XI PITTSBURG AND THE WOLF 104 XII OMAHA AND HER HOMELESS 117 XIII SAN FRANCISCO--THE MISSION, THE PRISON, AND THE HOMELESS 123 XIV EXPERIENCES IN LOS ANGELES 136 XV IN PORTLAND 144 XVI TACOMA 160 XVII IN SEATTLE 164 XVIII SPOKANE 172 XIX MINNEAPOLIS 178 XX IN THE GREAT CITY OF NEW YORK 183 XXI NEW YORK STATE--THE OPEN FIELDS 197 XXII THE LABORER THE FARMER'S GREATEST ASSET 207 XXIII ALBANY--IN THE MIDST OF THE FIGHT 218 XXIV CLEVELAND--THE CRIME OF NEGLECT 223 XXV CINCINNATI--NECESSITY'S BRUTAL CHAINS 244 XXVI LOUISVILLE AND THE SOUTH 256 XXVII MEMPHIS--A CITY'S FAULT AND A NATION'S WRONG 279 XXVIII HOUSTON--THE CHURCH AND THE CITY'S SIN AGAINST SOCIETY 288 XXIX SAN ANTONIO--WHOSE VERY NAME IS MUSIC 296 XXX MILWAUKEE--WILL THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIALISM END POVERTY? 305 XXXI TOLEDO--THE "GOLDEN RULE" CITY 310 XXXII SPOTLESS DETROIT 314 XXXIII CONCLUSION 318 XXXIV VISIONS 328 APPENDIX 339 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The Author--As Himself and "Broke" _Frontispiece_ PAGE A half-frozen young outcast sleeping in a wagon-bed. He was beaten senseless by the police a few minutes after the picture was taken 3 A familiar scene in a Western city. The boy is "broke" but not willing to give up 8 A Municipal Lodging House. An average of seventy men slept each night in the brick ovens during the cold weather 16 At a Denver Employment Office. Many of these men slept in the brick ovens the night before 24 "Stepping up a little nearer to me he drew more closely his tattered rag of a coat" 32 Huddled on a stringer in zero weather 32