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
Tuberculosis in the slums, 194-196, 300.
Tweed, thief, 4-5, 285.
Twenty-five-foot lot, doom of, 142, 148, 149.
United Garment Workers of America, compact, 1892, 198.
United States government slum inquiry, 61, 97, 175.
University Extension Society, work of, 381.
University settlement--
Social development and school movement, 397-410.
Work with East Side gang, 248.
Vagrancy--
Crime, _see that title_.
Encouragement by free lunches, lodging, etc., 170, 172.
Farm colony for young vagrants proposed, 127, 172, 350.
Vitruvius, quotation as to height of dwellings, 11.
Walsh, Mrs., funeral in Cat Alley, 329-330.
Waring, Colonel--
Death, 268.
Market scheme, 271.
Mulberry Street Park dedication, 268.
Street-cleaning, 45-46, 126, 268-272, 414, 415.
Trucks, disappearance, 45-46, 269-270.
Water supply in tenements, lack of, 181.
Weeks, L. S., murder in Brooklyn, 156.
Wheat lesson, Hester Street school, 363.
White, A. T., Riverside tenements, 135, 140.
Whitechapel, London, Green Dragon yard, 25-27.
Whyo gang headquarters, 272, 308.
Widows in Cat Alley, 325-326.
Willard, D., reform work among children, 378-379.
Wisconsin farmer--battle with Five Points, 13-14.
Woman doctor in the slums, Dr. J. E. Robbins, 205-206.
Woman's Hotel for working women, need of, 166-168.
Woodbine, Hirsch colony in New Jersey, 213.
Wooster Street barracks, 16.
Working people's dwellings, _see_ Tenements.
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