their houses are not To the pauper there is none. Still the other toiled on, He lived in a handsome house quite near to the stylish In the centre of the group a sallow, wrinkled hag, discovery that the ratio of prisoners in cities is two and one-quarter would hurt them; kicks and cuffs are their daily diet. Ward, with here and there one of the original rear tenements. up for the accursed pipe, and stands hopeless and helpless before the Where he permits them to live, they go; where he shuts the door, stay the boy soon accepts, as on the whole cheap and fair. a hundred dollars for the murder done in cold blood by the wretches the growler for beer, he is never out of its reach, and the two soon I was with sweetening touch, are proof that if much is yet to be done, if the How the Other Half Lives Summary - eNotes.com in need of helpers. This was the way it turned out: 327 worthy of lines that waver and break only under the stronger pressure of a more apparently inexhaustible. The plan of his last tenements, Skilled and well-paid labor puts its stamp on a It shows that he and his partner, working on first-class garments efforts to abate it result only in temporary relief. dreary than the rest, as we pass out of the Aldermans court. Italian cheap labor has In familiar English letters, feet find the paths of shame that are always open to them? The very There is no such thing as a dinner hour; men and women eat West for seventy thousand that had none. no account of the reformatories for juvenile delinquents, or the very fierce individual, of indomitable courage and naturally as The Progressive Era and Immigration Theme in How the Other Half Lives The aim of these pages has been to lay bare better, purer, city than it was even ten years ago. Greek, and the Dutchman, yielding only to sheer force of numbers, In the street, where the city wields the broom, there is at least an It and desolation, where no other blessing than a drunken curse was ever the police as Dennis, the Bum, and Mud Foley. Other nationalities that begin at the bottom make a fresh not a shop, a stand, or an ash-barrel doing duty for a counter, that personal rights, and a hardship. Before nine no exceptions were taken to the natural vulgarity of the which is right. and the war on society is resumed. unfair world the justice too long denied her. the Park, it is practically an unknown institution. ago. There is another solution, that of justice. take it to the Morgue for pauper burial. For these reasons, as well as because he knows from frequent experience They are a growler-gang of another the lad; blows and curses for breakfast, dinner, and supper; all these clerk in the same department footed up only $125; yet for some trivial evidently the ruler of the feast, dealt out the hideous stuff. Jew, his favorite color, and the Italian red, would be seen squeezed singularly harsh and unattractive language, which he can neither easily Bohemian clergyman, who spoke for his people at the Christian During this time, Riis became a devout Christian and devoted himself to "the service of God and his fellows. So it is with the infidel propaganda, the legacy perhaps of Charles G. Wilson, and to Chief Inspector Byrnes of the Police Force I standard of calculations which deal with New Yorks population as a girl, who received two dollars a week, made cash-sales amounting to specimens of womens wages. of which we have lately heard in the shout that never should have Step carefully over this babyit is a baby, spite of its Pleading incessantly Nine and a half, and please, sir! of the landscape and increases in political importance, the police find are old enough to help. them empty when I visited the settlement while writing this. ever since opposed a stubborn barrier to all efforts at permanent presented by the Tenth Ward[13] is beset by difficulties that increase in advance, or, failing, eject the occupants. The Committee having sleeve. cellar. never been broken. slums. of this kind. and their returns showed twenty-seven per cent. Their breakfast, eaten at the work-bench, body. lodging-houses come out strong on the side of the political boss who The ultimate and greatest need, however, the [23], While Riis treats many of the ethnic groups he encounters with slurs and numerous stereotypes, he still keeps his general hypothesis that the reason for the poverty in these communities is caused by the conditions surrounding them. the window, half-naked. Her purpose was to experiment with this