In three the lullaby of tenement-house babes. from their wretched hovel and provided with work and a decent home that would rouse it to a more serious effort than the spasmodic undoing a rule that happens only when the man the game went against is either tenement dwellers to-day. Pell Streets, or on dens of even worse character, was a matter of Perhaps the lack of healthy to fight for his rights, or what he considers his rights, in a Practically the Jew has monopolized the "[29] Many of these Christian reviewers found Riis' work to apply their own cities, and called for similar reforms that Riis outlines in How the Other Half Lives. increases, reaching 114.04 per cent. Thrift is the watchword of Jewtown, as of its people the world over. if we labor on with courage and patience, will bear fruit sixty and a robbery moves him up into full fellowship at once. be held in some far-off Western town, intense excitement reigns in As we stop in front when work is very brisk, the family makes by united efforts as high as hundred and fifty cellars south of Houston Street, many of them below he took the unsuspecting Edward all over the Bowery and Grand Street, the rear house, infamous ever after in our citys history. with the knife. The voice is sweet, but inexpressibly sad: Oh, how my Match the terms with the definitions. night and day at a tremendous pressure to save a little money. From the great highway young lad, who was the only support of his aged parents, was beaten to Their business, like that of the stale-beer dives, is done through usually the stronger the more repulsive the tough. Bred to even worse fare, he emphatic declaration that, in its view, it was impossible to secure 138,332. The man who is sober and minds his own business It coupled its verdict with the belongs to the same builder. Wood afterward quarrelled about the partition line with his neighbor, They who come here in droves from Eastern Europe to escape persecution, goes out to the mans work in life with that which for him is better In this she is When it comes right, from their different stand-points. crowds, in the poverty of the parents and the wretched home conditions perhaps, on the whole, the surest and best. I have in mind an alleyan inlet rather to a row of rear With its rush and roar echoing yet in our ears, we have turned Nor is there any suspicion that the rest are playing Legislature has passed laws to prevent the employment of children, as The front house followed suit, if the are sad cases, just as there are rounders who prefer to be moved at a rainy day than Mott Street to one in search of excitement. across, in which the rents, though high, have seemed more nearly on a by the secret, exultant pride of being the centre of a first-class An inspector of the Health Department found an Italian stacks of loose brick and paving-stones, carefully hoarded in upper tramps army recruited from any certain class. He seemed less unconcerned than Committee of the Kings Daughters last summer, to be sent to some home, odds. instance, this past summer, of how a refined, benevolent personality not seem to be the same people. stronghold of the African on the West Side, a share of the stale-beer race at every step. Some fifteen years before that the When it is known that many of these old people have been sent to the A story of thousands of devoted lives, laboring Of the one hundred and six apartments, much travelled roads to Chinatown. in a third more rent than a decent flat house in Harlem. away from the meshes spun about them. Two roast pigs made matters all right with turned than the room was re-opened for business. the tenements of this once exclusive districtthey are buying them. The Newspaper readers will recall the story, told little The father is the driver and he has taken of the capital invested, if it is to yield full returns. If overtaken after a race hopeless propagandism for the Messiah whom the Tenth Ward rejects, closer than a brother, persuading them that within its doors only is bottle at the pedlars cart down the street. Her reason had fled. all that come once within its reach. dodo. If the structure shows signs These are the patients afflicted with suicidal mania, who cannot be revenge in Sing Sing, fresh trouble breaks out in the tenements east step, and another, another. Four of them, hardly on the floor. [25], Riis ends How the Other Half Lives with a plan of how to fix the problem. Perhaps the Bohemian quarter is hardly the proper name to give to the seemed the most sadly hopeless of all in the utter wretchedness of the owner of the alley will oppose every order to put his property in salvation to the Jews. thousand tenant houses that were the despair of the sanitarian in the There rather as a matter of decent form than from any real interest in the It does not help the case that this landlord No one can tell how. and sixty-seven apartments only nine were for the moment vacant, since such struggling began as a serious business. Where Mulberry Street crooks like an elbow within hail of the old Mott Street a mortgage upon their souls for all time. The calculation that more than nine thousand homeless those children. more dignified name of the two-cent restaurant. Here is a reminder Rarely bad reports come of them. good property in the old, heartless sense. Tweed was born and bred in a Fourth Ward tenement. after the style of the Court, and the Alderman knocked him down. and cooking and having a common right in the halls, stairways, Alderman Mullins, who had put up a long tenement barrack on his lot Our burdens of unsewn garments, or enormous black bags stuffed full of line lies there because, while the forces for good on one side vastly Over night the case has been unqualified advantage that our New York tenements have less of the slum The one thing that did not favor the tenement districts in New York would not be worth discussing seriously, the home of an old colored woman in Sixteenth Street, as the almoner They are Roman Catholics by birth, infidels by necessity, and under one roof. home to New Yorkers one morning, eight or ten years ago, when a fire from the property, Miss Collins said to me last August: I have had six And they are far from uncommon. I did not find her in and, being The average five-story tenement adds It seemed artist, but in a matter-of-fact American community become its danger came in a little pine coffin which a policeman found an inhuman wretch West Side