THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE 186 Drawing by Abraham Phillips IN A CLUB-ROOM 192 Drawing by Abraham Phillips AFTER THE LONG DAY 204 Drawing by Abraham Phillips AN INCIDENT IN THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT ON HENRY STREET, COMMEMORATING THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT 214 THE OLDER GENERATION 218 Etching by Abraham Phillips PRINCE KROPOTKIN 234 BABUSCHKA, LITTLE GRANDMOTHER 242 THE SYNAGOGUES ARE EVERYWHERE—IMPOSING OR SHABBY-LOOKING BUILDINGS 254 Etching by Abraham Phillips A MOTHER IN ISRAEL 268 Etching by Abraham Phillips THE DRAMATIC CLUB PRESENTED “THE SHEPHERD” 272 A REGION OF OVERCROWDED HOMES 298 AT ELLIS ISLAND THERE IS A STREAM OF INFLOWING LIFE 308 Photograph by Louis Hines THE HOUSE ON HENRY STREET CHAPTER I THE EAST SIDE TWO DECADES AGO A sick woman in a squalid rear tenement, so wretched and so pitiful that, in all the years since, I have not seen anything more appealing, determined me, within half an hour, to live on the East Side. I had spent two years in a New York training-school for nurses; strenuous years for an undisciplined, untrained girl, but a wonderful human experience. After graduation, I supplemented the theoretical instruction, which was casual and inconsequential in the hospital classes twenty-five years ago, by a period of study at a medical college. It was while at the college that a great opportunity came to me.