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
Fourth Ward, examination of girls' school, 355-357.
Fourth Ward slum, 16.
Fraunces' Tavern, historical association, 380.
Free lunch, lodging, etc., vagrancy encouraged by, 170, 172.
French couple, Cat Alley, 315-316.
"Frills," Hester Street roof playground, 342, 359, 360, 403.
Funerals--
Cat Alley, 329-330.
Slum interest and excitement, 109.
Gambling, characteristic of Italian immigrant, 186.
Gangs--
Battle Row, Easter service, 251-252.
College settlement work, success of, 248-249.
Genesis of, environment of boy's career, 235-247.
Hook gang, 288.
Long Island story, 250.
Whyo gang headquarters, 272, 308.
Women's work and success, 251.
[_See also_ Boys.]
Gehegan, Mrs., of Cat Alley, 319.
Genesis of the gang, environments of boy's career, 236-247.
German destitution and charity, story of, 217-218.
Giant, Elizabeth Street. 331.
Gibbon, quotation from Vitruvius as to height of dwellings, 11.
Giddings, Professor F. H., child labor investigation, 185.
Gilder Tenement House Commission, work of, 88, 105, 108, 116, 228,
276, 279, 281.
Golden Gate Association, kindergarten record, 245.
Good Government Clubs--
Tammany condemnation of, 126.
Work of, 1896-97, 127, 128, 279, 371, 372.
Gotham Court--
Beginnings of reformation, 23-27.
Christmas tree, 311.
Destruction of dangerous property, 118, 119.
Gould, Dr. E. R. L., president of company for erection of homes for
poor, 129, 133, 138, 139.
Government by the people imperilled by existence of slum, 6.
Government slum inquiry, 61, 97, 175.
Grand Street, soap factories prohibited below, 107.
Grant, Mayor, reform work, 45-46.
Graveyard as playground, 302.
Great Robbery, city treasury, 4-5, 285.
Green Dragon yard, London, 26-27.
Gun-maker Patrick Mullen, 413-414.
Hamilton Fish Park--
Restoration, 296.
Uselessness of, 149-152, 295.
Health Board--
Tammany negligence, 64, 67.
Tenement landlords, fights with, 30, 37.
Heat of summer 1896, power of resistance, 125-126.
Hebrew Institute--
Educational Alliance work, 382.
Roof garden, 305-307.
Hebrews, _see_ Jews.
Hell's Kitchen--
Improvement, 51-52.
Negro possession, desolate appearance, 110.
Helvetia House demolition, 285.
Hester Street--
School--
Club room, 373.
Nature studies, 363-364.
Roof playground, 342, 359-360.
Wheat lesson, 363.
Street-cleaning, 45.
Hewitt, A. S.--
Chairman of Advisory Committee on Small Parks, 287.
Neglect of the children, 233.
Ten years reform theory, 287.
Hirsch Fund--
Educational work in Hebrew Institute, 382.
New Jersey, aid to Jewish colonies, 213.
Holy Terror Park, 302.
Home libraries in the tenements, 382-383.
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