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
Homes--
Homewood cottage scheme, failure of, 137-138.
Lack of home-life--
Need of neighborliness, 398-403.
Warning, 111-112.
New Jersey, Jewish colonies, 212-215.
New Orange, scheme abandoned, 214.
Rallying points of civilization, 80.
Slum an enemy of, 7.
Homewood cottages, failure of scheme, 137-138.
Hook gang, 288.
Horses, fire-engine, fate of, 425.
Hotels--
Mills Houses, _see that title_.
Stewart, A. T., failure of hotel, 29, 165-166.
Woman's Hotel for working women, need of, 166-168.
Housing of the poor, _see_ Tenements.
"Hudson-bank" park--
Success of, 292.
Truck farming on site of Stryker's Lane, 366.
Hudson Guild, subscriptions for guild house, 402.
Hull House Kindergarten, Chicago, harvest picture incident, 365.
Immigration--
City destination, mistake of, 207-208.
Distribution necessary, 208, 212.
Ellis Island eagle, 202-204.
Inspection before embarkation at foreign port, 206, 207.
Italian statistics and incidents, 176-181.
Jewish, 191-192.
Naturalization papers, fraudulent, 186, 190, 207.
Restriction, enforcement of law, 206.
School as means of enrolment, 211, 212.
Shutting the door problem, 204-206.
Tammany slum politics, 186-191, 211.
Irish people--
Cat Alley tenants, 314, 316-320.
Eviction in tenements, 110-111.
Italians--
Cat Alley, Dago eviction, 314.
Charges of dirtiness and ignorance, 181-183.
Child labor, 185.
Criminals discovered in Mulberry Street, 204-205.
Elizabeth Street tenements inspection, 100-101.
Gambling, 186.
Home scene--sewing "pants," 184.
Immigration statistics and incidents, 176-181.
Naturalization papers, fraudulent, and illegal registration, 186-191.
Politics of the slum, 186-191.
Underbidding the Jew, 183.
Jackson Pleasure Club, School No. 160, 374-377.
Jerome, W. T., campaign of 1901, 74.
Jersey Street, clearance and factory erections, 32-34.
Jews--
Charges against, at citizens, 192.
Educational work among, 382.
Farming abilities, 215.
Glazier, story of, 384.
Hebrew Institute, _see that title_.
Immigrants, 191-192.
Material for good citizens, 192-193.
New Jersey colonies, 212-215.
Orchard Street, dwelling under stairs, 95.
"Removal plan" started by B'nai B'rith, 215.
Roof garden, Hebrew Institute, 305-307.
Sweating, 194.
Tailors' quarrel, 183.
Jim and his mother, story of, 256-263.
Juvenile Asylum for burglars and truants, 349.
Kelly, Mrs., and Jim, story of, 256-263.
Kerosene Row demolition, 285.
Kerosene stoves, odor of tenements, 92.
"Kid"--Battle Row gang, Easter service, 251-252.
Kindergarten record, San Francisco, 245.
Kindergarten system, benefit of, 365-367.
Klotz, Madame, of Cat Alley, 316.
Laundries of model tenement houses, 136.
Law, enforcement, 47, 223, 235, 415, 418.
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