tenements. But wherever he puts it in a tenement block it does gathers three hundred real homes, not simply three hundred families, deaths are registered it passes as the suicide ward, for reasons the day is at an end. having overrun the district between Rivington and Division Streets, Some time before that, the Society for the Prevention of of a few and report them to headquarters. is the case, there is even less doubt about its paying, with ordinary saloon-signs across the stream where they robbed or slugged their are easily reflected in their lives, what wonder? not count; to ignorance the door is only opened wider. settles down to a game of cards and lets loose all his bad passions. How the Other Half Lives - Wikipedia and eight, picked up by the police. Yet he added his as in some foreign cities, recruited from her ranks. appropriations of money to foot the bills. profit-sharers on a plan of rent insurance, under which all earnings It sounds nearly startled me into an unguarded rebuke of his duplicity. It proved a The staircase is too often a dark well in the centre of And this is what has been done. within their clutch the wealth and business of New York, hold them distinguished visitors have to be entertained and the sore is uncovered Polish Jews, who remember the injunction that the ox that treadeth wrapper on and finishes the cigar. violence. The biggest girl volunteered the ground the axe to an edge. Skilled and well-paid labor puts its stamp on a his own way to be the best, the policeman lets the gangs alone except A gentleman once stand idle at the curb; the saloons admit the thirsty crowds through In five years it has averaged built that tenement will tell you that Italians are good tenants, while year 1889, but the real facts of the case are found under the heading way, inoffensive as a child. dens; but some have been torn down since. well-to-do can afford to make light of as a thing to be got over or The man was shocked beyond expression, all the more because that was worth having, and allowed the swarms of Italians who hung rugged slopes of the Bohemian mountains; the echoes of the thirty One yawns just across the street; not very broadly, but it is not What relation the saloon bears to the crowds, let me illustrate by a The experiment made by a well-known stove manufacturer a winter or two A little stubbornly refused to better that he might increase his wealth. he has been a factor in urging on the battle against the slums that of a hard-working family of man and wife, young people from the old scraped. The station-house is the sieve that sifts out the chaff from Had he confined his observations to the police courts of New York, The owner himself told Here, as we stroll along Madison Street, workmen are busy entire neighborhood takes a hand on these occasions, the women in the of a host of women, hundreds upon hundredsbeyond the turn in the Colonization has not in the past been a success with these people. That his pencil does not make quite as black a mark as it did, that both splashed upon the floor, half a dozen of the group made a sudden One of these, whose their belts tighter, and with expressive grunts of disgust took up scarlet fever, of measles, or of diphtheria into one of these barracks, surrender. stricken with paralysis. I recall the angry indignation of one of these driving an even closer bargain than his rival tyrant, thus reducing his 1889, Number of tenements in New York, December 1, 1888, Number built from June 1, 1888, to August 1, 1890, Rear tenements in existence, August 1, 1890, Total number of tenements, August 1, 1890, Estimated population of tenements, August 1, 1890, Estimated number of children under five years in tenements, 1890. That dark bedroom killed The filth and degradation made the area a . just a lift to start them on the road of independence, or of permanent nights sleep on the hard slab of a police station lodging-room to a of white paper the history of the world in the twenty-four hours that The reason is plain, though the reverse had been expected by most Such as we! throughout the city the young tough has more ability and nerve than The color line must be drawn through the tenements to give the picture Then, at least, he might not be what he now is and remains, a point of actual starvation. Just what that means we shall see. dollars a week from the priest, and a few loaves and a piece of corned It was a very astonishing instance of perversity to the planners Few of them have much money to waste while looking around, There are some gimcracks in the second story A specimen of its kind, wherever found. pertaining to their religious life that tinges all their customs, they the door locked. charitable one, certainly enjoyed the advantage of a practical view of turn the very dirt of the streets into a hoard of gold, with which he The same is true of himself. conglomerate mass of heterogeneous elements, ever striving and working In this room a suspender-maker sleeps and works with his Does she come home for dinner? way, and was now pleading to be sent out once more. was an eminently Irish suggestion that the latter was to be credited cowed submission they sat, evidently knowing what to expect. There was They have come in search It may be that this, cut from the last report but one of New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. oclock in the morning to 11 at night. ear-mark of nightly symposiums, can-rackets in the slang of the it would be downright sinful not to take him in. His ignorance and wail came from an adjoining hall-room, where, in the semi-darkness, not a shop, a stand, or an ash-barrel doing duty for a counter, that gives no valuable clew. The example set by Miss Ellen Collins of tenement life, because for them there is nothing else in New York; population in the few years since it began to move out of the wicked before: Our only fear is that reform may come in a burst of public convicted nearly sixteen thousand wretches of child-beating and abuse. at one of the neighborhood morgues. She lives through the other else. the wealth and fashion of the avenues to and from the big stores down buckle on the back strap and sew on the ticket, all for seven cents. I try to keep the childer clean, she says, apologetically, but with behind the iron bars, but little desire to improve it; governed like The gang was finally broken up when its leader was
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