The Battle with the SlumRiis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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The Battle with the Slum
Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
Poor; Poor -- New York (State) -- New York; Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York
Demolition of dangerous property, 114, 116-125, 140, 272-280,
310-311, 337-340.
"Dens of Death," 14, 16, 20.
Destitution encouraged by free lunch, lodging, etc., 170, 172.
Destruction of property, _see_ Demolition.
Devil's money--campaign against Tammany, 1901, 63-75.
"Discretion" clause, tenement building, 88, 105, 107, 148.
Disease--disclosures of Tenement House Exhibition, 1900, 143-147.
Dispossessed tenants, rehousing, 286-287.
Doctor, woman doctor, Dr. J. E. Robbins, 205-206.
Dog, Trilby of Cat Alley, 331-333.
Double-deckers--
Cause of overcrowding, 102.
Description and condemnation by Tenement House Commission, 102-103.
Doom of, 82-85, 148, 149.
Elizabeth Street, midnight inspection, 99-102.
Mortality rate, lowest, 114-115.
Solid block, 105.
Drunkards and slum homes, 23.
"Druv into decency," 113-114.
Dwellings of the poor, _see_ Tenements.
Eagle, Ellis Island, 202-204.
East River barge, winter lodgings, 1896, 170-172.
East River Park, sacred grass, 301.
Education, _see_ Schools.
Education Board, work of, 365-366.
Educational Alliance--
Roof garden, 388.
Work among Jews, 382.
Eldridge Street tenement, unlighted halls, 91-92.
Eleventh Ward, overcrowding statistics, 82.
Elizabeth Street--
Giant, 331.
Midnight inspection of tenements, 99-102.
Sewing "pants" at thirty cents a day, 183.
Elliot, Dr., subscriptions for guild house, 402.
Ellis Island eagle, 202-204.
Elsing, Mr., children of Sunday-school, contribution to Armenian
Christmas tree, 218.
Emigration, _see_ Immigration.
Enforcement of the law, necessity of, 47, 223, 235, 415, 418.
Essex Street, attempt to establish park, 294.
Excursions, Mr. Schwab's proposition, 405-406.
Exhibition, tenement house, 1900, effect of, 143-147.
Experimenting with the school, 403-410.
Eyes inspection, public school children, 358-359.
Factory tenements, disapproval of, 134.
Farming--
Farm colony for young vagrants, 127, 172, 350.
Jewish farming abilities, 215.
Truck farming on site of Stryker's Hill, 366.
Fat boiling in tenements, cause of fires, 88.
"Fat One" of Cat Alley, 326, 329.
Federal Government slum inquiry, 61, 97, 175.
Fifteenth Assembly District, _see_ Church Federation.
Fire-engine horses, fate of, 425.
Fires in tenement houses--
Air-shaft, danger of, 93.
"Cruller fire," 88.
Non-enforcement of law as to fireproof material, 87-89.
First Ward death-rate, 116.
Five Points--
Mortality rate, 16.
Wiping out in 1850, Wisconsin farmer's work, 14.
Flag, flying, value of, 209-211.
Foreign population--
Child labor and education, 185-186.
Italians, _see that title_.
Jews, _see that title_.
Proportion, 175-176.
Forest, R. W. de, chairman of Tenement House Commission of 1900, 147.
Forsyth Street tragedies, 86.
Foster, R., fight with tenement landlords, 124.
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