How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New YorkRiis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
Poor -- New York (State) -- New York; Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York
CHAPTER IX.
CHINATOWN, 92
CHAPTER X.
JEWTOWN, 104
CHAPTER XI.
THE SWEATERS OF JEWTOWN, 120
CHAPTER XII.
THE BOHEMIANS--TENEMENT-HOUSE CIGARMAKING, 136
CHAPTER XIII.
THE COLOR LINE IN NEW YORK, 148
CHAPTER XIV.
THE COMMON HERD, 159
CHAPTER XV.
THE PROBLEM OF THE CHILDREN, 179
CHAPTER XVI.
WAIFS OF THE CITY'S SLUMS, 187
CHAPTER XVII.
THE STREET ARAB, 196
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE REIGN OF RUM, 210
CHAPTER XIX.
THE HARVEST OF TARES, 217
CHAPTER XX.
THE WORKING GIRLS OF NEW YORK, 234
CHAPTER XXI.
PAUPERISM IN THE TENEMENTS, 243
CHAPTER XXII.
THE WRECKS AND THE WASTE, 255
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE MAN WITH THE KNIFE, 263
CHAPTER XXIV.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE, 268
CHAPTER XXV.
HOW THE CASE STANDS, 282
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
GOTHAM COURT, _Frontispiece_
PAGE
HELL'S KITCHEN AND SEBASTOPOL, 6
TENEMENT OF 1863, FOR TWELVE FAMILIES ON EACH
FLAT, 12
TENEMENT OF THE OLD STYLE. BIRTH OF THE
AIR-SHAFT, 18
AT THE CRADLE OF THE TENEMENT.--DOORWAY OF AN
OLD-FASHIONED DWELLING ON CHERRY HILL, 30
UPSTAIRS IN BLINDMAN'S ALLEY, 34
AN OLD REAR-TENEMENT IN ROOSEVELT STREET, 45
IN THE HOME OF AN ITALIAN RAG-PICKER, JERSEY
STREET, 51
THE BEND, 59
BANDITS' ROOST, 63
BOTTLE ALLEY, 66
LODGERS IN A CROWDED BAYARD STREET TENEMENT--"FIVE
CENTS A SPOT," 69
AN ALL-NIGHT TWO-CENT RESTAURANT, IN "THE BEND," 75
THE TRAMP, 79
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